News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 10, 2016
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Wyss Institute at Harvard
A novel microfluidic device can be used to monitor thrombus formation and platelet function in pat...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 10, 2016
Results of a large study suggest most patients taking warfarin long-term do not maintain stable international normalized ratio (INR) values.
Resear...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 9, 2016
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Researchers say they have uncovered hydroxyurea’s main mechanism of action in sickle cell disease (SCD).
The drug’s mechani...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 9, 2016
David Segal, and Yuan Yao
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A new class of inhibitors may be effective in treating a majority of pat...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 9, 2016
Health Canada has approved ixazomib (Ninlaro) for use in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone to treat adults with multiple myeloma (MM) wh...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 9, 2016
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Muhammad Mahdi Karim
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing a company to proceed with a field trial of geneticall...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 8, 2016
Preclinical research suggests a novel antibody can inhibit the migration of lymphoma cells and stop the cells from proliferating.
“Since they canno...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 8, 2016
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 7, 2016
BPX-501 consists of genetically modified donor T cells incorporating the CaspaCIDe safety switch, which is designed to eliminate the T cells in the ev...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 6, 2016
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Three types of investigational vaccines can protect monkeys from Zika virus infection, according to research published in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 5, 2016
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Researchers have reported “favorable” long-term results from a pair of phase 1 trials in which they used the non-viral Sleeping Beau...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 5, 2016
A study published in PLOS Pathogens suggests the plant-based part of Anopheles mosquitoes’ diet affects malaria transmission by influencing the ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 5, 2016
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Research has shown that daratumumab, a monoclonal antibody approved to treat multiple myeloma, interferes with routine compatib...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 5, 2016
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Scientists have identified previously undiscovered proteins related to autophagy and created a database containing them.
The...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 4, 2016
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Manipulating metabolic events might reinvigorate exhausted T cells and complement the effects of checkpoint inhibitors in the tr...
