For a healthy individual, an infection of Cryptosporidium parvum may mean nothing more than a few days of bad diarrhea. For someone with a compromised immune system, it can mean death, following an excruciating, protracted bout of watery diarrhea.
InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that specializes in developing safer, more effective cannabinoid-based therapies, today announced that it has been awarded a grant to further develop the Company's proprietary nanoparticle-based delivery system for their leading drug candidate CTI-085 for glaucoma.
Cerulean Pharma Inc., a leader in Dynamic Tumor Targeting™, today announced that Christopher D. T. Guiffre, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 14th Annual Needham Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, April 15th at 5:00 p.m. ET in New York.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Nanomedicine Market & Pipeline Insight 2015" report to their offering.
Researchers from Brown University and the University of Rhode Island have demonstrated a promising new way to increase the effectiveness of radiation in killing cancer cells.
Seeking a way to stimulate antitumor responses via the immune system, Steven Fiering, PhD, of Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, has identified the precise temperature that results in a distinct body-wide antitumor immune response that resists metastatic disease.
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, an industry-leading therapeutic solutions company focused on developing a cure for chronic hepatitis B virus infection (HBV), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified the Company that the partial clinical hold on the company's Investigational New Drug application (IND) for TKM-Ebola has been modified to permit repeat dosing of healthy volunteers at a dose of 0.24 mg/kg/day. The IND remains on partial clinical hold with regard to doses above 0.24 mg/kg/day in healthy volunteers.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in the development of RNAi therapeutics, today announced promising new in vivo data for CTNNB1 DsiRNA in multiple patient-derived xenograft (PDX) and other models of diverse tumor types. CTNNB1 DsiRNA is an extended Dicer substrate short interfering RNA (DsiRNA-EX) therapeutic targeting â-catenin delivered using Dicerna’s proprietary next generation EnCore™ lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology.
Teri Odom of Northwestern University will present a seminar at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in CHEM 144 on gold nanostar probes for imaging and therapeutics.
A team of scientists from the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the UAB has produced an alternative to the use of viruses in gene therapy. The researchers synthesised nanoparticles which act as artificial viruses, capable of surrounding DNA fragments and releasing them as therapeutic agents, with no biological risk, into the interior of the cells.
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