Cancer

May 31, 2019

WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY Every year, 31st May is observed as World Tobacco Day. This day is intended to spread awareness about health issues associated with tobacco use and to encourage the government to adopt effective policies to reduce the use of tobacco products. Every year, approximately 7 million people die du...

Apr 12, 2019

Gene Therapy is a way to introduce a normal working gene in the place of a mutated one which might result in some kinds of abnormalities. Gene Therapy is a novel way to express novel proteins, and re-design the genome to prevent any disease. The concept here is some disorders are caused due to their defect in a sin...

Apr 11, 2019

Inozyme Pharma Raises USD 67 Million in Series A2 Financing Inozyme Pharma- a Boston-based biotechnology company, solely focused on developing novel therapies to treat rare diseases, has raised USD 67 million. The company plans to use this funding to progress its lead asset INZ-701, into clinical trials. INZ-701...

Apr 10, 2019

Gene therapy is a technique that involves replacing, inactivating, or adding a new gene to treat or prevent a disease. The science of GENE THERAPY involves the DNA-based changes in genetic material so that the gene can transcribe a healthy protein. In the past, there has been no success in designing any gene therap...

Apr 03, 2019

What exactly is Marijuana? In a layman language, Marijuana is the dried buds and leaves of a plant Cannabis sativa favored in warm, wild tropical climates. Earning names like pot, ganja, weed, hemp, hash, etc. it contains around 104 active cannabinoids (CBD). What they do is, they mimic the signal producing che...

Apr 02, 2019

Selumetinib gets the U.S. Breakthrough Therapy Designation Selumetinib- an investigational drug, for the treatment of pediatric patients aged three years and above suffering from symptomatic and/or progressive, inoperable neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), plexiform neurofibromas (PN)- a rare genetic condition, has...

Mar 26, 2019

Laminin might help to regenerate heart muscles Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have been studying the self-regeneration process of the heart. After an injury, the self- regeneration property of the heart has been limited. But now, Scientists turned to Stem Cell therapy. They are prepping stem ...

Mar 12, 2019

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...

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...

Feb 21, 2019

Peloton Therapeutics raises USD 150 Million for treating Advance Kidney Cancer Peloton Therapeutics has been in the process of developing small molecule drugs to treat Cancer, has raised USD 150 million. Peloton’s lead therapeutic candidate, PT2977, focuses on targeting hypoxia-inducible fac...