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City of Hope Scientists Have Developed a Precision Medicine Tool That Predicts If Chemotherapy Will Produce Debilitating Side Effects in Older Adults
1/14/2021
This easy-to-use risk assessment tool provides oncologists and patients with an individualized report on the likelihood of severe chemotherapy side effects for elderly patients with early-stage breast cancer
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Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for January 12, 2021.
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Evidence continues to build for long-lasting immunity to COVID-19 following disease infection, with the publication of a new study showing a durable immune response as far as eight months after the initial onset of symptoms.
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Broad Institute and Verily partner with Microsoft to accelerate the next generation of the Terra platform for health and life science research
1/11/2021
Multiyear partnership brings together advanced technology, industry expertise and scale to help researchers interpret an unprecedented amount of biomedical data and derive insights to advance the treatment of human diseases
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Wellcome Sanger Institute Increases Investment in PacBio Long-Read Sequencing to Support Darwin Tree of Life Research Initiative
1/8/2021
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing platforms, today announced that the Wellcome Sanger Institute has committed to purchase seven new Sequel IIe Systems and upgrade its five existing Sequel II Systems to increase its long-read sequencing capabilities for projects including the Darwin Tree of Life (DToL; all eukaryotes in Britain and Ireland) and Aquatic Symbiosis G
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Antimalarials Save Lupus Patients' Lives
1/8/2021
New Arthritis Research Canada study reveals systemic lupus erythematosus patients who take their antimalarial medications regularly have a 71 per cent lower risk of death than those who do not take them regularly and an 83 per cent lower risk than those who discontinue use altogether.
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Atsushi Sugita Succeeds Koichi Takagi as President & CEO of Maruho
1/8/2021
Maruho Co., Ltd., based in Osaka, Japan, announced that its Board of Directors has named Atsushi Sugita Representative Director, President & CEO, effective December 18, 2020.
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News, much of it good, keeps coming in about the efficacy of the various COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s a look.
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NIH Director Francis Collins and David Liu of the Broad Institute have teamed up to conduct a study utilizing CRISPR, the genome-editing system, to see what they could do in terms of altering the aging process in mice.
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Strategic Business Leader Angela L. Talton Joins City of Hope as Its First Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
1/7/2021
Talton will lead the development of a new vision and strategy to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at the independent biomedical research and treatment center
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2021 is off to a hopeful start for some companies, executives and scientists, while others are forced to fold programs and recalibrate.
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Researchers with Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology in China used a variety of computational techniques to simulate drug-virus interactions. They then screened 1,906 existing drugs to evaluate which ones might inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Berkeley Lights to Participate in the 39th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
1/4/2021
Berkeley Lights, Inc., a leader in Digital Cell Biology, announced the company will be participating in the upcoming 39th Annual J.P. Morgan Virtual Healthcare Conference.
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Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
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A study in Nature Neuroscience shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, likely contributing to symptoms of brain fog and other cognitive effects reported by people infected with the virus.
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Karmanos Cancer Institute and McLaren Health Care receive first COVID-19 Vaccines to Protect Health Care Professionals
12/17/2020
As a part of McLaren Health Care, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute began the process of immunizing its health care workers against COVID-19.
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CCT Research Expands Clinical Research Capabilities to Las Vegas
12/17/2020
CCT Research, a leader in community-based, embedded clinical research, announced the expansion of its clinical trial operations to the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
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FSR Announces Opening of 2020 Fellowship Grant Program
12/17/2020
Program supports specialized skill development of early-career physicians and researchers interested in studying sarcoidosis
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A COVID-19 vaccine being developed by CSL Ltd., and the University of Queensland was scrapped this week after numerous vaccine recipients reported receiving false positives on certain HIV tests.
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Research Roundup: Huntington’s Mutation Linked to Frontotemporal Dementia and ALS and More
12/11/2020
Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.