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Claims that AI will “revolutionise pharma R&D” are (almost entirely) hype

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This month’s announcement that Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs, led by the talented and charismatic Deepmind co-founder Demis Hassabis, had inked discovery collaboration deals with both Lilly and Novartis was just the latest indication that AI-enabled pharma R&D was ready for the big time. Billions of dollars have been invested in companies promising to “revolutionise pharma R&D” through the application of artificial intelligence – but it is now clear that global pharma companies, and not ju

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Unprecedented ocean heating shows risks of a world 3°C warmer

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research examines the causes of the record-breaking ocean temperatures witnessed in 2023.

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CAR-T for lupus: the ‘tip of the iceberg’ for cell therapy in autoimmune disease

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Since a landmark paper in 2022, drugmakers have begun nearly a dozen trials of cell therapies for lupus, with more set to start. Here’s why their efforts are worth watching.

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ADHD Drug Zenzedi Recalled Over Pill Mixup

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TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 -- The maker of a drug used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy has recalled one lot of the medication after a pill mixup was discovered.The recall notice, issued by Azurity Pharmaceuticals Inc., states that one lot of Zenzedi.

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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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Exploiting the Cullin E3 Ligase Adaptor Protein SKP1 for Targeted Protein Degradation

Covalent Modifiers

Seong Ho Hong, Anand Divakaran, Akane Osa, Oscar W. Huang, Ingrid E. Wertz, and Daniel K. Nomura ACS Chemical Biology 2024 DOI: [link] Targeted protein degradation with proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) is a powerful therapeutic modality for eliminating disease-causing proteins through targeted ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation.

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Non-opioid drug from Vertex cuts pain in major trial tests

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company plans to soon ask the FDA for approval of the drug, which it has pitched as a safer alternative to addictive opioid painkillers.

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Experimental Pain Med Could Give Patients New Option to Opioids

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TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 -- The first new kind of pain medication in over two decades could be on the horizon for patients, with promising results announced Tuesday from a company trial. For now, the drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals is called VX-548.

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Phenotypic screening of covalent compound libraries identifies chloromethyl ketone antibiotics and MiaA as a new target

Covalent Modifiers

Yizhen Jin , Sadhan Jana , Mikail E. Abbasov , Hening Lin bioRxiv 2024.01.22.576576; doi: [link] The emerging antibiotic resistance requires the development of new antibiotics working on novel bacterial targets. Here, we reported an antibiotic discovery workflow by combining the cysteine-reactive compound library phenotypic screening with activity-based protein profiling, which enables the rapid identification of lead compounds as well as new druggable targets in pathogens.

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A physical qubit with built-in error correction

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have succeeded in generating a logical qubit from a single light pulse that has the inherent capacity to correct errors.

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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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Brain drug developer Alto Neuroscience prices $129M IPO

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The California biotech is the third this year to go public, following stock offerings from CG Oncology and Arrivent Biopharma.

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FDA Warns of Dangerous Counterfeit Eyedrops

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THURSDAY, Feb. 1, 2024 -- Certain copycat eyedrops may be contaminated and could give users an antibiotic-resistant eye infection, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday.The packaging for South Moon, Rebright and FivFivGo eyedrops.

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Location-agnostic site-specific protein bioconjugation via Baylis Hillman adducts

Covalent Modifiers

Mir, M.H., Parmar, S., Singh, C. et al. Nat Commun 15 , 859 (2024). [link] Proteins labelled site-specifically with small molecules are valuable assets for chemical biology and drug development. The unique reactivity profile of the 1,2-aminothiol moiety of N -terminal cysteines ( N -Cys) of proteins renders it highly attractive for regioselective protein labelling.

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Researchers 3D-print functional human brain tissue

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

It's an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

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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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AstraZeneca, Daiichi aim for first pan-tumor ADC approval

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The FDA is reviewing the companies’ application for a “tumor agnostic” indication for their drug Enhertu, which would break new ground for antibody-drug conjugates.

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Injected Opdivo for Kidney Cancer Works Equally Well as IV Form: Study

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TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 -- Opdivo, one of the new generation of immunotherapy cancer treatments, appears to help kidney cancer patients equally well when given as a quick injection versus the current method of intravenous delivery, a new study.

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Suppression of mast cell activation by GPR35: GPR35 is a primary target of disodium cromoglycate [Inflammation, Immunopharmacology, and Asthma]

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Mast cell stabilizers including disodium cromoglycate (DSCG) were found to have potential as the agonists of an orphan G protein-coupled receptor, GPR35, although it remains to be determined whether GPR35 is expressed in mast cells and involved in suppression of mast cell degranulation. Our purpose in this study is to verify the expression of GPR35 in mast cells, and to clarify how GPR35 modulates the degranulation.

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Increased temperature difference between day and night can affect all life on earth

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered a change in what scientists already knew about global warming dynamics. It had been widely accepted since the 1950s that global temperature rises were not consistent throughout the day and night, with greater nighttime warming being observed. However, the recent study reveals a shift in dynamics: with greater daytime warming taking place since the 1990s.

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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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Roche shuffles early stage pipeline as it joins obesity rush

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Roche said it was shelving those drugs in favor of experimental programs to treat obesity that it gained from its takeover of Carmot Therapeutics.

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Was Alzheimer's Transmitted Through Cadaver-Sourced Growth Hormone Given to Kids?

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MONDAY, Jan. 29, 2024 -- Five of eight British children who received human growth hormone from the pituitary glands of deceased donors went on to develop early-onset Alzheimer's disease many decades later, researchers report.Researchers at.

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Peptide-Based Covalent Inhibitors Bearing Mild Electrophiles to Target a Conserved His Residue of the Bacterial Sliding Clamp

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Guillaume Compain, Clément Monsarrat, Julie Blagojevic, Karl Brillet, Philippe Dumas, Philippe Hammann, Lauriane Kuhn, Isabelle Martiel, Sylvain Engilberge, Vincent Oliéric, Philippe Wolff, Dominique Y. Burnouf, Jérôme Wagner, and Gilles Guichard JACS Au 2024 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00572 Peptide-based covalent inhibitors targeted to nucleophilic protein residues have recently emerged as new modalities to target protein–protein interactions (PPIs) as they may provide some benefits over more classi

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Scammed! Animals 'led by the nose' to leave plants alone

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Fake news works for wallabies and elephants. Herbivores can cause substantial damage to crops or endangered or protected plants, with traditional methods to deter foraging lethal, expensive or ineffective. Biologists are now using aromas from plants naturally repellent with remarkable success to deter the animals.

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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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Cour gets $105M, pharma help to ‘reprogram’ autoimmune disease

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Roche, Pfizer and Bristol Myers Squibb have all invested in the startup, which is using nanoparticle technology to retrain the body’s immune system.

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Philips Suspends U.S. Sales of CPAP, Ventilator Machines After Recall

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MONDAY, Jan. 29, 2024 -- Following a recall of millions of its breathing machines that began in mid-2021, Philips Respironics announced Monday that it would halt sales of all such machines within the United States.The machines include continuous.

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Kinase-impaired BTK mutations are susceptible to clinical-stage BTK and IKZF1/3 degrader NX-2127

Covalent Modifiers

Skye Montoya et al. Science 383 , eadi5798 (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adi5798 Structured Abstract INTRODUCTION Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a nonreceptor kinase in the B cell receptor (BCR) signaling cascade critical for B cell survival. As such, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and other B cell cancers are sensitive to inhibition of BTK. Covalent and noncovalent inhibitors of BTK have revolutionized the treatment of these cancers.

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How leafcutter ants cultivate a fungal garden to degrade plants and provide insights into future biofuels

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Scientists developed a new method to map exactly how a fungus works with leafcutter ants in a complex microbial community to degrade plant material at the molecular level. The team's insights are important for biofuels development.

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Biogen quits Aduhelm, handing back rights to original developer

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The decision to discontinue the controversial drug closes a tumultuous three-year saga that brought significant upheaval to the company.

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