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Biotest receives FDA approval, will produce IVIG in Boca Raton

Biotest AG announced that Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation (BPC) has received FDA approval for BIVIGAM™ for the treatment of patients with Primary Humoral Immunodeficiency (PI). BIVIGAM is the first polyspecific intravenous immune globulin manufactured in the U.S. by BPC at its Boca Raton facility. This product is being produced for patients [...]

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Mechanical forces revert and stop the growth of cancer cells

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have put the squeeze — literally — on malignant mammary cells to guide them back into a normal growth pattern.

The findings, presented Monday, Dec. 17 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco, show for [...]

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New Approach to Destroy Disease-Associated RNAs in Cells

Scientists at Scripps Florida have developed a new approach to alter the function of RNA in living cells by designing molecules that recognize and disable RNA targets. As a proof of principle, in the new study the team designed a molecule that disabled the RNA causing myotonic dystrophy.

Small Molecule-Mediated [...]

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