Not exact matches
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles
which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers
which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize
cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug
applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Juno's setbacks contrast with the biologics license
application planned this year by Novartis, and the rolling BLA in progress by Kite Pharma —
which on Tuesday reported positive 6 - month trial data for its CAR T -
cell lead candidate.
Initial results already show stable charge - discharge cycling for as long as 200 hours,
which is long enough for use in some industrial or military
applications, but not nearly adequate for batteries used in laptops or
cell phones.
In another
application, the sensor was used to study how
cells respond to the introduction of extracellular hydrogen peroxide,
which produces a wave of oxidation as it moves through the cellular structures.
«A future
application of this material is the observation of individual
cell membranes because our material is suited for observing nanoscale NMR on the volume scale of 17 cubic nanometers,
which is comparable to the thickness of
cell membranes (~ 5 nanometers),» Ishiwata said.
Quantum dots,
which have use in diverse
applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar
cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.
To capitalize on the discovery, Kyoto University set up the $ 40 - million Center for iPS
Cell Research and
Application (CiRA),
which Yamanaka directs.
Furthermore, because this technology is RNA - based, it does not integrate into the genome,
which makes the
cells eligible for clinical
application.
In response to a query from Science, Kyoto University's Center for iPS
Cell Research and Application, which Yamanaka directs, issued a statement that reads in part: «Our university filed the world's first patent application associated with iPS [cell] technology and is now trying to acquire patent rights in many countries, including the U
Cell Research and
Application, which Yamanaka directs, issued a statement that reads in part: «Our university filed the world's first patent application associated with iPS [cell] technology and is now trying to acquire patent rights in many countries, includin
Application,
which Yamanaka directs, issued a statement that reads in part: «Our university filed the world's first patent
application associated with iPS [cell] technology and is now trying to acquire patent rights in many countries, includin
application associated with iPS [
cell] technology and is now trying to acquire patent rights in many countries, including the U
cell] technology and is now trying to acquire patent rights in many countries, including the U.S..
The discovery relies upon a «conjugated redox polymer» design with a naphthalene - bithiophene polymer,
which has traditionally been used for
applications including transistors and solar
cells.
She is now developing new biomaterials
which support
cell regrowth, nano - encapsulation for targeted release of drugs and new drug candidates for skin and aging
applications.
This biomolecule is used in optogenetic
applications,
which is deployed to control the activity of living
cells with light.
This will open new
application possibilities to utilize printable solar
cells e.g. in IoT (Internet of Things) type
applications, in
which the devices can also harvest energy from the ambient light.
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have announced a new method for detecting DNA mutations in a single cancer
cell versus current technology that analyzes millions of
cells which they believe could have important
applications for cancer diagnosis and treatment.
If you do hydrogen evolution, producing hydrogen from water, that's water electrolysis,
which produces clean hydrogen for fuel
cells and other
applications.»
The new perovskite solar
cells have achieved an efficiency of 20.1 per cent and can be manufactured at low temperatures,
which reduces the cost and expands the number of possible
applications.
The majority of modern fuel
cells, specifically those used for automotive
applications, are proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel
cells,
which functions by exchanging protons across an acidic polymer membrane to produce electricity and heat.
Strontium cobaltites are just one example of a class of materials known as transition metal oxides,
which is considered promising for a variety of
applications including electrodes in fuel
cells, membranes that allow oxygen to pass through for gas separation, and electronic devices such as memristors — a form of nonvolatile, ultrafast, and energy - efficient memory device.
«The kidney is a very solid organ,
which makes it very difficult to bring enough number of
cells upon transplantation,» explains Professor Kenji Osafune, whose lab at the Center for iPS
Cell Research and
Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, Japan, is using iPSCs to investigate new treatments for kidney disease.
The batteries tend to be light compared with conventional lithium - ion
cells,
which should encourage their use in
applications such as powering unmanned aircraft and underwater robots.
With the discovery, the material that the researchers call «metal oxide - laser induced graphene» (MO - LIG) becomes a new candidate to replace expensive metals like platinum in catalytic fuel -
cell applications in
which oxygen and hydrogen are converted to water and electricity.
«These composites,
which have less than 1 percent metal, respond as «super catalysts» for fuel -
cell applications.
The researchers describe the successful
application of their strategy in mice in «Exogenous TNFR2 activation protects from acute GvHD via host T reg
cell expansion,»
which will be published online August 15 ahead of issue in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
«Dolly the Sheep told me that nuclear reprogramming is possible even in mammalian
cells and encouraged me to start my own project, wrote Yamanaka, who splits his time between the University of California, San Francisco, and the Center for iPS
Cell Research and
Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University in Japan,
which he directs.
To explore the potential for
application, the group then attempted a similar experiment using human blood stem
cells taken from umbilical cords,
which they transfected with a vector encoding human Id3.
The device,
which combines acoustic
cell - sorting and microfluidic technologies, could be a boon to both scientific research and medical
applications.
T
cells,
which circulate in the blood, are an obvious candidate for medical
applications of the technology, as these
cells not only stand at the center of many disease processes, but could be easily gathered from patients, edited with CRISPR / Cas9, then returned to the body to exert therapeutic effects.
Butler hopes to be able to create one type of interneuron at a time,
which would make it easier to define the separate roles of each
cell type and allow scientists to start the process of using these
cells in clinical
applications for people who are paralyzed.
These are important steps towards future
applications in regenerative medicine,
which would require the use of stem
cells to create specialised
cells, tissues or organs to maintain normal function.
Therefore,
applications that require simultaneous modification of all alleles of a gene, or
which require modifying multiple genes simultaneously in the same
cell, are more appropriate for a CRISPR - based approach.
«Thermoelectric batteries, like ours, have been proposed before but those have been based on liquid - based
cells,
which are impractical for real - world
applications.
BERKELEY, CA, and CORALVILLE, IA — February 23, 2016 — Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a developer of CRISPR technologies for precision
cell engineering, and Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), a producer of custom synthetic oligonucleotide - based technologies for genomics
applications, have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement under
which Caribou has granted IDT worldwide rights to commercialize CRISPR - Cas9 reagents under Caribou's intellectual property.
In addition, Celvive has partnered with a US - based FDA - approved manufacturer to produce the StemCure ™
cell isolation and delivery system
which has been tested to prepare for an IND
application with the FDA for the second phase of clinical studies in the US.
We hope that these efforts will allow us to identify means by
which the response of iNKT
cells can be manipulated to effect desired immunologic outcomes in possible therapeutic
applications.
Perhaps you have seen recent
applications in by several groups,
which show that, indeed it's possible to reprogram
cells within the brain, even the adult brain in vivo.
However, Shinya Yamanaka's formula for iPSCs, for
which he was awarded last year's Nobel Prize, uses a strict recipe that allows for limited variations in human
cells, restricting their full potential for clinical
application.
Yamanaka, 55, is now director of the Center for iPS
Cell Research and
Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University,
which conducted the genetic analysis for the first iPS
cells to be transplanted into a human.
«To create this sophisticated system of checks and balances, we also made sure that the kill switches themselves remained fully intact,
which is an important prerequisite for future
applications; we verified that they were still functional after about 140
cell divisions.»
He is specifically interested in capturing electrons more efficiently,
which will help development of other useful microbial fuel
cell applications.
For work on optical tweezers for biological
applications which use focused laser light to trap and manipulate virus particles, living
cells and other biological entities whilst allowing them to maintain viability.
We are also interested in therapeutic
application of convertase inhibitors,
which we test in
cell - based assays (see recent publications).
This new information contributes to understanding protein stability and electron transfer between
cells and minerals,
which is important for
applications in synthetic biology such as biofuel production.
It will focus on catalyst development for four
applications: proton exchange membrane fuel
cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel
cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2,
which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.
This has allowed investigation of the mechanical properties of
cells,
which, according to some research studies, could have
applications in medicine, for example by enabling cancer
cells to be distinguished from healthy ones.
STEMCELL scientists will also discuss other
applications and
cell types for
which EasySep ™ can be used to accelerate scientific discovery.
We are the home of the UK Stem
Cell Bank which provides a world - leading resource of ethically - sourced, quality - controlled human embryonic and other stem cell lines for research applicati
Cell Bank
which provides a world - leading resource of ethically - sourced, quality - controlled human embryonic and other stem
cell lines for research applicati
cell lines for research
applications.
The researchers are currently exploring this and other questions to elucidate the process by
which stem
cells protect a heart after an myocardial infarction and help translate it for human
application.
SOX2 is one of two key genes researchers use to generate induced pluripotent stem
cells (iPSCs),
which are capable of differentiating into all
cell types for research and potential therapeutic
applications.
«Having a very efficient and practical way of generating patient - specific stem
cells,
which unlike human embryonic stem
cells, wouldn't be rejected by the patient's immune system after transplantation brings us a step closer to the clinical
application of stem
cell therapy,» says Belmonte, PhD., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain.
Therefore, this work provides strong support for the use of iPSC ‐ derived MSC as a more uniform with well ‐ defined phenotype and function as a sustainable source of
cells which paves the way for a clinical
application for IBD cellular therapy.