Month: December 2023

Leveraging Plant-Based Protein Expression: Implications for Biomanufacturing and Biodefense

12/13/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: Although a 1972 United Nations (UN) resolution prohibits member states from using biological weapons on military personnel and civilians (1, 2), a lack of robust verification protocols has enabled several countries to develop such agents (3). Several groups that the UN considers to be global terrorist organizations also are establishing…

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Could an Emerging AI System Lead to Earlier Autism Detection with DT-MRI?

12/12/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: While a recent report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that 30 percent of children with autism were not diagnosed at eight years of age, emerging research suggests that a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) facilitates autism detection…

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UK authorises gene therapy for blood disorders in world first

12/11/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Britain has authorised a gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease and another type of inherited blood disorder for patients aged 12 and over, the country’s medical regulator said on Thursday, becoming the first in the world to do so. Casgevy is the first…

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BriaCell Records New Responder with Remarkable Improvement of “Eye-Bulging” Metastatic Tumor

12/08/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: PHILADELPHIA and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BriaCell Therapeutics Corp. (Nasdaq: BCTX, BCTXW) (TSX: BCT) (“BriaCell” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company that develops novel immunotherapies to transform cancer care, is thrilled to announce a new remarkable responder in our Phase 2 study of the…

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280Bio doses first patient in Phase I clinical trial of TEB-17231, an oral pan-RAS inhibitor in patients with advanced cancers harboring mutations in KRAS, HRAS, or NRAS

12/07/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — 280Bio, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precision oncology medicines, today announced that the first patient was treated with TEB-17231 (YL-17231), a small molecule inhibitor of RAS signaling. 280Bio is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shanghai…

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Neurona Therapeutics Presents New Clinical Data from First Cohort in Ongoing Phase I/II Open-Label Trial of NRTX-1001 Cell Therapy for Drug-resistant Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (MTLE)

12/06/2023

NRTX-1001 investigational treatment has been well tolerated in all initial subjects Positive decision from data safety monitoring board (DSMB) on review of first cohort safety data greenlights dosing of five additional subjects in the second, highest dose, cohort First two subjects continue to report a >95% reduction in overall average monthly seizure counts one year…

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Bioxodes Closes €12 million in Series A Funding Round

12/05/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: Bioxodes SA has received €12 million ($13M) in a Series A funding from historic investors. This financial backing includes €8.6 million ($9.3M) in capital and €3.4 million ($3.7M) in non-dilutive funding from the Wallonia region. It comes on top of the €27 million ($29.2M) in capital and subsidies previously raised by Bioxodes, bringing to €39 million ($42.2M)…

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GSK Blood Cancer Drug Blenrep Hits Goal in Late-Stage Trial

12/04/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: The trial met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) and showed that belantamab mafodotin when combined with bortezomib plus dexamethasone (BorDex) significantly extended the time to disease progression or death versus daratumumab plus BorDex, an existing standard of care for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. A strong and clinically meaningful overall…

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1nhaler Raises £2 Million to Develop Single-Use Sustainable Inhaler

12/01/2023

Excerpt from the Press Release: Inhalable medicines are already widely used to treat conditions such as asthma, epilepsy, allergies and Parkinson’s but, to date, delivery options have been limited due to user accessibility, cost, performance and impact on the environment. 1nhaler has developed a way of enabling many different dry powder drugs to be readily…

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