Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
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Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) continue to evolve as one of the most promising approaches in targeted cancer therapy, yet the fundamental…
Promatix Biosciences presents preclinical data on PBS293-MMAE, a first-in-class bispecific ADC targeting EGFR and EphA2 in colorectal cancer.
Owkin, the first end-to-end AI-biotech that uses cutting-edge causal AI to unlock precision drug discovery, development and diagnostics, and AstraZeneca, have teamed up to develop an AI-powered tool to pre-screen for gBRCA mutations (gBRCAm) in breast cancer directly from digitised pathology slides.
Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators focused on the ‘cancer protection’ gene RAD51C, known to increase ovarian cancer risk six-fold and risk of aggressive subtypes of breast cancer four-fold. They found over 3,000 harmful genetic changes that could potentially disrupt its function and increase cancer risk. These findings were confirmed by analysing data from large-scale health databases.
SOPHiA genetics with with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), a top cancer treatment and research institution, and AstraZeneca have entered a collaboration to work on providing inclusive access to comprehensive cancer testing worldwide.
Datopotamab deruxtecan demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful progression-free survival benefit in patients with HR-positive, HER2-low or negative breast cancer in TROPION-Breast01 Phase III trial.
Mainz Biomed has reported half year results, in which the main point was expanding international commercialization for its colorectal cancer detenction test, ColoAlert, which in turn has seen revenues for the first six months of 2023 at $499 049, representing an increase of 108% compared to the first half of 2022.
BioNTech and US based OncoC4 today announced that the first patient with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been treated in a pivotal Phase 3 trial evaluating the companies’ next-generation anti-CTLA-4 antibody candidate BNT316/ONC-392 (gotistobart). The trial is part of BioNTech’s strategy to initiate multiple pivotal trials in 2023 and 2024, the companies said in a press release Thursday.