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Discovery of how limiting damage from an asthma attack could stop disease

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have discovered a new cause for asthma that sparks hope for treatment that could prevent the life-threatening disease.

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Bristol Myers CAR-T therapy approved by FDA for earlier myeloma use

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The FDA’s clearance comes three weeks after a panel of advisers endorsed expanded use of Abecma despite safety concerns raised by the agency.

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Mpox Vaccine Protection Quickly Fades; Boosters Necessary: Study

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MONDAY, April 1, 2024 -- Vaccine protection against mpox fades quickly in the human immune system, even in people who’ve received the full two-dose regimen, a new real-world study shows.Antibody levels fell to low or near zero within the first.

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CHARMM-GUI PDB Reader and Manipulator: Covalent Ligand Modeling and Simulation

Covalent Modifiers

Lingyang Kong, Sang-Jun Park Wonpil Im Journal of Molecular Biology , 2024 [link] Molecular modeling and simulation serve an important role in exploring biological functions of proteins at the molecular level, which is complementary to experiments. CHARMM-GUI ([link] is a web-based graphical user interface that generates molecular simulation systems and input files, and we have been continuously developing and extending its functionalities to facilitate various complex modeling and make molecula

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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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RNA that doesn't age

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Certain RNA molecules in the nerve cells in the brain last a life time without being renewed. Neuroscientists have now demonstrated that this. RNAs are generally short-lived molecules that are constantly reconstructed to adjust to environmental conditions. The research group hopes to decipher the complex aging process of the brain and gain a better understanding of related degenerative diseases.

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Maker Is Pulling Controversial ALS Drug Relyvrio Off the Market

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THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDayNews) -- Following disappointing trial results, the maker of a controversial ALS drug said it is pulling the medication off the market. In a statement issued Thursday, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said that Relyvrio.

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Azapeptides with unique covalent warheads as SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors

Covalent Modifiers

Kaustav Khatua, Yugendar R. Alugubelli , Kai S. Yang, Veerabhadra R. Vulupala, Lauren R. Blankenship , Demonta Coleman, Sandeep Atla , Sankar P. Chaki, Zhi Zachary Geng , Xinyu R. Ma , Jing Xiao , Peng-Hsun Chen , Chia-Chuan D. Cho, Shivangi Sharma, Erol C. Vatansever, Yuying Ma, Ge Yu, Benjamin W. Neuman, Shiqing Xu , Wenshe Ray Liu Antiviral Research , 225, 2024 , 105874 [link] The main protease (MPro) of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, is a pivotal nonstructural protein critical

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Discovery could end global amphibian pandemic

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every continent may have an Achilles heel. Scientists have discovered a virus that infects the fungus, and that could be engineered to save the amphibians.

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Acorda files for bankruptcy, reveals asset sale plan

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Stalking horse bidder Merz Therapeutics could get rights to Acorda’s three marketed drugs if its $185 million proposal holds.

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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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Big Improvements Seen in Spotting, Treating Mental Health Issues Around Pregnancy

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TUESDAY, April 2, 2024 -- Expecting or new mothers are much more likely these days to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, new research shows. However, more women are also getting treated for these problems.

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Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk

Broad Institute

Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk By Allessandra DiCorato April 2, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk Study finds several species of cholesterol-metabolizing bacteria in people with lower cholesterol levels. By Allessandra DiCorato April 2, 2024 Credit: Ahmed Mohamed Rod-shaped Oscillibacter sp. bacteria take up fluorescently labeled cholesterol (here shown in green).

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Universal brain-computer interface lets people play games with just their thoughts

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Engineers have created a brain-computer interface that doesn't require calibration for each user, paving the way for widespread clinical applicability.

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Diagonal starts up with $128M to make better ‘activator’ antibody drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The startup claims to have a more efficient way to develop biologic drugs that treat disease by turning on cellular pathways, rather than blocking them.

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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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Microwave Treatment Could Be an Advance Against Thyroid Tumors

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WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2024 -- Microwaves could offer an alternative to surgery for some people with thyroid cancer, a new study suggests. Microwave ablation, which uses heat to destroy tumors, more effectively targeted thyroid cancers on multiple.

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How long do clinical trials take?

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Before it is released onto the market, the development of any new drug or medical device must undergo rigorous testing , part of which involves clinical trials. Clinical trials are integral to making sure that any new therapy is both safe and effective for individuals, and volunteers are a vital part of the process.

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Chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning in head-to-head study

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

ChatGPT-4, an artificial intelligence program designed to understand and generate human-like text, outperformed internal medicine residents and attending physicians at two academic medical centers at processing medical data and demonstrating clinical reasoning.

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Merck puts KRAS cancer drug competitor to the test

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A Phase 3 study will compare Merck’s experimental KRAS inhibitor together with its immunotherapy Keytruda against Keytruda alone in lung cancer.

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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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Mouse Study Finds Brain Target to Block Alcohol Cravings

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MONDAY, April 1, 2024 -- For folks who have battled alcohol dependency for years, any treatment that could curb or block alcohol cravings would be a huge advance.Now, research in mice is giving a glimmer of hope that just such a therapy might be.

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Investigating antipsychotics in a Parkinson’s disease psychosis model

Drug Target Review

What are the key findings of the preclinical study regarding the neurophysiological brain state in a Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PDP) model? The animal model is based on creating a dopamine-deficient state, by a specific lesion of dopaminergic cells, and then exposing it to repeated substitution therapy with L-DOPA. This creates a condition which mimics the state in advanced PD in humans.

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Stellar collisions produce strange, zombie-like survivors

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like 'violent high fives' while others are full-on mergers.

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Breaking barriers: Advances and challenges in therapeutic cancer vaccines

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The development of cancer vaccines has provided some hope in the battle against cancer worldwide; however, there are still many challenges to overcome when developing these life-saving treatments.

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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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One-Third of Americans Don't Know Vision Risks From Solar Eclipse, Survey Finds

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, April 2, 2024 -- A total eclipse of the sun is coming up next week, and many folks don’t know that watching it unprotected can cause permanent eye damage, a new survey finds. Nearly 30% of Americans don’t know that looking.

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Women in Stem with Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner

Drug Target Review

Can you tell us about your journey in the field of STEM and the challenges you encountered along the way? Everything started in school with an experiment on isolating DNA from bananas. Making a little tangle of DNA visible to the eye and understanding that this is the basis of complex organisms, which might be altered in disease, was the defining moment for my future path in life sciences.

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Australia on track for unprecedented, decades-long megadroughts

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Australia could soon see megadroughts that last for more than 20 years, according to new modelling. The researchers' bleak findings are before factoring in human impact on the climate since the Industrial Revolution. According to the scientists, the findings paint a worrying picture of future droughts in Australia that are far worse than anything in recent experience.

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Ginkgo, in search of more cell therapy tools, buys another startup

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

An acquisition of Modulus Therapeutics is the latest move by Ginkgo to accumulate technologies that can help other companies develop cellular medicines.

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Seniors, Stay Away From Young Kids to Avoid Pneumonia: Study

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, March 4, 2024 -- Sticky fingers, runny noses: Little kids are sweet, but they can also pass on dangerous germs to loving grandparents, new research confirms.The study found that contact with pre-school and kindergarten-aged kids may be.

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