Late to the CAR-T game, AstraZeneca quietly works on its own off-the-shelf therapies
While AstraZeneca may be a major player in the oncology space, the company has been noticeably absent as the first wave of CAR-T...
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- Aug 18, 2021
Investors are tripping on psychedelics startups despite a murky path to commercial success
This story is part one in a two-part series looking at the psychedelics drug development landscape. Check back tomorrow for part two,...
- Jul 13, 2021
After cancer flops, Celldex shows promise in treating hives
Celldex Therapeutics regrouped in 2018 after a pair of major oncology flops, cutting both staff and pipeline to throw its resources...
- May 18, 2021
New insight into aggressive breast cancer could drive treatment choices
Breast tumors that are both estrogen-receptor (ER)- and HER2-positive are typically slow-growing, while ER-negative, HER2-positive...
- May 5, 2021
AstraZeneca taps antibody-mining startup Alchemab to dig into prostate cancer
While antibodies have drawn attention lately for fighting infectious diseases like COVID-19, AstraZeneca hopes to wield them against...
- Apr 13, 2021
Data-TRUST is becoming the undisputed world leader in Data Protection for Health Research
According to the Data Breach Indicator, 34.4 percent of all data breaches worldwide come from the healthcare sector. In 2019, the number...
- Mar 23, 2021
NK Cells are Now Better Serial Killers
Could native, exhausted and no-longer-functioning natural killer cells (NK cells) in cancer patients be rescued and revived by a novel,...
- Dec 4, 2020
Reversing vision loss by turning back the aging clock
Aging has implications for a wide range of diseases. Researchers have been looking for ways to halt the aging process for millennia, but...
- Nov 6, 2020
Treating multiple sclerosis with an antigen-specific cell therapy
Existing multiple sclerosis therapies systematically modulate the immune system to dampen its erroneous attack on the protective myelin...
- Oct 13, 2020
Wasp toxin inspires new antibiotic that overcomes tough-to-treat sepsis in mice
The sting from a Korean yellow-jacket wasp doesn’t pose much of a danger to people—but it could be toxic enough to kill lethal bacteria...
- Oct 9, 2020
Designing a universal flu vaccine by refocusing the immune system
A universal flu vaccine that can protect people against any influenza strain is considered a holy grail of flu research because it could...
- Sep 11, 2020
How a protein implicated in Alzheimer's could enhance cancer immunotherapy
Variants of TREM2, a receptor expressed by immune cells, have been linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Now scientists have...
- Aug 21, 2020
Eleusis sheds light on psychedelics that relieve asthma in rats with no mental effects
Psychedelic drugs like LSD have long been of interest in the medical community because of their anti-inflammatory properties. But efforts...
- Aug 4, 2020
From Cholera to Covid-19: How integrated data visualizations inform decisions and impact a
London, circa 1854. A deadly cholera outbreak has caught the neighborhood of Soho in its teeth. The young, the old, the hale, the...