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Takeda and Carmine Enter $900 Million Non-Viral Gene Therapy Collaboration

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Carmine Therapeutics inked a research collaboration deal with Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical to develop and commercialize non-viral gene therapies for two...

FDA Sets Bar for COVID-19 Vaccine Approval at 50% Effectiveness

JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock While the U.S. and the world have largely fast-tracked efforts to develop a vaccine against COVID-19, experts in the field of...

Inovio’s COVID-19 Vaccine Suggests Overall Immune Responses in Phase I Trial

Biotech company Inovio released positive interim data from its Phase I clinical trial of INO-4800, its experimental vaccine against COVID-19. INO-4800 is...

Merck’s Keytruda Approved for First-Line Treatment of Colorectal Cancer

Merck’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolimzumab) keeps racking up approvals for new indications. This time, the anti-PD-1 therapy was approved by the U.S....

Centene’s Illinois Subsidiary to Acquire Membership of NextLevel Health Partners

ST. LOUIS, June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that its Illinois subsidiary, Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc....

Dalton Pharma Services Made it to the 2020 List of Best Workplaces in…

One Team. One Goal. A Healthier World. TORONTO (PRWEB) June 30, 2020 Dalton Pharma Services (Dalton), a leading...

Bioengineered uterine tissue can support normal pregnancies, study shows

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jun 29 2020 In new research from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), scientists have shown that bioengineered...

Clinically approved drugs could disrupt SARS-CoV-2 from hijacking cells

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jun 29 2020 An international team of researchers has analyzed how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hijacks the proteins...

Enterome Secures €46M to Take Microbiome Therapies to Clinical Trials

French microbiome biotech Enterome has raised €46.3M in Series E funding to progress its cancer and inflammatory bowel disease therapies to phase I...

Engineers use “DNA origami” to identify vaccine design rules

By folding DNA into a virus-like structure, MIT researchers have designed HIV-like particles that provoke a strong immune response from...

Producing a gaseous messenger molecule inside the body, on demand

Nitric oxide is an important signaling molecule in the body, with a role in building nervous system connections that contribute...

3D structure of Aβ protein assemblies reveals a new mechanism of toxicity

The brains of millions of people suffering from Alzheimer´s disease (AD) are slowly and inescapably being depleted of neurons, which leads to the...

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