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A U.S. farm breeds pigs for human kidney transplants

by Ulysse BELLIER On a farm in the southern U.S. state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs into human patients. - 'Little room for recognition' - AFP For more than 20 years, Revivicor, in Blacksburg, Virginia, has been conducting research to turn pig-to-human transplantation from science fiction to life-saving …

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1 week, 5 days ago

McKinsey & Company to pay $650 million for role in opioid crisis

NPR

McKinsey & Company to pay $650 million for role in opioid crisis Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images; Charles Krupa/AP Photo/AFP The global consulting firm McKinsey and Company Friday agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal probe into its role in helping "turbocharge" sales of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin for Purdue Pharma, the U.S. …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Stocks to watch today:

India Today

The Indian stock market ended last week on a flat note despite gains in the auto and FMCG sectors. The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee decision to maintain the key interest rates for the 11th consecutive time led to subdued trading activity. In today’s session, several stocks, including Ultratech, Paytm, L&T, Biocon, Alembic Pharma, and CEAT, will be …

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1 month ago

Healthcare startups showcase innovation, collaboration at Bengaluru Tech Summit 2024

Hindustan Times

Bengaluru, Young entrepreneurs in the healthcare industry shared insights into building innovative solutions, addressing challenges, and leveraging technology for growth on the second day of the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2024. Rodrigues stressed the need for patient capital to develop novel therapeutics, saying, “Investors must understand that therapies for critically ill patients require time and commitment to yield meaningful results.” Tarun …

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1 month, 1 week ago

23andMe cuts 40% of its workforce and discontinues therapeutics division

Associated Press

NEW YORK — 23andMe is laying off 40% of its workforce, or more than 200 employees, and discontinuing its therapeutics division as the struggling genetic testing company attempts to slash costs. In a prepared statement, 23andMe CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki said the company was “taking these difficult but necessary actions” as it focuses on “the long-term success of our …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Obesity Pill Data Portend Competition, Hitting Drugmaker Shares

Live Mint

-- Obesity pill data released by Viking Therapeutics Inc. and AstraZeneca Plc at a big conference foreshadowed an increasingly competitive landscape for weight-loss therapies, sending down shares of drugmakers in the field. Effectiveness and safety data from Viking’s study, released Sunday at an industry conference, show that an obesity pill could be a reality soon: People who took 100-milligram doses …

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4 months ago

Mpox: The right mix of information, resources, diagnostics, therapeutics needed to control it

Hindustan Times

On August 14, 2024, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the current outbreak of mpox as a public health emergency of international concern. This is a status defined by the International Health Regulations indicating that the 2024 outbreak is “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through …

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4 months ago

Vigyan Yuva awardee Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi: Decoding complex proteins

Hindustan Times

This year’s Yuva Vigyan Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Biological Sciences is shared by two scientists who study membrane proteins, but of different kinds. Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi, professor of biological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, describes her work with beta-barrel membrane proteins, and its implications for therapeutics. I try to understand how beta barrel membrane proteins …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Epidemics such as Nipah virus outbreaks, Covid-19 originated from non-human source: Nadda to RS

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that epidemics such as Nipah virus outbreaks and Covid-19 originated from a non-human source and crossed over to humans at the animal-human interface, highlighting the importance of a One Health approach that integrates human, animal and environmental health for tackling emerging diseases. "These epidemics originated from …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

New push for mRNA bird flu vaccine development: WHO

The Hindu

The World Health Organisation announced Monday, July 29, 2024, a new project to accelerate the development in poorer countries, of vaccines for human bird flu infections, using cutting-edge messenger RNA technology. Vaccine equity Swiftly developed mRNA Covid vaccines were game-changers during the pandemic, but they also exposed glaring global vaccine inequity and demands for a fairer distribution amid efforts to …

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5 months ago

Meet the world’s cleanest pigs – raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans

The Independent

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5 months ago

Meet Some of the World’s Cleanest Pigs, Raised to Grow Kidneys and Hearts for Humans

Deccan Chronicle

Blacksburg: Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. “These are precious animals,” said David Ayares of Revivicor Inc., who spent decades learning to clone pigs with just the right genetic changes to allow those first audacious experiments. …

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5 months ago

Pig transplant research yields a surprise: Bacon safe for some people allergic to red meat

Associated Press

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Some people who develop a weird and terrifying allergy to red meat after a bite from a lone star tick can still eat pork from a surprising source: Genetically modified pigs created for organ transplant research. While xenotransplants still are experimental, Revivicor’s “GalSafe” pigs won Food and Drug Administration approval in 2020 to be used as a …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Optimal bedroom lighting for sleep

New Indian Express

HYDERABAD: Quality sleep is often difficult to achieve in today’s modern, stressful world. The bedroom plays a significant role in ensuring sleep quality, where poor lighting choices can turn the space uninviting and disturbing. Light and the biological clock Our biological clock is designed to wake up with daylight and sleep when night falls. “Matching our body’s internal clock with …

Sleep Light

6 months, 1 week ago

FDA panel: Why experts rejected MDMA therapy from Lykos Therapeutics.

Slate

What was supposed to be a groundbreaking step in mental health treatment became a devastating rebuke of a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of researching MDMA-assisted therapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. “Lykos largely created this situation for themselves.” There were two prongs to Lykos’ clinical trials: MDMA as a drug, and the psychotherapy process before, during, and …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Trouble for ecstasy? What MDMA’s FDA setback could mean for psychedelics

NPR

What MDMA’s FDA setback could mean for psychedelics toggle caption MirageC/Getty Images/Moment RF The psychedelic drug MDMA is near the end of a decades-long effort to enter mainstream medicine but instead of celebrating, supporters now find themselves wondering if the treatment will actually make it to market anytime soon. “It really doesn't feel like the data was given its proper …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Psychedelic drug MDMA faces questions as FDA considers approval for PTSD

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators are questioning the safety and evidence behind the first bid to use MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD, part of a decadeslong effort by advocates to move psychedelic drugs into the medical mainstream. In their assessment, FDA scientists said that patients who received MDMA and talk therapy showed “rapid, clinically meaningful, …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts developing immune-enhancing therapies to treat TB: Study

India TV News

Experts are developing revolutionary immune-enhancing medicines known as host-directed therapies, which employ the body's immune system to target TB, to tackle even drug-resistant strains of the illness. "Mycobacterium tuberculosis have evolved a remarkable ability to manipulate the human immune response and undermine antimicrobial effector functions in host immune cells," explains Assoc Professor Brighenti. Standard anti-TB treatment involves daily administration of …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Researchers create sensor to gauge disease spread

New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: Indian researchers have developed a sensor that will aid in tracking disease progression and providing rapid medical support. This technique, developed by researchers from IIT Jodhpur, is crucial for developing therapeutics for conditions like multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s, among others. “The technology has immense potential to be used as a rapid and point-of-care technique for health monitoring, …

Disease

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Under A Market Logic, Even Pathogens Have Proud Owners

Live Law

Exactly after four years of the Covid-19 hit the globe, WHO is ready with a draft negotiating text of the Pandemic Agreement with 'prevention, preparedness and response' as its purpose. The draft defines 'pathogen with pandemic potential' as “any pathogen that has been identified to infect a human and that is: novel or known, potentially highly transmissible and /or highly …

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54 years, 11 months ago

He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working

Wired

About a week after the transplant, Riella says, the team noticed signs of rejection, when the body’s immune system recognizes the donor organ as foreign and starts to attack it. Photograph: Massachusetts General Hospital “It's pretty miraculous this man's out of the hospital a couple of weeks after putting in a pig kidney,” says Steven Perrin, Eledon’s president and chief …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

C-CAMP develops new OptiDrop platform to study single cells

The Hindu

The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms in Bengaluru has developed a new platform that makes it easier and cheaper to study single cells. The novel microfluidic chip-based platform allows for optical sensing of biological samples without the expensive open space, and bulky optical components routinely used in microscopy and flow cytometry-based techniques. This innovation, developed by C-CAMP’s Discovery to …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Make healthtech accessible to rural people, poor, says Telangana Governor

The Hindu

Telangana Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan has underscored the need for taking healthtech, particularly innovations by startups that promise to cut down time and cost of the procedures, to rural populace and the economically weak in order to help improve healthcare access for them. “Poorest of poor, rural people, must benefit from innovations,” she said presenting awards to five startups at …

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10 months ago

WTO in ‘damage control’ mode as Abu Dhabi agenda unravels

Politico

“You could put the world’s greatest matchmaker, arbiter and negotiator in charge of the WTO right now and I don’t think much could happen,” said Rufus Yerxa, a former U.S. trade official who was a WTO deputy director from 2005 to 2013. The failure of WTO member countries to produce anything meaningful at the group’s 13th Ministerial Conference could further …

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A U.S. farm breeds pigs for human kidney transplants

McKinsey & Company to pay $650 million for role in opioid crisis

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Healthcare startups showcase innovation, collaboration at Bengaluru Tech Summit 2024

23andMe cuts 40% of its workforce and discontinues therapeutics division

Obesity Pill Data Portend Competition, Hitting Drugmaker Shares

Mpox: The right mix of information, resources, diagnostics, therapeutics needed to control it

Vigyan Yuva awardee Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi: Decoding complex proteins

Epidemics such as Nipah virus outbreaks, Covid-19 originated from non-human source: Nadda to RS

New push for mRNA bird flu vaccine development: WHO

Meet the world’s cleanest pigs – raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans

Meet Some of the World’s Cleanest Pigs, Raised to Grow Kidneys and Hearts for Humans

Pig transplant research yields a surprise: Bacon safe for some people allergic to red meat

Optimal bedroom lighting for sleep

FDA panel: Why experts rejected MDMA therapy from Lykos Therapeutics.

Trouble for ecstasy? What MDMA’s FDA setback could mean for psychedelics

Psychedelic drug MDMA faces questions as FDA considers approval for PTSD

Experts developing immune-enhancing therapies to treat TB: Study

Researchers create sensor to gauge disease spread

Under A Market Logic, Even Pathogens Have Proud Owners

He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working

C-CAMP develops new OptiDrop platform to study single cells

Make healthtech accessible to rural people, poor, says Telangana Governor

WTO in ‘damage control’ mode as Abu Dhabi agenda unravels