Berg has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the US Department of Defense, to advance prostate cancer research. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' (USU) Center for Prostate Disease Research ...
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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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International health insurer Cigna has rolled out a brand new assortment of international health insurance products, to help customers get the benefit of various plans that meet their particular healthcare requirements and budget. ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has submitted an application seeking approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of a variation for Votrient (pazopanib). The approval is for additional indication for Votrient as the maintenance treatment of ...
Oncobiologics and inVentiv Health have formed a global, strategic partnership for clinical development of biosimilar assets initially with a probable expansion to new molecules. The biosimilar assets include generic versions of Humira, ...
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US Department of Veterans Affairs has entered into an agreement to buy Smiths Medical's CADD-Solis ambulatory infusion portable pain management system. The CADD-Solis infusion system is designed to administer narcotics to post-surgery, ...
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has submitted a marketing authorisation application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix [Human papillomavirus bivalent (types 16 and 18) vaccine, ...
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An updated European Union safety regulation on toys will place pressure on Chinese toy makers and affect the nation's exports to an already weakening European market, but could also provide an opportunity to upgrade the domestic toy ...
India has partly suspended patents granted to Roche Holding for its breast cancer drug Herceptin, over issues that the patents had not been filed in accordance with the laid down process. An article published in Swiss newspaper Schweiz am ...
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The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) in India has cancelled the patent for GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) anti-cancer drug Tykerb in its salt form over failure in demonstrating significant improvement in the efficacy. Fresenius ...
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Affymetrix has launched a whole-genome copy number assay for highly degraded FFPE solid tumor samples, called OncoScan FFPE assay kit, at Chicago. The new OncoScan FFPE assay kit with its unique molecular inversion probe (MIP) technology ...
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Castle Biosciences has announced that data from studies of its DecisionDx-Melanoma test confirm previous studies, indicating that the gene expression profile test is a strong predictor for classifying which Stage I or II non-metastatic ...
MIT researchers have developed a new 3D colonoscopy technology, known as photometric stereo endoscopy, which helps doctors to easily detect precancerous lesions in the colon. The 3D images produced by the new device could lead to earlier ...
German pharma and chemical firm Bayer has reported a net profit of €841m for the second quarter of 2013, with an increase of 74.8% compared to €481m during the comparable period earlier year. The increase in profit is primarily ...
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Contract research organization Genewiz has partnered with biotechnology company BeiGene to accelerate cancer biomarker discovery to support drug target identification Under the deal, BeiGene will leverage OncoGxOne discovery cancer panels ...
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