Skye falls as weight-loss drug misses main goal in mid-stage study
** Shares of drug developer Skye Bioscience SKYE.O fall 64.2% to $1.70 premarket ** Co says its experimental drug, nimacimab, did not meet the main goal of weight loss compared to placebo ** SKYE says the study results potentially indicate the need for higher dosing of the drug as a monotherapy ** Up to last close, stock has more than doubled YTD (Reporting by Christy Santhosh) ((Christy.Santhosh@thomsonreuters.com))
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