Tag: kite

27 DEC

Watch Australian surfer crash into shark during kite foiling race (VIDEO)

This is the moment Australian surfer Alex Soto collided with a shark during his speedy race in the waters of Cabarete in the Dominican Republic. GoPro footage shows Soto, who was preparing for the 2019 Pan American Games, accidently hitting the shark and sent flying from his board. READ MORE: Russian daredevil surfer tackles gigantic wave […]

03 SEP

The FDA approved the first gene therapy to treat cancer — and it’s the beginning of ‘a big new field of medicine’ (NVS, GILD, KITE, BLUE)

AP/Elaine Thompson The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first-ever gene therapy in the US. The drug, called Kymriah, is a highly personalized cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy (CAR is short for chimeric antigen receptor). It’s a type of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s immune system to take on cancer cells. […]

28 AUG

Gilead just bought a cancer immunotherapy company for $12 billion (GILD, KITE)

Reuters Gilead is acquiring cancer immunotherapy biotech Kite Pharma for $ 11.9 billion. Gilead, known for its HIV and hepatitis C drugs, has been growing a cash pile over the past few years since the approval of its hepatitis C drug, leading investors to speculate what company it might buy. Gilead’s purchase of Kite is […]

28 FEB

A gene therapy that uses a person’s own blood cells to fight cancer just passed a key trial (KITE)

Wikimedia Commons An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient’s own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients showing no sign of disease six months after a single treatment, its maker said Tuesday. In all, 82 percent of patients had their cancer shrink […]