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Exercise of any kind boosts brainpower at any age

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Whether it's an early morning jog, or a touch of Tai Chi, groundbreaking research shows that any form of exercise can significantly boost brain function and memory across children, adults, and older adults.

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Novo Nordisk To Pay $2 Billion for New Weight Loss Drug

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company, has signed a major deal worth up to $2 billion for the rights to a new obesity and diabetes drug, the company announced March 24. The drug, called UBT251, is being developed.

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'Low-sugar' vaccine can provide broad immunity against coronavirus variants

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Early animal studies show that a single vaccine could protect the recipient from different variants of the coronaviruses that cause COVID-19, the flu and the common cold. In addition to creating antibodies that target a specific region of the spike protein that doesn't mutate, the vaccine removes the sugar coat from the virus that allows it to hide in the body.

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Shared Your DNA With 23andMe? Experts Say It’s Time To Delete It

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- If you’re one of the 15 million people who shared your DNA with 23andMe, stop whatever you're doing. Experts say now is the time to delete your data. The genetic testing company filed for bankruptcy March 23 and is.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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New Evidence Links Microplastics with Chronic Disease

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Tiny fragments of plastic have become ubiquitous in our environment and our bodies. Higher exposure to these microplastics, which can be inadvertently consumed or inhaled, is associated with a heightened prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases, according to new research.

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A hit of dopamine tells baby birds when their song practice is paying off

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By watching the ebb and flow of the brain's chemical signals, researchers are beginning to disentangle the molecular mechanisms underlying the intrinsic motivation to learn. In a new study of zebra finches, researchers show that a hit a dopamine tells baby birds when their song practice is paying off. The findings suggest that dopamine acts like an internal 'compass' to steer their learning when external incentives are absent.

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'Broken Heart Syndrome' Doubles Risk of Hospitalization

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TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- The final days of acclaimed actor Gene Hackman are heart-rending -- a man with Alzheimers disease wandering his home for nearly a week after the untimely death of his wife, before collapsing himself.Experts have s.

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Were large soda lakes the cradle of life?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to emerge? A team of origin-of-life researchers has an answer.

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Merck bets $200M on a new type of heart pill

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A licensing deal with Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals puts Merck in a competitive race to develop a medicine that targets a genetic risk factor called lipoprotein(a).

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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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Hydrophilic coating makes for unflappable golf balls

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The condition of the grass on a golf course can drastically skew the chances of a winning putt regardless of a player's skill. Now, a coating that soaks up water molecules could slow the roll of a golf ball on a lightning-fast, dry course and speed it up on a sluggish, wet course without interfering with the ball when it's airborne.

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Character Biosciences raises $93M with an eye on vision loss drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The startup is bringing into Phase 1 testing an experimental treatment it says could be more effective than marketed geographic atrophy medicines.

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Postpartum female preference for cooler temperatures linked to brain changes

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Mothers experience major metabolic adaptations during pregnancy and lactation to support the development and growth of the new life. Although many metabolic changes have been studied, body temperature regulation and environmental temperature preference during and after pregnancy remain poorly understood. Researchers show that postpartum female mice develop new environmental temperature preferences and reveal brain changes mediating these changes.

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This Diet Is Best For Healthy Aging

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TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- How should a person eat in middle age to protect their health as they grow older?One diet came out a clear winner in a 30-year study involving more than 105,000 men and women and eight diets, researchers reported in the.

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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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These electronics-free robots can walk right off the 3D-printer

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material.

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Two-Drug Combo of a Statin Plus Ezetimibe, Lowers Cholesterol Better Than Statins Alone

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- Statins are very cheap and highly effective cholesterol-lowering drugs -- but high-risk heart patients may have an even better option, a new evidence review says. Combining statins with another drug, ezetimibe.

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Revolutionizing touch: Researchers explore the future of wearable multi-sensory haptic technology

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

From virtual reality to rehabilitation and communication, haptic technology has revolutionized the way humans interact with the digital world. While early haptic devices focused on single-sensory cues like vibration-based notifications, modern advancements have paved the way for multisensory haptic devices that integrate various forms of touch-based feedback, including vibration, skin stretch, pressure and temperature.

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An effort based at Broad is fostering dialogue between autism researchers, advocates, and families

Broad Institute

An effort based at Broad is fostering dialogue between autism researchers, advocates, and families By Leah Eisenstadt March 25, 2025 Breadcrumb Home An effort based at Broad is fostering dialogue between autism researchers, advocates, and families In a Q&A, autism researchers and advocates talk about a project theyve launched to encourage productive conversations on key issues in autism research.

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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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Listen to quantum atoms talk together thanks to acoustics

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To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an acoustic version of a quantum computer.

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Two-Drug Combo Lowers Cholesterol Better Than Statins Alone

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- Statins are very cheap and highly effective cholesterol-lowering drugs -- but high-risk heart patients may have an even better option, a new evidence review says.Combining statins with another drug, ezetimibe.

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Fluorescent caves could explain how life persists in extraterrestrial environments

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Deep below the Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and green. Scientists are using these fluorescent features to understand how the caves formed and the conditions for supporting life in extreme, and even extraterrestrial, environments.

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Women More Vulnerable To Heart Risk Factors

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- Lifestyle factors like diet, exercise, smoking and blood pressure have a greater impact on the heart health of women than men, a new study says.Women with poor health have nearly five times the risk of heart disease.

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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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Biological pathway in the brain could help explain why teenage girls are more depressed than boys

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Research has shown that a biological brain mechanism called the 'kynurenine pathway' is imbalanced in adolescents with depression, and this imbalance is more pronounced in teenage girls than boys.

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7 Steps to Define a Data Governance Structure for a Mid-Sized Bank (Without Losing Your Mind)

Perficient: Drug Development

A mid-sized bank I was consulting with for their data warehouse modernization project finally realized that data isn’t just some necessary but boring stuff the IT department hoards in their digital cave. It’s the new gold, the ticking time bomb of risk, and the bane of every regulatory report that’s ever come back with more red flags than a beach during a shark sighting.

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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced

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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced ELRIG Announces Prof Rory Johnson and Dr Shalini Andersson as Keynote Speakers at Therapeutic Oligonucleotides 2025 Cambridge, UK, 25 March 2025: ELRIG, a not-for-profit, volunteer-led organisation for the drug discovery community, today announced the keynote speakers for Therapeutic Oligonucleotides 2025 taking place at the AstraZeneca R&D site in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1415 May.

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From FinOps Bean Counting to Value Harvesting: The Rise of Unit Economics

Perficient: Drug Development

Applying FinOps concepts to your cloud consumption is not new. Its often treated as an IT hygiene task: necessary but not strategic. And while cost optimization and waste reduction are worthy efforts, its all too common to see these activities fall victim to higher daily priorities. When they are in focus, its often attempted by looking for low-hanging wins using cloud-native services that arent overly interested in delivering a comprehensive picture of cloud spend.

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Mammograms Can Help Assess Women's Heart Health As Well

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, March 25, 2025 -- Mammograms can be used to screen for more than just breast cancer, researchers say.The X-ray breast scans also can be used to assess calcium deposits in arteries, which is an indicator of heart health, researchers are.

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