Tue.Nov 12, 2024

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Giving robots superhuman vision using radio signals

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have developed PanoRadar, a new tool to give robots superhuman vision by transforming simple radio waves into detailed, 3D views of the environment.

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Recent changes to ELN

Collaborative Drug

Updates to ELN annotation tool, ELN insert link hotkey, auto generated sample IDs, list searching in inventory, flag outliers during imports

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Fossil fuel CO2 emissions increase again in 2024

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new research.

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Beta Blockers Unnecessary for Folks Without Heart Failure; May Be Linked to Depression

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- Beta blockers are go-to meds for many people who've survived a heart attack.However, new Swedish research has found that they might not be needed for heart attack survivors whose hearts have retained a normal pumping.

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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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One genomic test can diagnose nearly any infection

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A genomic test developed by researchers to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen -- virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite -- has proved successful after a decade of use.

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First amber find on the Antarctic continent

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Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

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Genomic Test Might Quickly Diagnose Any Type of Infection

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- A cutting-edge genetic test can rapidly detect and identify almost any kind of disease-causing microorganism in the human body, whether it’s a virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite, researchers say.Doctors have been using t.

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Possible to limit climate change to 1.5°C, if EU and 17 other countries go beyond their own targets

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study finds that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible, but some countries require support to meet their climate responsibilities. An 'additional carbon accountability' indicator is introduced, revealing that the EU and 17 other countries must exceed their own current targets to achieve this global goal.

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Bird Flu Is Decimating Elephant Seal Colonies

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd populations, a new report finds."It is likely that more than half of the reproductive population died due.

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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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A formula for life? New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our Universe and beyond

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This was the formula that American astronomer Dr Frank Drake came up with in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy.

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U.S. Alcohol Intake Rose During Pandemic, and for Years After

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TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- Even as the pressures of the pandemic began to ebb, Americans' growing dependence on alcohol did not, a troubling new study shows.Two years into the globe-altering health crisis, the percentage of Americans who consumed.

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Astronomers' theory of how galaxies formed may be upended

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible dark matter helped the earliest stars and galaxies clump together.

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America's Epidemic of STDs May Finally Be Slowing

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 11, 2024 -- The epidemic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States appears to be cooling off after more than two decades, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study says. Gonorrhea cases dropped.

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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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Time alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers -- even when connecting on social media

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists detect a heightened 'threat vigilance' reaction in adolescents after a few hours of isolation, which socializing online doesn't appear to ameliorate. They say the findings might shed light on the link between loneliness and mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders, which are on the rise in young people.

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Early Deaths From Heart Disease Rising in Rural U.S.

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TUESDAY, Nov. 11, 2024 -- More people in rural America are dying from heart disease, a new study says.Heart disease deaths increased among 25- to 64-year-olds in U.S. rural areas by about 21% between 2010 and 2022, researchers report in the Journal.

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Breakthrough in photonic time crystals could change how we use and control light

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An international research team has for the first time designed realistic photonic time crystals - exotic materials that exponentially amplify light. The breakthrough opens up exciting possibilities across fields such as communication, imaging and sensing by laying the foundations for faster and more compact lasers, sensors and other optical devices.

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Grandparents & Grandkids: Poll Shows Them Helping Each Other

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- Grandchildren are a true blessing for seniors, helping them avoid loneliness and keeping them on their toes, a new poll reports.Overall, 72% of people with grandkids say they hardly ever feel isolated, compared with 62% of.

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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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Remarkable new swimming sea slug in the deep sea

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Nicknamed the 'mystery mollusc,' the nudibranch Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and paddle-like tail, and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence.

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Kids Still Find It Easy to Buy Flavored Vapes Online

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- If you think that federal restrictions on the sale of tobacco products make it nearly impossible for your teen to buy vapes online, new research suggests you're mistaken.In 2020, the Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes.

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Synthetic cells emulate natural cellular communication

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A research team has succeeded in synthesizing simple, environmentally sensitive cells complete with artificial organelles. For the first time, the researchers have also been able to emulate natural cell-cell communication using these proto-cells -- based on the model of photoreceptors in the eye. This opens up new possibilities for basic research and applications in medicine.

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Logistics in Focus: Orchestrating the Challenges of Cell Therapy

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

By Amy Raymond, PhD, PMP, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) include cutting-edge approaches that offer the hope of a healthier, happier, and better tomorrow for a wide range of patient populations. CGTs address rare and complex diseases at the root cause with increasing use in cancer, genetic disorders, and autoimmune diseases.

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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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Earliest ancient Maya salt works excavated

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A team of archaeologists has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize.

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Biotech investors, including Third Rock, pump $100M into a startup’s genetic medicine for ALS

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Trace Neuroscience aims to advance an RNA-binding therapy designed to preserve — and potentially improve — muscle function in people living with the nerve-destroying disorder.

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Act Now! Navigating the Windsor Framework in the UK

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A New Era for Pharmaceutical Development and Licensing in the UK The Windsor Framework , set to be implemented from January 1, 2025, marks a significant shift in the regulatory landscape for pharmaceutical development and licensing in the United Kingdom (UK). This framework aims to streamline the licensing process, ensuring that medicines are authorized across the entire UK, including Northern Ireland, under a unified system managed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHR

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AstraZeneca, Daiichi revise approval plans for Enhertu successor

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Following mixed study results, the partners have backed away from seeking broad clearance of dato-dxd in lung cancer and instead are aiming for a narrower approval.

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New solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions

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A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles spectroscopy and helioseismology measurements for the first time. Helioseismology probes the Sun's interior by analyzing the waves that travel through it, while spectroscopy reveals the surface composition based on the spectral signature produced by each chemical element.

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