Changwon, South Korea – Dr. Min-young Lee and Dr. Sung-gyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at KIMS have developed a technology that can detect cancer mutant genes in blood with the world’s highest sensitivity of 0.000000001% based on plasmonic nanomaterials for optical signal amplification. The...
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Reported cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in children and adolescents who had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose were rare (estimated at one case per million vaccinated individuals in this age group). The reporting rate for cases without evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was 0.3 cases per million vaccinated...
PHILADELPHIA – Amicus Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FOLD), a patient-dedicated global biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing novel medicines for rare diseases, announced today that the data from the Phase 3 PROPEL pivotal trial, assessing the efficacy, safety and tolerability of AT-GAA in adults with late-onset Pompe disease compared to the standard of...
WASHINGTON — George Dahlman, senior vice president of public policy for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), testified today before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, calling for funding for a dedicated, stand-alone blood cancer research program at the Department of Defense (DoD). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has...
PRINCETON, N.J. – The McQuade Center for Strategic Research and Development, LLC (MSRD), a member of the global Otsuka family of pharmaceutical companies, announces today that it has entered an agreement with Sentinel Oncology (Sentinel), a drug discovery company. The McQuade Center for Strategic Research and Development at Otsuka in...
WASHINGTON, DC — The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA), the largest non-profit funder of melanoma research worldwide, welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to approve Iovance Biotherapeutics’ AMTAGVI™ (lifileucel) for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma in the second line treatment setting. AMTAGVI is the first individualized...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden and WALTHAM, Mass, USA – Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) (Sobi™) (STO:SOBI) and Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLS) today announced that The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published results from the phase 3 PEGASUS study, which demonstrated the superiority of pegcetacoplan, an investigational targeted C3 therapy, in improving...
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – A new stool test appears to detect colorectal cancer precursors better than the current test. This could further reduce the number of new colorectal cancer cases as well as the number of people dying from the disease. A study led by the Netherlands Cancer Institute compared...
NEWARK, Calif. — CymaBay Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAY), a biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative therapies for patients with liver and other chronic diseases, today announced that The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published detailed results from the RESPONSE Phase 3 trial evaluating seladelpar, an investigational agent, and the...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Results from the pivotal Phase 2 KarMMa study evaluating the efficacy and safety of bluebird bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLUE) and Bristol Myers Squibb’s (NYSE: BMY) investigational B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy, idecabtagene vicleucel (ide-cel; bb2121), in adult patients with relapsed and...