Techno Trends

AvidBiotics has received new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to further develop targetable bactericidal proteins to kill Clostridium difficile bacteria. ...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the term used to describe a condition in which a blood clot (a thrombus) forms in a vein and then dislodges to travel in the blood (an embolus). A venous thrombus most commonly occurs...

Researchers at the University of Leeds have come up with a technology that could help the pharmaceutical industry in controlling crystal formation during the process of drug development. Pharmaceuticals often come in the crystalline forms and...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., the University of California, Berkeley, and Solidus Biosciences, Inc. have come up with a biochip technology that would accelerate the drug development safety studies with a simultaneous reduction in the...

Scientists from the University of Syracuse chemistry department recently created a new drug delivery system which uses gold nanoparticles with attached DNA designed to bind to Doxorubin, an anticancer drug. The system allows for a large number of...

Medicago, a biotechnology company, has completed initial studies towards the development of a new VLP vaccine candidate for rabies. The initial studies with rabies VLP vaccine demonstrated that two doses of one or four...

Sanofi and its subsidiary Genzyme has announced new data from the TEriflunomide multiple sclerosis oral (TEMSO) phase III trial showing once-daily oral teriflunomide significantly reduced annualized rates of relapses leading to hospitalization. New data also confirmed the safety profile...