Philadelphia, PA – Advancements in the care of premature babies are leading to improved survival rates. However, the incidence of neonatal diseases with life-long consequences such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is increasing. A novel study has implicated granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in both BPD and...
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Osaka, Japan – Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are next-generation drugs that can treat disease by blocking the transfer of harmful messages from our genes. In people with cancer, ASOs have the potential to block messages that encourage the growth and spread of the tumor. However, ASOs aren’t used for treating cancer...
State College, PA – A newly developed “GPS nanoparticle” injected intravenously can home in on cancer cells to deliver a genetic punch to the protein implicated in tumor growth and spread, according to researchers from Penn State. They tested their approach in human cell lines and in mice to effectively...
Atlanta, Georgia – For over three decades, a highly accurate early diagnostic test for ovarian cancer has eluded physicians. Now, scientists in the Georgia Tech Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC) have combined machine learning with information on blood metabolites to develop a new test able to detect ovarian cancer with...
BALTIMORE, MD — Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital have discovered a new way to decrease early seizure likelihood and improve neurologic outcomes among infants with Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS). This collaboration, funded by National Institutes of Health, is the first multi-center study of its kind focused on...
Leipzig, Germany – Every year, around 4,000 people in Germany are diagnosed with myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS). The disease can lead to anaemia, infections and an increased risk of bleeding. People with higher-risk MDS have a significantly lower life expectancy than the average person of the same age. In the higher-risk...
MIAMI, Florida — Resolve Therapeutics, LLC, a mid-stage clinical development biotechnology company pioneering first-in-class therapies for autoimmune diseases, today announced the publication of results from its phase 2a clinical trial of RSLV-132 in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) in Lupus Science & Medicine. The publication entitled “Evaluation of RNase...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today presented pooled placebo data from multiple studies in which the results confirmed the clinical benefit of EMFLAZA® (deflazacort) over prednisone for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The results demonstrated that DMD patients on daily EMFLAZA performed better on...
JINAN, China — The results of the phase II study on Qilu Pharmaceutical’s novel anticancer drug iparomlimab and tuvonralimab (QL1706) were published online in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (Impact Factor=39.3). The study investigated the use of QL1706 in combination with chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, for the treatment of...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today presented a new analysis of five-year results that shows its novel gene therapy, PTC-AADC, leads to profound improvements in children with aromatic L-Amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, a previously intractable, fatal and devastating rare disorder of the central nervous system....