BioSpace News Archive

A major factor behind the success of the smallpox eradication campaign was political commitment and leadership.

KDx Diagnostics, Inc., and Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK, announced the launch in the United Kingdom of KDx’s URO17® test for detection of bladder cancer.

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. announced the peer-reviewed publication of a series of novel SARS-CoV-2 MPro inhibitors with potent activities for both MPro and cathepsin L, a key host enzyme for SARS-CoV-2 entry into host cells, authored by Dr. Wenshe Ray Liu, professor at Texas A&M University.

Mesoblast Limited, global leader in allogeneic cellular medicines for inflammatory diseases, provided new analyses from the landmark DREAM-HF Phase 3 trial showing that the greatest treatment benefit from rexlemestrocel-L is in HFrEF patients with diabetes and/or ischemia, who are at high-risk of cardiovascular mortality, heart attacks or strokes.

The growth of the global skin perfusion pressure testing market largely relies on advancements in the field of non-invasive treatments.

Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) devices are class II devices (FDA) that consist of drainage tubing, vacuum pump, and wound dressing set, and need electricity to maintain their use.

Self-inflating bags are also called Ambu bags. These bags inflate automatically without a compressed gas source. Self-inflating bags are not dependent on a compressed source of inflation. Hence, these are ready to use, inflated always, and portable.

Lymphatic filariasis is an infectious tropical disease caused by parasitic round worms, i.e. Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi.

Dandy-Walker Syndrome involves the partial or complete absence of the area of the brain between the two cerebellar hemispheres, and a cyst formation near the lowest part of the skull.

Beta lactum antibiotics are type of antibiotic agents with beta lactum rings in their molecular structures. These antibiotics include monobactums, carbapenems, penicillin derivatives, and cephalosporins.