Tag: preclinical
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Daily Covid-19 Nasal Spray Vaccine in Works
A group of university and government labs is formulating an antiviral drug as a nasal spray for use as a daily preventive vaccine against Covid-19 infections.
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Bayer Gains Lung Cancer Therapy in $670M Deal
Global drug maker Bayer AG is licensing an engineered T-cell therapy to treat mesothelioma and other solid tumor cancers from biotech Atara Biotherapeutics.
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FDA Begins Qualifying Non-Animal Testing Options
The Food and Drug Administration began a pilot program for assessing alternative technologies to test drugs, biologics, and devices without animals.
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Inexpensive Chip Detects Covid-19, Other Pathogens
A small silicon lab-on-a-chip device costing about $0.35 to make is shown in lab tests to quickly detect SARS-CoV-2 viruses and infectious bacteria.
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Industry, Univ Labs Partner on Cannabinoid Pain Drug
A Canadian medical school lab is helping evaluate and develop a pain relief drug made by a company developing therapies from cannabis.
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Crispr Edits Out HIV-Like Genes from Monkey DNA
Researchers show the gene-editing technique Crispr can remove genes gained from infections similar to HIV in lab monkeys, as well as viral signals from their bodies.
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Univ, Industry Labs Study Inhaled Covid-19 Antibodies
Researchers at University of Pennsylvania and Regeneron are studying delivery of synthetic antibodies directly to the nose to prevent Covid-19 infections.
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Trial Requested for Covid-19 Vaccine Nasal Spray
Makers of a Covid-19 vaccine given as a nasal spray asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a a human clinical trial of the vaccine.
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Natural-Killer Cell Cancer Therapy Biotech Launches
A new company is underway creating off-the-shelf engineered cells from the immune system as cancer treatments, and raising $42 million in venture funds.
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Nanoscale Particles Deliver Crispr Cancer Treatments
Researchers in Israel developed techniques to deliver gene editing therapies with lipid nanoscale particles that in lab mice killed cancer cells and increased survival.