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Oramed Pharmaceuticals to purchase $15,800,000 shares in registered direct offering

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a developer of oral drug delivery systems, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with investors to purchase an aggregate of 1,580,000 shares of common stock at a price of $10.00 per share in a registered direct offering.

26 Dec 2013

Artificial sweetener sucralose has biological effects

The artificial sweetener sucralose is a biologically active compound according to an extensive review published by Taylor & Francis in the recent issue of Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B: Critical Reviews. "Sucralose, A Synthetic Organochlorine Sweetener: Overview Of Biological Issues" authored by Susan S. Schiffman, PhD, an internationally known sweetener researcher and Kristina I. Rother, MD, MHSc, of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), summarizes the biological properties of sucralose based on hundreds of archival, peer-reviewed scientific journal publications.

13 Dec 2013

Ascend, 3M partner to develop and evaluate novel immunotherapy treatments for cancer

Ascend Biopharmaceuticals today announces that is has entered into an agreement with 3M Drug Delivery Systems to evaluate 3M’s Toll-Like Receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) agonist 3M-051 in combination with Ascend’s proprietary cancer vaccine technology. The collaboration will support the creation and preclinical assessment of novel immunotherapy treatments to be potentially used for a number of different solid tumor types.

29 Nov 2013

GLP-1 hormone can predict metabolic efficacy of gastric bypass

The sensitivity of the GLP-1 hormone, which is secreted by the gastrointestinal tract, can predict the metabolic efficacy of a gastric bypass. The use of a GLP1 challenge could thus function as a novel predictive biomarker for personalized treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.

8 Nov 2013

New therapeutic approach for treating type 2 diabetes

Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) and the Technische Universität München (TUM), together with scientists in the USA, have developed a new therapeutic approach for treatment of type 2 diabetes.

31 Oct 2013

Scientists develop new therapeutic approach for treatment of type 2 diabetes

Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen and the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, together with scientists in the USA, have developed a new therapeutic approach for treatment of Type 2 diabetes. A novel single molecule hormone, which acts equally on the receptors of the insulin-stimulating hormones GLP-1 and GIP, was observed to reduce weight and improve blood sugar.

31 Oct 2013

NanoViricides’ FluCide drug candidate found to be well tolerated in non-GLP safety/toxicology study

NanoViricides, Inc. (the "Company") reports that its optimized injectable FluCide® drug candidate was found to be well tolerated in a non-GLP small animal safety/toxicology study. This study is an important step in the drug development pathway for FluCide.

21 Oct 2013

CHD Bioscience's lead product can help mitigate increasing threat of HAIs

According to a recent report issued by the Centers for Disease Control, every year more than two million people develop infections that are resistant to antibiotics. Specific healthcare-associated infections are classified as urgent threats and affect approximately 1.7 million people annually across the United States, leading to death in nearly 99,000 patients.

9 Oct 2013

Arrowhead initiates Phase 1 study of ARC-520 for treatment against chronic HBV infection

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), a biopharmaceutical company developing targeted RNAi therapeutics, today announced that it completed enrollment in a Phase 1 clinical trial of ARC-520, its RNAi-based candidate against chronic hepatitis B virus infection.

9 Oct 2013

Efficacy and safety data on linagliptin and investigational compound empagliflozin* in various diabetes subpopulations presented by Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company today announced they will feature five oral and 12 poster presentations for linagliptin and the investigational compound empagliflozin* at the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) which will take place in Barcelona, from 23 – 27 September. The presentations will add to the already existing body of data on safety and efficacy of these two compounds.

18 Sep 2013

Amino acid arginine improves treatment for type 2 diabetes

More than 371 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, of whom 90% are affected by lifestyle-related diabetes mellitus type 2 (type 2 diabetes).

10 Sep 2013

TSRI scientists study 3-D structure of glucagon receptor for treatment of diabetes

The study is reported on July 17, 2013, in an advance online edition of the journal Nature, alongside a British laboratory's structural study of another member of the same class of receptors-known as "class B" G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).

18 Jul 2013

Coffee and appetite: an interview with Matt Schubert and Associate Professor Ben Desbrow, Griffith University

We wanted to do something a bit different than the “typical” work on caffeine and exercise, and I have considerable interest in appetite regulation, so we built up from there.

15 Jul 2013

UH and Case Western Reserve University to develop diagnostic tests to determine HIV drug resistance

Case Western Reserve University has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement granting University Hospitals Case Medical Center rights to a series of diagnostic tests to determine drug resistance and co-receptor tropism in human immunodeficiency virus.

2 Jul 2013

Sanofi presents positive phase 3 data for GLP-1 receptor for type 2 diabetes

Sanofi US (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) announced today data that showed lixisenatide, an investigational once-daily prandial glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, decreased HbA1c by reducing PPG (postprandial glucose) daytime exposure when added to standard of care which includes basal insulin with or without oral anti-diabetic agents (OADs). Lixisenatide is for the treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

24 Jun 2013

Researchers to study benefits, side effects of four widely used therapies in adults with type 2 diabetes

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are seeking 150 adults with type 2 diabetes to take part in the local arm of a major national clinical trial that will compare benefits and side effects of four widely used therapies to lower blood-sugar levels.

18 Jun 2013

Transition, Lilly amend agreement to address future development of TT-401

Transition Therapeutics Inc. announced that Eli Lilly and Company has exercised its option to assume all development and commercialization rights to type 2 diabetes drug candidate TT-401.

17 Jun 2013

NGM, MedImmune partner to develop novel therapeutics for treatment of diabetes and obesity

NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. and MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, announced today that they have entered into an exclusive agreement to discover, develop and commercialize novel therapeutics from NGM's enteroendocrine cell program for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.

17 Jun 2013

Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca release statement on ADA's efforts toward incretin-based therapies

Earlier this week, the American Diabetes Association called for manufacturers of incretin-based therapies to make patient-level data available from clinical trials for an independent analysis of pancreatic safety.

17 Jun 2013

New data on PROLOR Biotech's hGH-CTP and MOD-6030 to be presented at ENDO 2013

PROLOR Biotech, Inc., today announced that the company will present new data on its long-acting human growth hormone (hGH-CTP) in Phase III development for the treatment of growth hormone deficiency and its long acting oxyntomodulin (MOD-6030) in preclinical development for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes at ENDO 2013, the 95th Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society.

13 Jun 2013

Semaglutide News and Research

Latest Semaglutide News and Research

Oramed Pharmaceuticals to purchase $15,800,000 shares in registered direct offering

Artificial sweetener sucralose has biological effects

Ascend, 3M partner to develop and evaluate novel immunotherapy treatments for cancer

GLP-1 hormone can predict metabolic efficacy of gastric bypass

New therapeutic approach for treating type 2 diabetes

Scientists develop new therapeutic approach for treatment of type 2 diabetes

NanoViricides’ FluCide drug candidate found to be well tolerated in non-GLP safety/toxicology study

CHD Bioscience's lead product can help mitigate increasing threat of HAIs

Arrowhead initiates Phase 1 study of ARC-520 for treatment against chronic HBV infection

Efficacy and safety data on linagliptin and investigational compound empagliflozin* in various diabetes subpopulations presented by Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company

Amino acid arginine improves treatment for type 2 diabetes

TSRI scientists study 3-D structure of glucagon receptor for treatment of diabetes

Coffee and appetite: an interview with Matt Schubert and Associate Professor Ben Desbrow, Griffith University

UH and Case Western Reserve University to develop diagnostic tests to determine HIV drug resistance

Sanofi presents positive phase 3 data for GLP-1 receptor for type 2 diabetes

Researchers to study benefits, side effects of four widely used therapies in adults with type 2 diabetes

Transition, Lilly amend agreement to address future development of TT-401

NGM, MedImmune partner to develop novel therapeutics for treatment of diabetes and obesity

Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca release statement on ADA's efforts toward incretin-based therapies

New data on PROLOR Biotech's hGH-CTP and MOD-6030 to be presented at ENDO 2013

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Latest Semaglutide News and Research

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