LA JOLLA, CA — La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) is working to guide the development of new tuberculosis vaccines and drug therapies. Now a team of LJI scientists has uncovered important clues to how human T cells combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. Their findings were published...
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BURLINGTON, N.C. – Labcorp® (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company, today announced the availability of therascreen® KRAS PCR Mutation Analysis, a companion diagnostic to identify patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are eligible for treatment with LUMAKRAS™ (sotorasib), a new treatment option developed by Amgen. Labcorp’s...
BURLINGTON, N.C. — Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced the launch and availability of a new, FDA-cleared blood test for risk assessment and clinical management of severe preeclampsia, a life-threatening blood pressure disorder that occurs during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Preeclampsia...
BURLINGTON, N.C. — LabCorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its nAbCyte™ Anti-AAVRh74var HB-FE Assay, a companion diagnostic (CDx) to determine patient eligibility for treatment with BEQVEZ™ (fidanacogene elaparvovec-dzkt), Pfizer’s recently FDA-approved hemophilia B gene therapy. The...
SHANGHAI and WARREN, N.J. — Laekna, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, today announced that the company will present a novel therapeutical approach to treat liver fibrosis in the form of a poster at the NASH-TAG conference from January 4-6, 2024, in Park City, Utah. The presentation will showcase a novel antibody-based...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Laguna Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Laguna), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on novel live bacterial therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application, granting a “safe to proceed” for its lead clinical candidate from the QUAIL platform,...
HAIFA, Israel — MAGENTIQ EYE LTD., an Israeli based technology company founded in 2014, announced today that a comprehensive study on the performance of MAGENTIQ-COLO™ CADe version has been published in the prestigious Lancet Digital Health medical journal. The study, titled “A novel computer-aided polyp detection system in screening and...
New York, NY – Long-term data from a landmark international trial show about half of patients with metastatic melanoma treated with a combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors survive cancer-free for 10 years or more, according to a new report from Weill Cornell Medicine and Dana-Farber Cancer Center investigators and their...
The suspicion that something was wrong started when the 1-year-old girl’s parents noticed she had trouble holding up her head. It was just the first of what would be many missed developmental milestones. By the time she was 8, the little girl still couldn’t sit up on her own, hold...
MIAMI, FLORIDA – The treatment landscape for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is evolving rapidly, as research discoveries at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and other academic cancer centers advance new, more effective therapies for this aggressive blood cancer. “We’ve seen more progress...