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Gilead Sciences (GILD) will pay up to $90 million over three years to Verily Life Sciences, an arm of computing giant Alphabet, to research immune cells in the hopes of finding new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and lupus-related diseases, Forbes tells us. The hope is to identify which patients respond to existing drugs and to try to discover biological clues that could lead to new medicines. It will be the first large-scale use of Verily’s Immunoscape platform, which seeks to determine data and insights on the immunological nature of certain diseases.
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