Newly published data convinced AstraZeneca to conduct a sprawling late-stage program for its GLP-1 pill. Elsewhere, Bausch + Lomb will lay off 119 employees and Cartesian boosted its ‘in vivo’ cell therapy capabilities.

At a big meeting for weight loss drugs, Lilly’s “triple G” therapy set a new standard as lingering doubts surrounded other competing treatments.

For Novo Nordisk, the launch of the company’s highly anticipated Wegovy pill at the start of the year—representing the first oral GLP-1 for obesity—marked an opportunity to…