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Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Dec 27th, 2009
The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer’s Prevnar childhood vaccine following the death of three babies shortly after being vaccinated.The vaccine has been labeled ‘do not use’ and and new supplies have been made available to doctors.The exact cause of the death of the infants is not yet [...]
Posted in Microbial Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Oct 19th, 2008
According to New Scientist, researchers in California are scaling up for industrial production a process to produce a synthetic strain of yeast engineered to produce a compound called artemisinin, which is used to treat malaria. The current process used to produce the medicine is expensive, but this new process has been optimized such that—within two [...]
Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Oct 19th, 2008
Scientists have developed nanometer-sized ‘cargo ships’ that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body’s immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.
Researchers develop nano-sized ‘cargo ships’ to target and destroy tumors
Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Sep 10th, 2008
Scientists may have cured cancer last week.Yep.So, why haven’t the media picked up on it?
Scientists may have cured cancer last week – more on DCA
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Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Jul 3rd, 2008
Scientists have discovered that our own body not only makes chemical compounds similar to the active ingredient in marijuana (THC), but these play an important part in maintaining healthy skin.
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Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Mar 31st, 2008
One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.
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Posted in Medicinal Plants, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Mar 31st, 2008
Terra Sigillata : Can academic drug discovery programs improve on pharma’s relative stagnation?
A paper in last month’s issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery reported that US drug approvals during 2007 were the lowest number since 1983. (17 new molecular entities and 2 biologicals; see this figure for 1996-2007 data.) The review cites increased regulatory action [...]
Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Mar 6th, 2008
YouTube – Red Wine Aging Drug
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Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Feb 23rd, 2008
(NewsVisual, powered by IntellectSpace) — The San Francisco-based biotechnology company Genentech Inc (NYSE: DNA) announced on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval for one of its drugs to be used metastatic breast cancer. The FDA’s approval means that the company’s drug Avastin can be used in combination along [...]
Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Feb 16th, 2008
The push to create a regulatory framework for generic versions of biotech drugs fizzled last year in Congress, as legislators seemed to lose interest after failing to attach the measure to a major FDA reform bill. But now it’s back, and has gained some unlikely friends in the Bush administration. The FY2009 federal budget, [...]
