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8 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have employed a cutting-edge stem cell technique to unravel the mechanisms driving this phenomenon which affects some individuals with autism...
8 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A study has found that let-7 plays a central role in curbing neuroblastoma and could focus efforts to find a targeted, nontoxic alternative to chemotherapy...
8 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
AdAlta is seeking to raise up to AU$10 million to fund clinical studies with its lead compound (AD-114) which shows promise in treating lung fibrosis...
7 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have compared genetic mutations in tumours to those in cancer cell lines and then tested the cell lines' responses to therapeutic compounds...
6 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The widely-used diabetes drug, metformin, reduced the toxic acid levels associated with MSUD in both skin cells derived from MSUD patients and in mice...
6 July 2016 | By Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)
Researchers have identified a new drug target in AML, created a candidate drug that hits the target and developed a new way of proving how the drug works...
6 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Their collaboration will focus on the use of mRNA therapies to enable cells in the lungs to produce functional copies of the CFTR protein...
6 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Sanofi Pasteur has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the WRAIR on the co-development of a Zika vaccine candidate...
5 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The study aims to improve understanding of how the Zika virus persists in the body and to identify potential factors that influence the course of infection...
5 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
ReproCELL has announced that two of its Group companies, Biopta and Reinnervate, will merge to form a new company, ReproCELL Europe Ltd...
5 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A new study has identified genetic mutations affecting the immune system which may lead to the development of more than one colorectal cancer tumour at the same time...
4 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
MIT engineers have developed easily customisable RNA vaccines that can be manufactured in one week and have shown efficacy against ebola and H1N1 influenza...
4 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have shown that immunotherapy against pancreatic cancer can be effective when given alongside drugs that break up the fibrous tissue in tumours...
4 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have shown that NEAT1, a non-coding RNA, plays an important role in the survival of highly dividing cells - and in particular of cancer cells...
4 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Using a mouse model that mimics the development of Alzheimer’s, scientists have determined the biological “insults” that must occur to cause dementia...
