Cancer Research

Galderma Reaches Agreement To Acquire CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals

LAUSANNE, Switzerland and NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania, February 26 /PRNewswire/--- Products and Pipeline to Enhance Galderma's Position in Dermatology Galderma Pharma S.A., a global specialty pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology, and CollaGenex Ph ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 26 2008 - 1:31am

Created: Artificial 'Cells' That Boost Immune Response To Cancer

Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion, an immune response important for a patient’s ability to fight cancer and infectious diseases. The artifi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2008 - 11:08am

Abbott, Genentech And WEHI Collaborate To Research And Develop New Anti-Cancer Drugs

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 27 /PRNewswire/-- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) announced today that Abbott, a global, broad-based, healthcare company, Genentech, a leading biotechnology company based in South San Francisco ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 27 2008 - 3:31am

Kyowa Hakko Receives Not Approvable Letter From FDA For Istradefylline (KW-6002)

TOKYO, February 28 /PRNewswire/-- Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. President: Dr. Yuzuru Matsuda announced that Kyowa Pharmaceutical, Inc. (New Jersey, United States), its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, received on February 25, 2008 a Not approvable letter from ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 27 2008 - 11:38pm

Europeans And Africans Responses To Infections Influenced By Gene Expression

Differences in gene expression levels between people of European versus African ancestry can affect how each group responds to certain drugs or fights off specific infections, say researchers in the American Journal of Human Genetics. They used Affymetrix ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2008 - 2:07pm

Study: Make Cigarettes Safer By Removing The Hydrogen Peroxode In Smoke

While its known that cigarette smoking can cause cancer it has been unclear how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from U.C.- Davis say that hydrogen peroxide (or similar oxidants) in cigarette smoke is the culprit. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2008 - 2:33pm

Numerical Modeling Makes Sense Of HLA Data Chaos

Many areas of research and medicine rely critically upon knowing a person’s individual immune system proteins, as they determine an individual’s ability to fight disease or mistakenly attack their own tissues. However, obtaining this information is costly ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 29 2008 - 9:37am

Adult Stem Cell Changes Implicated In Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome

Adult stem cells may provide an explanation for the cause of a Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), a rare disease that causes premature aging in children, according to researchers at the National Cancer Institute. These findings, the first to indi ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2008 - 3:37pm

Reports Of Increased Survival In Bird Flu Patients Taking Tamiflu

BASEL, Switzerland, March 3 /PRNewswire/-- Physicians from countries worst-affected by the deadly bird flu (H5N1 influenza virus) have reported an increased survival rate in patients treated with the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir). These data reinfo ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 3 2008 - 2:30am

BioWa Announces Expansion Of License Agreement With Genentech For BioWa's POTELLIGENT(R) Technology

PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 3 /PRNewswire/-- BioWa, Inc. announced today that it has expanded the license agreement with Genentech, Inc. providing Genentech additional access to BioWa's POTELLIGENT(R) Technology for the research and development of s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 3 2008 - 6:30am