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Bind and Pfizer in Tumor License Deal

28.09.2015 - US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has exercised its option under the companies’ global collaboration agreement to take an exclusive license from Bind Therapeutics for the purpose of...

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GE Healthcare invests at the MaRS facility in Toronto

31.08.2015 - Technological Transformation — In this digital era, it comes as a shock to discover that critical diagnoses of life-threatening diseases such as cancer still depend on what a...

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Prenatal DDT Exposure Linked To Breast Cancer

17.06.2015 - Women exposed to higher levels of the pesticide DDT while in utero face increased risk of breast cancer later in life than those exposed to lower levels, according to new research...

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French Minister Will Ask Garden Shops not to Sell Roundup

14.06.2015 - French Environment and Energy Minister Segolène Royal has told the French television network France 3 she plans to ask garden shops to stop selling Monsanto's glyphosate weed...

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WHO Scientists Analyzing 2,4-D Cancer Links

08.06.2015 - At a meeting in Lyon, France, this week 24 scientists representing the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will analyze scientific...

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New Drug Combination Said to Hold Promise for Melanoma

08.06.2015 - In a new international clinical trial, two cancer drugs developed by US drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb are reported to have shrunk tumors in nearly 60% of people with advanced...

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ChemoCentryx Trial of CCR2 Inhibitor for Pancreatic Cancer

21.04.2015 - ChemoCentryx, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders and cancer, has begun enrolling patients with non-resectable...

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Residues of Glyphosate Found in Food and Body Fluids

17.04.2015 - Private labs in the US are said to have found significant residues of the glyphosate weed-killer, marketed by agrochemicals giant Monsanto as Roundup, in samples of honey, soy...