A new dawn for cataracts
On Thursday, November 6, scientists from ViewPoint Therapeutics published an article titled "Pharmacological chaperone for α-crystallin partially restores transparency in cataract models" in Science M [...]
Symic Biomedical Advances First Product Candidate, SB-030, Into Clinical Development
Symic Biomedical, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics platform company developing compounds that target the extracellular matrix (ECM), today announced the treatment of the first patient in its Phase 1/2 [...]
Amarantus seeks US FDA orphan drug status for eltoprazine
Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Inc., a biotechnology company, has submitted a request to the US FDA for orphan drug designation (ODD) for eltoprazine in the treatment of levodopa-induced dyskinesia ( [...]
Military researchers to conduct trial of Amarantus’s “engineered skin substitute”
Cooperative research and development efforts with the military, universities and the biotech industry can potentially lead to advancements in the treatment of severe wounds. Biotech companies with re [...]
Now You Can Buy Shampoo and Cleanser That Promote the Growth of “Good” Bacteria
If you’ve heard about probiotic cosmetic spray, it’s probably from a New York Times Magazine story published last year. In that article, journalist Julia Scott profiled the startup AOBiome and recount [...]
AOBiome Announces Start of First Clinical Trial with Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria-Based Therapeutic for Treatment of Acne
AOBiome today announced it has begun a Phase 2 clinical trial with a therapeutic product candidate based on its proprietary ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) for the treatment of mild to moderate acne [...]
Robots And Microbes: Zymergen Raises $44 Million From Big VCs
The two biology experts–one a biophysicist, one a biochemist–were studying microbes, the single-cell organisms found all over the planet, to see how they could be used as building blocks to produce ne [...]
Golden Helix integrates MedGenome’s OncoMD into its VarSeq software
Golden Helix Inc., a leading bioinformatics solutions provider, has now announced the integration of MedGenome's OncoMD into their VarSeq software. The integration will provide VarSeq users with the [...]
AOBiome Announces Three Senior Management Appointments
AOBiome today announced three appointments to its senior management team to advance the company’s business to develop first-in-class skin health products based on Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria (AOB). Jo [...]
Ethan Perlstein featured in CNET story on “science labs in the cloud”
Science is hard. Repeating other labs' findings is even harder. That's particularly true in the life sciences, where biologists and researchers manually run sophisticated experiments fraught with vari [...]