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Glycyrrhetinic acid alleviates atrial fibrillation by inhibiting the expression of PIM1

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

By dint of a relatively high content of glycyrrhetinic acid (GA), radix glycyrrhizae preparata is often adopted to treat atrial fibrillation (AF). Thus, the mechanism of GA was expounded in our study. Our research concludes that GA alleviates AF through suppressing the expression of PIM1. Abstract Glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) is known to exert a cardioprotective effect, while its mechanism in atrial fibrillation (AF) remains poorly defined.

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Vaccines May Work Better if Arms Are Alternated for Each Shot

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 -- When getting vaccines, switching arms for each dose may produce greater immunity than having the jabs delivered into the same arm.That's the finding from a new study that looked at the first two doses of COVID vaccines.

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The great prostate debate: innovations in prostate cancer screening

Drug Target Review

Early diagnosis is vital to improving outcomes in any cancer, and a growing number of novel screening options have emerged to address this need. Patients now have more avenues available to understand their cancer risk, from genetic assessments for hereditary forms of cancer to advanced imaging tests. Among American men, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death and the second most common cancer overall, affecting one in every eight men during his lifetime.

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More Evidence COVID Shot in Pregnancy Is Safe, Healthy for Babies

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 -- The COVID-19 vaccine given to pregnant women does no harm to their unborn babies, and can actually lower the risk of serious complications in newborns, a new study finds.Babies born to women who received the COVID vaccine.

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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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Understanding the moon's history with Chang'e-5 sample

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, delivered 1.73 kilograms of regolith from the Oceanus Procellarum, a plane named for its vast size. The sample landed with CE-5 in late 2020 and included a new mineral, Changesite-(Y), as well as a perplexing combination of silica minerals. Researchers now compare CE-5's material composition to other lunar and Martian regolith samples and examine potential causes and origins for the lunar sample's

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Scientists Produce First 3D-Printed Brain Tissue for Use in Research

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 -- Scientists say they've created the first 3D-printed brain tissue where neurons network and "talk" to each other.The breakthrough could be an advance for studying neurological processes in the lab, say a team from the.

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CDC Warns of Listeria Outbreak Tied to Cheese, Yogurt

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 -- Two people have died and 23 have been hospitalized in a years-long outbreak of listeria illness that's finally been traced to one company's cheeses, yogurts and other dairy products.That's the message from a U.S. Centers.

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Which came first: Black holes or galaxies?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new stars and supercharged galaxy formation, a new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope data suggests.

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Is Money Needed for Happiness? Tribes Study Suggests Otherwise

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 -- They say money can’t buy happiness – and now a new study of Indigenous peoples around the world backs up that assertion.People living in small-scale societies on the fringes of the modern world lead lives as happy and.

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Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

addgene Blog

If you’re interested in studying immunology or subpopulations of cells, you’ll soon find yourself encountering flow data in the literature. Data reported from flow cytometry experiments can be a little challenging to understand if you’ve never done any flow. But in order to plan a flow experiment, you’ll need to first read papers with flow data, but to…which can send you in an endless loop.

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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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Diagnosed With Macular Degeneration? Here's What You Need to Know

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 -- Age-related macular degeneration can lead to vision loss in seniors, but new therapies have offered fresh hope for preserving eyesight later in life, eye experts say.These cutting-edge therapies benefit both the dry and wet.

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Discovery of lirafugratinib (RLY-4008), a highly selective irreversible small-molecule inhibitor of FGFR2

Covalent Modifiers

Schönherr, H.; Ayaz, P.; Taylor, A. M.; Casaletto, J. B.; Touré, B. B.; Moustakas, D. T.; Hudson, B. M.; Valverde, R.; Zhao, S.; O’Hearn, P. J.; Foster, L.; Sharon, D. A.; Garfinkle, S.; Giordanetto, F.; Lescarbeau, A.; Kurukulasuriya, R.; Gerami-Moayed, N.; Maglic, D.; Bruderek, K.; Naik, G.; Gunaydin, H.; Mader, M. M.; Boezio, A. A.; McLean, T. H.; Chen, R.; Wang, Y.; Shaw, D.

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How ovarian tissue freezing could prevent menopause--possibly forever

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Most women agree that menopause has its advantages and disadvantages. Some relish the end of menstruation and concerns about unplanned pregnancies, while others dread the possibililty of hot flashes, moodiness, and other unpleasant symptoms. What some women consider a brief and barely noticeable phase in their lives can evolve into lasting changes and discomfort for others.

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Researchers breathe new life into lung repair

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

In the human body, the lungs and their vasculature can be likened to a building with an intricate plumbing system. The lungs’ blood vessels are the pipes essential for transporting blood and nutrients for oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide removal.

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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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A long, long time ago in a galaxy not so far away

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Employing massive data sets collected through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are unearthing clues to conditions existing in the early universe. The team has catalogued the ages of stars in the Wolf--Lundmark--Melotte (WLM) galaxy, constructing the most detailed picture of it yet, according to the researchers. WLM, a neighbor of the Milky Way, is an active center of star formation that includes ancient stars formed 13 billion years ago.

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Researchers strike gold with improved catalyst

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

For the first time, researchers including those at the University of Tokyo discovered a way to improve the durability of gold catalysts by creating a protective layer of metal oxide clusters. The enhanced gold catalysts can withstand a greater range of physical environments compared to unprotected equivalent materials.

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Veterans' Study Shows Effectiveness of Ketamine Against Depression

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb 6, 2024 -- The former 'party drug' ketamine has gotten some good press recently, with clinical trials suggesting it might be a powerful and fast-acting antidepressant.Now, one of the first "real-world" studies of ketamine against.

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Jun Wu receives the 2024 ISSCR Outstanding Young Investigator Award for his innovative work on stem cell-based embryo and chimera models

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Evanston, IL—The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Jun Wu, Ph.D. with the 2024 ISSCR Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Dr. Wu is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, U.S.A. and a New York Stem Cell Foundation–Robertson Investigator.

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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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Landscape of In Silico Tools for Modeling Covalent Modification of Proteins: A Review on Computational Covalent Drug Discovery

Covalent Modifiers

Md Nazmul Hasan, Manisha Ray, and Arjun Saha The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2023 127 (45), 9663-9684 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c04710 Covalent drug discovery has been a challenging research area given the struggle of finding a sweet balance between selectivity and reactivity for these drugs, the lack of which often leads to off-target activities and hence undesirable side effects.

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Fran Lund, Ph.D., named an AAI Distinguished Fellow

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Fran Lund, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Endowed Chair in Immunology in the UAB Immunology Institute, has been named a 2024 Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists. Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Fran Lund, Ph.D.

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ZNL0325, a Pyrazolopyrimidine-Based Covalent Probe, Demonstrates an Alternative Binding Mode for Kinases

Covalent Modifiers

Zhengnian Li, Wenchao Lu, Tyler S. Beyett, Scott B. Ficarro, Jie Jiang, Jason Tse, Audrey Yong-Ju Kim, Jarrod A. Marto, Jianwei Che, Pasi A. Jänne, Michael J. Eck, Tinghu Zhang, and Nathanael S. Gray Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2024-5 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01891 The pyrazolopyrimidine (PP) heterocycle is a versatile and widely deployed core scaffold for the development of kinase inhibitors.

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Advances in pediatric sepsis biomarkers: A pediatric investigation review

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition triggered by a severe infection. Severe sepsis and septic shock are progressive stages of sepsis, associated with multi-organ failure and death. Mortality for pediatric sepsis ranges from 4% to 50%, depending on illness severity, risk factors, and geographic location.

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Dentists' Group Issues New Pain-Control Guidelines for Teens, Adults

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 -- New guidelines from the American Dental Association (ADA) are cracking down on the use of opioids for tooth pain.The guidelines say that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) taken alone or alongside acetaminophen.

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UTEP researchers win inaugural award to support lithium extraction technology

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

EL PASO, Texas (Feb. 6, 2024) – A group of researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso are behind an emerging lithium extraction technology that won the inaugural Hill Prize from the Texas Academies of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST) on Monday.

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Khosla Ventures’ Alex Morgan on biotech’s challenges and solving drug delivery

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The life sciences investor has backed a number of startups working on technologies for delivering and manufacturing cell and gene medicines.

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Preterm births linked to 'hormone disruptor' chemicals may cost united states billions

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Daily exposure to chemicals used in the manufacture of plastic food containers and many cosmetics may be tied to nearly 56,600 preterm births in the U.S. in 2018, a new study shows. The resulting medical costs, the authors of the report say, were estimated to reach a minimum of $1.6 billion and as much as $8.1 billion over the lifetime of the children.

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Eisai falls behind on Leqembi patient goal

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The Alzheimer’s drug was administered to a total of 2,000 U.S. patients as of Jan. 26, signaling to analysts that an earlier goal of 10,000 may take longer than expected to hit.

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Ancient Australian air-breathing fish from 380m years ago springs back to life

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The rivers of Australia, which once flowed across its now dry interior, used to host a range of bizarre animals -- including a sleek predatory lobe-finned fish with large fangs and bony scales. The newly described fossil fish discovered in remote fossil fields west of Alice Springs has been named Harajicadectes zhumini by palaeontologists.

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Lilly sales surge on obesity, diabetes drug demand

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company also reported trial results suggesting tirzepatide, the drug Lilly now sells as Mounjaro and Zepbound, could treat a common liver disease.

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New patent for Galderma Labs drug EPSOLAY

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for EPSOLAY Epsolay is a drug marketed by Galderma Labs Lp and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are seven… The post New patent for Galderma Labs drug EPSOLAY appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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MorphoSys to sell to Novartis for $2.9B, offloads cancer drug to Incyte

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The deals hand Novartis a myelofibrosis drug with uncertain regulatory prospects and Incyte a marketed lymphoma medicine that hasn’t sold well.

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Vault Snack #22 – Importing Raw File Formats

Collaborative Drug

Vault Snack #22 – Importing Raw File Formats

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Broad Institute Artist-In-Residence - Emilio Vavarella

Broad Institute

Broad Institute Artist-In-Residence - Emilio Vavarella By Rose Circeo February 6, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Broad Institute Artist-In-Residence - Emilio Vavarella Emilio Vavarella is an Italian artist working at the intersection of interdisciplinary art practice, theoretical research, and media experimentation. His work explores the relationship between subjectivity, nonhuman creativity, and technological power.