Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News
The latest pharma industry and biotech industry research from prestigious universities and journals throughout the world.The pharmaceutical and biotech Industry continues to evolve and change on a seemingly daily basis. Depending on their size and strategy, pharma companies may conduct extensive research in-house, or they may seek to license promising drugs from academia, other pharma firms or biotechnology companies. Biotechnology seeks to duplicate or change the function of a living cell so it will work in a more predictable and controllable way. The biotechnology industry uses advances in genetics research to develop products for human diseases and conditions. This section includes news on pharmaceutical companies, mergers and acquisitions, drug development, export and import of drugs, legislation, advertising and influence.
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Cancer: New drug may fight treatment resistance
A new drug that blocks a molecule that cancer cells rely on for transcribing genetic information shows promise in tackling treatment-resistant tumors.
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'Natural insecticide' kills advanced prostate cancer cells
Scientists identify a class of drugs that selectively targets and kills advanced prostate cancer cells that lack the tumor-suppressor protein PTEN.
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Prostate cancer: How a full stomach could improve treatment
A new study finds that the prostate cancer drug Zytiga is more effective, as well as cheaper, when taken with food, as opposed to on an empty stomach.
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Alzheimer's: This antibody may halt brain injury
A study shows how an antibody that targets the APOE protein halved brain levels of plaque in mice with Alzheimer's disease without harming APOE in the blood.
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Many non-antibiotic drugs can alter gut bacteria
A new study reveals that many marketed non-antibiotic drugs affect the growth of bacteria in the human gut and may contribute to antibiotic resistance.
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Targeting these brain cells may aid weight loss
Scientists may have found a new obesity treatment, after exploring mice's 'feed or flee' responses and finding that they could target the 'control switch.'
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How an existing diabetes drug controls pancreatic cancer
A new study suggests that targeting the RET signaling pathway with metformin might offer a new way to stop the growth and spread of pancreatic cancer.
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New drug could reduce hot flashes 'by 72 percent'
Fresh analysis of trial data finds that a new class of drug rapidly reduces severity and frequency of hot flashes and other symptoms in menopausal women.
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Autism: Anti-cancer drug may improve social behavior
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Antidepressants: Do they really work?
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Could an existing drug halt Parkinson's disease?
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Alzheimer's: 'Triple-action' diabetes drug shows promise as treatment
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Progressive MS: Antidepressant identified as promising treatment
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Diabetes: Synthetic beta cells could lead to skin patch treatment
- Gut-on-chip good predictor of drug side-effects
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Multiple sclerosis: Are we close to a cure?
- 'Accelerated approval' drugs: How well are they studied?
- A new Botulinum Neurotoxin discovered - has the potential to treat a number of medical conditions
- Scientists stumble across new method of making antibiotics
- Study reveals how sex 'blindspot' could misdirect medical research
- Characterising the mouse genome reveals new gene functions and their role in human disease
- Drug costs vary by more than 600% in study of 10 high-income countries
- New antibiotic packs a punch against bacterial resistance
- Making biological drugs with spider silk protein
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Neuroprosthetics: Recovering from injury using the power of your mind
- Experimental technology monitors and maintains drug levels in the body
- Nearly 1 in 3 drugs found to have safety concerns after FDA approval
- Restricting pharmaceutical reps' marketing tactics changes physician prescribing behavior
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Could fungi be a vast, untapped source of new antibiotics?
- Fungi have enormous potential for new antibiotics
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Nanoparticle nasal spray may offer rapid and safe delivery of drugs to the brain
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Komodo dragon blood may lead to new antibiotics
- Homing system delivers drugs to specific neurons
- Scientists discover new category of analgesic drugs that may treat neuropathic pain
- New drug strategy: Target the ribosome to halt protein production
- Caution needed for drugs in development for most common malignant pediatric brain tumor
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Could new 'helper drugs' restore antibiotic susceptibility in superbugs?
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Molecule discovery may lead to new drugs for brain and spinal cord injury
- Scientists show cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play
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Tuberculosis: Soil bacteria compound may yield potent new drug
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WHO prioritize 12 treatment-resistant bacteria for drug development
- Encouraging signs for potential new antibiotic
- New antibiotic from bacteria found on Kenyan ant could help beat MRSA
- Bacterium from coal mine fire could aid drug targeting
- Unearthing immune responses to common drugs
- Scientists aim to reduce animals killed in drug testing
- Scientists step closer to developing new drug in fight against antimicrobial resistance
- Delays in access to new cancer medicines and unjustifiable price rises for old ones disadvantage patients unnecessarily
- Scientists determine a molecular mechanism of action for their anti-cancer therapeutic candidate
- Spanish scientists create a 3D bioprinter to print human skin
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