Health care stocks were easing Monday afternoon, with the NYSE Health Care Index down 0.2% and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) shedding 0.3%.
The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) rose 0.1%.
In corporate news, PTC Therapeutics (PTCT) signed a licensing deal with Novartis (NVS) unit Novartis Pharmaceuticals worth up to $2.9 billion for PTC518, its candidate treatment for Huntington's disease. PTC shares jumped 18% and Novartis was down 0.9%.
Senti Biosciences (SNTI) shares soared 469%. The company said Monday that two of three acute myeloid leukemia patients treated with its Senti-202 investigational cell therapy for blood cancers achieved complete remission in a phase 1 trial.
Gelteq (GELS) shares surged 28% after it said Monday its largest client in the US, Healthy Extracts, has increased its order of the company's collagen and Mynus sugar blocker gels by 50%.
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