Tag: pharmaceuticals
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Venture Fund Formed to Back Longevity Research
A new venture capital fund is being formed to finance start-up companies developing technologies that aim to extend healthy human life spans.
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Trial Underway Testing Placenta Grafts for Foot Ulcers
A clinical trial testing tissue grafts derived from human placenta tissue to treat diabetic foot ulcers enrolled its first patient.
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Biotech, Univ. Lab Partner on Cancer Antibodies
A biotechnology company is engaging the services of a children’s cancer researcher to develop an antibody for treating neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that affects the nervous system.
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Expanding Gel Pill Designed for Long-Term Diagnostics
An ingestible gel capsule is shown in tests with animals to expand and reside in the stomach for as long as a month for delivering drugs or monitoring bodily functions.
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Compounds Made Available for Pandemic Drug Discovery
Two international health organizations are making 400 compounds freely available to researchers to spur development of new drugs for pandemic infectious diseases.
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Precision Lung Cancer Trial Expands Scope
A large-scale clinical trial testing immunotherapy drugs to treat specific types of lung cancer is expanding to include all of the most common forms of the disease.
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Foundation Backs Engineered T-Cells to Treat Lymphoma
A new initiative is researching modified immune system cells to treat T-cell lymphoma, a type of blood-related cancer, with a simpler, lower-cost process.
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Trial Underway Testing Stem Cells for Stroke Repair
A clinical trial assessing stem cell treatments to repair long-term damage to brain cells from a stroke recruited its first patient.
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Engineered Hens Produce Human Proteins in Eggs
An animal biology lab in Scotland developed genetically engineered chickens that efficiently produce human therapeutic proteins in their eggs.
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Trial Testing Stem Cell Implants for Type 1 Diabetes
A clinical trial is underway testing the safety of implanted stem cells to generate working beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, in patients with type 1 diabetes.