Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month

The concept of sleep as a passive movement of unconsciousness has long been ruled out. But this act of rejuvenation hasn't just been restricted to the phase of resting. Usually, sleepers undergo five stages of sleep consisting of both REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and N-REM (Non- Rapid Eye Movement), each lasting f...

Stemline gives in-licenses global rights to SL-1001 Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on development and commercialization of novel oncology therapeutics, has licensed worldwide rights to a preclinical molecule RET (rearranged during transfection) kinase inhibitor. The RET kinase...

Gene editing, a possible treatment, for inherited kidney disease Joubert syndrome, an inherited brain disorder that causes kidney failure in patients. This requires a transplant or dialysis. A mutation in the gene CEP290 causes the inherited form of kidney disease and scientists in the U.K. to apprise of having an e...

The pancreatic cancer drug of GlaxoSmithKline moves to phase 1 The experimental drug, GSK095 of GlaxoSmithKline is made to work in order with a checkpoint that are inhibiting medicines in the empowerment of the immune system to introduce a more aggressive attack against tumours than with checkpoint inhibitors alone...

Novartis comes up with an answer for breast cancer with PI3K drug alpelisib Novartis comes up with an answer with its recent data on BYL719 (alpelisib) in combination with fulvestrant. Their alpha-specific drug for PIK3CA mutated HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer, BYL719 plus fulvestrant nearly doubled the progressio...

Orchard files for USD173 Million IPO to run pivotal gene therapy trials Orchard Therapeutics, Transatlantic biotech, has filed to raise USD 173 million in an IPO. This will lead it to take three gene therapies through the clinic. Orchard recognised itself as one of the broadest clinical-phase gene therapy pipelines ...