Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of life, has some great advice for seasonal allergy sufferers who would like to eliminate the root cause of symptoms. The solution lies in the connection between the gut and the immune system. When ...
IceCure Medical has announced that the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, treated its first breast cancer patient using the IceSense3 cryoablation system in a pilot study evaluating ...
U.S. researchers began an early stage clinical trial of a vaccine to prevent genital herpes disease by removing two key proteins so the virus cannot multiply. Principal investigator Dr. Lesia K. Dropulic of the National Institute of ...
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“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.” So ...
Scientists from IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic hydrogel that can deliver ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's new drug Gazyva (obinutuzumab) in combination with chlorambucil chemotherapy for treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have not previously been ...
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Transgene has received a sub-award from Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) under its existing grant of $5m from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance ...
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Pfizer has secured European Commission approval to carry out updates to the summary of product characteristics (SmPC) for its pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) Prevenar 13, regarding its use in certain high-risk populations. Now the ...
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A multiple-sclerosis drug that was at the center of Sanofi SA's SAN.FR +1.12% $20 billion takeover battle for Genzyme Corp. three years ago was approved for sale in Europe on Tuesday, the drug's first regulatory approval world-wide. The ...
Adaptive Biotechnologies, a biotechnology company, has secured a $2.5m Phase II small business innovation research (SBIR) award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a division of the NIH. The award is granted to ...
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CSL Behring has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a new 10g (50mL) vial size of Hizentra, an immune globulin subcutaneous (human) liquid drug. Hizentra, which is claimed to the first and only 20% ...
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Using plasmas, sealed plastic bags can be modified at atmospheric pressure so that human cells can adhere to and reproduce on their walls. Cell culture bags of this kind are an important aid for research and clinical purposes and may ...
AlloSource, a provider of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for surgical procedures and the largest processor of cellular bone allografts, has launched its new allograft called AlloMend Acellular Dermal Matrix (ADM). The new allograft ...
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Regen BioPharma, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bio-Matrix Scientific, has signed a licensing deal with Benitec Biopharma for ddRNAi gene silencing technology to develop vaccines. Regen will apply ddRNAi to silence indoleamine 2,3 -- ...
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The sauna was first invented in Greece by the proto-archaeic tribe of Myceanes. King Alexander of Itheon, according to scripture found in the Mycen palace by the Finnish archaeologist Hermanni Mustajärvi in 1916, is considered as the ...
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