
Drug dissociates metastasis precursors in blood
In Cell, the team headed by Nicola Aceto from University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, reported that a screening of 2,486 FDA-approved...

Biomarker predicts response to TNF blockers
The new assay, created by researchers at Sanquin Research in Amsterdam and Pfizer, allowed physicians to measure blood...

Bio-plastics production grows to 7.5 million tonnes
Production of bio-based polymers will continue to grow at the same rate as petrochemical polymers and plastics resulting in a market share of...

SOBI and AstraZeneca in US$2bn+ deal on RSV antibodies
Though Synagis biosimilars are under development at South Korean Celltrion, Mabxience and Chinese iBio, palivizumab is currently the only...

uniqure delivers POC for hemophilia B gene therapy
AMT-061, an AAV5 vector, expresses a gene cassette with the Padua variant of Factor IX, which lacks in hemophilia B patients. According to uniqure,...

Boehringer expands neurology activities
Since 2014, the partners have launched three preclinical research projects in COPD, neuroscience and innate immunity. The new project at BioMed X...

Boehringer and Epizyme enter US$300m deal
According to BI, more than half of cancers can stem from functional errors in epigenetic modification, which diagnostically characterise the patient...