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Aug 17, 2018

Bexion Pharmaceuticals’ Early-Stage Cancer Drug, BXQ-350 Hailed as Game Changer For the Treatment of solid tumors and gliomas Bexion Pharmaceuticals’ investigational cancer treatment, BXQ-350, is receiving lots of mainstream media coverage as a potential game-changer. BXQ-350 is a formulation of a syntheticall...

Aug 17, 2018

Alnylam’s Onpattro Receives First-Ever US FDA Approval for Treatment of the Polyneuropathy of Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis in Adults US FDA approved Alnylam’s Onpattro (patisiran) lipid complex injection, a first-of-its-kind RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic, for the treatment of the polyneurop...

Aug 17, 2018

Astellas’ Ophthalmology Innovation to Strengthen Further With Quethera Acquisition Astellas has acquired Quethera, a gene therapy company headquartered in the UK, which is focused on developing novel treatments for ocular disorders, such as glaucoma. Through this transaction, Astellas has acquired Quethera’s ...

Aug 16, 2018

Blueberry Therapeutics reels in USD 12.7 Million in series B funding for fungal infections. U.K.based, Blueberry Therapeutics successfully bagged a funding of USD 12.7 million in series B funding. The funding will help the company to advance its nanomedicine candidate, BB2603 for two fungal infections namely- Ath...

Aug 13, 2018

Personalized Medicine (also referred as Precision Medicine) is a tailored approach of deciding and predicting treatment practices based on the molecular analysis of patient’s proteins, metabolites and genetic makeup. This specific treatment approach can be considered as an extension of traditional approaches to unde...

Aug 10, 2018

Sarepta builds in gene therapy with $30M Lacerta deal Sarepta has dampen its enthusiasm for an ongoing gene therapy candidate. Sarepta has made a tie-up with lacerta that will add 3 more programs to 8 already existing and are ready to expand its focus beyond muscular dystrophy. Sarepta has committed to pay Lacerta ...

Aug 09, 2018

 Can CRISPR really fix genetic mutation in human embryos?  Team of scientists who created controversial blockbuster last year claim that they have fixed a disease-causing mutation in human embryos using gene editing technique CRISPR. Team has released fresh evidence supporting their work. Critics argued that the ev...

Aug 08, 2018

Teva’s migraine drug is expected to launch this year despite the delay in FDA approval Teva Pharmaceutical’s fremanezumab for treating migraine is expected to launch later this year.  Celltrion disclosed that U.S. drug regulators issued a Form 483 for its plant in Incheon, South Korea on tuesdsy. Eight manufacturin...

Aug 07, 2018

Progenics got FDA Approval on Iobenguane I 131 for Rare Adrenal Gland Tumors  A good news for unresectable rare adrenal tumor  patients as oncologists now have a new treatment to offer . On July 30, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved Progenics Pharmaceuticals iobenguane I for adult and pediatric patient...

Aug 06, 2018

Mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I) (Hurler Syndrome) – a lesser developed window Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a group of rare, hereditary and incurable “storage diseases”, which is named after mucopolysaccharides (sugars bound to proteins). The stored mucopolysaccharides are called as glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). ...