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  • Pharmacist-Led Dietary Guidance Supports Kidney Health

    Pharmacist-Led Dietary Guidance Supports Kidney Health

    Delivering and adhering to a quality-oriented diet can be beneficial for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) when implemented successfully. In a review published in Nature Reviews Nephrology, authors describe a framework that requires…

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  • Associate professor details importance of choosing the right childhood habits

    Sami Yli-Piipari, associate professor in the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s kinesiology department, spoke with Futurity about the ways that exercise habits (or lack thereof) in adolescence can set the stage for long-term physical…

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  • What to Know About Safety and the Risks

    What to Know About Safety and the Risks

    An expert in transfusion medicine explains the reasons why some patients require blood transfusions and how the process works.

    Every two seconds, someone in the U.S….

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  • A&O Shearman guides Genmab’s USD6 billion bank/bond financing

    A&O Shearman guides Genmab’s USD6 billion bank/bond financing

    The bank component of the financing involved a credit agreement providing for new senior secured credit facilities consisting of a USD1bn senior secured term loan “A” facility, a USD2bn senior secured term loan “B” facility and a USD500 million senior secured revolving credit facility. The bond piece consisted of Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings of USD1.5bn aggregated principal amount of 6.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2032 and USD1bn aggregated principal amount of 7.250% Senior Notes due 2033. 

    Genmab is an international biotechnology company dedicated to improving the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases through innovative antibody medicines. For over 25 years, its passionate, innovative and collaborative team has advanced a broad range of antibody-based therapeutic formats, including bispecific antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, immune-modulating antibodies and other next-generation modalities. Genmab’s science powers eight approved antibody medicines, and the company is advancing a strong late-stage clinical pipeline, including wholly owned programs, with the goal of delivering transformative medicines to patients.

    The A&O Shearman team was led by partners Harald Halbhuber (New York, capital markets), Michael Chernick (New York, debt finance) and Ryan Robski (Toronto/New York, capital markets), and associates Katya Bogdanov (Toronto/New York, capital markets), Ilya Mamin, Joe Tambasco (both New York, capital markets), Nick Slagter and Jahanvi Pandit (both Toronto/New York, capital markets) and Penelope Yan, Becky Hval, Jordan Tan (all New York, debt finance).

    Other A&O Shearman lawyers involved in the transaction include partners Derrick Lott and Clare O’Brien (both New York, M&A), Larry Crouch (Silicon Valley, tax), Matthew Brown (Washington D.C., tax), Niels de Ru (Amsterdam, debt finance), Godfried Kinnegim and Rens Bondrager (both Amsterdam, tax), and associates Katherine Teng and Jake Shaughnessy (both New York, M&A), Daniel Kachmar and Brandon Fawbush (Washington D.C., tax), Joy Kloosterman (Amsterdam, tax), Sophia Evenhuis and Michaël Guenneguez (both Amsterdam, global financial markets), Mercedeh Naseri (Amsterdam, debt finance), Sy Ro (New York, funds) and Stephanie Li (Washington D.C., funds).

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  • Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift

    Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift

    In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious…

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  • Astronaut Photographs Iceberg From Space Just ‘Days or Weeks’ Before it Disintegrates

    Astronaut Photographs Iceberg From Space Just ‘Days or Weeks’ Before it Disintegrates

    A NASA astronaut about the International Space Station captured this photograph of iceberg A-23A on December 27, 2025.

    New photos of one of the world’s largest icebergs show it has turned bright blue, which, despite its beauty, is not…

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  • Gibson Dunn Advised Diginex on Signing of Definitive Agreement to Acquire PlanA

    Gibson Dunn Advised Diginex on Signing of Definitive Agreement to Acquire PlanA

    Firm News  |  January 9, 2026


    Gibson Dunn advised Diginex Limited, a leading provider of Sustainability RegTech and data management solutions, on the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire PlanA.earth GmbH, one of Europe’s leading AI-powered carbon accounting and decarbonization platforms.

    Our corporate team includes partners Robert Giannattasio and Christopher Lang.

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  • Rights Group Calls on Pakistan to Stop Harassment and Deportation of Afghan Refugees

    Rights Group Calls on Pakistan to Stop Harassment and Deportation of Afghan Refugees

    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Amnesty International has renewed its call on the Pakistani government to stop the “unlawful” detention, harassment, and deportation of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, warning that Afghanistan remains unsafe for…

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  • Black Bears Head to NJIT for Second of Three-Straight Road Games

    Black Bears Head to NJIT for Second of Three-Straight Road Games

    Orono, ME – The University of Maine men’s basketball team takes on NJIT for their second of three-straight road…

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  • Nancy’s New Year Sale: Get up to 50% off vibrators

    Nancy’s New Year Sale: Get up to 50% off vibrators

    UP TO 50% OFF: As of Jan. 9, you can get up to 50% off select items at Nancy, including the Lem clitoral massager and the Pixie remote-controlled panty vibrator.


    If you haven’t made…

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