Synthetic lethality provides a new opportunity in oncology drug development. First described by Calvin Bridges in 1922, synthetic lethality arises when deficiencies in a pair of genes occur simultaneously to result in cell death, but if that deficiency exists in only one gene, the cell will survive.
The company we are profiling today is a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on synthetic lethality - Repare Therapeutics Inc. (RPTX).
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May 08, 2026 15:50 ET Manufacturing and services sector survey results and labor market data from main economies were the highlight on the economics news front this week. Factory orders and jobs report dominated the news flow in the U.S. Similarly, industrial production data from German garnered attention in Europe. In Asia, purchasing managers’ survey results from China and the central bank decision from Australia were in focus.