University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Alan Turing Institute are working together on Artificial Intelligence to carry out works which are traditionally done by the doctors and nurses; from deciding which accidental and emergency patients to be consulted first to diagnosing cancer on CT scan.
A research study led by Professor Marina Botto, from the Department of Medicine in Imperial College London, revealed that a particular component of the immune system called C1q triggers an alarm when the body is attacked by a bacteria or virus and helps in coordinating the defense.
Tagworks Pharmaceuticals, based at Radboud University Medical Center, have developed a novel technique for the targeted delivery of ADCs to treat tumors. By the controlled 'click-to-release' of the chemotherapy drug from its tumor-binding carrier, the treatment would reach the right location.
A research team at Tufts University revealed that good microbes in gastrointestinal tract could prevent liver inflammation, the major symptom of NAFLD. When the research was conducted on a mice model, they identified two key metabolites produced by the bacteria namely I3A and TA, which could ultimately reduce the severity of NAFLD.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Biotech startup Accent Therapeutics announced $40 million A series funding to develop cancer treatment based on epitranscriptomics, an RNA-modifying protein (RMPs) which have been connected to recent cancer studies.
This year AbbVie launched Imbruvica, a single tablet for blood cancer treatment. It has been designed as a convenient therapy measure for patients who used the old tablets as often as four times a day. Adapting the new single tablet in their treatment regimens will prove to be an expensive proposition for some patients as the new tablet comes with a price tag of $400 each, triple the cost of the older tablets.
As a new, erratic administration consolidated its position in the White House and firmed its foundations in the federal government, 2017 turned out to be uncertain for the biopharma industry. Then President-elect Donald Trump saying that the industry was getting away with murder on pricing did not bode well for the industry but more than a year later after the President assuming office, real reform has been spared for biopharma.
Prosecutors have already charged Insys founder John Kapoor and won guilty pleas from two characters in an ongoing kickbacks probe. Now, the Justice Department has escalated the case by joining in with whistleblowers who've detailed a stunning range of techniques the company allegedly used to push its powerful opioid painkiller.
When it comes to manufacturing CAR T drugs (personalized treatments engineering immune cells to destroy cancer cells of patients) speed is of utmost importance. A new manufacturing site has been decided upon by Gilead for Yescarta, its CAR-T therapy at a Netherlands airport.
According to reports, the biotechnology company Abpro has rescheduled its $96 million IPO, delaying a capital infusion it hoped would support the first clinical trials of its lead product candidates over the next year.
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