QUINCY, Mass. – The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) celebrates its birthday on January 3. The year 2024 marks 41 years of revolutionizing drug development for rare diseases and helping millions of patients in the process. More than 25 million Americans have some kind of rare disease, defined as a condition...
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New York, NY – OS Therapies (NYSE American: OSTX) (“OS Therapies” or “the Company”), a clinical-stage immunotherapy and Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) biopharmaceutical company, today announced positive data in the prevention or delay of amputation during the treatment of primary osteosarcoma for OST-HER2 combined palliative radiation in dogs with unresected...
Osaka, Japan – Plasma-activated medium (PAM) shows tumor-fighting effects against the rare form of cancer known as synovial sarcoma, an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team has found. The group irradiated a mammalian cell culture medium with non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma to produce PAM and conducted in vitro tests using human cells and...
Osaka, Japan – It might start simply, with a cough or sneeze…but in some cases, the flu virus can make its way to your brain, causing serious symptoms or even death through a disease known as influenza-associated encephalopathy (IAE). Now, in a study published in Acta Neuropathologica, researchers have revealed...
Norman, Oklahoma – Researchers at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences have embarked on a revolutionary new research study that could improve the detection of a deadly disease — pancreatic cancer — and give patients a chance to live longer, healthier lives. The research...
Evanston, Illinois — Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer may initially respond well to chemotherapy, but the majority of them will develop resistance to treatment and die from the disease. Now Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the Achilles heel of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer — its hunger for cholesterol — and how...
Oxford, UK and San Jose, Calif. – Oxford BioTherapeutics (‘OBT’), a clinical stage oncology company with a pipeline of immuno-oncology and antibody-drug conjugate (ADC)-based therapies, today announces that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1b trial investigating OBT’s lead candidate, OBT076, in patients with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma...
DALLAS – A simple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test involving breathing oxygen might help oncologists determine the best treatment for some cancer patients, report researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Prior research has shown that the amount of oxygen present in a tumor can be a predictor of how well...
Menlo Paqqrk, Calif. — PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of highly accurate sequencing solutions, announced a new informatics method that genotypes gene paralogs and pseudogenes with high accuracy. The new computational tool, named “Paraphase,” enables variant calling, copy number analysis and phasing by identifying the full gene sequence of each...
Edmonton, Canada – Pacylex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Pacylex) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development of a new class of targeted therapies, N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors (NMTi) for the treatment of hematologic and solid tumor cancers. Today Pacylex announced that the results of its Phase 1 dose escalation safety and tolerability...