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Bees 'dumb down' after ingesting tiny doses pesticide chlorpyrifos

2016-03-02 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Honeybees suffer severe learning and memory deficits after ingesting very small doses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, potentially threatening their success and survival, new research from New Zealand's University of Otago suggests. In their study, researchers from the Departments of Zoology and Chemistry collected bees from 51 hives across 17 locations in the province of Otago in Southern New Zealand and measured their chlorpyrifos levels. They detected low levels of pesticide in bees at three...

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Teva, Active Biotech halt higher doses of oral MS drug in trials

2016-01-04 16:59:51| Biotech - Topix.net

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Active Biotech will discontinue higher doses of their oral drug in development for multiple sclerosis in two trials, citing the occurrence of non-fatal cardiovascular events in eight patients. Both trials of laquinimod will continue with the lower dose of 0.6 mg daily where there were no issues.

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Sanofi, Regeneron Cholesterol Drug Also Effective In Monthly Doses

2015-01-11 07:00:45| Biotech - Topix.net

An experimental drug from Sanofi SA and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals was found to be effective in lowering "bad" cholesterol even when administered once every four weeks, instead of every two weeks. The drug, alirocumab, belongs to an emerging class of injectable drugs that block a naturally occurring protein called PCSK9, which inhibits the liver from expelling "bad" LDL cholesterol.

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WHO: Millions of Ebola vaccine doses ready in 2015

2014-10-24 18:38:12| Biotech - Topix.net

The World Health Organization says millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready for use in 2015 and five more experimental vaccines will start being tested in March. Still, the agency warned it's not clear whether any of these will work against the deadly virus that has already killed at least 4,877 people this year in West Africa.

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Drugmakers to join forces to make millions of Ebola vaccine doses

2014-10-22 19:08:21| Biotech - Topix.net

Leading drugmakers plan to work together to speed up the development of an Ebola vaccine and hope to produce millions of doses for use next year. U.S. firm Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday that it aims to produce at least 1 million doses of its two-step vaccine next year and has already discussed collaboration with Britain's GlaxoSmithKline, which is working on a rival vaccine.

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