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TxCell reviews its manufacturing strategy to focus on R&D and strategic partnerships - its core, high added value businesses

TxCell SA, a biotechnology company developing innovative, personalized T cell immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for severe chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, announces today that it is operating a strategic review that should result in the outsourcing of all existing and future clinical and commercial manufacturing operations to contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs).

15 Oct 2015

Merck unveils new global brand as a science and technology company

Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced the relaunch of its brand identity. The fundamental revision of the visual appearance as well as the introduction of a new logo reflect the transformation into a global science and technology company. At the same time, the brand architecture at business level has been simplified. Outside the United States and Canada, the company will operate uniformly as Merck.

15 Oct 2015

MIT neuroscientists discover brain circuit that controls sleep

Sleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep. However, MIT neuroscientists have discovered a brain circuit that can trigger small regions of the brain to fall asleep or become less alert, while the rest of the brain remains awake.

14 Oct 2015

UW researchers use noninvasive light-based imaging technology to see inside the living brain

Researchers at the University of Washington have used a noninvasive light-based imaging technology to literally see inside the living brain, providing a new tool to study how diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, and brain tumors change brain tissue over time.

13 Oct 2015

RE.WORK showcases future technology and innovations in deep learning software

The future of technological innovation is a broad topic with endless opportunities in every scientific field. RE.WORK’s two most recent concurrent conferences ‘RE.WORK: Future Technology’ and ‘RE.WORK: Deep Learning’, in part focussed on putting healthcare in the context of the wider technological revolution.

13 Oct 2015

Penn researchers show that canine X-linked retinitis pigmentosa can be cured over the long term

Three years ago, a team from the University of Pennsylvania announced that they had cured X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, a blinding retinal disease, in dogs. Now they've shown that they can cure the canine disease over the long term, even when the treatment is given after half or more of the affected photoreceptor cells have been destroyed.

13 Oct 2015

Innovative optoelectronic implantable device helps access brain microcircuits

Brown University researchers have created a new type of optoelectronic implantable device to access brain microcircuits, synergizing a technique that enables scientists to control the activity of brains cells using pulses of light.

13 Oct 2015

Researchers find how different neurons work together to reduce responses to frequent sounds

Being able to understand speech is essential to our evolution as humans. Hearing lets us perceive the same word even when spoken at different speeds or pitches, and also gives us extra sensitivity to unexpected sounds. Now, new studies from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania clarify how these two crucial features of audition are managed by the brain.

12 Oct 2015

Federal judge grants permanent injunction against South Dakota medical laser manufacturer

A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota yesterday granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a permanent injunction against 2035 Inc. and Robert "Larry" Lytle, doing business as QLasers PMA and 2035 PMA.

12 Oct 2015

Study looks at survival benefits of surgical resection for melanoma patients with abdominal metastases

Patients with metastatic melanoma who undergo surgery to remove lesions that have spread into the abdomen live more than twice as long as those treated with drug therapy alone, according to novel new research by a North Shore-LIJ Health System cancer surgeon.

12 Oct 2015

Volunteer nurse back in isolation with Ebola complications

This morning Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse who survived infection with the Ebola virus, was airlifted to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London after the Ebola virus was detected in blood samples.

9 Oct 2015

Up to 1 billion people could be at risk of going blind by 2050, say researchers

Up to 1 billion people could be at risk of blindness by the middle of the century if an emerging short-sightedness (myopia) epidemic is ignored say researchers at the Brien Holden Vision Institute.

8 Oct 2015

Controlling TH-containing neurons can manipulate maternal behavior of females and aggression of males

Most female mammals give birth and care for their offspring, while the males often breed with multiple partners and play little role in parenting once the mating is over. Yet researchers have had a hard time pinpointing where, exactly, in the brain these differences between the sexes are located and how they translate into behavior. The extent of "hardwired parental behavior" is hotly disputed.

8 Oct 2015

Lonza, Benitec partner to develop scalable manufacturing process for AAV-based viral gene therapies

Lonza Houston, Inc., a global leader in biological, cell and viral gene therapy manufacturing, and Benitec Biopharma, a clinical stage biotechnology company commercializing a patented gene-silencing technology, DNA-directed RNA interference (ddRNAi), today announced that they have entered into a Manufacturing Services Agreement to develop a scalable manufacturing process for Benitec's ddRNAi-based, Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)-delivered products intended for therapeutic use in humans.

7 Oct 2015

Researchers use brain scans to reveal mechanisms behind cognitive control of thoughts

How does the brain determine which direction to let its thoughts fly? Looking for the mechanisms behind cognitive control of thought, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California and United States Army Research Laboratory have used brain scans to shed new light on this question.

7 Oct 2015

Envisia's ENV515 (travoprost XR) meets primary efficacy endpoint in phase 2a glaucoma trial

Envisia Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel extended-release therapies in ophthalmology, today reported results from its first clinical trial of the Company's lead product candidate, ENV515 (travoprost XR).

6 Oct 2015

NIH-funded researchers test new gene therapy to improve visual function in mice

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a novel mouse model for the vision disorder Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), and found that they can use gene therapy to improve visual function in the mice. LHON is one of many diseases tied to gene mutations that damage the tiny energy factories that power our cells, called mitochondria.

6 Oct 2015

300 research publications using ACD’s RNAscope® Technology

Advanced Cell Diagnostics Inc. (ACD), a technology and market leader in the field of molecular pathology and developer of cell and tissue-based RNA analysis tools, is celebrating a significant milestone.

From Advanced Cell Diagnostics 6 Oct 2015

MS patients with history of neuro-ophthalmic syndromes perform poorly on visual neuropsychological testing

Scientists found that individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) who had a history of neuro-ophthalmic syndromes performed poorly on visual neuropsychological tasks. The article, "Neuro-ophthalmic syndromes and processing speed in multiple sclerosis," was published in the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology.

6 Oct 2015

New research sheds light on how retina sets its own biological rhythm using neuropsin

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Washington report new research that sheds light on how the retina sets its own biological rhythm using a novel light-sensitive pigment, called neuropsin, found in nerve cells at the back of the eye.

1 Oct 2015

Eye Health News and Research

Latest Eye Health News and Research

TxCell reviews its manufacturing strategy to focus on R&D and strategic partnerships - its core, high added value businesses

Merck unveils new global brand as a science and technology company

MIT neuroscientists discover brain circuit that controls sleep

UW researchers use noninvasive light-based imaging technology to see inside the living brain

RE.WORK showcases future technology and innovations in deep learning software

Penn researchers show that canine X-linked retinitis pigmentosa can be cured over the long term

Innovative optoelectronic implantable device helps access brain microcircuits

Researchers find how different neurons work together to reduce responses to frequent sounds

Federal judge grants permanent injunction against South Dakota medical laser manufacturer

Study looks at survival benefits of surgical resection for melanoma patients with abdominal metastases

Volunteer nurse back in isolation with Ebola complications

Up to 1 billion people could be at risk of going blind by 2050, say researchers

Controlling TH-containing neurons can manipulate maternal behavior of females and aggression of males

Lonza, Benitec partner to develop scalable manufacturing process for AAV-based viral gene therapies

Researchers use brain scans to reveal mechanisms behind cognitive control of thoughts

Envisia's ENV515 (travoprost XR) meets primary efficacy endpoint in phase 2a glaucoma trial

NIH-funded researchers test new gene therapy to improve visual function in mice

300 research publications using ACD’s RNAscope® Technology

MS patients with history of neuro-ophthalmic syndromes perform poorly on visual neuropsychological testing

New research sheds light on how retina sets its own biological rhythm using neuropsin

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