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Chemistry World
July 8, 2015
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Celgene backs immunotherapy with Juno collaboration US biopharmaceutical firm Celgene is to bolster its position in the emerging field of cell therapy through a collaboration with biotech Juno Therapeutics.   |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2014
Andy Extance |
Pharma vies to unleash immune system power on cancer Drug firms are investing heavily in clinical trials and collaborations as they seek to capitalize on the potential of cancer therapies that enlist or enhance our immune systems' ability to fight tumors. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Charly Travers |
Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2015
Andy Extance |
Pharma queues up for checkpoint inhibitor collaborations Amid fierce rivalries over the latest generation of cancer treatments, drug makers have been weaving a complex web of collaborations on combination therapies spanning much of the pharmaceutical industry. |
Managed Care
June 2007
Thomas Morrow |
Dendritic Cell Vaccine Hits FDA Roadblock Questions about study design and analysis prompted the FDA to postpone action on Provenge, a treatment for advanced prostate cancer. |
Scientific American
January 17, 2007
Charles Q. Choi |
A Stroke for Stem Cells The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2011
Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2008
Sarah Houlton |
Radiotherapy Side-Effects Suppressed A new drug being developed by scientists at Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI) in the US may hold the key to protecting healthy cells from the effects of radiotherapy during cancer treatment. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2012
Ben Comer |
Stem Cells: A Promise Deferred? Ideology, politics, and a stilted political debate may be causing pharma to overlook the potential of emerging stem cell therapies in fostering a new generation of cures. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2014
Josh Baxt |
2015 Pipeline Report: Burning Bright The science of drug discovery is back on script and the stars are cued up for a new generation of breakthrough therapies. |
Chemistry World
March 4, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Laser treatment for late-stage cancer Scientists from China, the US and Peru claim to have successfully treated late-stage breast cancer patients using laser immunotherapy to stimulate patients' own immune systems to fight the cancer. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Richard Saltus |
T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Elaine Schattner |
A Chip against Cancer: Microfluidics Scrutinizes T Cells With just a blood sample, a device could determine whether cancer is about to spread or monitor the progress of treatment |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Dumpster Diving in Pfizer's Trash Investors are probably overreacting to Pfizer's decision, but only time -- and clinical trials -- will tell. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2007 |
Thoughtleader: Stephen Sherwin, Cell Genesys Cell Genesys has been able to raise enough capital to gamble on what it CEO believes could be the future's most promising therapies, including gene activation, immunotherapy, and oncolytic virus therapy. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Luke Timmerman |
Kaleetan Seeks to Stand on Dendreon's Shoulders Kaleetan Pharmaceuticals tries to improve upon Dendreon's breakthrough cancer drug. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2015
Thadchajini Retneswaran |
Microfluidic approach to personalised cancer treatment US scientists have developed an innovative microfluidic assay that can accurately predict how patients with a certain type of blood cancer will respond to an anticancer drug. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Amy Maxmen |
Driving the Immune System to Attack Cancer A researcher's longtime efforts to drive T cells to attack tumors hits pay dirt. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Rob Waters |
Sangamo's Bet Against AIDS: Gene Therapy Sangamo's stock has more than doubled since July 6, when the company, with no products on the market, reported success of its gene therapy approach in mice in the journal Nature Biotechnology. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 30, 2007 |
Tomorrow's Drugs A look at the seven top therapies and technologies vying to deliver the next generation of drugs. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2007
Brian Orelli |
The Phase 2 Blues Drug developer Cytokinetics disappoints investors with failed clinical trials. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2011
Brian Orelli |
4 Immunotherapies to Watch Just don't go all-in. |
Chemistry World
February 23, 2009
Nina Notman |
Resistant breast cancers re-sensitised to Tamoxifen A way to re-sensitise certain drug-resistant breast cancers to treatments such as Tamoxifen could offer better treatment for people with hard-to-beat cancers. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2004
Charly Travers |
Biotech's 5-Baggers: Part 3 Year after year, the hottest biotech companies with investors are those with drugs in development for the treatment of cancer. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Seeing is Believing Today, researchers are finding clever ways to deliver long-lasting, healthy genes without triggering a serious immune response. |
Chemistry World
April 17, 2008
Nuala Mora |
World's first therapeutic cancer vaccine approved In move that will be a fillip to cancer vaccine developers, US biotech Antigenics has won Russian approval to market Oncophage to treat kidney cancer. |
BusinessWeek
April 30, 2007
Catherine Arnst |
Teaching The Body To Fix Itself Cancer vaccines still in trial stages may be able to prolong life with few side effects, but the FDA has yet to be convinced. |
Chemistry World
June 15, 2007
Lionel Milgrom |
Electrochemical Screening for Anti-Cancer Drugs A test that predicts an individual cancer patient's response to different drugs is about to enter clinical trials, developers have announced. The chances of successful treatment will increase, they predict, while costs will decrease. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Another Blow to Gene Therapy The FDA shuts down a clinical trial, tripping up Targeted Genetics and possibly its competitors. A subject in the trial of their gene therapy arthritis medication died shortly after taking the drug. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Ron Feemster |
The PharmExec 2005 Pipeline Report Dry? Not quite. Instead of 1990s-style blockbusters, pharma's new molecules are niche drugs, cancer treatments and -- at last -- innovative mechanisms for troublesome targets: Acomplia [rimonabant] by Sanofi-Aventis... AMG 162 [denosumab] by Amgen... etc. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Tom Randall |
Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers Taking a cue from the cocktails of drugs that have made AIDS survivable, drugmakers are pursuing combination therapies against cancer. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2003
Malorye Branca |
Targeting Tumors Next-generation cancer drugs will take aim with unprecedented certainty, but making them requires a new discovery and development paradigm. |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic. |
Chemistry World
July 31, 2012
Fiona McKenzie |
Sorting the good from the bad US scientists have found a way to separate cancerous cells from healthy cells by taking advantage of their adhesion properties. Separating cancer cells for analysis is a critical step for determining the recommended course of treatment for patients. |
Chemistry World
July 28, 2006
Tom Westgate |
Radioactive Scorpion Venom Stings Brain Tumours Scorpion venom carries a nasty sting for brain tumour cells. A peptide based on chlorotoxin, found in the venom of the Giant Yellow Israeli Scorpion, has been used to target glioma, a particularly aggressive form of brain tumour. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
Walter Armstrong |
The Next Wave: Pharm Exec's 2011 Pipeline Report 42 of the best new drugs in development or parked at the FDA |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
Walter Armstrong |
Cancer: On Target Once More Over the past year or two, a handful of Phase III failures, including megablockbusters like Avastin and Sutent in trials for all kinds of common tumors, indicate that targeted therapy is generally a blunt instrument. |
Fast Company
December 2009
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Biotechs Look Overseas to Launch a Stem-Cell Revolution According to one small biotech, the best way to launch a stem-cell revolution is to do it overseas. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Repairing a Broken Heart Stem cells may be the new cure. If research continues on track, Geron expects to ask FDA to start clinical trials late next year or in early 2009. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
A Boost for Broken Hearts? The Institute of Regenerative Medicine in Barbados is convinced that stem cells from fetuses can repair cardiac damage. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Aastrom to Leap Into Trials The biotech firm advances to the next stage of clinical studies in stem cell research. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Pfizer Swings for the Fences A long shot, but at least it's cheap. Pfizer seems to have taken a particular liking to stem cells, having established a unit to study them last year |
Chemistry World
July 22, 2013
Kirsty Muirhead |
Circulating cancer cells spiral towards separation A new biochip developed by researchers in Singapore can isolate tumor cells from blood samples, and may one day be an alternative to more invasive methods for tracking later stage cancers. |
Chemistry World
December 17, 2015
Sarah Houlton |
Pills, prices and politics Pharmaceutical pricing has been a hot topic in 2015, with the drugs bill continuing to rise as costly new treatments reach the market. |
