Tue.Dec 19, 2023

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Breakthrough in Functional Annotation with HiFi-NN

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

Enzymes are vital biological catalysts for a multitude of processes, from cellular metabolism to industrial manufacturing. The applications of artificial. Enzymes are vital biological catalysts for a multitude of processes, from cellular metabolism to industrial manufacturing. The applications of artificial intelligence for enzyme generation is an exciting field of research with direct applications in the life sciences.

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Orchestration and theranostic applications of synthetic genome with Hachimoji bases/building blocks

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Modified oligos and ‘central dogma’ using recombinant enzymes. Abstract Synthetic genomics is a novel field of chemical biology where the chemically modified genetic alphabets have been considered in central dogma of life. Tweaking of chemical compositions of natural nucleotide bases could be developed as novel building blocks of DNA/RNA. The modified bases (dP, dZ, dS, and dB etc.) have been demonstrated to be adaptable for replication, transcription and follow Darwinism law of evolution.

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Can we decode the language of our primate cousins?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Are we able to differentiate between the vocal emissions of certain primates? A team asked volunteers to categorize the vocalizations of three species of great apes (Hominidae) and humans. During each exposure to these ''onomatopoeia'', brain activity was measured. Unlike previous studies, the scientists reveal that phylogenetic proximity -- or kinship -- is not the only factor influencing our ability to identify these sounds.

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Identification of peanut skin components for treating hepatocellular carcinoma via network pharmacology and in vitro experiments

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

In this study, PS was searched through Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform (TCMSP) and SYMMAP database. Then search for HCC targets in the five major databases. Next, we created a network and performed Gene Ontology (GO), and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis. In addition, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation were used for verification.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Early in the 1970s, paleontologists discovered strange fossilized fruits between hardened rock from one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth's history. The identity of these fossils remained elusive for the next several decades. Using CT scanning, scientists have now determined they are the oldest fossils from species in the Frankincense and Myrrh family.

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Probiotics Might Help Ward Off COVID-19

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- Probiotics might be able to help people dodge the worst effects of COVID-19, new clinical trial results show.Unvaccinated people who took a lactobacillus-laced probiotic had reduced COVID symptoms and even delayed.

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Your Toothbrush Could Be a Life Saver in the Hospital

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- A person’s toothbrush could be a true lifesaver if they land in a hospital ICU, according to new evidence review.Regular toothbrushing is associated with lower rates of death in the intensive care unit (ICU), shorter.

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ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023 meeting highlights

Elrig

Relive Drug Discovery 23 with SelectScience’s hub that features exclusive content from the event. The post ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023 meeting highlights first appeared on ELRIG.

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Cinnamon Tied to Tainted Applesauce Had Lead Levels 2,000 Times Higher Than Proposed Standards, FDA Says

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- Cinnamon samples gathered at a facility in Ecuador linked to tainted applesauce pouches were found to contain levels of toxic lead that were 2,000 times higher than proposed standards, according to U.S. Food and Drug.

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CDD Vault Update (December 2023)

Collaborative Drug

The Research Informatics and Development groups at CDD are continually developing computational tools within CDD Vault to help accelerate drug discovery. The newest addition to this suite of features is a novel Deep Learning model to aid medicinal chemists.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Experimental Drug Could Be Big Advance Against Kidney Disease

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- Early results from a trial of a new kidney disease medication show it significantly reduces levels of a urine marker of kidney damage.The experimental drug -- called BI 690517 for now -- cut levels of the liver protein.

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Investors still aren’t sold on UniQure’s gene therapy for Huntington’s

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The biotechnology company’s share price fell more than 10% Tuesday after the disclosure of more data from a small study.

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Salmonella-Tainted Cantaloupe Has Killed 4 in U.S., With More Than 300 Known Cases

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- Cases keep rising in an outbreak of salmonella illness tied to cantaloupes that began last month, with 302 people now sickened across 42 states, federal officials said.As of Dec. 15, four people had died and 129 had been.

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Merck gets FDA decision date for new pneumococcal vaccine

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company’s shot targets 21 strains of pneumococcal bacteria and, if approved, would compete with Pfizer’s Prevnar 20.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Patient Error Makes 1 in 10 Home Colon Cancer Tests Unusable

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- At-home tests for colon cancer make this important screening readily available to folks who can’t afford or would rather not go through a colonoscopy.Unfortunately, more than 1 in 10 at-home tests sent to a lab are.

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Study uncovers major hidden human-driven bird extinctions

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Humans have wiped out around 1,400 bird species -- twice as many as previously thought -- with major implications for the ongoing biodiversity crisis, a new study has found. The estimated extinctions would mean almost 12 per cent of bird species have died out over modern human history, since the Late Pleistocene around 130,000 years ago, with the vast majority of them becoming extinct directly or indirectly due to human activity.

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Hospital Coffee Machines Aren't Germ-Spreaders, Study Finds

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- Hospital coffee machines have received some side-eye as a potential source of spreading infection, but a new study debunks the belief.“To our great relief…a general ban on coffee makers doesn’t seem necessary,”.

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Moderation surpasses excess

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Kyoto, Japan — Down syndrome, a congenital disorder stemming from abnormal cell division and differentiation, is most common in newborns fated to neurodevelopmental delays and other health complications.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Genes Hold Clues to 'Athlete's Heart' Syndrome

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- Elite athletes who suffer a sudden cardiac arrest might have genetics that make them more vulnerable to heart disease, a new study suggests.Analysis of more than 280 top-level endurance athletes revealed that 1 in 6 have.

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David Kaplan named fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

David Kaplan, the Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election as an academy fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors. The NAI was founded to recognize and encourage inventors with U.S. patents and enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation.

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COVID Likely Paralyzed a Teen's Vocal Cords, Doctors Say

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 -- COVID-19 appears to have paralyzed a teen girl’s vocal cords, blocking her breathing to the point that surgery was required, a new case report says.The case suggests that vocal cord paralysis might be a rare complication.

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Linking genes and brain circuitry in anxiety disorders

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Kyoto, Japan – December 2023 Credit: credit: Kalyani B. Karunakaran/WPI-ASHBi Kyoto, Japan – December 2023 Anxiety disorders (ADs) affect more than 280 million people worldwide, making them one of the most common mental health conditions.

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Covalent Targeting of Splicing in T Cells

Covalent Modifiers

Kevin A. Scott, Hiroyuki Kojima, Nathalie Ropek, Charles D. Warren, Tiffany L. Zhang, Simon J. Hogg, Caroline Webster, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jahan Rahman, Bruno Melillo, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Jiankun Lyu, Omar Abdel-Wahab, Ekaterina V Vinogradova bioRxiv 2023.12.18.572199; doi: [link] Despite significant interest in therapeutic targeting of splicing, few chemical probes are available for the proteins involved in splicing.

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UTRF Innovation Awards celebrate UTHSC researchers

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) celebrated the researchers whose achievements are making life better locally, nationally, and globally at its annual Innovation Awards ceremony, held December 14 at the Mooney Library at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis.

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Biogen holds onto Tecfidera market in Europe for a little longer

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A decision by European regulators to revoke approvals for five generic versions of Biogen's multiple sclerosis medicine helps cement the drug's monopoly there through early 2025.

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UTHSC, Vanderbilt University receive $2.4 million grant to promote diversity in speech-language pathologists for high-need children

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University have secured a $2,399,454 grant to fund a five-year project to address the need for diversity in highly trained professionals in speech-language pathology.

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Discovery of Orally Available and Brain Penetrant AEP Inhibitors

Covalent Modifiers

Daniela Krummenacher, Weiping He, Bernd Kuhn, Christian Schnider, Angélica Beurier, Virginie Brom, Thulase Sivasothy, Christine Marty, Andreas Tosstorff, David S. Hewings, Stefanie Mesch, Emmanuel Pinard, Mathis Brändlin, Remo Hochstrasser, Paul Westwood, Judith Rothe, Alexandra Kronenberger, Federica Morandi, Simon Gutbier, Angelika Schuler, Dominik Heer, Ludivine Esteves Gloria, Lisa Joedicke, Markus G.

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Assisted reproductive technologies not associated with body mass index in children, except when using frozen embryos – according to new Danish study

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Assisted reproductive technologies not associated with body mass index in children, except when using frozen embryos – according to new Danish study Credit: Kristina Laugesen (CC-BY 4.

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Want to Improve the Well-Being of Health Workers? The System Itself Must Change

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

The pandemic has brought attention to the safety, health, and well-being of workers in healthcare. Recent efforts to address these issues include, the Office of the Surgeon General’s Addressing Health Worker Burnout,(1) an “Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce,” from the National Academy of Medicine’s National Plan for Healthcare Workforce Wellbeing (2) and the NIOSH Health Worker Mental Health Initiative (3).

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UM School of Medicine review highlights rise in psychiatric disorders linked to increased cannabis use

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The widespread use of cannabis (marijuana) and its increased potency are associated with a rise in cannabis-related psychiatric conditions, according to a new University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) review article that was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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The ChEMBL team wishes a Merry Xmas 2023!

The ChEMBL-og

2023 has been a productive year for the ChEMBL team, with two separate releases of ChEMBL, an overhaul of the ChEBI data schema, and the release of the new SureChEMBL. We introduced some new features in ChEMBL, including a flag for Natural Products and Chemical Probes and updated our Natural Product-likeness score. Drug data in ChEMBL and drug warning information has been updated for ChEMBL 32.

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On quality criteria for covalent and degrader probes

Molecular Design

I’ll be taking a look at H2023 (Expanding Chemical Probe Space: Quality Criteria for Covalent and Degrader Probes) in this post and this article has also been discussed In The Pipeline. I’ll primarily be discussing the quality criteria for covalent probes in this post although I’ll also comment briefly on chemical matter criteria proposed for degrader probes.

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New patent for Glaxosmithkline drug ARNUITY ELLIPTA

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for ARNUITY+ELLIPTA Arnuity Ellipta is a drug marketed by Glaxosmithkline and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are six patents… The post New patent for Glaxosmithkline drug ARNUITY ELLIPTA appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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