Bio Drugs
Billionaire doctor’s Cancer MoonShot 2020 appears more hype than reality
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong vowed [to vanquish cancer] when he launched his audacious “Cancer MoonShot 2020” a year ago...The supremely self-confident billionaire ...
Is there a metabolic on-off switch that could prevent chronic fatigue syndrome?
Evidence is mounting that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is caused by the body swapping to less efficient ways of generating ...
Cholesterol and heart disease risk could be lowered with a single injection
A one-off injection could one day lower your cholesterol levels for the rest of your life. People born with natural ...
China aggressively challenges US lead in precision medicine
The United States has long been the [genomic] industry’s undisputed leader,...but now China is emerging as America’s fiercest competitor.... ...
Why do people accept biotech in medicine but not GMO foods?
[Editor's note: this article summarizes a paper (PAY WALL) published in the journal Annual Review of Resource Economics.] In a paper─ The ...
Health care, energy, food could be transformed by synthetic biology
[Editor's note: Excerpts are taken from an interview with three experts in the field of synthetic biology: David Berry, general partner ...
Two baby girls with leukemia ‘cured’ using gene-editing therapy
Two children treated with gene-edited cells to kill their cancers are both doing well more than a year later. The ...
Leading plant scientist says he’s skipping Science March on Washington: Here’s why
[Editor's note: Kevin Folta, a molecular biologist and chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, offers ...
Brain cancer in children: Unique ‘genetic drivers’ open door to precision medical treatments
In the past 30 years, childhood deaths from cancer have declined by 50 percent overall, but those from pediatric brain ...
Will the next FDA commissioner speed up drug approvals?
[I]t’s gratifying that all of the people whose names have been floated for FDA Commissioner...[understands] that there is fundamental tradeoff ...
Healthy aging promoted by tweaking ‘old blood’
The effects of blood on aging were first discovered in experiments that stitched young and old mice together so that ...
Unintended consequences? Genetic engineering innovation stifled by Toxic Substances Control Act
[L]ast summer Congress issued reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act, a 30 year old law governing how the EPA ...
From 2016 onwards: Gene therapy’s transition from idea to revolutionary medicine
For a few lucky patients, 2016 was the year when gene therapy turned from promises to cures. The technology...made big advances ...
How biotechnology is revolutionizing our lives
Biotechnology is a broad range of technologies that employ living organisms or parts of them to make diverse products. For ...
Cure for gluten intolerance feasible with synthetic enzymes
Research to create a cure for celiac disease that started [at the University of Washington] is now moving to the ...
Vampire therapy: Can blood from the young fight aging?
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has expressed his reluctance to age quite vocally. He has also put his money where ...
Progesterone: ‘Harmful’ hormone or ‘game changer’ for patients with recurrent breast cancer?
An international team of researchers involving the University of Adelaide is tackling the controversy over what some scientists consider to ...
‘Magic’ mushrooms may help relieve depression and anxiety in cancer patients
In one of the largest and most rigorous clinical investigations of psychedelic drugs to date, researchers at Johns Hopkins University ...
Theory behind Alzheimer’s cure remains credible even after drug trial failure
A drug that was seen as a major test of the leading theory behind Alzheimer’s disease has failed in a ...
How a one-in-a-billion genetic disorder may lead to new ways to treat obesity and diabetes
Abby Solomon suffers from a one-in-a-billion genetic syndrome: After just about an hour without food, she begins to starve...[But as ...
Promising Alzheimer’s drug solanezumab fails late-stage trial, hitting dead end
An investigational Alzheimer’s treatment from Eli Lilly failed to slow the progression of the memory-destroying disease in a late-stage trial, ...
Epigenetics around the web: Epigenetics initiative IHEC releases 41 studies in one day; your office has a microbiome
Epigenetics around the web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics. This ...
Alternative medicine, supplement promoters selling pseudo-science ‘genetic-based’ treatments
Alternative practitioners are now forging highly profitable businesses based on patients coming to them with raw genetic data provided by ...
Designer bacteria: Genetically modified pills are a radical new way to treat rare stomach ailments
Designer bacteria are organisms that have been genetically modified to include a new function to make it do something it ...
Why there is no male version of ‘the pill’
The search for an effective male contraceptive drug has experienced a setback. An ethics committee prematurely ended a clinical trial ...
Cuban lung-cancer vaccine reaches United States, starting clinical trials
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [Oct. 26] that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has green-lighted the first ...
Unapproved DNA drug therapy could reduce breast cancer and leukemia tumors
Promising data has revealed a new treatment for breast cancer and leukemia. It works by attacking cancer cells’ ability to repair ...
