São Paulo, Brazil – A low-cost technology involving nanoparticles loaded with antibiotics and other antimicrobial compounds that can be used in multiple attacks on infections by the bacterium responsible for most cases of tuberculosis has been developed by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil and is reported...
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DALLAS, TX — Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc., a late-stage clinical biotechnology company developing gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases and age-related macular degenerations (AMD), today announced positive top-line results after the completion of the 2-year Phase 2b RESTORE randomized, controlled clinical trial of its lead program, MCO-010, a mutation-agnostic gene therapy...
Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing gene therapies for retinal degenerative diseases, today announced that the International Nonproprietary Names (INN) Expert Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) has selected "sonpiretigene isteparvovec" for the nonproprietary name of the Company's MCO-010, an ambient-light activatable Multi-Characteristic Opsin (MCO) optogenetic monotherapy to restore vision in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and Stargardt disease.
DALLAS, Texas — Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc., a late-stage clinical biotechnology company developing gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases and age-related macular degenerations (AMD), today provided an update following recent regulatory discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and from the Scientific Advice meeting with the Icelandic Medicines Agency (IMA),...
Tokyo, Japan – Cancer has a high death rate with delayed diagnosis of the disease being one of the main reasons for its fatality. Early diagnosis of cancer is vital to improving patient outcomes and in recent years, the development of diagnostic tools to detect early-stage cancer has gained a...
Philadelphia, PA – Thursday afternoon marked a major regulatory milestone. In one of the year’s most highly anticipated FDA decisions, the regulator approved Madrigal Pharmaceuticals’ Rezdiffra (resmetirom) as the first-ever therapy for the treatment of adults with noncirrhotic nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Or was the approval for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH)? If...
DUBLIN – Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced that the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN) added Rylaze™ (asparaginase erwinia chrysanthemi (recombinant)-rywn) to the Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), for both pediatric and adult patients. The NCCN Guidelines for ALL and the NCCN Guidelines for Pediatric...
Bethesda, Maryland – Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their colleagues have identified a gene responsible for some inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), which are a group of disorders that damage the eye’s light-sensing retina and threatens vision. Though IRDs affect more than 2 million people worldwide, each...
OXFORD, England – Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued a positive Final Appraisal Document (FAD) recommending Sunosi®▼ (solriamfetol) for adults with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) caused by narcolepsy.[1] Solriamfetol is recommended as an option for treating EDS in...
North Bethesda, Maryland – Studies of interactions between two lab-generated monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and an essential Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) protein have uncovered targets that could be exploited in designing treatments and vaccines for this extremely common virus. The research was led by Jeffrey I. Cohen, M.D., and colleagues from the...