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Pneumonia can reveal undiagnosed blood cancer

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Severe pneumococcal disease requiring hospitalisation, most commonly pneumonia, can be a sign of previously undiagnosed blood cancer and immunodeficiency...

Base to Base biotech podcast 78: A new treatment for erectile dysfunction, and nanotechnology for knee osteoarthritis

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This week, we chat with Lucas Decuypere, CEO and president of Allegro, about treatment of knee osteoarthritis with a...

Kovina Therapeutics awarded $2.3m grant for first-in-class HPV cancer therapy

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Kovina Therapeutics Inc., a biotech company developing first-in-class small molecule therapeutics targeting the human papillomavirus (HPV) E6 oncoprotein, has...

IL-23 inhibitor shows improvement in spinal pain and stiffness in axial psoriatic arthritis study

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Johnson & Johnson has announced that TREMFYA (guselkumab) met the primary and major secondary endpoints demonstrating both improvement in...

Canada looks to biotech as a national priority

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BIOTECanada concluded BIONATION 2026 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, convening senior biotech and life sciences leaders with...

Starving cancer’s fuel source could boost treatment effectiveness

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Targeting how cancer cells adapt and survive in nutrient-deprived environments could slow tumour growth and make existing treatments more...

SOTIO looks to potential best-in-class ADC for sarcoma

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SOTIO Biotech has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted SOT106 Orphan Drug Designation for the...

Hidden protein helps cells divide correctly

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A previously unknown protein, hidden in RNA thought not to encode proteins, helps cells divide correctly. The RNA molecule...

Base to Base biotech podcast 77: Transferring mammal traits to humans, and a new way to kill cancer?

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This week, we chat with Evan Appleton, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Intertwined, a company focused on understanding...

New possibilities for Alzheimer’s treatment by restoring brain immune balance

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Minah Suh of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, in collaboration with the biotechnology company IMNEWRUN and...

Insilico launches AI-driven longevity vaccines research

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Insilico Medicine has launched Longevity Vaccines, a research initiative developing treatments that direct a patient’s own immune cells to...

KAIST finds a way to redirect cell state with single stimulus

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A Korean research team has developed a general-purpose computational framework that identifies the key targets needed to steer a...

Sling Therapeutics raises $123m for phase 3 thyroid eye disease study

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Sling Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing the first and only late-stage oral small-molecule therapy for thyroid eye...

Cracking the genetic code of psoriasis

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A research team has revealed the specific mechanisms behind the onset of psoriasis by combining large-scale genomic data from...

FDA approves drug for SMA

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Cure SMA, a nonprofit organisation supporting those impacted by spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has reacted positively to the news...

Big Picture Bio founded to work on promising cancer combination therapies

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Big Picture Bio Ltd., has been founded to identify, design and optimise promising cancer combination therapies, using a generative...

Earlier asthma diagnosis could bring relief

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Blowing into a tube to diagnose asthma is not easy for babies or toddlers. Babies and young children suspected of...

Stem cells can contribute to new treatments for heart attacks and Parkinson’s

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Cells from nine “super donors” are being collected in Oslo. The aim is for these to be used to...

FDA okays IND application for familial adenomatous polyposis drug

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Sapience Therapeutics, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company an Investigational...

NTDpedia launched to fight neglected tropical diseases

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The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has launched NTDpedia: Your Guide to Neglected Tropical Diseases. Designed as an accessible,...

Base to Base biotech podcast 76: Early disease detection and beating CNS cancers

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This week, we have conversations with Marc Hedrick, CEO of Cerenome, about a combined approach to tackling central nervous...