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News and Trends 15 May 2015

European companies present their cancer treatment solutions in the USA

Each year, the American Society of Clinical Oncology gathers the cancer therapy developers during five days to present their latest results. Roche seems to be the European winner of this roundup, with amazing results of alectinib in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Roche’s investigational medicine alectinib shrank tumors in nearly half of patients suffering from this […]

May 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 4 May 2015

Sygnis on the way to conquer the UK Life Sciences market

Sygnis signed a distribution agreement with Cambridge Bioscience for the commercialization of its proprietary product portfolio in the UK and Ireland. This is a significant expansion of product roll-out into one of the most important life science markets in Europe. Under the terms and conditions of the agreement, Cambridge Bioscience will promote, market, sell and […]

May 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Mar 2015

Bioluminescent Bacteria and Algae, the Future Lighting

The University of Sevilla has patented a method for culturing the bacteria Vibrio fischeri and the algae Pyrocystus fusiformis in order to configure bioluminescent devices that emit light without electricity consumption, with applications in environmental lighting and signaling. Bioluminescence is a widespread phenomenon at all biological levels (bacteria, fungi, worms, insects, etc.). It consists of […]

March 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 7 Mar 2015

New insights into drought tolerance in plants

Spanish researchers found a new family of proteins that controls plant resistance to drought. The work will allow the design of crop plants with improved properties over this type of stress. Two teams of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC in Spanish) have identified and characterized a new protein family that directly controls the drought […]

March 7, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 Feb 2015

Highway to Brain

Researchers in Barcelona have developed a shuttle to transport drugs into the brain, running through the blood-brain barrier. If there is an irreplaceable organ, for the moment, that’s the brain. The gray matter is not only protected by the skull, but also by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this […]

February 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Jan 2015

A glimpse of the future: the revolution of bionic eyes

Six months after the surgery, the first Spanish with a bionic eye has gone from the total darkness to discern shapes and distances thanks to the technology developed by Second Sight Medical Products. With the MedTech field moving forward so fast, a new generation of devices meant to restore the sense of vision is about […]

January 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 30 Oct 2014

Review : Ebola, The True Story

The first outbreaks of Ebola (also known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) have occurred in isolated villages in central Africa, near tropical forests, but the recent outbreak in West Africa has affected major urban centers as well as rural areas. The Ebola virus disease shows an average fatality rate about 50%. In previous outbreaks, the rate […]

October 30, 2014 - 26 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

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European companies present their cancer treatment solutions in the USA

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