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CHMP Gives Positive Opinion on Takeda’s Qdenga  The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has given its approval to Takeda GmbH’s Qdenga, a live, attenuated dengue tetravalent vaccine (TAK-003). It is the first time the CHMP has reviewed a medicinal product ...

Aktis Oncology Raises USD 84 Million To Advance Novel Targeted Alpha Radiopharmaceuticals Aktis Oncology has raised an additional USD 84 million in its Series A round, adding to the USD 72 million raised last year to help bring its radiopharmaceuticals to market. The extension to the first round included Merck's...

TLX66 Meets Study Objectives, Holding Out in AL Amyloidosis Telix Pharmaceuticals reported the results from the TRALA trial (Targeted Radiotherapy for AL Amyloidosis), a Phase I/IIa trial evaluating the safety and toxicity of TLX66 as the sole bone marrow conditioning agent prior to autologous hematopoietic stem...

'Killer' Mosquito to be released in 20 US states to fight disease-causing mosquitoes The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of a common bacterium to kill wild mosquitoes that transmit viruses such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika. The biotechnology start-up MosquitoMate means to release th...

The recent outbreak of Dengue in Asia has brought forward the threat of mosquito bite into the spotlight again. Dengue is a kind of viral infection caused by mosquito bite, and the disease has now become a threat to about 390 million people, as these many are estimated to be infected each year. This incidence of inf...