Dementia Consortium funds project focusing on ALS and FTLD
16 September 2015 | By Victoria White
A team at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) will join forces with MRC Technology to take on the project...
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USP19 inhibition protects against muscle wasting
15 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have discovered a new gene, USP19, involved in the muscle wasting syndrome cachexia that could be a good target for drug development...
Chimerix gets contract extension for smallpox treatment
15 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Chimerix has extended its contract with BARDA for the development of brincidofovir as a medical countermeasure to treat smallpox...
Auspherix and Domainex expand antibiotics partnership
15 September 2015 | By
Since initiating the project in 2014, significant progress has been made towards the invention of new compounds with activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria...
Desktop Genetics raises £1.37M to accelerate development of DESKGEN
15 September 2015 | By Victoria White
DESKGEN allows researchers to expertly design and perform CRISPR-based genome editing experiments in virtually any cell line or species...
Transatlantic partnership to develop treatments for pancreatic cancer
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The five-year programme will focus on the development of ‘nanomedicine’ in the treatment of pancreatic cancer, for which current treatment options are limited...
Cancer Research UK and MedImmune launch biotherapeutics research centre
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The new laboratory, opened in Cambridge, will focus on the discovery and development of novel biologic cancer treatments and diagnostics...
Researchers discover new group of antibiotics
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The potential new antibiotics are unlike contemporary antibiotics because they contain iridium, a silvery-white transition metal...
Takeda joins malaria and TB drug discovery consortium, WIPO Re:Search
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
WIPO Re:Search provides access to the intellectual property of certain pharmaceutical compounds, technologies, know-how and data for R&D activities around TB and malaria...
Researchers develop a new computational method to study cancer drug effects
11 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have developed a new method for studying the targets and effects of cancer drugs using data from discovery mass spectrometry experiments...
New technique improves the selectivity of kinase inhibitors
11 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The new technique could cut the potential for side effects and help usher kinase inhibitors past strict regulatory hurdles...
Scientists discover why levodopa can lead to dyskinesia
11 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have discovered why long-term use of levodopa, a treatment for Parkinson's disease, commonly leads to a movement problem called dyskinesia...
Technology for large-scale protein manufacture unveiled
11 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have developed the user-friendly technology to help scientists understand how proteins work and fix them when they are broken...
Gencia and Takeda to develop novel mitochondrial therapeutics
11 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Gencia and Takeda aim to jointly research and develop two preclinical drug candidates, one each in the areas of inflammation and oncology...
SAS1B discovery could fundamentally alter cancer treatment
10 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The SAS1B protein appears only on egg cells and cancer cells, and could serve as a target for tiny tracking probes created using monoclonal antibodies...
