Laurel Hollow, New York – Recent findings at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) shine a new light on pancreatic cancer. More than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases are attributed to an aggressive, deadly form of the disease called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC. Researchers have a poor understanding of how...
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Boston, Mass. – About three years before he retired, David Campbell noticed something weird happening as he typed. Whenever he tried to hit a letter, say “a,” he’d get “aaa,” like the keyboard was jamming or his finger was triple-tapping the key. That wasn’t the only thing that seemed off—his...
RAMAT GAN, Israel — Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd. (NYSE American: CANF) (TASE:CANF), a biotechnology company advancing a pipeline of proprietary small molecule drugs that address oncological and inflammatory diseases, today announced submission of an investigational new drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of...
PETACH TIKVA, Israel — Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd. (NYSE American: CANF) (TASE:CANF), a biotechnology company advancing a pipeline of proprietary small molecule drugs that address oncological and inflammatory diseases, today announced it received a Notice of Allowance from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office for its patent application titled “An A3 Adenosine Receptor...
BEIJING & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – CANbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc., a leading China-based global rare disease-focused biopharmaceutical company committed to the research, development and commercialization of transformative therapies, announced that the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for CAN106, a long-acting humanized monoclonal antibody...
Berlin, Germany – The team at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is astounded by the huge improvement seen in a female patient with severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) after being treated with the cancer medication teclistamab. Not long ago, the 23-year-old was wheelchair-bound due to the autoimmune disease. Nearly six months...
Examination of Japanese cases of gynecological cancer offers a better understanding of the profile of a rare ovarian tumor and could change treatment guidelines. Ovarian granulosa cell tumors are a rare type of ovarian cancer that affect the ovaries and fallopian tubes, and can extend further into the pelvis and...
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) have established the Stephen and Nancy Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative, a research collaboration dedicated to translating basic science discoveries into new candidate drugs for testing in clinical trials. The initiative, known as MMTI, was launched...
A first of its kind study by Cancer Research UK reveals premature cancer death rates in 35–69-year-olds fell by more than a third over 25 years Improvements in the UK are a result of smokefree policies, prevention measures, early detection programmes like cancer screening, and more effective treatment options...
TEL AVIV, Israel – Gaucher disease (GD), a rare autosomal recessive disorder, is characterized by the deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase, leading to the accumulation of glucosylceramide in macrophages throughout the body. Accordingly, the primary disease features are hepatosplenomegaly, hypersplenism, anemia, thrombocytopenia, and bone involvement. There are three types...