Cancer

Mar 24, 2017

Targeted therapy is the most preferred option for cancer treatment and a number of new targets are being discovered which target cancer specific receptors, AKT being one of them. Protein kinase B (PKB), also known as AKT, belongs to serine/threonine protein kinase superfamily. AKT has been validated as a potential t...

Mar 16, 2017

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Feb 15, 2017

OncoTrack, a public-private consortium supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) joint undertaking, has conducted one of Europe’s largest collaborative academic-industry research projects to develop and assess novel approaches for identification of new markers for colon cancer. Scientists from the OncoT...

Feb 03, 2017

Cancer is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and one in every seven deaths is due to cancer. It has the worst incidence and mortality statistics. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an estimated 14.1 million new cases of cancer occur with mortality of 8.2 million ...

Feb 02, 2017

ALCMI, ALCF and Scancell partner to evaluate SCIB2 cancer vaccine for NSCLC The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI) and the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (ALCF) have collaborated with UK-based Scancell to assess SCIB2 cancer vaccine to treat patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). SCIB...

Dec 16, 2016

Cancer, a highly morbid disease, has one of the worst incidence and mortality statistics across the globe. As reported by the American Cancer Society, the estimated annual incidence for 2016 has crossed 40,000 cases or more in USA alone. In the statistics, the most common type of cancer is breast cancer, with around...

Nov 30, 2016

Efforts to develop antibodies that can ferry drugs into cancer cells and minimize damage to healthy tissue are gathering steam. The next generation of these ‘weaponized antibody’ therapies, called antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs), is working its way through clinical trials. The concept that underlies these drugs is s...

Nov 17, 2016

Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) were discovered in 1980, and since then drug developers have accelerated their research funds in order to find potential drug candidate for inhibiting PI3Ks for the treatment of cancers. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI3Ks) are lipid kinases that act as intermediate signaling mol...

Oct 10, 2016

Clinicians have been conducting biopsies for a long time, for diagnosing and managing cancer, as genetic profile of tumor is analyzed through biopsy. Tissue biopsy is a traditional biopsy technique which is a time consuming and lengthy procedure, and cannot be performed routinely. Liquid Biopsy is a next generation ...

Sep 15, 2016

Roche's drug candidate for Multiple Sclerosis touted to be better than Merck’s Rebif The much anticipated multiple sclerosis drug from Roche, ocrelizumab, has overtaken Merck’s Rebif according to the results of Phase III data, and has also shown great stats that could prove that it might have an edge in the hotly co...