Tag: biotech

November 23, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a busy end of November planned, with numerous PDUFA dates to address. Here’s a look at the upcoming week. Blueprint Medicines’ Pralsetinib for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Blueprint Medicines had a target […]

November 23, 2020

Positive high-level results from an interim analysis of clinical trials of AZD1222 in the UK and Brazil showed the vaccine was highly effective in preventing COVID-19, the primary endpoint, and no hospitalisations or severe cases of the disease were reported […]

November 20, 2020

Pfizer and BioNTech on Friday applied for an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for their coronavirus vaccine. If Pfizer’s application is approved, the vaccine will likely be limited and rolled out in phases, with health-care workers, […]

November 20, 2020

Researchers used metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) enhanced with a green tea phytochemical coating to target human prostate cancer cells for the first time. The new method for deploying the genetic snipping tool directly into target cells is a big step towards […]

November 19, 2020

Hospitals across the country are ramping up their efforts to figure out how to store, track and administer coronavirus vaccine doses as confidence grows that an effective vaccine could soon become available. Hospitals will play a key role once a […]

November 19, 2020

Catalent has appointed Behzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., MBA, as Vice President of Open Innovation, Biologics, Cell and Gene Therapy. In this new role, Dr. Mahdavi will join a team of experts in Catalent’s Science and Technology Group that works with customers […]

November 18, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration has asked a group of advisors to set aside three days in early December for potential meetings to discuss Covid-19 vaccines — a key step in the agency’s authorization process, according to two people familiar […]

November 18, 2020

A vaccine created to prevent the recurrence of the deadly skin cancer melanoma is about twice as effective when patients also receive two components that boost the number and effectiveness of immune system dendritic cells (DCs), according to the results […]

November 17, 2020

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive disorder that affects nerve cells in the brain responsible for body movement. When dopamine-producing neurons die, symptoms such as tremor, slowness, stiffness, and balance problems occur. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed […]

November 17, 2020

A new company has been founded to supply software for managing cell & gene therapy manufacturing. Autolomous, founded in February 2019, has already secured four different clients whom they hope to assist with digitizing and streamlining their workflows. “There’s a […]

November 16, 2020

Moderna said today that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate mRNA-1273 passed its most important test, the 30,000+ patient Phase III COVE trial (NCT04470427), by showing itself to be 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19—an outcome hailed by CEO Stéphane Bancel as a […]

November 16, 2020

Lemur tyrosine kinase 3 (LMTK3) is associated with cell proliferation and endocrine resistance in breast cancer. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Sussex has completed a five-year study that provides evidence for a potential new target for […]