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PharmaCell to Purchase Cell Therapy Production Facility from TiGenix

PharmaCell B.V. a leading Contract Manufacturing Organization for Cellular Therapies and Regenerative Medicine in Europe, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with TiGenix N.V. to purchase its state-of-the-art cell therapy production facility at the Chemelot site...

Breakthrough announced in treatment of patient with rare type of leukemia

A team of scientists from the University of Leicester has demonstrated a novel treatment for Hairy Cell Leukaemia (HCL), a rare type of blood cancer, using a drug administered to combat skin cancer. The research,...

Clever chemistry and a new class of antibiotics

As concerns about bacterial resistance to antibiotics grow, researchers are racing to find new kinds of drugs to replace ones that are no longer effective. One promising new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides - ADEPs - kills bacteria in...

Scientists demonstrate method to find new therapies

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have demonstrated the power of a new drug discovery technique, which allows them to find - relatively quickly and cheaply - antibodies that have a desired effect on cells. The TSRI scientists...

World’s tiniest drug cabinets could be attached to cancerous cells for long term treatment

Reservoirs of pharmaceuticals could be manufactured to bind specifically to infected tissue such as cancer cells for slow, concentrated delivery of drug treatments, according to new research published in ACS Macro Letters. The findings, from the University of Copenhagen...

TafinlarĀ® receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation for non-small cell lung cancer with BRAF mutation

GlaxoSmithKline plc announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for TafinlarĀ® (dabrafenib) for treatment of patients with metastatic BRAF V600E mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have received at least one...

Some ‘healthy’ vegetable oils may actually increase risk of heart disease

Some vegetable oils that claim to be healthy may actually increase the risk of heart disease, and Health Canada should reconsider cholesterol-lowering claims on food labelling, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). ...

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