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Visterra said today it has won a five-year, up-to-$204.5 million contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) toward the development of the company’s Phase IIa lead product …
Read guide →Bayer and X-Chem Pharmaceuticals have expanded a global drug discovery collaboration launched in 2012 across multiple therapeutic areas and target classes. The expanded partnership could generate up to $528 mi…
Read guide →Amgen is teaming up with Elasmogen and Feldan Therapeutics to develop a platform for delivering drug candidates to two of Amgen’s intracellular targets. The collaboration will combine Feldan’s peptide-based Sh…
Read guide →A team of investigators led by scientists at Penn State University has found an interesting new way to create proteins that can slip through HIV’s protective coating—providing a potential path toward understan…
Read guide →A team led by Peter McPherson, PhD, at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) published a study (“Implementation of an antibody characterization procedure and application to the major ALS…
Read guide →Manufacturing agreement for recombinant Bet v 1 will help take Stallergene’s Oralair into Phase III trials. Stallergenes and CMC Biopharmaceuticals inked an agreement for development and supply of recombinant …
Read guide →Diamyd Medical will get $45 million up front and up to $580 million in milestones, while Metabolex agreement could total $330 million. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals (OMJPI) is paying Swedish firm Diamyd…
Read guide →Pfizer has licensed access to KineMed’s platform technology to discover, develop, and potentially commercialize new kinetic biomarkers in multiple therapy areas, KineMed said today. The value of the collaborat…
Read guide →Start of Phase I trials with topical IL-1 antagonist against dry eye syndrome is expected this year. Eleven Biotherapeutics secured $20 million from new and existing investors in an extension to its Series A f…
Read guide →Researchers say they have identified a protein known as sulfatase-2 that plays a critical role in the damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s own …
Read guide →Proper cellular function needs accurate mechanisms of transporting newly synthesized proteins to their respective cellular niches. In a collaborative study, scientists have discovered how newborn proteins are …
Read guide →Using a combination of experiments and mathematical modeling, a research team from the University of Tokyo and their international collaborators reports that they have learned more about the role morphogens pl…
Read guide →Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have synthesized a new molecule that kills a broad spectrum of hard-to-treat cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer, by exploiting a weakness in cells…
Read guide →Molecular machines known as ATPases are one of the cell’s most important workhorses. Through stepwise contortions, each move fueled by the combustion of an ATP molecule, these enzymatic motors drive vast vital…
Read guide →Fake or adulterated medicines are a major healthcare security problem, but the huge growth in online pharmacies, coupled with supply chain issues, has made it easier for counterfeiters to profit from their act…
Read guide →Kristi Montooth, an associate professor in the University of Nebraska School of Biological Sciences, displays a bottle containing fruit flies that are the subject of her research. She is a co-author of a new s…
Read guide →X-ray crystal structure of the catalytic domain of the MCR-1 protein. [Dr. Phil Hinchliffe/University of Bristol] Understanding how microbes acquire resistance genes and the underlying biochemical mechanisms t…
Read guide →Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) will extend for a year its nearly 3-year-old collaboration with Five Prime Therapeutics to discover, develop, and commercialize immuno-oncology therapies directed toward targets in t…
Read guide →A team from Japan and the U.S. says it has identified the design principles for creating large “ideal” proteins from scratch, paving the way for the design of proteins with new biochemical functions. Their stu…
Read guide →The past few years have seen several flashy demonstrations of how artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may transform biomedical research, particularly with respect to drug discovery. This past November, for…
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