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Swiss drugmaker, Novartis signed a $3.5 billion deal with Chinook Therapeutics to boost the US-based company’s last-stage experimental trials of two drugs to treat chronic kidney diseases.
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Novartis to acquire Chinook Therapeutics in a $3.5 billion deal

HQ Team June 13, 2023: Swiss drugmaker, Novartis signed a $3.5 billion deal with Chinook Therapeutics to boost the US-based company’s last-stage experimental

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A public inquiry starts today in Britain, into the nation’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, which killed 224,546 people in the country.
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Britain’s public inquiry into Covid-19 pandemic to start today

HQ Team June 13, 2023: A public inquiry starts today in Britain, into the nation’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, which killed 224,546

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A blood protein, called fibrin, which supports clotting, is responsible for switching on detrimental genes in Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis, researchers say.
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Alzheimer’s develops when hero microglia turns into a villain in brain

HQ Team June 11, 2023: A blood protein, called fibrin, which supports clotting, is responsible for switching on detrimental genes in Alzheimer’s disease

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Doxycycline demonstrates potential in preventing STIs among high-risk individuals

HQ Team June 10, 2023: A study, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), found that using the oral

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FDA considering approval for first ever CRISPR gene editing technology drug

HQ Team June 10, 2023:The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an application for what could become the first-ever marketed medicine based

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An advisory committee of the USFDA has given a “favourable benefit-risk profile” for Sanofi and AstraZeneca’s experimental drug nirsevimab, meant to treat lower respiratory tract disease in newborns, according to a statement from the Paris-based firm.
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FDA’s advisory panel backs Sanofi, AstraZeneca’s investigational drug for newborns

HQ Team June 9, 2023: An advisory committee of the USFDA has given a “favourable benefit-risk profile” for Sanofi and AstraZeneca’s experimental drug

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covid-19
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Diabetes medicine metformin cuts risk of developing long Covid by 40%

HQ Team June 9, 2023: Metformin, a cheap and widely-used diabetes drug, reduces the incidence of long Covid by nearly 40 per cent

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AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company, has signed a deal, worth more than $2 billion, with Quell Therapeutics to develop cell therapies for treating autoimmune diseases.
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AstraZeneca signs $2 billion deal for autoimmune diseases

HQ Team June 9, 2023: AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company, has signed a deal, worth more than $2 billion, with Quell Therapeutics to

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Researchers at the University of Central Florida have engineered a human tissue that draws mosquitoes to bite and feed on, and hope the platform can help study the pattern of how the pathogens the insects carry impact and infect human cells and tissues.
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Mosquitoes find engineered human tissue appetizing, boffins target vectors next

HQ Team June 9, 2023: Researchers at the University of Central Florida have engineered a human tissue that draws mosquitoes to bite and

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The COVID-19 virus can fuse the brain cells that may lead to disruption in cell-to-cell communication resulting in ‘Brain fog,” and loss of sense of odors, researchers at the University of Queensland stated.
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Fusion of brain cells after COIVID-19 infection may cause ‘brain fog’: Study

HQ Team June 8, 2023: The COVID-19 virus can fuse the brain cells that may lead to disruption in cell-to-cell communication resulting in

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