A Greensboro medical device company has patented a biopsy platform with a needle it says will offer physicians a more thorough, accurate and efficient tissue sampling and retrieval method.
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Startup biotech Propella Therapeutics is being acquired by Japan-based Astella Pharma in a deal valued at $175 million. Here are the details.
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DURHAM — Levee Medical, Inc. last week filed with the SEC for their second major round of funding. According to the document the company has raised more than $3.4 million in debt from 34 investors. The company aims to raise a total of $4.3 million, with more than $850,000...
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Genetic studies usually recruit non-Hispanic white men, despite data showing that Black men are disproportionately affected by prostate cancer and more than twice as likely to die from the disease compared to their white counterparts. A new Duke study may help address that problem.
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A Durham startup focusing on improving outcomes from prostate cancer surgery now has $6.6 million in its tool chest to further advance its research and development.
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Studying the cellular metabolism of prostate cancer, a team of Duke Health-led researchers identified a key reason hormone therapies eventually fail, while also laying out a way to bypass the problem using an entirely new therapeutic approach.
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Founded y Duke University professors, Sisu Pharma is developing drugs to treat prostate cancer in patients who have exhausted all therapeutic options.
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The researchers identified a cell surface receptor that is essential for the function and survival of resistant prostate cancer cells, and showed in laboratory studies that this receptor can be targeted to halt tumor growth.
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