Potential new painkiller boronicaine provides longer lasting effects
8 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Boronicaine is a new compound that offers longer lasting painkilling effects and shows promise as an alternative to current anaesthetics...
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MorphoSys acquires peptide therapeutic company Lanthio Pharma
8 May 2015 | By Victoria White
MorphoSys has acquired Lanthio Pharma. The acquisition adds novel candidates including a pre-IND candidate for fibrotic diseases to MorphoSys's portfolio...
Scientists determine the molecular structure of amyloid beta-42 in Alzheimer’s disease
8 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have determined the molecular structure of amyloid beta-42, one of the proteins in the brain plaques that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease...
Scientists able to see all the proteins that help repair damaged DNA
8 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered how to map more than one protein at a time, when proteins repair damaged DNA.
Anticonvulsant epilepsy drug holds promise as Alzheimer’s disease treatment
7 May 2015 | By Victoria White
University of British Columbia researchers have reported that a new anticonvulsant epilepsy drug holds promise as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease...
New anti-cancer stem cell compound in development
7 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Cardiff University scientists have developed a novel anti-cancer stem cell agent capable of targeting aggressive tumour forming cells...
Plexxikon and MSD team up to evaluate PLX3397 in combination with KEYTRUDA
7 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Plexxikon and MSD have announced a collaborative clinical trial that will evaluate the combination of PLX3397 and KEYTRUDA in melanoma...
Pfizer announces key appointments in BioTherapeutics R&D and Rinat
7 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Pfizer has made two strategic appointments in the leadership of their BioTherapeutics Research and Development and Rinat units...
Positive preclinical data for Dicerna Pharmaceuticals’ DsiRNA-EX Conjugates presented at TIDES 2015
6 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals has presented positive preclinical data on its proprietary DsiRNA-EX Conjugate-mediated delivery technology at TIDES 2015...
ROCK inhibitors could stop the spread of melanoma cells
6 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research have found that ROCK inhibitors dramatically reduced the ability of melanoma cells to move through tissue...
Gilead acquires EpiTherapeutics for $65 million
6 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Gilead Sciences has acquired EpiTherapeutics, a scientific leader in the field of epigenetics with a library of first-in-class inhibitors, for $65 million.
MabVax Therapeutics’ HuMab 5B1 antibody successfully clears important early toxicology testing
6 May 2015 | By Victoria White
The final report on toxicology testing of HuMab 5B1 shows that it had no significant adverse findings even at the highest dosage levels tested...
ME-344 shows enhanced anti-tumour activity in combination with tyrosine-kinase inhibitor in preclinical studies
6 May 2015 | By Victoria White
MEI Pharma has announced new preclinical data showing mitochondria-specific effects of the Company's investigational drug candidate ME-344 in cancer cells...
Discovery could help reverse glucocorticoid resistance in young leukaemia patients
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Researchers led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified a mechanism that helps leukaemia cells resist glucocorticoids...
Breast cancer vaccines may work better with silicon microparticles
5 May 2015 | By Victoria White
The effectiveness of cancer vaccines could be dramatically boosted by first loading the cancer antigens into silicon microparticles...