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Cancer Treatment Shown to Boost Immune System

Two clinical trials evaluating experimental drugs aimed at restoring the immune system’s ability to target and fight cancer have shown promising early results in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, melanoma, and kidney cancer. More...
11 Jun 2012

Declining R&D Budgets Driving Outsourcing of Drug Discovery Functions

According to Kalorama Information, a healthcare market research publisher, an increasing number of pharmaceutical companies are outsourcing core procedures, including clinical trial management, manufacturing, and most recently, drug discovery functions. More...
08 Jun 2012
Image: Diagram, an artist's rendering of artificial platelets and artificial red blood cells alongside their natural counterparts (Photo courtesy of Peter Allen).

Synthetic Platelets Could Eventually Be Used For Biomedical Applications

Scientists have succeeded in making synthetic platelets, which after optimization and exhaustive testing, could be suitable for a number of biomedical applications More...
07 Jun 2012

System Identifies Drugs That Selectively Target Cancer Stem Cells

Cancer researchers have used a sophisticated screening system to search for small molecular weight compounds able to kill cancer stem cells without harming normal human pluripotent stem cells. More...
06 Jun 2012

Mummified Liver Samples Allow Mapping of Antique Hepatitis Virus Genes

Advanced modern gene mapping techniques applied to liver samples taken from a 500 hundred year-old mummy have generated what may be the complete sequence of the oldest hepatitis B virus isolate and the most ancient full viral genome known so far. More...
06 Jun 2012
Image: Cancer cells – the focus of research team that has developed an innovative cancer-fighting strategy (Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania State University).

New Approach Triggers Genes That Inhibit Tumor Activity

A team of scientists has developed a potential new application for “reactivating” genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. More...
06 Jun 2012

Differentiated Human Stem Cells Repair Bone Damage in Mouse Model

Human-induced pluripotent stem cells derived from skin have been cultured in a novel cell and serum-free growth system and then differentiated into mature bone cells that were used to repair damage to bones in a mouse model. More...
05 Jun 2012
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