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OCTOBER 11, 2023

MinervaX, a Danish biotechnology company developing a novel, prophylactic vaccine against Group B streptococcus (GBS), has announced the completion of €54 million upsized financing. GBS is a leading cause of life-threatening infections in newborns as well as adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm delivery and stillbirths. Current prophylactic measures provide insufficient protection, meaning there is an urgent need to accelerate the development of a GBS vaccine.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Once the specialty of a few select drugmakers, CRISPR gene editing is now an essential technology for a growing group of biotechs, many led by former students of the field's pioneering scientists.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

ScaleReady and CTMC, a joint venture between National Resilience and MD Anderson Cancer Center, have partnered to help lessen the manufacturing barriers holding back life-saving cell and gene therapies (CGTs) from reaching more patients by integrating automation tools. The agreement will enable CTMC to strategically scale the recently completed GMP facility to drive high-throughput manufacturing utilising the Fresenius Kabi Lovo(R) and Cue(R) cell processing systems.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

The finding from the study of its diabetes drug, which Novo didn’t detail, could help the company in its competition with rival drugmaker Eli Lilly.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

The DDW Turning Science into Business Summit, ‘Cancer research opportunities and advances ’ will feature an expert panel discussion on new drug discovery and development concepts and tools in cancer research. The free two-hour Summit, hosted by DDW, will take place online on 16 November at 7AM PDT / 10AM EDT / 3PM GMT / 4PM CET. Experts and thought leaders in cancer research, precision medicine and immunotherapy will describe the latest research and the role of technology to help discover target

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 – California has become the first state to ban four chemicals commonly added to food that are linked to health issues. Although the law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, only bans the additives in his state, it’s.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- New research points to the potential of a COVID-19 vaccine delivered through the nose. The phase 1 clinical trial showed that the product, administered nasally in two doses, delivered a significant immune response to.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Almost every one of us will know someone with a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. Whether it is a friend, a family member or a work colleague, it is likely these conditions have touched your life in some way. It is less common to know someone with a rare genetic disease; but while individually rare, collectively they have an enormous impact.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- A medication already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness may help ease attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in adults who aren’t getting relief from available treatments, according to a.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this unprecedented research effort, mutations in eleven genes associated with aggressive forms of prostate cancer have been pinpointed. This momentous discovery has the potential to reshape how we approach the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of this deadly disease. Prostate cancer is a complex and heterogeneous disease, and the quest to tailor treatment to individual patients has never been more crucial.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 2023 -- For people with tough-to-treat epilepsy, seizures can be both frightening and dangerous, but a new experimental pill may bring significant relief to over one-third of them. Dubbed XEN1101, the new drug reduced the.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

FDA has announced that the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) is planning a study to evaluate the influence that statements made in a promotional communication about patient adherence to a medication may have on the resulting preference for a medicine. OPDP regularly conducts research on a wide-ranging scale to help define the agency’s perspective on how various conditions might impact a target audience of a promotional communication.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- Toilet bowls reveal much about the health of a community, alerting scientists to coming outbreaks of flu and other seasonal viruses, researchers say. “Just one flush can hold a lot of information," said Kristine.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Unlocking Qualified Clinical Trial Participants with Genetic Services dwunderlin Wed, 10/11/2023 - 15:16 Thu, 11/16/2023 - 13:00 Resource Type Webinar Erica Ramos, MS, CGC Chrissy Kewyan, MS, LCGC Duration 60 Minutes Genomics is transforming drug discovery, but finding and recruiting the right patients for targeted-therapies remains a challenge that can delay - or derail - the path to clinical trial success and commercialization.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- Americans are losing sleep over worries about money, a new survey reveals. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) polled about 2,000 U.S. adults, finding that 69% reported lost sleep due to concerns about job.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The once high-flying biotech is cutting staff for the second time in a year and delaying some research to save cash.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- Olympic icon Mary Lou Retton -- the first American woman to win the all-around gold medal in women's gymnastics -- is in intensive care with a rare type of pneumonia and “not able to breathe on her own,” her.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Researchers created and used complex neural networks to recreate speech from brain recordings, and then used that recreation to analyze the processes that drive human speech.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 2023 -- The signs of climate change are everywhere, from raging wildfires to flash flooding to soaring temperatures. Now, a new study warns that things could get worse, with scientists reporting that even small increases in global.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are an astronomical mystery, with their exact cause and origins still unconfirmed. These intense bursts of radio energy are invisible to the human eye, but show up brightly on radio telescopes. Previous studies have noted broad similarities between the energy distribution of repeat FRBs, and that of earthquakes and solar flares.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 2023 -- It has long been believed that the 1918 flu pandemic disproportionately affected healthy young adults, but a study of human remains tells a different story. Together, Canadian and American researchers found that.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

A chance social media post by an eagle-eyed amateur astronomer sparked the discovery of an explosive collision between two giant planets, which crashed into each other in a distant space system 1,800 light years away from planet Earth.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 2023 -- Americans' life expectancy has been stagnant for over a decade, and much of the blame has been placed on "deaths of despair" among middle-aged adults. But a new study suggests that chronic disease among older Americans is.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

A massive computational analysis of microbiome datasets has more than doubled the number of known protein families. This is the first time protein structures have been used to help characterize the vast array of microbial 'dark matter.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about risks of using compounded versions of the drug ketamine, often taken for psychiatric disorders. Compounded products are not evaluated by the FDA for safety.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

An extremely supportive atmosphere for new ideas laid the foundation for an 'Aha moment' about a toggle-switch in the fruit fly brain. Do humans have one, too?

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- Most older adults want to spend their final days in the peace of their own home, but new research finds that Black Americans are far more likely to fall short of that goal. Why? Because Black adults are much more likely.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

One of the greatest strengths of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to give astronomers detailed views of areas where new stars are being born. The latest example, showcased here in a new image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), is NGC 346 – the brightest and largest star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- Cigarette makers are using synthetic menthol substitutes in what appears to be an effort to skirt a looming federal menthol ban, researchers say. The menthol flavor appeals to younger and newer smokers, according to.

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Perficient: Drug Development

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What Is Terraform? Terraform is an IAC tool, used to automate various infrastructure tasks. The provisioning of cloud resources is one of the main use cases of Terraform. It’s an open-source provisioning tool written in the Go language and created by HashiCorp. Terraform allows you to describe your complete infrastructure in the form of code. Even if your servers come from different providers such as AWS or Azure, terraform helps you build and manage these resources in parallel across multiple p

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 2023 -- As many doctors and patients hail the advent of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy as the perfect fix for obesity, some experts are urging caution. The drugs are not well-tolerated by everyone struggling with.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Leonardo da Vinci is renowned to this day for innovations in fields across the arts and sciences. Now, new analyses show that his taste for experimentation extended even to the base layers underneath his paintings. Surprisingly, samples from both the 'Mona Lisa' and the 'Last Supper' suggest that he experimented with lead(II) oxide, causing a rare compound called plumbonacrite to form below his artworks.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- Raging wildfires, droughts, floods and record-breaking heat brought on by climate change are taking a toll on kids’ already fragile mental health. This is the main message from a new report by the American.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Some venture investors are putting more of their money into “inside rounds,” while others are exploring opportunities to combine portfolio companies.

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