Health care stocks were edging higher premarket Monday, with The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) and the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) up 0.1%.
Arcellx (ACLX) shares were up 8.6% pre-bell Monday after the company said preliminary data from a phase 2 trial of anitocabtagene autoleucel in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma demonstrated a 97% overall response rate.
Agios Pharmaceuticals (AGIO) shares were down 7.5% even after the company said Sunday the phase 3 study of its experimental drug mitapivat to treat adults with transfusion-dependent alpha- or beta-thalassemia, a rare blood disease, met primary and secondary goals.
Beam Therapeutics (BEAM) said Sunday new data for its engineered stem cell antibody evasion conditioning platform showed that conditioning and in vivo selection with an anti-CD117 antibody allowed engraftment of base-edited hematopoietic stem cells in a non-human primate model. Beam shares were up 6.6% pre-bell Monday.
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