Eight Diseases CRISPR Technology Could Cure
CRISPR technology offers the promise to cure any human genetic disease with gene editing; which…
13/04/2021 - 9 minutes
HIV
HIV Drug Approvals Lift Hopes Amid Missed UN Targets
The recent approvals of long-acting HIV injections promise to lighten the load of HIV sufferers…
04/02/2021 - 6 minutes
ViiV Healthcare’s Monthly HIV Injection Gains First Approval in Canada
A monthly two-drug injection developed by the GSK spinoff ViiV Healthcare has been approved for…
23/03/2020 - 2 minutes
Update: Cancer Immunotherapy Biotech Files for Insolvency
Update (06/12/2019): Following the phase III failure of its immunotherapy drug for colorectal cancer in…
06/12/2019 - 2 minutes
ViiV Healthcare Licenses Long-Acting Antibody to Attack Hidden HIV
The UK company ViiV Healthcare will begin a phase IIa trial of an antibody licensed…
22/11/2019 - 2 minutes
Two-Drug HIV Therapy Given Every 2 Months Proves Effective in Phase III
An experimental HIV therapy being developed by GSK spinoff ViiV Healthcare in partnership with Janssen…
22/08/2019 - 2 minutes
HIV Drug Suppresses Virus for Almost Two Years When Other Treatments Fail
A first-in-class HIV treatment developed by the UK company ViiV Healthcare has suppressed the virus…
23/07/2019 - 2 minutes
EU Approves Two-Drug Pill as First-Line Treatment for HIV
The two-drug pill Dovato, developed by the UK company ViiV Healthcare, has been approved as…
03/07/2019 - 2 minutes
This Biotech Reduces Drug Side Effects Using Silica Gel Implants
DelSiTech is a Finnish company developing injectable silica gel implants that release drugs slowly over…
14/06/2019 - 3 minutes
How Vaccines Could One Day Beat HIV
Vaccines are humanity’s biggest achievement against infectious diseases. But could they defeat HIV, a particularly…
12/06/2019 - 5 minutes
‘CRISPR Babies’ Might Be at Risk of Dying Younger
Update (01/10/2019): The scientists behind the study have declared that the results were based on…
03/06/2019 - 3 minutes
Update: Two-Drug HIV Treatment Effective for up to Three Years
Update (04/04/2019): ViiV Healthcare's two-drug HIV treatment, Juluca, has successfully suppressed the HIV virus for…
04/04/2019 - 3 minutes
