Biotechnology Immunotherapies Flesh-Eating Infections In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Spur New Discovery By Staff Reports 3 years ago Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking medications that inhibit interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), a molecule that stimulates the immune
Biotechnology cancer Cell Therapy RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW STRATEGY TO LIMIT SIDE EFFECTS OF STEM CELL TRANSPLANTS By Staff Reports 3 years ago Scientists in Germany have developed a new approach that may prevent leukemia and lymphoma patients
Biotechnology Cell Therapy Genetic Disorders Genomes High Expression of Short Gene Appears to Contribute to Destructive Eye Pressures in Glaucoma By Staff Reports 3 years ago Scientists have found a variation of the miR-182 gene in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma
Biotechnology Cardiology MOUNT SINAI PIONEERS NEW APPROACH FOR CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA PATIENTS USING THE EPIACCESS® SYSTEM By Staff Reports 3 years ago The Mount Sinai Hospital is the first site in the New York metropolitan area to
Biotechnology Gene Therapy Trial Demonstrating Encouraging Early Biopotency Signals in Initial Subjects with Sanfilippo Type A By Staff Reports 3 years ago An ongoing gene therapy trial for the treatment of MPS IIIA, or Sanfilippo Syndrome Type
Biotechnology cancer Cancer Discovery Cell Therapy Hybrid Treatment Hunts Down and Kills Leukemia Cells By Staff Reports 3 years ago Researchers at UC Davis and Ionis Pharmaceuticals have developed a hybrid treatment that harnesses a
Biotechnology cancer Immunotherapies Cancer Research Institute to Honor Three Scientists for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Immunotherapy Research By Staff Reports 3 years ago The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization established in 1953 to advance biomedical research
Biotechnology Diabetes Sernova Tackles both Diabetes and Hemophilia with one Technology By Staff Reports 3 years ago contributed by Richard (Rick) Mills Editor, Ahead of the Herd As a general rule, the
Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Business News Cancer Trial for Leukemia Halted after Death of Two Patients By Staff Reports 3 years ago The U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a hold on a Juno Therapeutics clinical trial
Biotechnology Cell Therapy Botox’s Sweet Tooth Underlies Its Key Neuron-Targeting Mechanism UCI By Staff Reports 3 years ago The Botox toxin has a sweet tooth, and it’s this craving for sugars – glycans,
Biotechnology cancer Cancer Discovery Research Team First to Identify AF1q Protein Associated with Multiple Myeloma, EMD By Staff Reports 3 years ago A group of researchers from the University of Louisville, Japan and Austria is the first
Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals Narcotic painkillers prolong pain in rats, says CU-Boulder study By Staff Reports 3 years ago The dark side of painkillers – their dramatic increase in use and ability to trigger
Biotechnology cancer Breast cancer drug found to reduce seizures By Staff Reports 4 years ago A class of drug that inhibits estrogen production and is used to treat breast cancer
Biotechnology New technology detects blood clots with simple in-home test By Staff Reports 4 years ago For millions of Americans at risk for blood clots, strokes and hypertension, routine lab tests
Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Business News Pfizer to Acquire Anacor Citing Strong fit with Pfizer’s Inflammation and Immunology portfolio By Staff Reports 4 years ago Pfizer Inc. and Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive
Biotechnology Cell Therapy First Skin-to-Eye Stem Cell Transplant in Humans Successful By Staff Reports 4 years ago Researchers have safely transplanted stem cells derived from a patient’s skin to the back of
Biotechnology Cell Therapy Clinical Trials Genomes Cell Transplant Treats Parkinson’s in Mice Under Control of Designer Drug By Staff Reports 4 years ago A University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist has inserted a genetic switch into nerve cells so a
Biotechnology Cardiology In Child Heart Patients, a Novel Approach Improves Symptoms of Hazardous Lymph Blockage By Staff Reports 4 years ago Pediatric researchers have devised an innovative, safe and minimally invasive procedure that helps relieve rare
Biotechnology cancer Cell Therapy Cell-Penetrating Peptide Delivers Drugs on a Molecular Level By Staff Reports 4 years ago A team of Kennesaw State University faculty and students have developed a novel cell-penetrating peptide
Biotechnology Genomes Laboratory Technology Sophisticated ‘Mini-Brains’ Add to Evidence of Zika’s Toll on Fetal Cortex By Staff Reports 4 years ago Studying a new type of pinhead-size, lab-grown brain made with technology first suggested by three