The Jewish Hospital - Mercy Health Blood & Marrow Transplant Center has chosen Remedy Informatics' research data management and reporting product, ComprehensiveBMT. ComprehensiveBMT is designed with new tools to aggregate, map, ...
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CareFusion has completed the acquisition of a distributor of medical technologies, UK Medical. UK Medical distributes interventional and implantable single-use medical products for biopsy, cardiac, drainage, obstetrics and gynecology, ...
Asahi Kasei Medical is planning to buy ThermoGenesis' CryoSeal Fibrin Sealant system wound care product line for $2m in cash. ThermoGenesis chief executive officer Matthew Plavan said the transaction is the culmination of the company's ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(K) approval to Cytomedix to use its Angel Concentrated Platelet Rich Plasma (cPRP) system to process a small sample of blood or a mixture of blood and bone marrow aspirate. ...
The Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) in Israel has awarded $3m NIS grant to support BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics' research and development program for stem cell therapy candidate, NurOwn. NurOwn is an autologous, adult stem cell ...
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Israel-based Protalix BioTherapeutics has signed an agreement with Pfizer to continue managing the development activities of Gaucher disease drug Elelyso. According to the clinical development agreement, Protalix will continue to manage ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Ligand Pharmaceuticals' partner, has gained FDA priority review status for the supplemental new drug application for Promacta to treat thrombocytopenia in adult patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. ...
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Pluristem Therapeutics, a developer of placenta-based cell therapies, is seeking FDA orphan drug status for its PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells for the treatment of aplastic anemia. Pluristem earlier received an orphan drug status from the ...
SWOG (formerly the Southwest Oncology Group) has chosen Sequenta's LymphoSIGHT platform for the measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) in 180-patient mantle cell lymphoma clinical trial. The patients in the SWOG S1106 mantle cell ...
Tags: SWOG, Sequenta's LymphoSIGHT platform, minimal residual disease, MRD
Once upon a time in a certain place there lived three men who all had the same name -- Genjia. One was the tribal chief, the second a carpenter, and the third the chief's steward. Genjia the carpenter was married to an exceptionally ...
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Merck has signed a licensing agreement with AiCuris for the worldwide development and commercialisation rights of candidates in AiCuris' Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) portfolio. The HCMV portfolio includes letermovir (AIC246), an oral, ...
The Ewenki ethnic minority treasures their name of nationality which means 'people living in the mountain forests'. With a relatively small population of 30,505 (in the year 2000), the Ewenki ethnic minority mostly live in the Inner ...
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All Lhoba men take flints along with them on the waist to make fire for tobacco and picnic. However, in some of their eating habits, we can still see some traces of their ancestors' history of eating raw. For instance, in making a pledge ...
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UK meat processor Linden Foods has secured a deal to supply bacon to Ahold's Albert Heijn stores in the Netherlands. Linden's Kettyle Irish Foods subsidiary is to sell "sustainably-produced" bacon to Albert Heijn, founder Maurice Kettyle ...
The British Standards Institution (BSI), a notified body under the Medical Device Directive, has awarded a CE mark for the expanded clinical indication for Harvest Technologies' SmartPReP 2 Bone Marrow Aspiration Concentration System (BMAC ...