Mitigating the Reproducibility Crisis in Cancer Drug Research Reproducibility has been highlighted as one of the main problems when validating cancer research. Scientists with the The Reproducibility Project have opted to begin pragmatically reviewing the… Read More
October 2016: The Antibody Update
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for His Work on Autophagy Autophagy is the cellular process that regulates a cells ability to degrade parts of itself that must be replaced. Yoshinori Ohsumi’s work… Read More
August 2016: The Antibody Update
T-cells Run Out of Energy When Fighting in Tumors T-cells were shown to have decreased levels of oxidative metabolism and lower numbers of mitochondria after entering a tumor’s microenvironment. It was shown that T-cells that… Read More
A Summary of ProSci’s Research on HIV
ProSci’s roots lie in the research of Human Immunodefficiency Virus and working to develop a neutralizing vaccine against it. Below is an “abstract of abstracts” summarizing the research performed over the last several years that… Read More
June 2016: The Antibody Update
First CRISPR/Cas9 Therapeutic Clinical Trials Starting The increasingly popular CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has been approved for use in cancer therapy. CRISPR is a DNA sequence that codes for the Cas9 complex, which is able… Read More
May 2016: The Antibody Update
The USDA Fined Santa Cruz Biotechnology $3.5-million for Animal Wellness Violations The United States Government has fined Santa Cruz Biotechnology $3.5-million over violations of the animal welfare act, making for the largest fine in the USDA’s history…. Read More
March 2016: The Antibody Update
A Possible Vaccine for Dengue Virus Vaccine research has shown that infecting volunteers with a weakened form of the dengue virus is able to boost the immune system enough to prevent future infections. This method of vaccination using… Read More
February 2016: The Antibody Update
The Cancer Moonshot Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire entrepreneur of pharmaceutical companies, had met with Vice President Biden in 2015 about the moonshot of curing cancer. This year, the entrepreneur has gathered several drug makers to speed… Read More
January 2016: The Antibody Update
Multiple Sclerosis Antibody May Be Linked to JC Virus InfectionMultiple sclerosis patients taking Natalizumab showed an increase in the number of cases of the neurodegenerative John Cunningham virus (JCV). JCV can cause a fatal brain… Read More
October 2015: The Antibody Update
Antibody Against an Alzheimer’s Associate Protein Presented at the 2015 Society for Neuroscience Conference At the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference in Chicago, an abstract was presented by a Harvard research team about an antibody to… Read More