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Researchers disguise anti-cancer drugs as platelets
2 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The technique allows drugs to last longer in the body and attack both primary cancer tumours and the circulating tumour cells...
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Drug Delivery
Drug delivery refers to approaches for transporting a pharmaceutical compound in the body as needed to safely achieve its desired therapeutic effect.
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Genisphere raises $4m in funding to extend its 3DNA platform
2 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Genesphere's goal is to license the 3DNA platform to pharmaceutical partners and complete the preclinical work necessary to advance the its own lead drug candidates...
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MedImmune and 3M partner to develop novel TLR agonist cancer therapies
25 September 2015 | By Victoria White
TLR agonists are promising agents that activate innate immune cells and enhance the visibility of cancer tumours...
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Microfluidic technology: the next-generation drug discovery tool
Microfluidic miniaturisation, or the so-called ‘lab-on-a-chip’ concept, now encroaches on the fields of biology, medicine and pharmacology, and the nature of microfluidic technology (small volumes and high-throughput integration of fluid connections) means that it is outperforming conventional bench work. There has been an incredible need for microfluidic technology in the…
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Transatlantic partnership to develop treatments for pancreatic cancer
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The five-year programme will focus on the development of ‘nanomedicine’ in the treatment of pancreatic cancer, for which current treatment options are limited...
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SAS1B discovery could fundamentally alter cancer treatment
10 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The SAS1B protein appears only on egg cells and cancer cells, and could serve as a target for tiny tracking probes created using monoclonal antibodies...
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Epstein-Barr virus vaccine induces potent neutralising antibodies
17 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have developed an experimental, nanoparticle-based vaccine against Epstein-Barr virus that can induce potent neutralising antibodies in animals...
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Nanoparticles used to breach lung mucus barrier
4 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have used nanoparticles to breach the human airway mucus barrier of lung tissue - a finding that could lead to effective drug delivery systems...
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Researchers resurrect ancient virus to improve gene therapy
31 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have reconstructed an ancient virus that is highly effective at delivering gene therapies to the liver, muscle, and retina...
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Scientists successfully edit human T cells using CRISPR
29 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have precisely modifed human T cells using the CRISPR genome-editing system- a breakthrough that could lead to CRISPR/Cas9-based therapies...
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Biogen and AGTC team up to develop gene therapies for ophthalmic diseases
2 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Biogen and AGTC have announced a broad collaboration and license agreement to develop gene therapies for multiple ophthalmic diseases...
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ReNeuron and Benitec extend research collaboration
22 June 2015 | By Victoria White
ReNeuron Group has extended its ongoing research collaboration with Australia-based Benitec Biopharma following positive results in early studies...
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Anika Therapeutics announces strategic collaboration with the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) at the University of Massachusetts
17 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Anika Therapeutics is set to collaborate with the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass to develop a therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
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Tillots and Numab to collaborate to develop inflammatory bowel disease treatments
9 June 2015 | By
Tillotts Pharma and Numab are to collaborate to develop and commercialise new antibody-based therapies for people with inflammatory bowel disease...
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Researchers engineer probiotics to detect liver tumours
1 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Engineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a way to detect liver tumours, by enlisting the help of probiotics...