Vertex shells out $950 million to acquire a company working on a diabetes cure

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Vertex is pursuing nontraditional therapies for diseases that have been impossible to cure:

at a steady clip, it will most likely want to branch out into new treatment areas. That's why a wide net approach to investment — pouring money into companies with early-stage research and high potential market caps like Semma — could be good for Vertex: Diabetes treatment cost the US healthcare systemVertex isn't the only pharma company looking at innovative approaches to drug development.

Pharma companies are exploring everything from genetics to AI in search of the next big drug development breakthrough. The current drug development pipeline is very expensive and slow, with the average treatment requiringTo try and address this pain point, pharma giant GSK spentto secure a four-year exclusive partnership to codevelop drugs based on direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe's mountains of genetic data.

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