Sentences with phrase «of experimental therapy»

When a shady figure offers him a cure in the form of experimental therapy (which, as chance would have it, affords the patient super powers), he reluctantly seizes the opportunity.

University of Pennsylvania immunotherapy researcher Dr. Carl June, who led the development of an experimental therapy for advanced childhood leukemia that is expected to become the first CAR T - cell therapy to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, will give the keynote talk today at the Conference on Cell & Gene Therapy for HIV Cure at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

LITTLE TWEAKS A detailed look at genomes of the Ebola virus has pinpointed mutations that may make one type of experimental therapy less effective.

While Nagy can get piggyBac to jump back out of his iPS cells, regulatory authorities considering the safety of experimental therapies are likely to remain nervous about cells that have been genetically manipulated.

A host of experimental therapies are emerging that could dramatically improve our chances of curing cancer, say Shaoni Bhattacharya and Clare Wilson

There is a big problem, however: None of the experimental therapies and vaccines appears to be available in quantities large enough to treat the thousands in need.

Phase I studies focus on questions related to the safety and best dose of experimental therapies.

On 11 August, WHO convened a panel of medical ethicists, scientific experts, and lay people from the affected countries to assess the role of experimental therapies in the Ebola outbreak response.

A: One of the biggest differences between human registries and animal registries is the use of experimental therapies or compounds in animal studies that aren't known to the wider scientific community.

We pursued chemo and a couple of experimental therapies for Raven, as well as holistic alternatives, but on Sept. 26, 2005, we lost her - only four months after the very first sign she was ill.

Attachment therapy has come under attack over the past five years or so because of experimental therapies that have concentrated on control of the child during therapy, to the point of abuse and death.

Not exact matches

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

Kite Pharma, one of the companies chasing a new generation of cancer drugs called chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) therapies, announced a patient death in a clinical trial of its experimental KTE - C19.

Bellicum is among the flurry of biotechs investing heavily into cell therapies such as experimental chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) treatments for cancer (this is the next - gen treatment that involves reprogramming immune cells to become cancer killers and has shown promise in blood cancers, which Bellicum specializes in).

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

Furthermore, a piece of unfortunate clinical news may also be hitting Merck stock: Its collaboration with the biotech Incyte to combine Keytruda with another experimental therapy has been scuttled.

This biotech's first year as a publicly traded company has been a terrific ride on the back of an experimental oncology therapy that could have huge built - in demand.

Ionis only has a small handful of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)- approved therapies, but it has a clinical - stage portfolio that's 25 experimental therapies deep, and spanning a number of indications.

Among its top holdings, Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI) was up more than 11 %, continuing a run that has helped the stock double in price since the end of August following positive data on late - stage experimental schizophrenia drug candidate ITI - 007.

a. free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.

The couple, both in their 30s and from Bedfont, west London, want to take the baby to a hospital in the US for experimental treatment, but lost a lengthy legal battle after judges ruled in favour of doctors at GOSH, who argued the therapy would not improve Charlie's quality of life.

Dietary medium - chain triglycerides prevent chemically induced experimental colitis in rats: Medium chain triglycerides show promise for nutritional therapy of inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn's disease and colitis) as an anti-inflammatory nutrient in the colon.

«Using Streptozotocin - induced type I diabetes and cornea epithelial wounding experimental models, we made novel observations that may soon lead to innovative therapies to treat DPN and ulcerations of the cornea and skin in diabetic patients,» said Yu.

On 13 April, the Texas Medical Board voted to accept rules intended to give doctors «a reasonable and responsible degree of latitude» in using experimental stem cell therapies.

Frequent, low - dose chemotherapy regimens avoid this effect and may therefore be more effective at treating certain types of breast and pancreatic cancer, according to the murine study «Metronomic chemotherapy prevents therapy - induced stromal activation and induction of tumor - initiating cells,» which will be published online November 23 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Now a paper in the November 2009 issue of Science suggests that the long - sought cure may come from gene therapy — a famously hyped approach to treatment that tragically caused the death of a teenage experimental subject in 1999.

«It may sound like an appealing idea to allow seriously ill patients accelerated access to experimental therapies,» Sally Temple, the president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, wrote to Texas lawmakers this month.

The study, «AKR1B1 promotes basal - like breast cancer progression by a positive feedback loop that activates the EMT program,» which has been published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that an inhibitor of this enzyme currently used to treat diabetes patients could be an effective therapy for this frequently deadly form of cancer.

That's the finding from a study in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

«We were surprised to find so many similarities between these two diseases, but most striking was that some of these common signatures are shared with other conditions like diabetic retinopathy and age - related macular degeneration,» said William A. Beltran, senior author on the study, an associate professor of ophthalmology in Penn Vet's Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine and director of the Division of Experimental Retinal Therapies.

This has led to the experimental use of antigenspecific therapies (using a substance to initiate an immune response) to prevent, stabilize, or reverse immunerelated diseases, such as allergies and multiple sclerosis.

Gene therapy death The Food and Drug Administration stopped a gene therapy trial this week after a patient undergoing the experimental treatment for a severe form of arthritis had a fatal reaction.

After seeing promising results in phase 1 of the Pediatric Leukemia Adoptive Therapy (PLAT - 02) trial with 93 percent of patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) achieving complete initial remission, researchers at Seattle Children's are continuing their quest to improve the experimental therapy and reduce the rate of relapse, which is about 50 pTherapy (PLAT - 02) trial with 93 percent of patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) achieving complete initial remission, researchers at Seattle Children's are continuing their quest to improve the experimental therapy and reduce the rate of relapse, which is about 50 ptherapy and reduce the rate of relapse, which is about 50 percent.

A 7 - year - old who lost most of his skin to a rare genetic disease has made a dramatic recovery after receiving an experimental gene therapy, researchers announced today.

But in the meantime, it would help if we could identify who won't benefit from standard treatment, so we can spare them the debilitating effects of chemotherapy and get them into clinical trials for experimental therapies that might be more effective.»

In addition, several pharmaceutical companies are including Neurotrack in clinical trials of experimental Alzheimer's therapies.

It is already the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded, and the unprecedented number of deaths has led to calls to try out experimental therapies that are in the early stages of development.

Although several experimental trials of gene therapy are under way, some of them for more than a decade, uniQure is the first in the West to win regulatory approval for a commercial treatment.

«The NIH funding got us all the way from designing the chemical photoswitch to an experimental therapy in the dog,» Flannery says, noting the essential role played by a UC Berkeley interdisciplinary team of chemists, molecular biologists and vision scientists.

The work, which was published earlier this year in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, jibes with a recent theory that stress is far from the sole cause of these compulsions.

The lack of an animal model has also prevented scientists from testing and fine - tuning experimental therapies for people.

Earlier this year, a government panel of experts recommended that the money would be better spent comparing several experimental therapies instead of one alone.

The blizzard of commercial medical information is especially unsettling at moments of crisis when doctors ask questions --» Which experimental breast cancer therapy would you like to explore?»

In study results recently published online in Experimental Neurology, breathing function improved in patients after gene therapy, compared to a period of treatment with breathing exercises before the gene therapy.

Daniel Grinberg and Lluïsa Vilageliu, from the Department of Genetics of the Faculty of Biology, and Joan Blasi, from the Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy of the Faculty of Medicine, participated in the paper, published on the journal Cell Reports.

The research team found that when a particular mitochondrial fission protein (GTPase dynamin - related protein - 1 — Drp1) was blocked using either gene - therapy or a chemical approach in experimental models of PD in mice, it reduced both cell death and the deficits in dopamine release — effectively reversing the PD process.

Scientists from VIB and KU Leuven, together with colleagues from the University of California and the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research have demonstrated that, anti-angiogenic therapy can improve immune boosting treatments.

The scientists hope an early diagnosis will give elderly people who develop the disease a better chance of slowing or halting its progress once today's experimental therapies become available.

A number of research teams are putting other experimental stem cell therapies through stringent clinical trials.