In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a potentially general approach to design drugs from genome sequence. As a proof of ...
Tags: Identify New Drug Candidates, unparalleled selectivity, cell permeable
Ewing's Sarcoma is an aggressive pediatric cancer, most commonly caused by the improper fusion of the gene EWS with the gene FLI1. Though the cause has long been known, therapeutic targeting of this fusion has to date proven very difficult. ...
Tags: Ewing's Sarcoma, health, gene
What is ETMR/ETANTR and who does it affect? Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) are rare, deadly brain tumours that affect mainly children below the age of 4 years. There are 300 cases reported but probably there are many ...
PrimeraDx, a molecular diagnostics company, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ICEPlex C. difficile assay kit and the ICEPlex system. The ICEPlex system is a multiplex real-time PCR system ...
Skin changes in many important ways with age. The skin becomes thinner, begins to sag, and loses its elasticity and smoothness. On the areas overexposed to UV, like the face and the hands, pigmented age spots appear. To counteract these ...
Tags: Senescence, Skin, Sederma
Firefly BioWorks has expanded its FirePlex miRSelect to enable multiplexed detection of up to 68 user-selected microRNA species in a single well of a 96 well plate from a maximum of 23. The new version of the company's product enables ...
A microfluidic IC which can detect early-stage cancer has been developed by the Riken Advanced Science Institute. A research team, led by Kazuo Hosakawa, has developed a device which can detect biomarkers in the bloodstream. These ...
Santaris Pharma and miRagen Therapeutics have extended their research deal to discover and develop LNA-drugs against disease causing microRNAs. The agreement allows miRagen to gain a non-exclusive license to the miRNA therapeutics field ...