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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN RAFAEL, Calif. and TORONTO, Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRN) and Deep Genomics today announced that the companies have entered into a preclinical collaboration that will use Deep Genomics’ artificial intelligence drug discovery platform (The AI Workbench) to identify oligonucleotide drug candidates in four rare disease indications…
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Excerpt from the Article: Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE), bolstering the shift toward digital that the healthcare industry has already been embracing. Investment in digital health is at an all-time high. The market cap created from nine IPOs in 2019 from companies in…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AVROBIO, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVRO), a leading clinical-stage gene therapy company with a mission to free people from a lifetime of genetic disease, today announced positive new data across its clinical programs in Gaucher disease type 1, Fabry disease and cystinosis, further reinforcing the potential of ex vivo lentiviral…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Phlexglobal, a leading innovative technology and services provider for the life sciences industry, today announces that Hope Biosciences Stem Cell Research Foundation has selected Phlexglobal’s advanced SaaS solution, PhlexSubmission, to enhance the efficiency and quality of its eCTD submissions process. As an organization dedicated to advancing research through innovative protocols…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Werewolf Therapeutics, Inc., an oncology biotherapeutics company developing next-generation, transformative cancer therapeutics, today announced the appointment of Randi Isaacs, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Isaacs brings to the Werewolf team more than 20 years’ experience as a hematologist and oncologist driving clinical…
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Excerpt from the Article: Several years ago, biologist Denise Montell, a distinguished professor at UC Santa Barbara, found that sometimes cells survive after what was considered the critical step in cellular suicide. Now, she and her lab have identified two key factors involved in this remarkable recovery. The findings, published in Nature Communications, indicate that…
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Excerpt from the Article: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, with patient numbers being expected to double worldwide in the next 20 years. The detailed molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis remains unclear, although recent evidence has pointed towards the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the onset of the disease.…
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Excerpt from the Article: Hopes of finding a magic bullet against Covid-19, at least within the next few months, rest on the outcomes of a small number of clinical trials. Beyond these leading antibody and vaccine approaches, few large clinical programmes of other novel mechanisms are under way. True, there is a huge amount of…
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Excerpt from the Article: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, with patient numbers being expected to double worldwide in the next 20 years. The detailed molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis remains unclear, although recent evidence has pointed towards the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the onset of the disease.…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: RADNOR, Pa. and GENEVA, Nov. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — NeuroRx, Inc. and Relief Therapeutics Holdings AG (SIX:RLF,OTCBB:RLFTF) (“Relief”) announced that the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) met yesterday and voted unanimously that NCT 04311697 should continue as planned to its full enrollment of 165 patients. Specifically, the committee identified no safety concerns…
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