Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a gene-editing system (CRISPR/Cas9) that can perform intranuclear gene editing only in diseased cells.The gene scissors system is an effective tool for performing sophisticated gene editing by combining a si
The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) has been analyzing how new reimbursements for antidiabetic combination therapies mixing oral SGLT-2 and DPP-4 inhibitors would affect the national health insurance financing.If the national health insurance covers SGLT-2 inhibitors in combina
Curocell said its investigational CAR-T therapy anbal-cell (ingredient: anbalcabtagene autoleucel) showed an 82 percent complete response rate in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL).Professor Kim Won-seog of hemato-oncology at Samsung Medical Center, who was the principal
Baxter Korea said Wednesday it highlighted the benefits of expanded hemodialysis (HDx) using its Theranova at a symposium for nephrologists during the 42nd International Academic Conference of the Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN 2022).Professor Choi Hoon-young of Gangnam Severance Hospital present
Hanall Biopharma said it would exclusively sell Stavaster (ingredient: Rosuvastatin), a hyperlipidemia treatment developed by Sandoz Korea, Novartis' subsidiary for generic and biosimilar business.Hanall Biopharma will exclusively sell and promote Stavaster, and Sandoz Korea will supply it.Korea’s r
Effepharm said it has published the results of Uthever® Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) research on Frontier in Aging, an authoritative international journal on aging mechanisms.Uthever® NMN, an endogenous compound, has proved safe and improved the NAD+/NADH in the human body, thus realizing the a
Korea reported an increase in new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, but the daily tally remained below 10,000 for five consecutive days.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported that Korea added 9,778 Covid-19 cases, including 41 from overseas, bringing the total to 18,239,056. Health offici
A health expert recommended using pneumococcal vaccines, including Pfizer’s, for Covid-19 patients, noting that respiratory infection causes most of the hospitalization of those who developed sequelae even after a full recovery.The World Health Organization defines long Covid as cases that begin wit
The government said that Korea is estimated to have a 94.9 percent Covid-19 antibody positivity through vaccinations and natural infections.On Tuesday, the Central Disease Control Headquarters released the Covid-19 antibody positivity survey report results.The results were from a pool of 1,612 peopl
For patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the 2022 NCCN guideline recommends tests for a mutation in PD-L1, a biomarker for immunotherapy, and EGFR, ALK, KRAS, ROS1, BRAF, NTRK1/2/3, MET exon 14 skipping and RET mutations for targeted therapy so that patients can receive optimal customiz
Myongji Hospital's Natural Medicine Research Institute said it has signed a business agreement with Cosmax NBT, a health functional food company, to research and develop a natural product-based health functional food.The hospital aims to supply natural product-based health functional food for people
Life Semantics said it is speeding up clinical trials for patients with respiratory diseases with Redpill Breath, a digital prescription treatment for respiratory rehabilitation.Redpill Breath is respiratory rehabilitation software that helps people with respiratory diseases to rehabilitate themselv
The stigma of one’s local community being discriminated against as a Covid-19 infection area affected the mental health of adolescents negatively, a study found.The National Medical Center’s research team released their study, “Factors Related to Anxiety and Depression Among Adolescents During COVID
Shinpoong Pharmaceutical, already working on multinational phase 3 trials of antimalarial treatment Pyramax in Covid-19 patients, said it would begin a new phase 2 study in Korea.The company said that the new study aims to confirm Pyramax’s effect against the Omicron variant.On Monday, the Ministry
HK inno.N said Tuesday that it has discovered next-generation immune-cancer antibodies in collaboration with Y Biologics. It added that the two companies would use this discovery to expand their research portfolio in antibody treatments and cell therapies such as CAR-T and CAR-NK.Antibodies are prot
The government said Friday that it would work out institutional and cultural measures to allow Covid-19 patients to automatically take a leave of absence instead of lifting quarantine obligations for those who test positive for the virus.It will decide whether to lift the quarantine obligation for c
Medical AI solution provider Coreline Soft said Monday that the company has started a cooperative relationship with medical AI platform company Promedius to advance AI solutions and expand market share.Coreline Soft has supplied its AI diagnostic solution as a national lung cancer screening support
Samsung Biologics said it would participate in the world’s largest biopharmaceutical exhibition, "2022 BIO International Convention,” from June 13-16 in San Diego, Calif., organized by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.BIO holds the annual event in major U.S. cities with bio-clusters, provid
Dongkook Pharmaceutical said Monday it has signed a business agreement with Efil Bioscience to promote their joint research into new drugs.The two companies aim to develop promising new drugs, derive one or more non-clinical candidate substances by the end of this year, and conduct non-clinical rese
A research team at Yonsei University has revealed the immunological mechanism and cause of tuberculosis exacerbation in patients infected with the virus following mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.Tuberculosis is the most serious infectious disease among the three major diseases designated by the