
New target could minimise transplant risks
Intestinal GVHD, in which donor T cells attack host tissue, is associated with a poor prognosis. A research group headed by Kai Hildner at University...

German biotech sector growing
Key figures for the sector rose sharply in 2017, the BIOCOM report "The German biotech industry 2018" biotechnologie.de says, which has...

AML: Sorafenib boosts graft-versus-leukemia activity
"Originally, sorafenib was only given to patients to slow the progression of the disease. We then found that the cancer disappears in patients...

GBS 2018: Bioeconomy leaders foster shift to sustainable industry production
For two days, 800+ policy leaders, NGO and industry representatives from over 70 nations met to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the shift...

Deinove to licence antibiotic leads form RedX Pharma
Redx Pharma said it wanted to licence its programme because the company decided to put its development focus on cancer and fibrosis candidates....

Roche reports 5 deaths after dosing of Hemlibra
Roche’s US arm Genentech, which received FDA market approval for the bispecific antibody co-developed with Chugai last December (EU: February...

Locking malaria parasites into red blood cells
The findings reported in Nature could help prevent over 400,000 deaths per annum that are caused to widespread drug resistance of the parasite, whose...