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FDA Approves Updated Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) for Treatment.

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10), as determined by an FDA-approved test, or in patients who were not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 status. This indication was approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and duration of response.

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FDA Action Alert: Blueprint, Liquidia, Revance, Rhythm and Merck

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The FDA approved it under the brand name Gavreto on September 4. There is a real need to advance new treatment options for triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease,” said Roy Baynes, senior vice president and head of global clinical development, chief medical officer, Merck Research Laboratories, in July 2020.

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Retevmo® (selpercatinib) in Advanced RET Fusion-Positive Gastrointestinal and Other Cancers at 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting

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FDA-approved oral prescription medicine, 120 mg or 160 mg dependent on weight (<50 kg or ?50 i Continued approval may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials. Retevmo may affect both tumor cells and healthy cells, which can result in side effects. Retevmo is an U.S.

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New Data Show Treatment with Lilly’s Neutralizing Antibodies Bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) and Etesevimab (LY-CoV016) Together Reduced Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Death by 70 Percent

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Lilly’s chief scientific officer and president of Lilly Research Laboratories. Bamlanivimab FDA Approval History. “The death toll from COVID-19 continues to rise around the world and hospitalizations, particularly in the U.S., have reached record highs. Securities and Exchange Commission. Posted: January 2021.

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Codon Digest: Injected Gene Editors

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A giant dataset about the rat brain, and how neurons connect to each other, was collected and pooled together from 20 different research laboratories. Nature Neuroscience. Read You love to see it! Whole-brain mapping of effective connectivity by fMRI with cortex-wide patterned optogenetics. Press release. Press release.

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The Promise of Gas Vesicles

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By 2016, Shapiro had set up a research laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and began to devote his attention entirely to gas vesicles. At least six types of CAR-T cells have already passed through clinical trials and garnered FDA approval.

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FDA Approves Expanded Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in Locally Advanced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC)

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KEYTRUDA has shown meaningful efficacy in patients with locally advanced or recurrent or metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma that cannot be cured by surgery or radiation,” said Dr. Vicki Goodman, vice president, clinical research, Merck Research Laboratories. 1) as determined by an FDA-approved test.