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Malvern Instruments has entered into an agreement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences to acquire the company’s MicroCal™ microcalorimetry business.

Companies announce a five-year extension of their drug discovery and development collaboration in India.

Pembrolizumab as monotherapy shows estimated overall survival rate at one year across 411 advanced melanoma patients with varying stages of disease and prior therapy.

Trial will evaluate safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of APD334 for treatment of a number of autoimmune diseases.

Partnership enters a new, $9M phase of a project to produce a diagnostic test to rapidly measure an individual’s level of absorption of ionizing radiation.

Even by three months of age, babies are visually able to locate objects that stand out from a group, a York University study has found. "For example, an infant can pick a red umbrella in a sea of grey ones," says Psychology Professor Scott Adler in the Faculty of Health, who led the research.

Children who are physically fit have faster and more robust neuro-electrical brain responses during reading than their less-fit peers, researchers report.

According to new research from the Monell Center, receptors for stress-activated hormones have been localized in oral taste cells responsible for detection of sweet, umami, and bitter. The findings suggest that these hormones, known as glucocorticoids, may act directly on taste receptor cells under conditions of stress to affect how these cells respond to sugars and certain other taste stimuli.

Good outcomes with minimally invasive procedure for one type of epilepsy, reports neurosurgery For patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) that can't be controlled by medications, a minimally invasive laser procedure performed under MRI guidance provides a safe and effective alternative to surgery, suggests a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery , official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons .

A seven-year study of women who take antipsychotic medication while pregnant, proves it can affect babies.