September, 2024

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Efficacy of Fluoxetine and (R,S) Ketamine in Attenuating Conditioned Fear Behaviors in Male Mice [Behavioral Pharmacology]

ASPET

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is caused by exposure to a traumatic or stressful event. Symptoms related to this disorder include persistent re-experiencing of memories and fear generalization. Current pharmacological treatments for PTSD are insufficient, with fewer than 30% of patients reporting symptom remission. This study aims to determine the efficacy of acute ( R,S) ketamine and chronic fluoxetine (FLX) in reducing fear memory and fear generalization.

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Moderate coffee and caffeine consumption is associated with lower risk of developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases, new study finds

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Consuming moderate amounts of coffee and caffeine regularly may offer a protective effect against developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke, according to new research.

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A decade of cancer immunotherapy: Keytruda, Opdivo and the drugs that changed oncology

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Over the past 10 years, PD1-blocking medicines have transformed cancer care. But the steady expansion of their use has slowed and, despite much trying, pharmaceutical companies have largely failed to top the drugs’ successes.

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New approach may yield modified messenger RNAs for treating a wide range of conditions

Broad Institute

New approach may yield modified messenger RNAs for treating a wide range of conditions By Ari Navetta September 23, 2024 Breadcrumb Home New approach may yield modified messenger RNAs for treating a wide range of conditions The LEGO framework could help scientists create mRNA therapies that last longer and require smaller doses. By Ari Navetta September 23, 2024 Credit: Natalie Velez, Broad Communications Related news Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics

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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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Models of Life

Codon

2024 Statistical models of organisms have existed for decades. The earliest ones relied on simple linear regression and attempted to correlate genetic variations with observable traits or disease risks — such as drug metabolization rates or cancer susceptibility. As computational power increased and machine learning techniques advanced, the models’ sophistication grew.

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Almost 200 Chemicals Linked to Breast Cancer Are Found in Food Packaging

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Sept. 24, 2024 -- Food sold in shrink wrap, on cardboard trays or in paper containers might contain any of nearly 200 chemicals linked to breast cancer, a new study warns.Commonly used food packaging materials contain 189 chemicals that.

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New AI can ID brain patterns related to specific behavior

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid with the discovery of new brain patterns.

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Summit lung cancer drug shows ‘striking’ benefit over Keytruda

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Study results provide much-anticipated details to Summit’s claim earlier this year that its drug “decisively beat” Merck’s dominant immunotherapy.

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CDD Vault Update (September 2024)

Collaborative Drug

Chemical Safety Information: When working in a lab, you must understand the risks associated with handling chemicals. CDD Vault now displays safety information obtained from PubChem as a helpful reminder. If available, you will find hazard pictograms next to the name at the top of the molecule page.

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Dependencies & Creep : Project Estimating (Part 2)

Perficient: Drug Development

This post is the second in a series of four about estimating project hours. Part 1: Sandbagging & Lowballing Part 2: Dependencies & Creep Coming Soon: Part 3: Assumptions & Uncertainty Part 4: The Emotional Conclusion Continuing our dive into project estimating, let’s talk about two more problem areas: dependencies and project creep. These two can turn your pristine project plan into a tangled mess.

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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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Polluting Puff: Asthma Inhalers Are Big Contributors to Climate Change

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- Tiny puffs from asthma inhalers could be causing big climate problems for Mother Earth, a new study warns.Each inhaler dose contains some of the most potent greenhouse gases known, and they are adding up, researchers.

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How is Parkinson’s disease diagnosed?

Antidote

Receiving a Parkinson’s diagnosis is a life-altering event that nearly 1 million people in the United States have experienced. Parkinson’s disease symptoms can vary from person to person. Receiving a diagnosis often requires several steps. In this blog, we’ll be sharing more details about the disease and discussing opportunities for individuals to get involved in Parkinson’s research.

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Microscale robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

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Bristol Myers schizophrenia drug, the first of its kind, approved by FDA

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

In testing, Cobenfy eased schizophrenia symptoms without some of the disruptive side effects typical of existing drugs. The results have been met with excitement, as well as caution.

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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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Scientists identify a unique combination of bacterial strains that could treat antibiotic-resistant gut infections

Broad Institute

Scientists identify a unique combination of bacterial strains that could treat antibiotic-resistant gut infections By Allessandra DiCorato September 18, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Scientists identify a unique combination of bacterial strains that could treat antibiotic-resistant gut infections The microbes control the growth of harmful bacteria in mice, promoting a healthier intestinal microbiome.

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Commercial interests contribute to drug use and addiction

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

Commercial interests contribute to drug use and addiction mfleming Wed, 09/25/2024 - 15:00 Nora's Blog September 26, 2024 Image ©Getty Images/ PeopleImages Biomedical sciences are bringing increased focus to social determinants of health, which the World Health Organization (WHO) defines as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, the systems put in place to deal with illness, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.” 1 Very often,

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Ozempic Could Curb Progression of Diabetes-Linked Liver Disease

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- Fatty liver disease linked to diabetes and obesity can easily progress to liver cirrhosis, but new research suggests that GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic can help stop that. In a new decades-long study, veterans with diabetes.

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Women in STEM with Kristina Torfgard

Drug Target Review

Can you tell us about your journey in the field of STEM and the challenges you encountered along the way? I am a pharmacist by training and continued with a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology. However, my goal was all the time to work with drug development in the pharma industry, so I moved on and started that journey in 1992 when I took on a role as Clinical Research Manager at AstraHässle, a mid-size Swedish pharma company.

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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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Researchers discover building blocks that could 'revolutionize computing'

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A research team has made a major discovery by designing molecules that could revolutionize computing.

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Three biotechs raise $700M in rare burst of IPO activity

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The offerings by Bicara, Zenas and MBX give a glimpse into what industry insiders describe as a backlog of mature startups waiting for the right opportunity to test public markets.

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CDD Vault Update (September 2024 #3) - Release Notes

Collaborative Drug

New Default ELN Editor: The new ELN editor that had been pre-released for testing is now the default editor for all newly created entries. You can continue to edit entries created with the previous editor, but new features will only be available in the new editor. Existing entries that are duplicated will continue to use the old editor. We recommend copying contents over to a new entry and taking advantage of the new templates feature.

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Streamlining Marketing Success: The Benefits for Optimizely One with Perficient

Perficient: Drug Development

As an Optimizely expert, I eagerly anticipate this time of year due to the exciting Optimizely events happening worldwide. These include Opticon, the main conference for customers, the Optimizely OMVP Summit, a developer meetup, and the Optimizely Hackathon. During these events, we learn about new product releases and discover innovative ways to drive success for our customers.

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It's High Number of Guns, Not Mental Health Crises, That Drives U.S. Gun Deaths: Study

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 11, 2024 -- Widespread and easy access to guns is the reason behind the shockingly high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, and not any rise in mental health problems suffered by perpetrators, a new study shows.The United.

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The Impact of Patent Expirations on Generic Drug Markets

Drug Patent Watch

Patent expirations have a significant impact on the pharmaceutical industry, particularly on the generic drug market. When a drug’s patent expires, other manufacturers can produce and market generic versions of the drug, leading to increased competition and lower prices.

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Travel could be the best defense against aging

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Forget about retinol night creams, researchers believe travel could be the best way to defy premature aging. An interdisciplinary study has applied the theory of entropy to tourism, finding that travel could have positive health benefits, including slowing down the signs of aging.

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ArsenalBio raises $325M in one of the year’s largest biotech funding rounds

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The funding comes amid a slowdown in venture investment for gene and cell therapy startups, and will support development of multiple solid tumor programs.

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Fungus-controlled robots tap into the unique power of nature

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

In creating a pair of new robots, researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found on the forest floor: fungal mycelia. By harnessing mycelia's innate electrical signals, the researchers discovered a new way of controlling 'biohybrid' robots that can potentially react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts.

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Researchers give adult zebra finches back their ability to learn new songs

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

We all know the adage, 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks.' As we age, our ability to learn new skills, like mastering a foreign language or picking up a musical instrument, seems to fade. The culprit? A decline in brain plasticity - the brain's capacity to rewire itself and adapt to new challenges. But what if we could rewind the clock on this age-related decline?

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The collapse of bat populations led to more than a thousand infant deaths

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study shows that when communities experienced the near death of entire insect-eating bat populations, farmers increased their use of pesticides. This in turn increased the infant mortality rate.

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Artificial muscles propel a robotic leg to walk and jump

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have developed a robotic leg with artificial muscles. Inspired by living creatures, it jumps across different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient manner.

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The risk of global water scarcity is greater when accounting for the origin of rain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Researchers are now presenting an alternative method for quantifying the global risk of water scarcity. Results indicate higher risks to water supply than previously expected if accounting for the environmental conditions and governability where rain is produced.

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Novel immunotherapy improves recovery from spinal cord injury

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells. Mice given the treatment had improved recovery from injuries, demonstrating potential for developing the therapy for people.

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Path to prosperity for planet and people shrinking rapidly, scientists warn

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Our planet will only remain able to provide even the most basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, a new report shows.

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