Fast Company has surveyed the biotech world and come up with its list of the Top 10 companies in the industry. Amyris makes the list for its work combating the malaria parasite, while Galapagos and Fate Therapeutics get nods for pipeline innovation.
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.”
Targeting the neuroinflammatory causes of Parkinson’s disease with a naturally present brain chemical signal could offer a better understanding of the clinical mechanisms of the disease and open a future therapeutic window, reports a team of researchers from the University of South Florida Department Neurosurgery and Brain Repair and the James A. Haley Veterans’ Administration [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
A new target for the prevention of adverse immune responses identified as factors in the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been discovered by researchers at the University of South Florida’s Department of Psychiatry and the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair. The CD45 molecule is a receptor on the surface of the [...]
Calvert Labs is offering clients the same kind of 24/7 on-demand smartphone access to study information that’s available to the rest of the world for news and sports. It’s linked a project-tracking iPhone application with a near-real-time and on-demand filtered information source for preclinical researchers.
NPS Pharmaceuticals says that it’s on track to file for regulatory approval of Gattex after a late-stage study involving 86 patients demonstrated promising results for reducing the need for IV feeding among a majority of patients with short bowel syndrome. NPS now plans to file in the second half of the year and the news [...]
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