Category: New products
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Lilly, NIH Halt Covid-19 Antibody Therapy Trial
Drug maker Eli Lilly and National Institutes of Health are stopping a clinical trial testing a synthetic antibody to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients.
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Precision Drug Trial Shows Solid Tumor Shrinkage
Partial results from a clinical trial show a drug to stop specific cancer-causing proteins shrinks advanced tumors in some patients across several tumor types.
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Phone Video Algorithm Screens for Stroke
A medical informatics team designed a computer model from patient videos to help emergency room physicians quickly diagnose stroke.
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Start-Up Developing Engineered B-Cell Therapies
A new enterprise, spun off from Seattle Children’s Research Institute, is creating therapeutics for diseases from engineered B-cells in the immune system.
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Carb-X Funding Nanoscale Sponge to Treat Sepsis
A company developing tiny particles made of cellular material to soak-up toxins in the body received a $4 million award to advance its sepsis treatment.
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Software Designed to Model, Visualize Brain Circuits
An academic-industry team designed a web-based software tool to ease the computer modeling, simulation, and visualization of the brain’s nerve cell circuits.
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Covid-19 Vaccine Challenge Trial Underway
Researchers in the U.K. are beginning a human challenge trial that intentionally exposes volunteers to SARS-CoV-2 viruses to test candidate vaccines.
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Myeloma Drug Shown to Treat Covid-19 Patients
Results from an early clinical trial show a drug designed to treat multiple myeloma also reduces viral loads and hospital stays of patients with Covid-19 infections.
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ALS Drug Shown to Extend Patient Survival
Results of a clinical trial show a drug to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, extends patients’ survival by several months and slows decline of their functions.
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Blood Test Shown to Predict Covid-19 Symptom Severity
A blood test that measures the ratio of two key immune system proteins is shown in tests with patients to predict the severity of Covid-19 symptoms.