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Genetics to Test Ebola Vaccine
An Iowa drug developer is preparing to test a possible Ebola vaccine in humans, as scientists race to develop ways to prevent or fight a virus that has killed more than 1,000 people in a West African outbreak. NewLink Genetics is...
Debate Continues Over Experimental Ebola Drugs
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, Guinea soldiers stand around a rope across the road that separates Guinea and Sierra Leone, and works as a makeshift border control checkpoint at Gbalamuya-Pamelap, Guinea. As Guinea closed its border with...
Answers about an Unproven Drug for Ebola
Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization,WHO, informs the media following a panel of medical analysts to explore the ethics of experimental treatment in the Ebola outbreak, at the headquarters of the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Aug....
Activista contra el SIDA lucha por la FDA
In this July 22, 2014 photo, AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves walks outside Grand Central Terminal during a photo session, in New York. In the early 1990s, Gonsalves traveled to Washington to confront, provoke and challenge officials at the Food and Drug...
Ebola Outbreak an International Public Health Emergency Declared by WHO
Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, China’s Margaret Chan and Assistant Director General for Health Security Keiji Fukuda of the US, right, share a word during a press conference after an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the WHO...
British-US Investigator Couple Jailed in China
A Briton and an American were sentenced to prison on Friday on charges of illegally trading in the personal details of Chinese citizens after they testified they bought such information to help companies in fraud prevention. Peter Humphrey and Yingzeng Yu,...
Breath Reveals Hidden Image in Anti-Counterfeit Labels
An outline of Marilyn Monroe’s iconic face appeared on the clear, plastic film when a researcher fogs it with her breath. Terry Shyu, a doctoral student in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, was demonstrating a new high-tech label for...
Cure to Lung Cancer May Depend on Your DNA
The Northside Hospital Cancer Institute announced its participation in a unique National Cancer Institute clinical collaboration to treat lung cancer based on a person’s genetic makeup. The Northside Hospital Cancer Institute is the first to offer this clinical trial, referred to...
Ebola Vaccine Antibodies Are Made in Tobacco Plants
Charlie Arntzen has worked tirelessly on new platforms to deliver drugs. He has focused on plant-based drug delivery systems, testing a wide range of plants as possible “manufacturing platforms” for therapeutics for the developing world. Now Arntzen, an Arizona State University...
Paradigm Kicks Off Genomic Profiling for Cancer Registry
Paradigm has announced they have initiated genomic testing for Pharmatech’s AccessPPM Cancer Registry. Pharmatech’s AccessPPM is a cancer registry designed to collect EMR data and genomic information to help best match cancer patients with targeted clinical trials. The AccessPPM program and...
Multiple Strains for Clinical Development to be tested with Cannabis Science
Cannabis Science Inc. (OTC-QB: CBIS), a U.S. Company specializing in cannabis formulation-based drug development and related consulting, announced that it has commenced production of multiple strains of cannabis and European Union certified hemp varieties to initiate scientific research to select the...
New Mouse Model May Open Autism Treatment Avenues
The hallmark of an excellent researcher is an open mind. That flexibility and openness is what led Nina Schor, the William H. Eilinger Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester, to follow a hunch about a brain receptor– resulting in...