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Mar 07, 2019

Biogen to buy Nightstar for USD 800 Million Biogen known for its efforts in treatments of multiple sclerosis and spinal muscular atrophy wound up the deal to buy Nightstar. The deal will let Biogen have access to two experimental gene therapies for blindness-causing diseases helping Biogen’s pipeline. Pacira...

Mar 06, 2019

US Food and Drug Administration Chief Scott Gottlieb decided to tender his resignation which took everyone by surprise. His departure is a potential blow to the health care industry. Dr.Scott Gottleib – a physician, a medical policy expert, and public health advocate was sworn in as the 23rd Commissioner of FDA. ...

Mar 05, 2019

ColdZyme inactivates 99% of viruses causing common cold An Oral spray ColdZyme contains a solution of proteolytic enzyme trypsin and glycerol, which happens to shorten the duration of the common cold and also reduces its gravity. A recent research by Enzymatica-a Swedish based life sciences company shows the cli...

Mar 01, 2019

Rare diseases are mostly serious, chronic and life-threatening, associated with both psychological as well as financial burdens. In addition, only a few of them have effective drug treatment available. The European Union (EU) definition of a rare disease is one that affects fewer than 5 in 10,000 people. These affe...

Feb 28, 2019

A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, an orphan disease is a rare disease whose rarity means there is a lack of a market large enough to gain support and resources for discovering treatments for it, except by the government g...

Feb 28, 2019

Cell Medica receives funds for its cell therapy A USD 8.7 million grant to Cell Medica has been given by Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to speed up the clinical development of CMD-502 off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor-natural killer T cell (CAR-NKT) cell therapy. The program, su...

Feb 27, 2019

Patients suffering from Colorectal Cancer (CRC) usually gets affected with distant organ metastases spreading the tumor to other parts of the body. Patients with unresectable or borderline resectable Colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) are given Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NC) to limit liver resection and to lower dow...

Feb 26, 2019

 Vertex, CRISPR Therapeutics treated a patient using CRISPR In the very first, a patient diagnosed with Beta thalassemia was treated using CRISPR gene editing tool by Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics.  CTX001 used to treat the disease, was extracted from hematopoietic stem cells from patients, engineered ex...

Feb 25, 2019

Stem Cells therapies and CRISPR gene-editing are not new. Having able to grow the desired cells and manipulate the genome system have proved to be the most important breakthrough so far. We all are aware of the fact that Embryos possess the potential to produce pluripotent cells that researchers experiment on t...

Feb 22, 2019

Cholangiocarcinoma (BILE Duct cancer) is a type of uncommon CANCER. It arises in Bile ducts. The Bile duct is a long tubule like structure which connects the liver (hepatic duct) to the gall bladder (cystic duct). It carries bile, which helps in digestion of food, from gall-bladder (produced in the liver) to inte...