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Tmunity and UC San Francisco Announce Exclusive License and Research Collaboration to Advance TCR T Cell Therapies for Pediatric Cancers
5/1/2019
Collaboration will broaden Tmunity’s pipeline to include a glioma T cell therapy engineered to express a newly discovered T cell receptor
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Researchers with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) developed a “neural decoder” that translates brain activity to synthesize audible speech. They published their research in the journal Nature.
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There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
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April 11 is World Parkinson’s Day, designed to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a progressive disease of the nervous system that affects movement.
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Since Biogen and Tokyo-based Eisai recently reported a massive failure in Alzheimer’s research for their drug aducanumab, scientists and industry watchers are scanning the tea leaves looking for other potential approaches to treating the disease. One that is of interest is a hormone called Klotho.
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When it comes to biotech and pharma innovation few places stand out like the Biotech Bay. The area is home to a plethora of innovative companies that are shaping the future of medical treatment for a variety of diseases and conditions on a daily basis.
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Research Roundup: Gene Therapy for Deafness, Autism Genes, Breakthroughs in Parkinson’s and ALS, ...
3/1/2019
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Cancer Research UK, a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, recently announced its latest Grand Challenge winners. This cancer research grant awards a series of £20 million wards to international, multidisciplinary teams that focus on unique and new approach...
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January 18 Research Roundup: Skin Cancer, Turning Cancer Cells Into Fat Cells, and a Longevity Test
1/18/2019
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As the Trump administration has continued to show its lack of financial support of scientific research using fetal tissue, the National Institutes of Health is setting aside $20 million to fund research that could develop alternatives to the use of embryonic tissue.
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Political Battle Over Fetal Tissue Could Force Closure of Research Center Pivotal to HIV Therapies
12/6/2018
Researchers who focus on HIV vaccines are caught in the middle of a political battle over funding of fetal stem cell research. -
New research is shedding some light on how the brain responds when people are feeling sad, which could lead to new methods of treating some mood disorders. A research team from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reported in an article in Cell that a network defined by amygdala-hip...
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Genentech, a Roche company, released data from a long-term clinical trial of Ocrevus in multiple sclerosis. Meanwhile, Novartis isn’t standing still on MS. Earlier this week the company announced that both the FDA and EMA had accepted its NDA and MAA, respectively, for siponimod.
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Celgene Corporation presented data at the 34th Congress of the European Committee for the Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) held in Berlin, Germany with results from two Phase III trials.
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A new biopharmaceutical company known as Sitryx launched with $30 million in a Series A funding round to develop disease-modifying therapeutics in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation.
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In 2015, Priscilla Chan, a physician, and her husband, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). CZI’s stated goal was resoundingly ambitious.
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September 14 Research Roundup: Brain in a Dish, Pathway Map for Diabetes, and “Finding Nemo’s” Ge...
9/14/2018
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Last year’s influenza season in the U.S. had record-breaking hospitalization rates. A lot of industry observers are looking at a new flu drug, baloxavir marboxil, for which clinical trial data was just published.
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In another example of companies focused on aging-related diseases, Elevian launched with $5.5 million in seed funding. Elevian’s founders came out of Stanford and then Harvard, focused on regenerative effects of “young blood.”
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CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna has set up shop in San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes. Doudna, a UC Berkley professor credited with the co-discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technique, will focus on the development of new ways to implement the gene-editing technique for disease treatment.