Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Gilead drug proves effective against coronavirus in US study (Update)

For the first time, a major study suggests that an experimental drug works against the new coronavirus, and U.S. government officials said Wednesday that they would work to make it available to appropriate patients as quickly ...

Medications

Jury orders Gilead to pay Merck $2.5bn in patent case

A US jury has ordered pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences to pay $2.5 billion to competitor Merck in a patent infringement case involving a drug used to treat hepatitis C, the two companies said.

Oncology & Cancer

New technology isolates pure tumor cells from FFPE samples

Using the innovative DEPArray technology, scientists at Silicon Biosystems, a Bologna (Italy) and San Diego (CA, USA) based biotech company, were able to solve one of the biggest limitation in the study of cancer genetic: ...

Medications

Novavax: Early study indicates its vaccine effective vs. RSV

Early research in older adults found an experimental vaccine prevented nearly two-thirds of serious cases of a common, seasonal respiratory virus that annually kills thousands of vulnerable Americans—babies and senior citizens.

Ophthalmology

Can a contact lens help treat glaucoma?

While an undergraduate in biochemistry at McMaster, Michelle Fernandes worked as a researcher for a biotech company. Now a master's candidate in chemical engineering, she credits that co-op work experience with sparking her ...

Genetics

No danger of cancer through gene therapy virus

In fall 2012, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the modified adeno-associated virus AAV-LPL S447X as the first ever gene therapy for clinical use in the Western world. uniQure, a Dutch biotech company, had developed ...

Genetics

First gene therapy to go on sale in Europe in 2013

Dutch biotech company uniQure said Monday it would start selling the first human gene therapy to be approved in the West by mid-2013 and predicted an explosion of similar therapies to come.

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