Tag: pharmaceuticals
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Continuous Flow Manufacturing In Space Station Test
Among the experiments carried to the International Space Station in mid-December is a test of continuous separations of one liquid from another, used in drug and chemical manufacturing.
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Highly Targeted Opioid Designed to Avoid Side Effects
A pharmacology team decoded complex opioid proteins in the brain to design a compound that can relieve pain, but avoid the dangerous adverse effects causing addiction and overdoses.
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Sangamo, Pfizer Partner on ALS Gene Therapy
Drug maker Pfizer Inc. is licensing and collaborating on a gene therapy technology from Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and a related neurodegenerative disease.
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RNA Therapies Start-Up Raises $55.3M in Early Funds
A start-up company creating treatments for inherited diseases that target faulty RNA transcribed from genetic codes is raising $55.3 million in its first venture funding round.
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NIH Grant Funds Synthetic Peptide for Severe Asthma
A synthetic peptide, a short chain of amino acids, is being developed as a treatment for severe cases of asthma that do not respond to conventional drugs.
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Microneedle Patch Delivers Anti-Obesity Drugs
A skin patch containing hundreds of tiny porous needles is shown in lab mice to deliver drugs that turn ordinary body fat into calorie-burning brown fat to reduce body mass.
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Finland Begins Large-Scale National Genomic Study
The country of Finland is conducting a nationwide genomic analysis of its population, collecting 500,000 blood samples from its 5.5 million citizens.
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FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Inherited Vision Loss
A therapy using transfers of healthy genes to treat a rare form of inherited vision loss was approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Biotechs Partner on HPV Cancer Immunotherapies
Biotechnology companies in the U.S. and the Netherlands are collaborating on treatments for cancers caused by a type of human papillomavirus, or HPV.
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FDA Issues Draft Precision Medicine Trial Guidance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft regulatory guidance on clinical trials for new treatments that target genetic mutations rather than disease states.