Baxter International is now in late-stage trials in Europe using green-monkey kidney cell lines to grow the virus in vats.

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Chiron is racing to finish late-stage trials of a method that grows strains within clones of a 1980s-era dog kidney cell.

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Hampshire PCT said the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) currently recommends that Sunitinib is not used for the treatment of advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer).

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On the FDA's Fast Track and in phase III testing is the company's BAY 43-9006, a small molecule RAF kinase and VEGF inhibitor that inhibits tumor growth for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (advanced kidney cancer).

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They used stem cells from a human embryo, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the human body from nerve to skin, muscle to kidney.

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