Cancer Research triples funding for pancreatic cancer
20 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The charity increased spending on pancreatic cancer research, which includes improving diagnosis and treatment, to £18 million...
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Shedding light on the role of the immune system in schizophrenia
20 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
It had been suspected that the illness was an autoimmune disorder but now scientists have found strong evidence that schizophrenia is different...
Scientists discover immune system blind spot in hepatic cirrhosis
20 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The discovery could lead to new treatments for bacterial infections, a leading cause of death in hepatic cirrhosis, without the need for antibiotics...
A*STAR and MSD team up to advance peptide therapeutics
19 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott
A*STAR and MSD have formed a two year collaboration aimed at improving cellular delivery of macrocyclic peptides...
Alzheimer’s tau spreads through brain via extracellular space
19 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Karen Duff of Columbia University says that learning how tau spreads may lead to therapies that stop the toxic protein from jumping between neurons...
NanoRacks Plate Reader-2 successfully launched into space
18 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The NanoRacks Plate Reader-2, destined for the International Space Station, allows scientists to conduct life science research in space...
Mkx gene revealed as crucial for keeping tendons healthy
14 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The Scripps Research Institute scientists behind the study say their findings may bring doctors closer to using gene therapies to grow and repair tendons...
F-star expands immuno-oncology collaboration with CD Laboratory
14 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
F-star and the CD Laboratory seek to progress the understanding of the design, development and unique biology of antibody and antibody-based therapeutics...
NIH funds six research collaborations to find a cure for HIV
14 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The US National Institutes of Health has awarded $30 million in annual funding to help advance science towards a cure for HIV...
RedHill teams up with NIAID to evaluate potential Ebola treatment
13 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The collaboration follows encourage results from preliminary non-clinical studies of RedHill’s experimental therapy for the treatment of Ebola...
New company Enzyvant takes aim at Farber disease
13 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Enzyvant will focus on the development of recombinant human acid ceramidase (rhAC) for the treatment of patients with Farber disease...
Bayer and X-Chem expand drug discovery collaboration
12 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
In a deal worth up to $528 million, Bayer and X-Chem are to collaborate to discovery therapies across multiple therapeutic areas and target classes...
Manipulating HCN channels could lead to new depression treatments
12 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Using gene therapy, scientists from Northwestern Medicine have identified a target in the brain that could lead to new treatments for depression...
Sorrento and Servier team up to develop anti-PD-1 antibody
12 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Sorrento and Servier are teaming up to develop, manufacture and commercialise products using Sorrento's monoclonal antibody, STI-A1110...
Early intervention could prevent myeloma from taking root
11 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have revealed how a common condition called ‘MGUS’ can develop into myeloma...
