29.06.2016
- The US federal government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) has declined a petition from a public interest group to lower the price of a drug for advanced prostate cancer...
29.08.2014
- An experimental Ebola vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline is being fast-tracked into clinical trials with human patients, and the company plans to immediately begin building a stockpile...
13.04.2013
- Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China - typically the first step in making a flu vaccine - government-backed...
20.02.2013
- The National Institutes of Health Center for Regenerative Medicine (NIH CRM) has awarded Lonza Walkersville a contract to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for...
01.02.2013
- After nearly 100 years, researchers could be on the verge of finding a vaccine that would eradicate tuberculosis infections, a scourge that kills 1.4 million people a year. Global...
19.01.2013
- Fighting the flu may soon get easier. As early as next year, more modern and more effective vaccines will hit the market, thanks to investments by the U.S. government and...
04.09.2012
- Israeli biotechnology firm Atox Bio, developing a drug it hopes can treat severe infections such as those caused by flesh-eating bacteria and deadly viruses, expects to ask...
