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Antibody Cancer Therapy Has A Bright Future

March 19, 2012
Antibodies, once touted as the "magic bullets" of cancer care, are now fulfilling that promise and more advances are on the way, say cancer researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center In a review article posted online in Cell, the researchers say that refinements and modifications of monoclonal antibody ...

Primates Protected From Ebola, Marburg Viruses By Post-Exposure Antibody Treatment

March 15, 2012
Army scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that antibody-based therapies can successfully protect monkeys from the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses. In addition, the animals were fully protected even when treatment was administered two days post-infection, an accomplishment unmatched by any experimental therapy for these viruses to date. The ...

Post-exposure antibody treatment protects primates from Ebola, Marburg viruses

March 13, 2012
(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Army scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that antibody-based therapies can successfully protect monkeys from the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses. In addition, the animals were fully protected even when treatment was administered two days post-infection, an accomplishment unmatched by any ...

Glycemic Control Improved In Vivo By Allosteric Insulin Receptor-Activating Antibody

March 11, 2012
XOMA Corporation (Nasdaq: XOMA) announced that its study of XMetA, the company's fully-human allosteric monoclonal antibody to the insulin receptor, is available online and will be published in the May issue of the American Diabetes Association's journal Diabetes. XMetA is the first antibody specific for the insulin receptor shown to ...

SMi’s Inaugural Antibody Drug Conjugates Summit, 23-24 May 2012, London

March 8, 2012
Antibody Drug Conjugates are used to fight cancerous cells and are made up of the antibody that will target a specific tumour0-associated antigen a drug often described as payload and the linker. This results in a drug being delivered selectively to the appropriate malignant cell due to the antibody targeting ...

First allosteric insulin receptor-activating antibody to improve glycemic control in vivo

March 8, 2012
(Canale Communications) XMetA is the first antibody specific for the insulin receptor shown to correct hyperglycemia in a mouse model of diabetes. Results of a study conducted by XOMA and confirmed by investigators at the University of California, San Francisco, demonstrate that XMetA has the potential to be a ...

Circadian’s VGX-100 human antibody improves corneal graft survival

January 30, 2012
Circadian Technologies Limited announced today the publication of data in the scientific journal, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), showing that VEGF-C expression is markedly up-regulated in corneal graft rejection.

FDA allows marketing of Stratify JCV Antibody ELISA test for PML

January 21, 2012
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of the first test to help determine the risk for a rare brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in people using the drug Tysabri (natalizumab) to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) or Crohn's disease.

arGEN-X to advance SIMPLE Antibody platform for treatment of autoimmune disorders

December 19, 2011
arGEN-X, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of human monoclonal antibodies from its proprietary SIMPLE Antibody platform, announced today it has received a grant of €1.3 million to further advance its powerful discovery platform for addressing challenging disease targets.

Antibody injection promising for diabetes and obesity

December 16, 2011
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Genetech Inc. in South San Francisco, California, led by molecular biologist Junichiro Sonoda, have discovered that a single injection of antibodies into obese diabetic mice provided a marked and sustained improvement in their condition and a reduction in their weight.

MorphoSys unveils next-generation antibody technology Ylanthia

December 6, 2011
MorphoSys AG today unveiled its next-generation antibody technology Ylanthia®. The technology was presented to an audience of specialists at the 2011 Antibody Engineering and Antibody Therapeutics Conference in San Diego. MorphoSys expects Ylanthia to set new standards for therapeutic antibody generation in the pharmaceutical industry over the next decade and ...

Neogenix novel antibody selected as one of Windhover’s 2011 Top 10 Projects to Watch

November 30, 2011
Neogenix Oncology, Inc. has announced that the company's novel antibody NEO-101, which targets pancreatic and colorectal cancer cells, has been selected as one of Windhover's 2011 Top 10 Projects to Watch.