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This week in drug discovery (5-9 August) 

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The news highlights this week all centre around significant US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory decisions, including new approvals for drugs for solid tumours, hepatitis B and glioma. The post This week in drug discovery (5-9 August) appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Mathematical model can speed up Alzheimer’s drug development

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Researchers have created a mathematical model that can accurately depict Alzheimer’s disease progression in individual patients, paving the way for personalised treatment and faster development of therapies.

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An Evolving Regulatory Environment for Rare and Orphan Diseases

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Orphan drugs have historically faced a number of barriers, such as limited research and development (R&D) investment due to an expected lack of profitability as well as challenges in clinical trial design and recruitment. Before 1983, only 38 orphan drugs had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

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Can liquid biopsies transform precision medicine?

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This, coupled with a growing understanding of the heterogeneity of cancer as the basis for treatment resistance, tumour evolution and therefore the main source of therapeutic failure, 6 has highlighted the importance of developing personalised therapy. Tumour heterogeneity and resistance to cancer therapies. Cancer 19 , 553–567 (2019).

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