Cancer Research UK Offers New Hope To Cancer Patients
... showing enough commercial promise following their preclinical studies. By this they plan to develop new treatments from anti-cancer drugs that have been shelved by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Under the scheme, companies will hand over molecules that once showed promise, but were never develope...'Bubble Boy' Gene Therapy Causes Cancer?
...to affect other genes, and that requires extensive preclinical work and a much more careful analysis,' said lead researcher Professor Inder Verma. The gene therapy team at Great Ormond Street Hospital said that the study was not helpful, 'This is a very preliminary study published in an incomplete form. The re...Xenon Could Limit Nerve Damage After Stroke
...logy, the reserachers detail the fact that earlier preclinical studies had shown that xenon was a neuroprotectant. This discovery was made while Professor Nick Franks, a biophysicist from Imperial College London was working on possible molecular targets of different anesthetics. We knew from our earlier studie...Panic disorder may coexist with epilepsy
...ring scientific evidence, at both the clinical and preclinical levels, to support the hypothesis presented in this paper. The authors found several major sets of information to support and reinforce their hypothesis that panic attacks occurring with the clinical signs characterizing the aura are to be interpret...Historic trial for tuberculosis launched together by leading drug companies
...ection faster than the existing treatment. In vivo preclinical studies have already shown that the drug significantly reduces treatment time by two months. If the trials are successful, the partnership aims to register moxifloxacin for a TB indication and is committed to making it affordable and accessible in de...New Vaccine Targeted At Effective Treatment Against Tuberculosis
...gainst pulmonary tuberculosis has been achieved in preclinical studies. Importantly, the new vaccine also protects against a special form of tuberculosis that are multi-drug resistant and more aggressive. It has been assumed that the new form of the organism has emerged in response to drug treatment and vaccin...Common Cold Found to Fight Cancer Cells
...eaving normal cells intact.” Researchers say, in preclinical tests, the virus effectively attacked cancerous tumors and did not harm normal tissue. However researchers have been studying the common cold virus for the last 30 years and research is still on to test the virus in clinical trials.The potential is h...Common Cold Found to Fight Cancer
...leaving normal cells intact.” Researchers say, in preclinical tests, the virus effectively attacked cancerous tumors and did not harm normal tissue. However researchers have been studying the common cold virus for the last 30 years and research is still on to test the virus in clinical trials.The potential is h...Vitamins Harming, not Helping, the Heart
...ing the arteries free of dangerous plaque. Several preclinical studies show supplementing //the diet with these vitamins could inhibit plaque build-up in people who have yet to develop any vascular problems. Numerous large studies ensued hoping to confirm that finding. Investigators decided to review the results......n the pipeline six clinical stage products and two preclinical stage products, in oncology and one product alread... endocrinology. There are also two products in the preclinical stage and one in the clinical stage, in endocrinology. AEterna's Chairman and CEO, Dr. Eric Dupont,......ng higher hormone levels in these women were not a preclinical finding. In each of the nine cohorts included in the analysis, women who donated blood were followed for an average of 2 to 10years. During that time 763 women developed breast cancer. Hormones in their blood were compared with the hormones of 1,56...