Tag: biomedical
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Better Precision Medicine Outcomes Shown for Leukemia
Clinical trial results show a strategy that first tests for genomic mutations to guide treatments results in better outcomes for patients with acute myeloid leukemia.
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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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Bayer Gains Gene Therapy Biotech in $4B Deal
Global drug maker Bayer AG is acquiring the company Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, developer of gene therapies to treat inherited disorders.
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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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Infographic – Covid-19 Cases Reach New Highs
New Covid-19 infection cases are surging again in most parts of the world, with numbers accelerating fastest in Europe and the Americas.
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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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Roche Gains Covid-19 Oral Drug Candidate
Global drug maker Roche Group is acquiring an experimental antiviral therapy for Covid-19 infections taken as a oral drug, rather than an infusion.
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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.