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Monthly report · February 2026

Biotech news in February 2026

Biotech coverage in February 2026: 30 news events, drawn from 74 outlet reports. The most covered name was Food and Drug Administration, in 5 events.

How many events, day by day?

Biotech desk: news events homed on the desk per day, February 2026 (UTC days). Source: GetYourBrief's record of the outlets' reports.

Who was in the news most?

  1. Food and Drug Administration 5
  2. Johnson & Johnson 3
  3. Nasdaq 2
  4. European Medicines Agency 2
  5. Merck & Co. 2
  6. Bristol Myers Squibb 2
  7. Pfizer 2
  8. Novartis 2
  9. American Heart Association 2
  10. AbbVie 2

Counts are events (one per story, however many outlets carried it) on this desk in February 2026 that named each person, company or body. Source: GetYourBrief's record of the outlets' reports.

The week of February 9 to 15, 2026: 0 events

A quiet week on the desk, so its events are kept here in full rather than in a week brief.

Which stories did the most outlets carry?

  1. Feb 12 US stocks dip as AI concerns weigh; gold falls on Iran-US talks 14
  2. Feb 18 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AGI could arrive in five to eight years. 4
  3. Feb 17 DelveInsight reports juvenile idiopathic arthritis market forecast to 2036 4
  4. Feb 17 EurekAlert!: “Classifying pediatric brain tumors by liquid biopsy using artificial intelligence” 3
  5. Feb 18 ImmunityBio shares rose after EU approved ANKTIVA for bladder cancer 3
  6. Feb 18 FDA will drop two-study requirement for new drug approvals, aiming to speed access 3
  7. Feb 18 finanznachrichten.de: “DelveInsight Business Research, LLP: Phenylketonuria Market to Reach New Heights by 2034, Driven by Innovative Therapies and Rising Diagnosis Rates” 3
  8. Feb 18 Lifespan Vision Ventures co-leads Sift Biosciences $3.7M pre-seed round 3
  9. Feb 17 AI Tool Predicts Colorectal Cancer Risk in Ulcerative Colitis Patients 2
  10. Feb 18 Doceree launches AI-powered Admanager 2
  11. Feb 18 Study suggests AI helps individual scientists but not science 2
  12. Feb 17 seekingalpha.com: “Genmab A/S (GMAB) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript” 2
  13. Feb 18 Wellgistics Health invests in mental health AI startup 2
  14. Feb 18 Merck and Mayo Clinic Launch AI-Driven Drug Discovery Collaboration 2
  15. Feb 18 Study finds tropical disease can now be transmitted in most of Europe 2

What kind of news was it?

  1. Pharma 21
  2. Funding 5
  3. Clinical trial 4
  4. Fda approval 2
  5. Gene therapy 2

Categories come from the pipeline's classifier; how they are assigned.

Week by week

  1. Feb 9The week of February 9 to 15, 20261
  2. Feb 16The week of February 16 to 22, 202623
  3. Feb 23The week of February 23 to March 1, 20266

Sources: the outlets' reports linked on this page; counts and times from GetYourBrief's record of those reports (methodology).