U.S. medical researchers are using modified printers to produce skin for burn victims, the project’s leader says. “We started out by taking a typical desktop inkjet cartridge. Instead of ink we use cells, which are placed in the cartridge,” Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., told [...]
Two U.S. senators have revived the reimportation debate with a new bill co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of their fellows. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) is teaming up with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) on the proposal, which would allow U.S. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to source products from other countries with “tough safety standards.”
Zymes, a New Jersey-based biopharmaceutical company, has received a two-year $476,000 grant from the Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF), under the Therapeutics Development Initiative Fall 2010 Program, to evaluate the effectiveness of WS-CoQ10 in stopping the progressive loss of dopamine nerve cells in animal models of Parkinson’s disease (PD).
MedTrust Online and Avantra Biosciences have entered into a partnership to involve clinicians in the earliest stages of molecular diagnostic assay development for Avantra Biosciences’ revolutionary QPDx multiplex immunoassay system.
Sustained high vaccination coverage is key to preventing deaths from measles. Despite the availability of a vaccine, measles remains an important killer of children worldwide, particularly in less-developed regions where vaccination coverage is limited. A team of researchers, led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Colorado, [...]
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have shown that they can deliver the cancer drug cisplatin much more effectively and safely in a form that has been encapsulated in a nanoparticle targeted to prostate tumor cells and is activated once it reaches its target. Using the new particles, the researchers were able to [...]
Exocytosis, the fundamental process by which cells secrete hormones such as insulin and other useful biological substances, is regulated far differently in life than in laboratory tissue cultures and explanted organs, according to research presented at the American Society of Cell Biology’s 50th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. The unexpected findings that exocytosis regulation “in vivo” [...]
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have uncovered clues to memory and learning by exploring the function of a single gene that governs how neurons form new connections. The finding may also provide insights into a form of human mental retardation. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists explored the [...]
With two antiviral drug candidates in the clinic, Durham, NC-based Chimerix has raised $45 million in a Series F round of financing. New Leaf Venture Partners led the round. The firm was joined by new investors Pappas Ventures and Morningside Group and existing contributors Canaan Partners, Sanderling Ventures, Alta Partners, Asset Management Company and Frazier [...]
Want proof that achieving FDA approval is more difficult than in the past? A study released by the BIO and BioMedTracker that the overall success rate for drugs moving through clinical trials to FDA approval from late 2003 to the end of 2010 is near one in 10. Previously the rate of approval were one [...]
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