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Macrophage cell therapy: a new hope for chronic liver disease patients

Drug Target Review

What are the main challenges currently faced in the treatment of chronic liver diseases, and how does Resolution Therapeutics aim to address these challenges? Once a patient develops advanced cirrhosis/end-stage liver disease there are no specific therapies to significantly avoid major decompensations and death in the next few years.

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Accelerating Vaccine Development for the Novel Infectious Disease with Pseudoviruses

PerkinElmer

Time is of the essence when it comes to the development of a vaccine for the novel infectious disease in our current pandemic. As viruses evolve over time, new, agile research applications need to be created to combat these evasive intruders from exploiting host cells.

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Optimizing your ELISA Assays | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

1,2 Anton Schuurs and Bauke van Weemen at the research laboratories of NV Organon, Oss, the Netherlands developed a similar technique which was also published in 1971. The ability of ELISA assays to detect pathogen-specific antigens or antibodies facilitates disease diagnosis, epidemiological studies, and public health interventions.

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Vitamin A and its role in psychiatric and other disorders

Drug Target Review

In other words, a disease state may cause a change in vitamin A levels rather than the vitamin A levels causing a change in disease state. Again, in this circumstance adding the vitamin will not help therapeutically with the disease state. Secondly, it’s difficult to separate causation from reverse causation.

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#WhyIScience Q&A: A research scientist uses mass spectrometry to discover how metabolites affect human health

Broad Institute

That interest in science led her to a weekend science course and a field trip to a plant research laboratory, where she saw scientists hybridizing roses and genetically modifying tomatoes. What do you do as a research scientist at Broad? Different classes of metabolites change in different disease states.

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KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Demonstrated Superior Disease-Free Survival (DFS) Compared With Placebo as Adjuvant Therapy in Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Following Surgery

The Pharma Data

Roy Baynes, senior vice president and head of global clinical development, chief medical officer, Merck Research Laboratories. Most cases of RCC are discovered incidentally during imaging tests for other abdominal diseases. In the U.S. About KEYTRUDA ® (pembrolizumab) Injection, 100 mg.

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Prevention of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Adults 18 Years and Older Caused by 15 Serotypes

The Pharma Data

VAXNEUVANCE Elicited Superior Immune Responses for Serotypes 3, 22F and 33F Compared to PCV13, Which Are Major Causes of Disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is expected to meet in October to discuss and make recommendations on the use of VAXNEUVANCE in adults.

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