Antarctic 'greening' at dramatic rate
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than tenfold over the last four decades, new research shows.
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Judo Bio debuts with $100M and a plan to take RNA drugs to the kidney
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech is using what it calls ligand-siRNA conjugates to reach drug targets in the kidney, which historically have been difficult to reach with RNA therapies.
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Commonly used arm positions can substantially overestimate blood pressure readings
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Researchers conclude that commonly used ways of positioning the patient's arm during blood pressure (BP) screenings can substantially overestimate test results and may lead to a misdiagnosis of hypertension.
Scholar Rock scores with ‘surprise’ success in SMA drug study
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Phase 3 findings could position the biotech’s therapy to become part of a “new standard” for SMA, its CEO said, while boosting research into whether it can preserve muscle in people with obesity.
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!
Scientists discover a secret to regulating our body clock, offering new approach to end jet lag
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Scientists have discovered the secret to regulating our internal clock. They identified that this regulator sits right at the tail end of Casein Kinase 1 delta, a protein which acts as a pace setter for our internal biological clock or the natural 24-hour cycles that control sleep-wake patterns and other daily functions, known as circadian rhythm.
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Researchers confront new US and global challenges in vaccinations of adults
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Over the past decade, decreasing vaccination rates now threaten the huge beneficial impacts of vaccinations in the U.S. and globally. Researchers discuss the multifactorial barriers including increasing vaccine hesitancy and new clinical and public health challenges in vaccinations of U.S. adults.
Yellowjackets and Bees Swarm in NC in Helene's Aftermath
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- Even as folks in North Carolina continue to clean up following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, a new health danger has emerged: The massive flooding that swept away roads and towns also uprooted the underground nests of.
Scientists discover that special immune cells stop metastatic cancer
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Researchers have discovered a natural immune mechanism in mice that stops escaped cancer cells from developing into tumors elsewhere in the body.
Bright Light Therapy May Ease Multiple Forms of Depression
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- Light therapy: It's long been a go-to therapy for seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a kind of depression that can beset some people when winter looms and days shorten.But new research is suggesting that time spent in front.
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
Winds of change: James Webb Space Telescope reveals elusive details in young star systems
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Planet-forming disks, maelstroms of gas and dust swirling around young stars, are nurseries that give rise to planetary systems, including our solar system. Astronomers have discovered new details of gas flows that sculpt those disks and shape them over time.
U.S. Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Discovery of mRNA
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- A pair of American scientists have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery of microRNA, tiny genetic molecules that play a crucial role in how genes shape the body. The research of Victor Ambros and Gary.
Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe was only 700 million years old. This is surprising since, according to our current understanding of galaxy formation, such early galaxies are expected to appear more chaotic.
SAR | Structure Activity Relationships
Collaborative Drug
OCTOBER 7, 2024
What is a Structure Activity Relationship? Structure Activity Relationships (SAR) can be used to predict biological activity from molecular structure. This powerful technology is used in drug discovery to guide the acquisition or synthesis of desirable new compounds, as well as to further characterize existing molecules. Predicting Biological Activity from Structure The biological effects of a new chemical compound can often be predicted from its molecular structure using data about other simila
How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency
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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.
Autobiographical memory in the digital age: Our lives in the mirror of our data
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. But what does this mean for the way we remember our lives and how we talk about them? Researchers are trying to find answers to these questions.
Chemical Registration in Drug Discovery
Collaborative Drug
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Chemical registration is the most critical part of your discovery engine. If you are working without a chemical registration system (or avoiding your unwieldy legacy solution), you may be missing the full value of your data – wasting time and money. CDD Vault harmonizes your compound collection and ties it to your screening data, allowing you to track screening results across compounds and families of compounds.
After injury, these comb jellies can fuse to become one
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Researchers have made the surprising discovery that one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two individuals readily turn into one following an injury. Afterwards, they rapidly synchronize their muscle contractions and merge digestive tracts to share food.
Blood Test Can Help Predict Survival From Advanced Prostate Cancer
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- A simple blood test may help doctors decide the best way to treat a man with advanced prostate cancer. A phase 3 clinical trial has shown that circulating tumor cell (CTC) counts can predict which men are likely to respond.
Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire
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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.
New insights into how Mars became uninhabitable
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with evidence for widespread liquid water on the surface -- to a surface that is inhospitable to terrestrial life as we know it.
Phenols, Found in Many Products, Could Upset Heart's Rhythms
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- Chemicals called phenols include food preservatives, plastics ingredients such as BPA and the parabens in shampoos, so they are ubiquitous in everyday life.Now, research suggests that higher exposure to phenols might trigger.
Plenty more fish in the sea? Environmental protections account for around 10 percent of fish stocks on coral reefs
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
New research shows that international conservation efforts account for approximately 10 percent of fish stocks on coral reefs.
Marijuana Use Tied to Worse School Outcomes for Teens
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- Generations of parental warnings may not be wrong: A massive study of available data finds teens who use marijuana have significantly worse outcomes at school. Data from 63 studies involving almost 440,000 youths found.
Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics
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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
Intellia starts late-stage test of CRISPR therapy for rare swelling disease
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The study, of Intellia’s treatment for hereditary angioedema, is the second Phase 3 trial the biotech has begun testing its “in vivo” gene editing medicines.
Minority Patients More Likely to Be Denied the Free Preventive Care Mandated by Obamacare
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- Two new studies show insurers continue to deny claims for preventive care that is supposed to be free under Obamacare.And insurers are more apt to reject claims from patients who are Asian, Black or Hispanic as well as those.
GSK’s ViiV to expand supply of HIV drug in Africa
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The company is committing to make at least 2 million doses of its long-acting PrEP therapy available in low- and middle-income countries next year and in 2026.
Increases in Life Span Are Beginning to Slow
Drugs.com
OCTOBER 7, 2024
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 -- So much for the idea that most people born today will live 100 years or more. New research shows that the dramatic increases in life expectancy seen during the 19th and 20th centuries have slowed considerably. In the.
An effective analytical testing strategy for viral vectors should include these 7 steps
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Producing safe, effective, high-quality viral vector therapeutics depends on a robust and tailored analytical testing strategy.
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