Roche signs Icagen; UCB devote $255M; Siemens H...

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...

Preclinical biotech Synthorx needs a USD 100 Million IPO The early-stage Synthorx needs USD 100 million IPO.  A while ago, La Jolla, California-based biotech got off a USD 63 million series C, but now wants a USD 100 million from an IPO to progress its pipelines of synthetic cytokines, which are designed to improve ...

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...

What is Triple Negative Breast Cancer? Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is defined as a heterogeneous breast cancer phenotype where the estrogen and progesterone receptor are negative, and there is a lack of overexpression of HER2, as assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC), or the absence of its gene amplificati...

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gives USD 85 Million to stop delayed, erroneous diagnostics The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is putting up money for improving diagnostics. The Foundation focuses on a plethora of areas, including those outside of healthcare, such as environmental conservation. It has an annua...

Cholera vaccine delivered through a cup of rice water Vaccinations against prevalent pathogens could be ingested as oral or inhaled as nasal vaccines, this is due to the development of non-invasive vaccines, which target the mucous membranes. These could help fight a plethora of infectious diseases such as cholera,...