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Nov 08, 2024

Cervical cancer remains a leading cause of death among women worldwide. While increased awareness and early diagnosis have significantly reduced fatalities over the years, the risk is still substantial. A major factor in the development of cervical cancer is persistent infection with Human Papillomavirus (HPV), whi...

Sep 23, 2016

The Food and Drug Administration approved the recent controversial drug to treat Duchenne muscular Dystrophy, which is a rare disease that confines boys to wheelchairs and condemns them to an early death. The decision was made after months of debate between the Agency and Sarepta Therapeutics, regarding the evidence...

Sep 22, 2016

Collaboration between Sygnis AG and ECACC for licensing and distribution of Caco-2 cell line Sygnis AG enters into a collaboration agreement with ECACC to significantly expand Sygnis' Caco-2 business. Under the collaboration, ECACC will organize that companies obtain the license for the use of the Caco-2 cell line f...

Sep 20, 2016

Macrophages play critical role in acute and chronic inflammation and cancer. In response to pathogens or injury, inflammatory macrophages express cytokines that stimulate cytotoxic T cells. Macrophage PI(3)Kinase γ controls a critical switch between immune stimulation and suppression during inflammation and cancer. ...

Sep 19, 2016

It is a well-known fact that where there is stem cell transplantation, there is Graft vs Host Disease (GVHD). The concept arose 2 decades ago and is not rare- it is a common complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) that occurs when the donated (graft) cells are rejected, and attack t...

Sep 16, 2016

Piramal buys another U.S. manufacturer operation India’s Piramal has decided to have a manufacturing operations based in the U.S., and has now bought another operation after it bought a sterile manufacturing operation last year. The company bought Midwestern-based CDMO for $42.95 million in cash, with an additional ...

Sep 15, 2016

Roche's drug candidate for Multiple Sclerosis touted to be better than Merck’s Rebif The much anticipated multiple sclerosis drug from Roche, ocrelizumab, has overtaken Merck’s Rebif according to the results of Phase III data, and has also shown great stats that could prove that it might have an edge in the hotly co...

Sep 14, 2016

A research published in Nature recently identified some dynamic functional states in the breast cancer cells of HER2 breast cancer. The research postulates that women who have advanced oestrogen-receptor (ER)-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer, are prone to acquire a HER2...

Sep 13, 2016

A vaccine is a biological cocktail composed of inactive microorganisms that are either attenuated or dead. It has been found that human immune system maintains a memory of disease causing agents to save the body from the next attack. But vaccines till date are known to treat only specific type of ailments. To ...

Sep 09, 2016

There might be many treatment options for a cancer patients, but each one has its limitations. Also, a physician has a challenge in determining the best treatment method for an individual. However, a research team from Berkeley Lab has devised a system by which these decision are easier to make based in the genetic ...