Biotech stocks have been extremely popular among investors in 2020. Over the past year, the iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology ETF (NASDAQ:IBB), an industry indicator, has returned over 33%, compared to the S&P 500's 14% return during the same period. It's clear that a lot of eyes are on producers of testing supplies, drugs, and vaccines for the coronavirus.
Company Announcement Copenhagen, Denmark; January 15, 2021 Genmab A/S (Nasdaq: GMAB) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S.
INTRODUCTION The expansion of the cerebral cortex during primate evolution is assumed to be associated with the acquisition of higher intelligence especially in the human species (1, 2). This process involves increased proliferative ability of cortical neural progenitors (NPs), including the ventricular radial glial cells (vRGs), the intermediate progenitors, and basal or outer RGs (bRGs or oRGs) (3, 4), which give rise to neurons or glia cells directly or indirectly.
A new type of stem cell that is, a cell with regenerative abilities could be closer on the horizon, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows. The stem cells (called induced multipotent stem cells, or iMS) can be made from easily accessible human cells in this case, fat and reprogrammed to act as stem cells. The results of the animal study, which created human stem cells and tested their effectiveness in mice, werepublished online in Science Advances today and while the results are encouraging, more research and tests are needed before any potential translation to human therapies.
Stem cell assay refers to the procedure of measuring the potency of antineoplastic drugs, on the basis of their capability of retarding the growth of human tumor cells. The assay consists of qualitative or quantitative analysis or testing of affected tissues and tumors, wherein their toxicity, impurity, and other aspects are studied
Full TitleCord Blood Transplantation in Children and Young Adults with Hematologic Malignancies and Non-Malignant DisordersPurpose The transplantation of stem cells from umbilical cord blood is a treatment for some blood cancers and non-cancerous blood or metabolic disorders.
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Like new: Neurons lacking ASH1L (bottom left) come to resemble control neurons (top left) after treatment with an experimental drug (top and bottom right). Mutations in the autism-linked gene ASH1L change how neurons grow and develop, according to two unpublished studies presented virtually this week at the 2021 Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome. (Links to abstracts may work only for registered conference attendees.) ASH1L helps regulate chromatin, the mass of DNA and proteins in the nucleus of a cell.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cytovia Therapeutics, an emerging biopharmaceutical company focusing on Natural Killer cells in cancer, announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to apply its gene-edited iPSC-derived NK cell technology to develop GPC3 CAR NK cell therapeutics. Dr Mitchell Ho, PhD, Director of the Antibody Engineering Program and Deputy Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the NCI Center for Cancer Research has developed novel antibodies and chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) binding to glypican-3 (GPC3) on liver cancer cells.
If you've ever wondered why we get goosebumps, you're in good company -- so did Charles Darwin, who mused about them in his writings on evolution. Goosebumps might protect animals with thick fur from the cold, but we humans don't seem to benefit from the reaction much -- so why has it been preserved during evolution all this time? In a new study, Harvard University scientists have discovered the reason: the cell types that cause goosebumps are also important for regulating the stem cells that regenerate the hair follicle and hair.
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