Tag: Europe
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Trial Shows Ovarian Cancer Drug Safety, Therapy Potential
A clinical trial shows an experimental therapy addressing a common cancer-causing mutation is safe, with early indications of its efficacy against ovarian cancer.
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Adverse Effects Reports in Cancer Trials Seen Lacking
A review of clinical trials testing targeted treatments or immunotherapies for cancer show most of the studies got low scores on a standard scale for reporting adverse side effects.
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Genentech, BioNTech Partner on Personal Cancer Therapies
Biotechnology company BioNTech AG is licensing its messenger RNA technology and collaborating with biopharmaceutical company Genentech to develop personalized cancer immunotherapies.
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St. Jude, Sanger Institute to Share Genomic Databases
Two research institutes — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute — will share their databases on cancer genomics with the other institution’s scientists.
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Synthetic Viruses in Gene Therapy Licensed for Production
Techniques from academic research for developing synthetic viruses to deliver gene therapies are being licensed for commercial production and distribution.
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Sanofi, Alphabet Create Diabetes Venture
Drug maker Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences, a division of Alphabet — parent company of Google — are creating Onduo, a joint venture to develop health management solutions for people with diabetes.
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Trial Testing Diabetes Drug as Parkinson’s Treatment
A clinical trial has started to test a current drug for type 2 diabetes as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
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Trial Shows Antibody Slows Alzheimer’s Cognitive Decline
A clinical trial shows older individuals with early or mild cases of Alzheimer’s disease treated for a year with an engineered human antibody have less decline in mental functions associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Heart Research Built Into Personalized Activity Tracker
An activity tracking device introduced earlier this year uses data from a major population health study to write its algorithms measuring exercise achievement to prevent heart disease.
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Inexpensive Hydrogen Storage Devised for Solar Energy
An engineering team in Switzerland designed a system for producing hydrogen from solar power with abundant available materials, providing an inexpensive and feasible energy storage method.