‘We have a healthy spacecraft’: NASA succeeds in historic flyby of faraway world
- 02-Jan-2019
TAMPA: NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind — a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule — in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape. A series of anxiously awaited “phone home” signals […]
Merck drug Keytruda succeeds in late-stage esophageal cancer trial
- 14-Nov-2018
Merck & Co’s blockbuster drug Keytruda met the main goal of a late-stage trial testing the treatment in patients with cancers of the digestive tract, the US drugmaker said on Wednesday. Keytruda, among a class of medicines called PD-1 inhibitors, is Merck’s top selling drug and has already been approved to treat several forms of […]
Roche’s emicizumab haemophilia drug succeeds in trial
- 22-Dec-2016
SHANGHAI: Roche Holding AG’s emicizumab drug for treating haemophilia A showed it worked in a phase III study, the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday. Roche is hoping to win a slice of the $11 billion-a-year haemophilia drug market with the drug, also known as ACE910, which represents a threat to more traditional treatments from Novo […]
Robots can now perform soft-tissue surgery
- 05-May-2016
MIAMI: A robotic machine has succeeded at stitching two segments of a pig's bowel together, an advance for the tricky field of soft tissue surgery, researchers said Wednesday.