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‘Extraordinary’ t-cell cancer therapy results generate excitement

16 February 2016 | By Victoria White

In one study, the engineered T-cells induced complete remission in 94% of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia...

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MGB Biopharma and Strathclyde to develop new MGB anti-infectives

16 February 2016 | By Victoria White

MGB Biopharma and the University of Strathclyde are to extend their existing collaboration to develop novel MGB anti-infectives...

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Drug discovery crisis linked to bad technology choices

15 February 2016 | By Victoria White

Researchers say drug discovery processes are becoming unsustainably expensive despite huge technological advances because the wrong methods are being used…

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Vaccines and alternatives can play a role in tackling drug-resistant infections

12 February 2016 | By Victoria White

The latest report from the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance says that vaccines and other alternatives can play a vital role in tackling the rise of drug-resistant infections...

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Nimbolide shows potential as pancreatic cancer treatment

12 February 2016 | By Victoria White

Scientists tested nimbolide, natural extract derived from India's neem tree, against pancreatic cancer in cell lines and mice...

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canSAR: a portal to Big Data for drug discovery

9 February 2016 | By Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani and Elizabeth Coker, The Institute of Cancer Research, London

Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani and Elizabeth Coker discuss canSAR: the first public domain example of Big Data for drug discovery...

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Researchers uncover the role of PAD4 in cancers

8 February 2016 | By Victoria White

Peptidyl arginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) is a protein that plays a role in the development of inflammatory diseases like arthritis...

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Inhibiting cell death may prevent the spread of cancer

5 February 2016 | By Victoria White

New research suggests that drugs to prevent, rather than encourage, cell death might be effective at fighting cancer - contrary to how many of the current chemotherapy drugs work...

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Mersana and Takeda expand partnership to advance XMT-1522

3 February 2016 | By Victoria White

XMT-1522 is an investigational, Fleximer-based ADC therapy that targets HER2-expressing tumours, including breast, gastric and non-small cell lung cancers...

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London Cancer Hub to accelerate the discovery of treatments

3 February 2016 | By Victoria White

A new ‘roadmap’ document published today outlines how The London Cancer Hub will become a world-leading life-science campus...

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Adaptimmune and GSK expand cancer immunotherapy collaboration

3 February 2016 | By Victoria White

The enhanced agreement will accelerate Adaptimmune’s lead clinical cancer programme, an affinity enhanced T-cell immunotherapy targeting NY-ESO-1...

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MISSION Therapeutics raises £60m to advance DUB inhibitors

2 February 2016 | By Victoria White

The £60 million enables the company to maximise the potential of its DUB platform and advance a series of DUB inhibitors...

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Epigenome mining leads to medulloblastoma discovery

29 January 2016 | By Victoria White

Researchers have identified the cells that likely give rise to the brain tumour subtype Group 4 medulloblastoma, removing a barrier to developing more effective targeted therapies....

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ADC Summit 2016 to highlight the developments for next wave of antibody-drug conjugates

29 January 2016 | By SMi Group

Registration now live for the 5th annual ADC Summit taking place at the Holiday Inn Kensington Forum, London, UK on the 23rd – 24th May 2016...

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Karolinska Institutet and Biovica to evaluate promising cancer treatments

29 January 2016 | By Victoria White

The lab headed by Thomas Helleday at Karolinska Institutet and Biovica are to collaborate to improve evaluation of new, promising cancer therapies...

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