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Eli Lilly Just Bought Orna — But The REAL Story Is The Platform!

Eli Lilly’s move to acquire Orna Therapeutics landed quietly, framed as another pipeline add-on in a year already defined by growth and scale. On the surface, it reads like a contained biotech transaction tied to early-stage assets. The market’s instinct is to file it under optionality. A long-dated bet, modest relative to Lilly’s size, easy to ignore next to obesity revenues. But that framing misses where the leverage actually sits, and why this transaction fits a pattern Lilly has been building deliberately.