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Pompe disease, an inherited rare disease, is often fatal and incapacitates the heart and skeletal muscles. Absence of an essential protein due to the mutation in a gene encoding GAA, leads to a complex buildup of sugar, hence, damaging heart, liver and other organs. The mutated gene hampers the lysosomal-mediated d...

Telegenomics Company Genome Medical nets USD 23 M Genome Medical, a telegenomics company, having expertise in delivering genome-based medicine has raised USD 23 Million in series B funding.  The proceeds will be used by the company to accelerate the development of its technology and medical services to supp...

The study published in The New England Journal of Medicine set out to study the effect of the drug teplizumab in people at high risk for type 1 diabetes. According to recent Phase II clinical trials, in experimental immunotherapy conducted, the drug has been able to delay the onset of disease for the first tim...

Lilly tests the efficacy of Tirzepatide-a novel dual GIP, GLP-1 agonist Eli Lilly is planning to test its diabetes drug Tirzepatide in a phase 2b Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) trial. Tirzepatide, also known as LY3298176, has been excellent in reducing body weight and blood sugar in patients with poorly co...

Alzheimer is known to affect an estimated 50 million people worldwide. There is no doubt that this number is going to reach 75 million in 2030 and 131.5 million in 2050 of all age group worldwide. Among affected 5.5 million people aged 65 and older with Alzheimer's in the United States, 3.4 million were reported wo...

In layman’s language, Cluster headache is a headache disorder that occurs in cyclical patterns. The term cluster headache itself defines the condition that these attacks occur in groups, or “clusters.” During a cluster cycle, brief, excruciatingly severe headache attacks recur between 1-8 times per day. Known as on...

World Brain Tumor Day World Brain Tumor Day is focussed at raising awareness about brain tumor and educating people about cancer which is not very common. Every year, June 8 is seen as World Brain Tumor Day. The day is also meant for those who are suffering from a brain tumor and help them deal with the condi...

Cancer biotech Inhibrx files for USD 75 M IPO Celgene-partnered biotech Inhibrx aftersecuring USD 40 Million from Viking Global Investors, has filed for USD 75 million IPO. Built on a single-domain antibody platform, it has three oncology programs in human clinical trials, a rare disease program, and two preclin...

World Environment Day On this #WorldEnvironmentDay, let us all come together & make little efforts on our part towards a greener earth. Environment day is more than just planting trees. It is to remind that too much damage has been done by humans and its high time to take active measures in day to day life t...

Dementia is an umbrella term, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, causing deterioration in cognitive function. Associated with memory loss and decline other in other thinking skills, it is just not restricted to that. Problems with language, decision making, judgement, abstract thinking, struggling in takin...