news Two-week-old human embryos reveal origin of Huntington’s disease 6 October 2021 | By Anna Begley (Drug Target Review) Scientists have discovered a signalling pathway alteration in embryos with Huntington’s disease, paving the way for ground-breaking treatments.
news ImmBio initiates First-in-Human study of PnuBioVax 11 December 2015 | By Victoria White The study will look at the safety and tolerability of PnuBioVax for three different dosages against the bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae...
news Adaptimmune and Universal Cells in T-cell therapy collaboration 1 December 2015 | By Victoria White With Universal Cells’ proprietary gene editing technology, Adaptimmune intends to develop affinity enhanced donor T-cells...
news TSRI awarded $6 million to develop HIV/AIDS vaccine, eCD4-lg 25 September 2015 | By Victoria White When eCD4-lg was tested in animal models, the results were so powerful and effective that they suggested the compound’s potential to serve the role of an alternative HIV/AIDS vaccine...
news Major advance towards long-lasting universal influenza vaccine 25 August 2015 | By Victoria White Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Janssen have found a way to induce antibodies to fight a wide range of influenza subtypes...
news Round 8 of Biomedical Catalyst awards announced 10 August 2015 | By Charlotte Batchelor, Drug Target Review Twelve new treatments, diagnostics and medical technologies will receive funding from the eighth round of the successful Biomedical Catalyst (BMC)...
news St Jude scientists identify new mechanism of p53-induced cell death 31 July 2015 | By Victoria White Researchers have identified a new mechanism that the tumour suppressor protein p53 uses to trigger cell death via apoptosis...
news Discovery could lead to a universal flu vaccine 3 July 2015 | By Victoria White New research suggests it may be possible to harness a previously unknown mechanism within the immune system to create more effective flu vaccines...
news Inovio partners with GeneOne Life Science for MERS vaccine clinical development 3 June 2015 | By Victoria White Inovio has said it will advance its DNA vaccine for MERS into a Phase I clinical trial in healthy volunteers in a collaboration with GeneOne Life Science...
news Key US patents granted for GPCR-focused drug discovery platform arising from pioneering research and translational expertise at MRC and MRC Technology 17 December 2014 | By MRC Technology Structure-based drug discovery platform targets challenging GPCRs linked to human disease...
news Seahorse Bioscience and University of Alabama partner to advance validation of bioenergetic health index for personalized medicine 15 October 2014 | By Seahorse Bioscience Seahorse Bioscience and the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that they have entered into a partnership to study the bioenergetic health of cells in cryo-preserved blood – a step that will ultimately produce a first-of-its-kind clinical test of metabolic bioenergetic health...