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Exploring alternatives to animal testing in drug discovery

Drug Target Review

allowing researchers to use “certain alternatives to animal testing, including cell-based assays and computer models, to obtain an exemption from the FDA to investigate the safety and effectiveness of a drug.” Overall, there are several alternatives to animal testing that can be used in pre-clinical research.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

Inspired by her time at GSK, Millie pursued a PhD at the University of Cambridge investigating the signalling pathways that drive cancer cell growth using in-vitro cell based assays and biochemical analysis. Driven by an interest in drug discovery Millie joined AstraZeneca after completion of her PhD at the end of 2020.

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Leadeth me unto Truth and delivereth me from those who have already found it

Molecular Design

To this I’d add that we often don’t use the full-length proteins in design and recombinant proteins may have been engineered to make them easier to crystallize or more robust for soaking experiments. Recombinant expression can lead to missing post-translational modifications (e.g.,

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Article FDA Thank You Draft guidance on potency assays for CGT products garners extensive stakeholder input

Agency IQ

Cell-based assays , while more complex to develop and use, offer another option for characterizing product activity at a slightly higher level, allowing sponsors to measure the further downstream effects of products (e.g., morphological cell changes or alterations in protein production or expression).