Cancer

Nov 07, 2017

Teva looks to sell generics in China through joint venture with Guangzhou Pharma As the world’s largest generics maker, Teva still doesn’t have much of a presence in China, even though it is a country relies heavily on generics. The Israeli company is looking to remedy that as Teva has said it “has no agreement with...

Nov 03, 2017

AstraZeneca and Incyte are about to enter into Clinical Trial Collaboration in Early Lung Cancer The exclusive collaboration for the study population allows the two companies to conduct a Phase 3 trial. Aim of this study is to evaluate patients with locally-advanced (Stage III), unresectable non-small cell lung c...

Sep 11, 2017

Histone deacetylase ( HDAC ) inhibitors are a new class of anti-cancer agents which play important roles in epigenetic or non-epigenetic regulation, including programmed cell death, and cell cycle arrest in cancer cells. Histone deacetylase inhibitors are either naturally occurring or they can be synthetically produ...

Sep 05, 2017

Cancer by Numbers provide us with the degree of devastation it has incurred among various populations, and provides us with a better idea on the level of progress needed to eradicate this morbid indication. It also sheds light on the blockbuster drugs along with potential therapies for the cancer. Click Here For Do...

Aug 25, 2017

Can-Fite Receives Milestone Payment from Korean Distribution Partner CKD Pharmaceuticals Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd., A Leading Biotechnology Company in the pharmaceutical industry advancing a pipeline of proprietary drugs that address various major indications related to liver, inflammatory diseases, and cancer, has an...

Aug 17, 2017

GlaxoSmithKline taps Baltimore’s Insilico for AI-based drug discovery GlaxoSmithKline and Insilico Medicine are partnering to explore how the latter’s artificial intelligence technology can aid in the drug discovery process. The duo kept mum on the details but said the agreement comes after Baltimore-based Insilico ...

Aug 11, 2017

Natural killer cells are a type of lymphocytes and are key components of the innate immune system. They are highly specific predators that play a major role in the host rejection of both tumors and virally infected cells. NK cells are derived from the common lymphoid progenitor cells (lymphoblasts), which also gener...

Jun 14, 2017

Almost 6,000 new cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, are expected to be diagnosed this year in the United States. Up to 30 percent of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia or ALL patients have Philadelphia chromosome, where two segments of chromosomes have aberrantly fused together. Adult ALL patients often ...

Jun 07, 2017

In the quest for personalized therapies, most research has focused on how an individual’s genome controls their body’s responses to drugs. However, there is increasing evidence that a person’s unique microbiome — the population of bacteria and other microbes that live in their body — can be key to determining whethe...

May 25, 2017

Merck's Remicade discounting put squeeze on biosims—and broke U.K. law, officials say Under biosimilar assault in Europe, Merck rolled out cut-rate deals on Remicade to defend its brand from cheaper options, then-brand-new to the market. Now, the U.K.’s competition authority claims the pharma giant “broke competitio...