Industry News
Bionomics commences clinical trial
Anti-anxiety drug, BNC210, to undergo phase I clinical trial in Adelaide. [ + ]
Diabetes biomarker discovered
Hormone adiponectin could be used to better diagnose and treat type 2 diabetes. [ + ]
Xenotransplantation trial to commence in NZ
Calls for Australian Government to lift moratorium on xenotransplantation so similar trials can occur here. [ + ]
Australian biotech market watch 23/06/09
COH, CSL, RHC, ANN, SRX [ + ]
Sniffing out cancer
Researchers have been able to differentiate not only between healthy and cancerous cells but also between metastatic and non-metastatic cancer cells using an array of nanoparticles and polymers.
[ + ]Phosphagenics signs agreement with CSL
CSL to evaluate Phosphagenics' TMP technology with the possibility of an expanded collaboration in the future. [ + ]
Amarillo progresses interferon trial in WA
Screening process completed for phase II clinical trial of interferon to treat influenza. [ + ]
Australian biotech market watch 19/06/09
CSL, COH, ANN, BKL, NRT [ + ]
Genome of potential bacterial factory sequenced
Scientists sequence genome of the N2-fixing, soil-living bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii. [ + ]
Clinuvel awarded orphan drug status by EU
European Medicines Agency grants Clinuvel new orphan drug designation for afamelanotide. [ + ]
Children's cancer researchers win funding
Two young researchers at Children’s Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research (CCIA), Dr Joshua McCarroll and Dr Marcia Munoz, were today awarded significant funding from the Balnaves Foundation to further their promising research into childhood cancer. [ + ]
Killer cells could cure cancer
Australian researchers close to a breakthrough in cancer treatment using the body's own immune system to destroy cancerous cells. [ + ]
Gene plays critical role in heart development
Scientists identify gene vital to early embryonic cells forming a normal heart and skull. [ + ]
Lifting the darkness
People take it for granted their teeth can be repaired as they age. Hearing can be enhanced electronically. Cosmetic surgery may disguise the external ravages of time. Transplant surgery can replace heart, lungs, liver and kidneys. But when the eye’s light-sensitive membrane, the retina, fails there seems little you can do about it – and millions end their lives in darkness. [ + ]
What alien life might look like
A tiny frozen microbe may hold clues to extraterrestrial life. [ + ]