Pipeline

AEterna's acquisition of Zentaris being followed up with its new product pipeline and clinical development strategy

AEterna Laboratories Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutic treatments in oncology and endocrinology recently acquired the new German based biopharmaceutical company, Zentaris AG. Following this acquisition// the new entity has in the pipeline six clinical stage products and two preclinical stage products, in oncology and one product already appr...

$30 M Aid in the pipeline by WB for bird flu in Turkey

Taking into consideration the epidemic that is bird flu which is taking the world by storm WB might grant $30 M in aid to Turkey.// This follows a high level and numerous evaluations by the World Bank. But all this bore fruit and according to latest reports World Bank (WB) concluded Turkey might deserve $30 million in bird flu aid. As said by Jurgen Voegele, Bank's East...

Battery power from viruses in the pipeline

MIT scientists have developed a technology that uses the construction abilities of tiny viruses to build "nanowire" structures which function as in very thin lithium-ion batteries.// MIT Professors Angela Belcher, Paula Hammond and Yet-Ming Chiang have by simply manipulating a few genes within common laboratory virus strains were able to make the viruses grow and self-assemble into a...

Effective Vaccine for Leishmaniasis in the Pipeline

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that kills about 60,000 people annually. It spreads by the bite of infected female sand flies. // Visceral leishmaniasis infects about 500,000 people annually mainly in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and Brazil. The most common drugs to treat leishmaniasis have serious side effects and are expensive. Symptoms of visceral leishmaniasis include fever, w...

Home Test Kit for AIDS in the Pipeline

OraQuick is a home based test kit to detect AIDS. It is waiting for the FDA to give it an approval to be sold in the market. // The Nasdaq-listed company already sells the kit to hospitals and public health clinics. OraSure's chief executive, Doug Michels, thinks that this product would become an important weapon to fight against HIV. It is almost 25 years since the first AIDS diagnosis w...

Sensing Devices to Measure Sleep In the Pipeline

According to the project 'sensation' a multipurpose sensing platform is being developed to take sleep research to new heights. This involves 46 partners from 20 different countries. //The device that is used to measure sleep consists of 17 micro sensors and two nano sensors, connected through a local area network. The sensors are placed in various areas such as mattress, pillow, textiles,...

Blood Fluke Vaccine in the Pipeline

Blood flukes are parasitic worms which kill about hundreds and thousands of people across the world. Hence the Australian scientists have developed// a vaccine for the parasitic worms. They have the capacity to penetrate human skin and cause bladder cancer, renal failure, liver fibrosis and even death. So far it has infected about 200 million people worldwide. The vaccine stimulates the i...

Chlamydial Vaccine for Humans in the Pipeline

Researchers in the Newcastle University at New South Wales central coast are in the process of developing a vaccine against chlamydia and they have received financial// support from the vaccine company in the US. As of now they have developed techniques to immunise animals against the infection. As chlamydial infection rates are on the rise researchers are working very hard f...

New Treatment Option in the Pipeline for Those Suffering From Lung Cancers

According to the medical physicist Cihat Ozhasoglu, Ph.D. of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center a highly intense beam of radiation that is delivered// by a robotic arm is very effective in the complete removal of lung tumors in some patients. Patients with lung tumors are the worst affected as the tumors migrate to different areas which breathing. But this new discovery has ins...

Treatment of Endometriosis in the Pipeline

Research leader Jacques Donnez, head of the department of gynecology at the Catholic University of Louvain, said that his team of scientists is working on the disease// endometriosis to identify its cause and preventive measure. The disease affects women and results in the growth of the endometrial tissue outside the uterus in the pelvic region. The characteristics symptoms are bleeding...

Gene Therapy Technique for Inherited Heart Problems in The Pipeline

According to the researchers at the University of Florida, Gainesville, mice based experiments were found to be successful in delivering genes to treat hereditary diseases of the heart.// This new technique was found to be successful in mice affected with muscular dystrophy that damages the heart. The findings, published July 27 in the online edition of Circulation Research, pave the w...

Miracle Cancer Drug in the Pipeline

Cure for cancer has been on the wish-list of many scientists and sufferers the world over. Now, a world of promise awaits the brain–child of an //Australian scientist, whose perseverance on the capacity of a drug to thwart the growth of cancer cells, seems to have paid off. Professor Chris Parish , who has been working on his ‘baby’ for the past 20 years, may just do himself and the...

A Novel Vaccine to Combat Bird Flu in the Pipeline

The novel vaccine that is being formulated by scientists, promises protection against all strains of flu virus. It is expected to be efficient to fight 24 strains// of influenza A virus, that is the cause of outbreaks of both bird flu and winter flu. Two injections of this vaccine is expected to bestow life long immunity. The only other current option is a vaccine that has to be repeat...