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Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international team of paleontologists has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents.

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An Alzheimer's Drug May Also Slow Lewy Body Dementia

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 24, 2024 -- A type of drug used to treat Alzheimer’s disease appears to slow the progression of Lewy body dementia, the brain disease that afflicted comedian Robin Williams prior to his suicide.Cholinesterase inhibitors prevent the b.

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Looking for clues about your biological age? Your grandparents' education may offer some insight.

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Eating well, exercising and attending regular doctor appointments can support a long healthy life, but a new study identified one possible factor beyond our control: whether you had a grandparent who went to college.

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Tome Biosciences to lay off over 100 employees

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The buzzy startup, which had raised over $200 million in venture funding, is letting go of much of its workforce, according to a state regulatory notice.

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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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First low frequency search for alien technology in distant galaxies

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have announced a groundbreaking study using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. The research is the first to search for signs of alien technology in galaxies beyond our own, focusing on low radio frequencies (100 MHz). This new approach looks at distant galaxies, making it one of the most detailed searches for super civilizations -- those more advanced than ours.

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Why children can't pay attention to the task at hand

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have learned that children find it hard to focus on a task, and often take in information that won't help them complete their assignment. But the question is, why? In a new study, researchers found that this 'distributed attention' wasn't because children's brains weren't mature enough to understand the task or pay attention, and it wasn't because they were easily distracted and lacked the control to focus.

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Heat-Related Deaths Keep Rising for Americans

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- Reversing a prior downward trend, searing summers have caused a sharp uptick in the numbers of Americans who die from heat-related causes, new data shows.A look at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deaths data.

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Early galaxies were not too big for their britches after all

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

According to a new study, some of the earliest galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope are in fact much less massive than they first appeared. Black holes in some of these galaxies make them appear much brighter and bigger than they really are. This helps resolve the debate over whether the size of early galaxies requires a revision of the standard model of cosmology.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci Recovering at Home After Being Hospitalized With West Nile Virus

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped millions of Americans navigate the health challenges of the pandemic, is recovering at home after being hospitalized for a West Nile infection.Fauci should make a full recovery, a spokesperson.

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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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Preventing counterfeiting by adding dye to liquid crystals to create uncrackable coded tags

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A research group has developed an innovative approach to creating anti-counterfeiting labels for high-value goods. Their findings enhance the security of the currently used cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) by adding fluorescent dyes to produce florescent CLCs (FCLCs). Using this unique technology, the group created unique labels with almost impossible-to-counterfeit security features.

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Mosquitos Have Another Way to Find You: Body Heat

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- Body heat is a powerful means by which mosquitos find human beings to bite, a new study shows.Mosquitos were twice as drawn to a target in a laboratory if the source emitted heat roughly the temperature of human skin as.

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What microscopic fossilized shells tell us about ancient climate change

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

By analyzing foram shells recovered in drill cores, study led by geologists links rapid climate change that led to thermal maxima 50 million years ago to rising CO2 levels.

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U.S. Will Offer Free COVID Tests By Mail by Late September

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- As a summer surge in COVID cases begins to ebb and Americans brace themselves for yet another wave of infections this winter, more free COVID tests will soon be available to all, federal health officials announced.

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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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Aminomethyl Salicylaldehydes Lock onto a Surface Lysine by Forming an Extended Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond Network

Covalent Modifiers

Jacqueline Weaver, Gregory B. Craven, Linh Tram, Hao Chen, and Jack Taunton Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c04314 The development of electrophilic ligands that rapidly modify specific lysine residues remains a major challenge. Salicylaldehyde-based inhibitors have been reported to form stable imine adducts with the catalytic lysine of protein kinases.

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Trans Kids More Often Turn to Teachers Than Parents for Help

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- Troubled transgender students are more likely to turn to school staff than their own parents for support, a new study finds.Trans teens feeling depressed and anxious are 74% less likely to seek help from parents than from.

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Versant’s Jerel Davis on build-to-buy deals and pharma investment

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Build-to-buy arrangements can give pharmaceutical companies an option to acquire a startup’s assets later, as with Novartis’ deal with the Versant-backed Borealis Biosciences.

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Insurance Coverage Could Impact Survival of Patients After Spinal Cord Injury

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- The care of people seriously harmed by spinal cord injury can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a new analysis suggests that ability to pay influences how long a patient remains on life support.In a study of more.

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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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Regeneron gains European approval for bispecific lymphoma drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Regulators in Europe granted approval based on remission rates, while the FDA sought more progress in confirmatory trials when it rejected Ordspono.

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Americans Are Moving Away From Polluted Areas -- If They Can Afford To

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- Americans of means are fleeing heavily polluted places in the United States for cleaner locales, a new study has found.Pollution levels are a factor in families’ decision to move within the United States, but only richer h.

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A truly comprehensive liquid biopsy approach: DLL3 and the rise of customized CTC and cfDNA/cfRNA analysis with CellSearch® and MenariniSearch

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Imagine the power of combining CTCs, cell-free DNA and cell-free RNA.

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New Approach Helps More People With Rectal Cancers Avoid Surgery

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- Giving chemo and radiation therapies before a surgery for rectal cancer can help eliminate the need for removal of the rectum altogether, a new Swedish study finds.“If the tumor disappears completely during treatment, s.

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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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How biotech companies and CROs can better align to accelerate development for the most promising discoveries

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

CROs are vital in supporting biotech with R&D. How can that relationship go from transactional to partnership?

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DEA To Announce Hearing on Proposed Marijuana Rescheduling

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Larry K. Houck — Who says nothing happens in Washington, D.C., in August? The Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) will announce Thursday in the Federal Register that it will hold a hearing on the proposed rescheduling of marijuana to schedule III at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on December 2, 2024. DEA received over 43,500 public comments in response to the agency’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register on May 21, 2024.

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Radiopharmaceutical trials: The critical role of site selection and support

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Through effective collaboration, partnerships can accelerate the development of lifesaving therapies and improve patient outcomes.

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Science Probes Where Love Lives in the Brain

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 -- Researchers now have a better idea where love resides in the human brain -- and which types of love are the most powerful.MRI scans show that love mainly resides in areas of the brain associated with the processing of.

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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics

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Brian Wang (co-founder of the nonprofit Panoplia Laboratories ) outlines his approach to making broad-spectrum antivirals. He also explains how they could be used to combat pandemics on “day zero,” well before vaccines are developed. Ebola tore through Western Africa in 2014, killing an estimated 11,325 people in two years. After the outbreak ended, it took another three years for the first Ebola vaccine by Merck to be approved.

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