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Innovative vaccine demonstrates sustained malaria immunisation in pregnancy
Follow up research to the presented findings could provide improved opportunities for preventing malaria in women during pregnancy.
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Non-chemotherapy lymphoma treatment may provide durable remission
Fifty four percent of evaluable patients with DLBCL attained a substantial tumour reduction with the five-drug regimen, trial data shows.
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FDA grants priority review to omalizumab for food allergies
If approved, monoclonal antibody omalizumab would be the first medicine to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods following an accidental exposure.
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Antibody-immunotherapy combination shows promise in lung cancer
A study evaluating the combination of a PD1 inhibitor with dupilumab enabled one out of six lung cancer patients to achieve a near-complete clinical response two months post-treatment, a paper states.
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First RNA CAR-T therapy autoimmunity trial shows potential
A novel RNA CAR-T cell therapy demonstrated long-term clinical benefit for most generalised myasthenia gravis (gMG) patients in a landmark study.
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First mixed race woman potentially cured of HIV
A female patient, who had leukaemia and HIV has been potentially cured by a stem cell transplant from cord blood, scientists say.
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Simplified HIV treatment options effective in major trial
The world‘s first international trial into second-line HIV therapy has shown two simplified treatments are at least as effective as standard of care.
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Neoadjuvant nivolumab improves long-term survival for lung cancer
Analysis of a Phase II trial for non-small cell lung cancer has suggested neoadjuvant nivolumab improved five-year recurrence-free survival compared with historical outcomes.
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Pembrolizumab plus chemo improves endometrial cancer survival
An interim analysis of a Phase III trial showed pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy significantly improved survival in endometrial cancer.
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Monoclonal antibody could prevent malaria, study shows
Based on recent research, a "potential game changer” approach could offer a practical way to use monoclonal antibody therapies for malaria in Africa.
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T-cell therapy helps overcome stem cell transplant viral infections
A T-cell therapy that targets six viruses commonly contracted by haematology patients after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, offered 95 percent response in a study.
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First treatment approval for advanced ASPS
A Phase II trial has led to the FDA approval of atezolizumab for individuals over two years old with advanced alveolar soft part sarcoma.
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$38 million will fund rare disease research over four-year period
Research for rare diseases including ALS will be supported over the next four years by $38 million in FDA funding.
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Quantifying proteins en masse using coulometric mass spectrometry
Coulometric mass spectrometry (CMS) fully quantities proteins without using traditional lab sample testing standards, promising faster vaccine and drug advancement.
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Could COVID-19 vaccines be swallowed?
New pre-clinical research demonstrates the potential of gastric autoinjectors to deliver mRNA in sufficient quantities for vaccination.
