The study authors include Charles de Bock (left), Jan Cools, Roger Habets, and Bart De Strooper.
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A Belgian-British-Australian research team has created a safer version of a therapy that combats the aggressive form of a blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) while avoiding toxicity.

Ratio of nanomedicine accumulated or cleared in the liver (red) or delivered to the target site (green). © Curadigm

Cancer-focussed Nanobiotix SA has spun out Curadigm, which offers a platform to improve the bioavailability of nanomedicines by reducing liver and spleen toxicity and accumulation.

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It was a good day for Novartis: A second drug with huge selling potential has been approved for the US market. The FDA gave the go ahead for breast cancer drug Piqray (alpelisib), the first and only treatment developed specifically for patients with a PIK3CA mutation in HR+/HER2-advanced breast cancer.

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Dr. Martin Treder has informed Affimed that he intends to step down from his position as Chief Scientific Officer to pursue new opportunities.

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The FDA has approved Novartis-subsidiary AveXis Inc’s spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene therapy Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xioi). The company wants to set the price tag at $2,125m per dose.

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Rare functional sugars provide huge market opportunities. European Biotechnology spoke with Stefan Jennewein, Founder and CEO of Jennewein Biotechnologies, about the company’s strategy and its latest expansions to the Chinese market.

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Novel diagnostic developer PBD Biotech announces the appointment of new CEO Mark Hammond to drive the company’s expansion.

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At BioEquity 2019, Spanish Bioindustry Association ASEBIO has given a sneak peek into its 2018 Annual Report, that each year describes the news and trends from the Spanish Biotech Sector.

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Chiesi Farmaceutici has licenced commercialiation rights for LHON treatment Raxone (idebenone) from Santhera Pharmaceuticals for CHF50m (€44m) in cash plus sales milestones.

Using targeted mutation methods, a break in the DNA strand is induced at a specific site and subsequently is repaired by the cell's own DNA repair system. When DNA mismatches occur, the appropriate gene in no longer functional. © 123rf.com/Andrii Panchyk

EU agriculture ministers want to exclude crops created by targeted mutation methods from EU GMO legislation.