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Optical Sample Patent Approved for Breakthrough Cell Culture Management Technology
<p>The new breakthrough cell management technology now can be safe guarded with a patent right by all the Cell Culture Laboratories working with sensitive cell types.</p> <p>Under this protection, all the cell laboratories will be ensured for optimal sample security for gene therapy, cell therapy and regenerative medicine applications.</p> <p>Thermo Scientific Cell Locker system segregates the sensitive cells into separate protected chamber...
FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for PTI-428 in Cystic Fibrosis
<p xss=removed>The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants Proteostasis Therapeutics' PTI-428, a Breakthrough therapy for the treatment of cystic fibrosis patients with two copies of the F508del genetic mutation who are receiving Orkambi® as background therapy.</p> <p xss=removed>PTI-428 is an investigational CFTR amplifier in the development for treating CF in patients who are homozygous for the F508del mutation in the CFTR gene.</p>...
FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Fennec PEDMARK™
<p xss=removed>The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded breakthrough therapy designation to Fennec Pharmaceuticals’ PEDMARK™ (a unique formulation of sodium thiosulfate) for prevention of cisplatin-related ototoxicity in pediatric patients with standard-risk hepatoblastoma(SR-HB).</p> <p xss=removed>The Fast Track designation will facilitate development and accelerate the review of drugs to treat serious and life-threatening condition...
Novel Nano-Containers Enhance Effect of Anticancer Therapeutics
Researchers at the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity, part of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have developed innovative nano-containers capable of delivering anticancer drugs with precise timing and localization....
Breakthrough Therapy Lenvima/Keytruda Combo Treats Patients with Advanced Kidney Cancer
Eisai's lenvatinib mesylate (Lenvima), a multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in combination with Merck's pembrolizumab (Keytruda), an anti-programmed death-1 therapy, has been granted the breakthrough therapy designation...
Cipher Pharmaceuticals Launches a Novel Bactericidal Topical Antibiotic Cream in Canada
<p xss=removed>Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc announced the Canadian launch of OZANEX™ (ozenoxacin cream, 1%), a novel bactericidal topical antibiotic cream indicated for the treatment of impetigo in patients aged 2 months and older.</p> <p xss=removed>OZANEX can be used to cure one of the most common and contagious bacterial skin infections. It can be utilised as a new and important treatment alternative for skin infections.</p> <p xss=removed...
Roche’s Balovaptan Gets FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation
<p xss=removed>Roche announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for its investigational oral medicine Balovaptan.</p> <p xss=removed>It is a vasopressin 1a (V1a) receptor antagonist for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).</p> <p xss=removed>The V1a receptor has a role in mediating and modulating key social behaviours associated with individuals with the condition.</p> ...
New Diabetes Drugs Sensitise Cancer cells to chemotherapy agents
Scientists from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that experimental diabetes drugs have the potential to increase the vulnerability of cancer cells to traditional chemotherapy treatments....
A New Nanomedicine Prevents the Development of Pancreatic Cancer in Mice
A new Tel Aviv University study pinpoints the inverse correlation between a known oncogene; a gene that promotes the development of cancer and the expression of oncosuppressor microRNA as the reason for extended pancreatic cancer survival....
A New Sophisticated Microscope gives a boost to Optogenetic Studies
Scientists from Harvard, report the development of a new microscope that greatly improves researchers’ ability to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease affect neuronal communication....
