Health-care companies rose amid anticipation of continued deal activity.
Earlier this week, AbbVie agreed to buy mental-health drug maker Cerevel Therapeutics for $8.7 billion, less than a week after divulging a multibillion dollar agreement to buy Immunogen; meanwhile Swiss drug giant Roche Holding agreed to buy California-based biotechnology company Carmot Therapeutics for up to $3.1 billion.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first medicine employing Crispr, or gene-editing technology.
The medicine, called Casgevy and developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Crispr Therapeutics, was approved for the treatment of painful sickle-cell disease.
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