Medical R&D News

New Insight Offered on “How did living cells first form on earth and could they form the same way on other planets?”

Recent laboratory experiments which seek to recreate the formation of the first living cells from the basic chemical building blocks of nature are shedding new light on how life may have occurred on earth and on other planets, biologist Jack Szostak and chemist Brian Paegel said today in the annual Lasker Foundation Lecture on the [...]



Desmoteplase enters clinical phase II in Japan in ischaemic stroke

H. Lundbeck A/S today announced the initiation of the first Japanese clinical phase II trial with desmoteplase (DIAS-J) in the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke. This study is required for the approval of the substance for the Japanese market. In 2009 Lundbeck successfully performed a phase I study in around 30 healthy Japanese volunteers with [...]