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Merck buys Swiss biotech with promising cancer drug
2014-12-18 19:05:10| Biotech - Topix.net
Drugmaker Merck says it's bought a Swiss biotech company developing cancer drugs as part of its strategy to be a top player in cancer, one of the hottest pharmaceutical research areas. Merck & Co., based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, will pay up to $110 million upfront to OncoEthix.
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Merck Buys Swiss Biotech With Promising Cancer Drug
2014-12-18 19:05:09| Biotech - Topix.net
Drugmaker Merck says it's bought a Swiss biotech company developing cancer drugs as part of its strategy to be a top player in cancer, one of the hottest pharmaceutical research areas. Merck & Co., based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, will pay up to $110 million upfront to OncoEthix.
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Microwave Imaging System Could Improve Breast Cancer Screening
2014-12-18 17:08:33| rfglobalnet Home Page
As a possible complement to routine mammography, a new microwave imaging system may be able to detect whether a lump is benign or malignant. The system provides 3D reconstructions of tissue, which are obtained without compressing the breast.
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Investigational drug increases PFS in patients with advanced breast cancer
2014-12-17 14:34:20| Biotech - Topix.net
In a groundbreaking study that offers new hope for women with advanced breast cancer, researchers from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have published final clinical trial results that showed the amount of time patients were on treatment without their cancer worsening was effectively doubled in women with advanced breast cancer who took the experimental drug palbociclib. An investigational drug discovered and being developed by Pfizer Inc., palbociclib targets a key family of proteins responsible for cell growth by preventing them from dividing.
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UTSA receives NIH grant to develop bioinformatics tools to find cause of breast cancer
2014-12-17 06:24:09| Biotech - Topix.net
According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers, and about one in eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $1.08 million grant to The University of Texas at San Antonio to combine computational modeling with biological information to advance our understanding of what may cause breast cells to become cancerous.
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