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Staten Biotechnology, Novo Nordisk enter into a deal worth $430M
World | News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2018
Staten Biotechnology has signed a dyslipidaemia licence option deal worth US$430 million with Novo Nordisk. Under the agreement, Dutch Staten Biotechnology B.V. and Novo Nordis...Read more
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Global Cannabis Partnership expands to 31 members
World | News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2018
The Global Cannabis Partnership (GCP) is pleased to announce the addition of seven new Members as it continues to grow internationally, bringing its total membership number to 31. The GCP ...Read more
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Orchard Therapeutics, SIRION Biotech partners for gene therapy
World | News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2018
Orchard Therapeutics, a leading commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and life-threatening rare diseases through innovative...Read more
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Bristol-Myers Squibb receives positive CHMP Opinion recommending Sprycel for Pediatric Patients
World | News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2018
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company has announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has recommended the expanded approval of Sprycel (...Read more
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Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boston Medical Centre announce collaboration
World | News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2018
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Boston Medical centre, a private, not-for-profit, academic medical centre has announced a multi-year joint research study to identify and analyze potential ...Read more
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Merck launches new Steritest NEO Device
World | News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2018
Merck has launched the latest evolution in sterility testing devices, the Steritest™ NEO device, which provides safer pharmaceutical product testing, with greater reliability and conv...Read more
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Lilly to acquire Pre-Clinical Pain Program from Hydra Biosciences
World | News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2018
Eli Lilly and Company has announced an agreement with Hydra Biosciences to acquire all assets related to Hydra's pre-clinical program of TRPA1 antagonists which is a part of the Transient R...Read more
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Lilly announces positive top-line results for Taltz
World | News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2018
Eli Lilly and Company has announced that Taltz® (ixekizumab) met the primary and all major secondary endpoints in the Phase 3b/4 SPIRIT-H2H study, which evaluated the efficacy...Read more
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Zymergen announces $400M in Series C Funding
World | News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2018
Molecular manufacturing technology company, Zymergen has announced that it has raised over $400 million in Series C funding led by returning investor SoftBank Vision Fund. The round welcom...Read more
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World | Opinion | By Priyanka Bajpai | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2018
Growth in healthcare adoption has benefited the API market immensely. There is greater focus on accessibility to affordable healthcare and this has led to increased surge for acce...Read more
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Big data discloses genetic behavior of brain disorders
World | News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2018
Psychiatric disorders’ many complexities have stymied scientists looking for clear genetic culprits. But a new giant dataset holds clues to how, when and where these brain disorders b...Read more
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Generex receives IND approval from FDA
World | News | 0 Comment | 14 Dec, 2018
Generex Biotechnology Corporation has announced that the FDA had reviewed the company’s investigational new drug (IND) application and given notification that the study can proceed. T...Read more
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Cambridge Heartwear launches first AI-Driven Wearable 'Heartsense monitor'
World | News | 0 Comment | 14 Dec, 2018
Cambridge Heartwear, a medical provider of low-cost, next-generation wearable heart monitors that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose heart rhythm and respiratory problems in...Read more
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Amgen, Direct Relief Partner to help cancer patients In 18 countries
World | News | 0 Comment | 14 Dec, 2018
Amgen and Direct Relief today announced a joint initiative in which Direct Relief will distribute $93 million worth of Amgen donated cancer treatments and supportive care medicine...Read more
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Health Canada warning: Health products by Botanicals Inc. may be harmful
World | Regulatory | 0 Comment | 14 Dec, 2018
Health Canada is warning that all products manufactured by Professional Botanicals Inc. may pose serious health risks. The company is a contract manufacturer that also operates un...Read more
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Merck collaborates to develop vaccines against dengue
World | News | 0 Comment | 14 Dec, 2018
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, a non-profit producer of immunobiologic products for Brazil have announced a collaborati...Read more
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Researchers discover new compound to treat breast cancer
World | News | 0 Comment | 13 Dec, 2018
A novel compound against breast cancer improves the efficacy of standard cancer treatment and shows superior tolerability in laboratory tests when compared to similar agents, setting the st...Read more
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Key to reliable hygiene and HACCP management- MVP ICON
World | News | 0 Comment | 13 Dec, 2018
Most contaminants are invisible to the naked eye. Micro-organisms are fairly small, they pose a severe threat to the safety of consumers. Every year, several hundred products have to be rec...Read more
