Shimmer’s Verisense Continuous Monitoring Platform to Study Breast Cancer-related Fatigue

World |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Oct, 2019

Shimmer Research, a global leader in wearable technology for research applications, on 10 Oct 2019, announced that a team of researchers from Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) and ...Read more

Roche reports strong sales growth in 2019

World |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2019

Commenting on the Group’s results, Roche CEO Severin Schwan said: “The uptake of our newly introduced medicines is very strong. We are successfully entering new disease areas an...Read more

BioIVT Acquires PPA Research Group enhancing its R&D capabilities

World |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2019

BioIVT, a leading provider of research models and services for drug and diagnostic development, on 16 Oct 2019, announced that it has acquired PPA Research Group, Inc., a human hematologic ...Read more

Certara Celebrates 20th Anniversary of the Simcyp Simulator Consortium

World |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2019

Certara®, the global model-informed drug development and decision support leader, today announced that it is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Simcyp® Consortium.  ...Read more

ImaginAb inks pact with three global pharma companies

World |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Oct, 2019

ImaginAb, Inc., a leading clinical-stage immuno-oncology imaging company has announced the signing of a multi-party collaboration agreement with AstraZeneca, Pfizer Inc. and Takeda Pharmace...Read more

PerkinElmer unveils innovative genetic testing kit

World |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Oct, 2019

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has introduced its PG-Seq™ Rapid Non-Invasive Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A)&...Read more

Abbott, Omada Health offer integrated solution for diabetes treatment

World |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Oct, 2019

Abbott and Omada Health have announced that they are partnering to integrate Abbott's revolutionary FreeStyle Libre system, a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, with Omada Heal...Read more

Lilly's Migraine drug receives FDA approval

World |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2019

Eli Lilly and Company  has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved REYVOW™ (lasmiditan) an oral medication for the acute treatment of mi...Read more

NIH strategic research plan addresses tickborne diseases threat

World |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2019

The incidence of reported cases of tickborne diseases in the United States has significantly increased in recent years. It is expected to continue to grow as tick species expand their geogr...Read more

Merck acquires FloDesign Sonics

World |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Oct, 2019

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has acquired FloDesign Sonics, of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, USA, developer of a unique acoustic cell processing platform for the indust...Read more

Bayer launches LifeHub UK focused on AI for drug discovery

World |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Oct, 2019

Bayer has launched LifeHub UK to accelerate and optimize disease detection and data-driven drug discovery by developing artificial-intelligence-enabled imaging solutions. The new hub is the...Read more

Novo Nordisk, bluebird bio plan next-gen in vivo genome editing

World |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Oct, 2019

US headquartered bluebird bio, Inc. and Denmark based Novo Nordisk have announced that they have entered into a three-year research collaboration to jointly develop next-generation in vivo ...Read more

Noble Prize in Medicine 2019 for US, UK scientists

World |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Oct, 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2019 has been jointly awarded to three winners, William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza, for their work in discovering h...Read more

Study: High lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity

World |  Analysis | 0 Comment | 04 Oct, 2019

Children born to women who have high blood levels of lead are more likely be overweight or obese, compared to those whose mothers have low levels of lead in their blood, according to a stud...Read more

Scientists in UK identify cause of antibiotic resistance

World |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Oct, 2019

Scientists have confirmed for the first time that bacteria can change form to avoid being detected by antibiotics in the human body. Studying samples from elderly patients with recurring u...Read more

Novartis and Microsoft to transform medicine with AI

World |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Oct, 2019

Novartis has announced an important step in reimagining medicine by founding the Novartis AI innovation lab and by selecting Microsoft as its strategic AI and data-science partner for this ...Read more

AstraZeneca divests rights for Losec to Cheplapharm

World |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Oct, 2019

AstraZeneca, a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company has agreed to sell the global commercial rights, excluding China, Japan, the US and Mexico, for Losec (omeprazole) and...Read more

WHO launches app to improve elderly care

World |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Oct, 2019

On the International Day of Older Persons – 1 October – the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched  a package of tools, including a digital application to h...Read more