The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency adopted a positive opinion for Jakavi (ruxolitinib) for the treatment of adult patients with polycythemia vera who are resistant to or intolerant of hydroxyurea. If approved in the EU, ruxolitinib could provide the first targeted treatment option for these patients.
The NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) has published a cluster of papers intended to advance the framework of spatial omics, the science of profiling morphological and molecular features of human cancers in two and three dimensions.
