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Eli Lilly and Company, headquartered in Indianapolis, and AC Immune SA, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, entered a license and collaboration deal to research and develop tau aggregation inhibitor compounds for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland are using INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96/384 multichannel electronic pipette to streamline the experimental workflow of studies on Pseudomonas aeruginosa – a bacterium that commonly infects individuals with lung conditions, such as cystic fibrosis.
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Lower BMI before bariatric surgery predicts greater post-operative weight loss, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland finds.
Medtronic plc today announced it has been named one of America’s Most JUST Companies in 2018, according to Forbes magazineand JUST Capital, a nonprofit that ranks publicly-traded corporations on the issues Americans care about most.
KaNDy Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company developing a potential breakthrough non-hormonal treatment for multiple debilitating symptoms of the menopause, today announces initiation of the Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating NT-814 in women with troublesome symptoms of the menopause.
Circassia Pharmaceuticals plc (“Circassia” or “the Company”; LSE: CIR), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on respiratory disease, today announces it has issued a notice of option exercise to AstraZeneca to acquire the full US commercial rights to Tudorza® (aclidinium)
The Nasdaq indicated that there was a record amount of biotech initial public offerings this year, including some individual record-breakers—Moderna, Allogene Therapeutics and Rubius Therapeutics. The total for the year is around $8.2 billion raised, breaking 2014’s record of $6.5 billion.
It seems like every time we turned around this year, there was an exciting or—on a more visceral level, “Hey, that’s cool!” science story. Here’s a look at the top 9 really cool life science discoveries of the year, from outer space, to peanut allergies, to tortoise genomes.
Company receives award in healthcare category for cancer therapy in clinical development with an action on cancer stem cells
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