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Paper drinking straws may be harmful and may not be better for the environment than plastic versions

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

'Eco-friendly' paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded.

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'Eco-Friendly' Paper Straws Contain Harmful PFAS Chemicals

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 25, 2023 -- Paper straws, meant to be an eco-friendly alternative to plastic, may not be better for the environment, a new study concludes, warning that they also contain “forever chemicals” that can harm human.

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Neumora, a richly funded brain drug developer, readies for an IPO

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Neumora’s filing late Friday, along with that of radiopharmaceutical startup RayzeBio earlier this week, could be an important test of the biotech IPO market.

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Vault Snack #20 – Manage Protocol/Assay Definitions in CDD Vault

Collaborative Drug

Vault Snack #20 - Manage Protocol/Assay Definitions in CDD Vault

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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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2023 Global Heat Wave: July brought the hottest three weeks observed so far

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The first three weeks of July 2023 have been the hottest global three-week period so far. Researchers report that the European population's exposure to heat was highest in Italy.

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Apellis finds faulty needles in probe of rare eye drug side effects

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company doesn’t know if the needles have caused retinal vasculitis in some people receiving its geographic atrophy drug Syfovre, but is no longer recommending their use.

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Succinylation of a KEAP1 sensor lysine promotes NRF2 activation [@MichaelBollong]

Covalent Modifiers

Lara Ibrahim, Caroline Stanton, Kayla Nutsch, Thu Nguyen, Chloris Li-Ma, Yeonjin Ko, Gabriel C. Lander, R. Luke Wiseman, Michael J. Bollong Cell Chemical Biology, 2023 [link] Cross talk between metabolism and stress-responsive signaling is essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis. This cross talk is often achieved through covalent modification of proteins by endogenous, reactive metabolites that regulate key stress-responsive transcription factors like NRF2.

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Loss of Antarctic sea ice causes catastrophic breeding failure for emperor penguins

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be quasi-extinct by the end of the century, based on current global warming trends.

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Sepsis Almost Killed Jake Tapper's Daughter, Alice. Now, She's Working to Keep Others Safe

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 25, 2023 -- Alice Tapper felt deathly ill, suffering from severe abdominal pain, a 102-degree fever and vomiting. Emergency room doctors found that Alice -- the daughter of CNN anchor Jake Tapper -- had a rapid pulse of 135 beats per.

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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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Agenus to lay off 25% of staff, trim pipeline in cancer drug push

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The job cuts are meant to preserve enough cash so the nearly three-decade-old company can potentially pursue its first drug approval next year.

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Design and characterization of a novel tumor?homing cell?penetrating peptide for drug delivery in TGFBR3 high?expressing tumors

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

T3BP specifically binds to TGFBR3 on cell membrane and enter cells through endocytosis. T3BP enchances antitumor efficacy of a ribosome-inactivating protein while fused to it, which results in apoptosis of cancer cells. Abstract Targeted therapy has attracted more and more attention in cancer treatment in recent years. However, due to the diversity of tumor types and the mutation of target sites on the tumor surface, some existing targets are no longer suitable for tumor therapy.

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Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.

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Gut Troubles Could Be Early Signal of Parkinson's Disease

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 25, 2023 -- It might not seem like constipation or difficulty swallowing could signal a neurological problem, but new research suggests that these gut conditions could be an early indicator of Parkinson’s disease. Gastrointestinal.

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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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Roche’s surprise study results spur new optimism for TIGIT drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Data inadvertently published from a closely watched lung cancer study suggest a drug blocking the protein TIGIT may help extend survival, a finding that boosted shares of other developers.

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Resveratrol alleviates amyloid ??induced neuronal apoptosis, inflammation, and oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stress by circ_0050263/miR?361?3p/PDE4A axis during Alzheimer's disease

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Resveratrol alleviated Aβ-induced neuronal apoptosis, inflammatory reaction, oxidative stress, and endoplasmic reticulum stress via circ_0050263/miR-361-3p/PDE4A axis. Abstract Resveratrol (Res) has been identified to reduce neurodegeneration. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are stable noncoding RNAs that are considered to be ideal biomarkers for molecular targeting treatment.

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Cluster of slightly unhealthy traits linked with earlier heart attack and stroke

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Middle-aged adults with three or more unhealthy traits including slightly high waist circumference, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose have heart attacks and strokes two years earlier than their peers, according to new research.

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Tobacco Company Coupons Raise Odds Ex-Smokers Will Light Up Again

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 25, 2023 -- Coupons for tobacco products appear to have a big impact on relapse rates for smokers who have recently kicked the habit, researchers report. A study of more than 5,000 former smokers who participated in a national survey.

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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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Startup Cellares adds $255M as investors pour cash into cell therapy production

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Bristol Myers Squibb is among those backing the startup, which claims the manufacturing capacity at its New Jersey plant can surpass that of conventional CDMO facilities.

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Folate trapping is lethal to cancer cells

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Key mitochondrial folate enzyme, methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase 2 (MTHFD2) plays crucial role in targeting folate cycle in cancer. Formate flux from mitochondria to cytosol cause folate trap-induced toxicity to kill MTHFD2-expressing cancer cell, with the MTHFD1 inhibitor. Metabolomics studies show ambiguity in data analysis if growth media is not chosen properly.

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How a cup of water can unlock the secrets of our Universe

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A researcher made a discovery that could change our understanding of the universe. He reveals that there is a range in which fundamental constants can vary, allowing for the viscosity needed for life processes to occur within and between living cells. This is an important piece of the puzzle in determining where these constants come from and how they impact life as we know it.

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First Biosimilar Approved to Treat Multiple Sclerosis

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 25, 2023 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Tyruko (natalizumab-sztn), the first biosimilar to Tysabri (natalizumab) injection, for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, the agency announced.

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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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FDA approves Novartis’ copycat of blockbuster Biogen drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

According to one analyst, the approval was the last hurdle keeping Sandoz’s Tyruko from directly competing in the U.S. market against Biogen’s inflammation-regulating medicine Tysabri.

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Ligustrazine improves the compensative effect of Akt survival signaling to protect liver Kupffer cells in trauma?hemorrhagic shock rats

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Trauma-hemorrhagic shock (THS) is a medical emergency and can cause liver injury. Ligustrazine reduces inflammation and apoptosis induced by THS in liver and promotes survival effects. The beneficial effects of ligustrazine against THS-induced hepatic injury, and could be a potential to treat the liver injury caused by THS. Abstract Trauma-hemorrhagic shock (THS) is a medical emergency that is encountered by physicians in the emergency department.

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How artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that has enabled a woman with severe paralysis from a brainstem stroke to speak through a digital avatar.

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COVID Vaccine Boosters Crucial for Some Cancer Patients: Study

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Aug. 24, 2023 -- Cancer patients with immune systems weakened by treatment are among the groups most concerned about the continued spread of COVID-19 and the chance of the infection becoming severe. New research suggests more guidance on.

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FDA approves Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for use in pregnancy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The expanded approval follows the FDA’s May clearance of the shot, called Abrysvo, in older adults.