--Pharmaceutical giant GSK PLC is in talks to buy U.S. privately owned biotech company IDRx, which is developing a treatment for rare gastrointestinal tumors, for up to $1 billion, the Financial Times reports, citing unnamed sources.
--An announcement on the deal could be made ahead of the JPMorgan healthcare conference in San Francisco next week, the FT says, adding that talks are continuing and could still fail.
--GSK declined to comment and IDRx didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from the FT.
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