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News and Trends 2 Sep 2016

Roche rockets into Checkpoint Inhibitor space with Phase III Lung Cancer Success

Tecentriq could be Roche’s ticket to the top of immuno-oncology. The checkpoint inhibitor just reached its co-primary endpoints in Phase III trials for non-small cell lung cancer and could bring the company €4.5B. Roche’s Tecentriq (atezolizumab) has demonstrated that it is a force to be reckoned with by clearing Phase III clinical trials for non-small cell […]

September 2, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 1 Sep 2016

Infographic: How Cancer Starts & How It Chooses Organs

Here’s a neat infographic from Cancer Research UK summarizing a new Cell report from UK researchers that describes how conditions build to trigger cancer. This information would help to explain the greater vulnerability of certain organs to tumors compared to others. The team, headed by Richard James Gilbertson, demonstrated that while cells may start with equal carcinogenic risk, tumor […]

September 1, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 31 Aug 2016

No Tumour, No Cancer Cure: New Epigenetic Test can pinpoint Elusive Ones

Not all tumours are detectable, which makes them particularly deadly. Researchers at the University of Barcelona have developed an epigenetic test to find them, the first of its kind to diagnose tumour sources. Cancer starts with a tumour, which grows and eventually sheds cells. These cells lodge in other tissues in the body and grow […]

August 31, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 30 Aug 2016

Top 10 Best-selling Biologicals of 2015

Biological drugs have revolutionised disease treatment and their developers have made a killing along the way. We take a look at the top selling biologicals of 2015 – and if they are on their way in or out. Since the beginning of modern biotechnology, with Genentech’s recombinant DNA breakthrough, biologicals have created alternative and more specific treatments for […]

August 30, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 29 Aug 2016

Maybe you don’t need Chemo: NEJM hails MammaPrint as Diagnostic Tool

About 46% of women with breast cancer may not need chemotherapy. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes a new assay from Agendia, MammaPrint, could save them the pain of this toxic treatment. Personalizing medicine is a major focus in the development of ever more precise treatments, and it is particularly relevant […]

August 29, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 26 Aug 2016

US Money Magnet get hands on UK Bispecific Antibodies for Neurodegenerative Disease

F-star’s “plug-and-play” technology can turn any existing antibody into a full-size bispecific antibody. Denali has recognized its potential use for drug delivery to the CNS and inked a deal with the UK-based company for almost €1B. Denali (US) and F-Star (UK) have struck a deal to develop F-star’s Modular Antibody Technology™ for the generation of […]

August 26, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 26 Aug 2016

UCL & Cell Medica start a TCR Collaboration towards a Cancer Cure

Bridging the divide between academia and industry, Cell Medica and UCL are teaming up on TCR engineering in the effort to find a cancer cure. Not many details were disclosed, but cancer now has a new force to reckon with. For the most part, scientists thrive on competition, and what better fuel is there than […]

August 26, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 25 Aug 2016

Daratumumab could Knock Multiple Myeloma Down and Out: EMA will Judge

Multiple Myeloma is almost a death sentence: you probably won’t make it through five more years, and even if current treatments send it to remission, your chances of relapse are high. Janssen’s new drug, Darzalex (daratumumab), has shown promise to knock MM down and out for good in Phase III trails, and it now awaits […]

August 25, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 22 Aug 2016

UPDATE: Sanofi defeated in the Race to acquire Medivation

Even more Big Pharma join the fight to acquire the extremely desirable Medivation, a Biotech developing cancer treatments. Now MSD is joining the bandwagon. Things don’t look so good for Sanofi, which already got rebuffed twice. UPDATE (article originally published on 18/8/2016): Pfizer has struck a deal to acquire Medivation for $14Bn (€12.4Bn), according to the Financial Times. This was […]

August 22, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 22 Aug 2016

Now we can watch DNA Repair itself!

After 2015’s Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded for advancements in our understanding of DNA repair, a recent Nature report characterises the mechanism in molecular detail. The implications for cancer research are vast. Researchers in Paris, France, and Bristol, England, have leveraged recent advances in microscopy and fluorescent imaging to characterise the entire process of DNA […]

August 22, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 17 Aug 2016

Bavarian Nordic gets hold of Opdivo for new Combination Phase II trial

Just after a major clinical failure, BMS is now shipping Opdivo to Bavarian Nordic for a Phase II trial. Sponsored by Bavarian Nordic, the planned trial will evaluate the combination of a cancer vaccine and the anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor. Checkpoint blocking has generated a lot of excitement in cancer treatments as part of the immuno-oncology […]

August 17, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 16 Aug 2016

How did Cancer Cell Therapy become reality?

Using the body’s own tools to eradicate cancers has been a dream of Medicine for quite some time. How did the field of immuno-oncology evolve into today’s Biotech hype? The near-miraculous results of immuno-oncology cell therapies have dominated news about cancer breakthroughs. Indeed, CAR-T is a game-changer and are at the forefront of the ways Biotech […]

August 16, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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