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Large amounts of information generated by gene expression profiling will increase implementation of data management tools Gene expression profiling can bring significant improvements to disease profiling and diagnoses based on genetic disposition. Recent technology...

Isis Earns $14 Million Milestone Payment from Biogen Idec ISIS-DMPKRx is the Second Generation 2.5 Antisense Drug to Enter the Clinic Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has initiated a Phase 1 study for ISIS-DMPKRx.  Isis earned a...

On Friday, June 06, 2014, the NASDAQ Composite ended at 4,321.40, up 0.59%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the day 0.52% higher at 16,924.28, and the S&P 500 closed at 1,949.44, up 0.46%. The gains were broad based...

US-based biotechnology firm Edge Therapeutics has started enrolling patients in the second group of a multicenter, randomised, controlled, open-label, Phase I/II NEWTON trial of its lead product candidate, EG-1962, for the treatment of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH)....

US-based Arena Pharmaceuticals has started dosing patients in an investigational Phase Ib clinical trial of APD334, an oral drug candidate that targets the sphingosine 1-phosphate subtype 1 (S1P1) receptor, to treat a number of autoimmune diseases. ...

The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized. We'll have gene therapies, wearables to monitor our vital signs—maybe even new kinds of vital signs—and robot doctors to diagnose our illnesses. But the real promise...

UK-based AstraZeneca has reported results from its longest, randomised, head-to-head DURATION-3 trial of exenatide once-weekly, a long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist used to treat type 2 diabetes in adult patients uncontrolled on oral antidiabetic drugs. ...