One of the highly significant abstracts presented at the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2019 in Chicago (May 31-June 4) described impressive preliminary data on the liquid biopsy detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which is one of the most prevalent malignancies in Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Arctic. Using a […]

In the spring of 2014, a small Michigan biotech closed a $6.5 million deal to buy several cell therapies from the French drug giant Sanofi. They included a technology to treat weekend warriors with worn-out knees and a new kind of skin graft for people with catastrophic burns. Almost exactly five years later, the acquisitions […]

A Canadian-listed medical marijuana company plans to grow nearly one million pounds of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis a year for the world market…