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Lessons from Monte Carlo Models: Why Drug Development is Hard

DrugBaron

“There is more than one way to skin a cat” is a rather gruesome British idiom, but its sentiment surely applies to running a successful pharmaceutical portfolio. It is now more than a decade since Francesco De Rubertis, together with Kevin Johnson and Michele Olier, coined the term “asset-centric” investing to describe the approach to portfolio creation that still underpins the strategy at Medicxi.

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Nitrogen?containing heterocyclic compounds: A ray of hope in depression?

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Role of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine in neural functions and symptoms involved during their altered levels. Abstract Depression is not similar to daily mood fluctuations and temporary emotional responses to day-to-day activities. Depression is not a passing problem; it is an ongoing problem. It deals with different episodes consisting of several symptoms that last for at least 2 weeks.

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The brain is 'programmed' for learning from people we like

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Our brains are 'programmed' to learn more from people we like -- and less from those we dislike. This has been shown by researchers in cognitive neuroscience in a series of experiments.

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Study finds youth-onset diabetes is a genetically distinct form of the disorder

Broad Institute

Study finds youth-onset diabetes is a genetically distinct form of the disorder By Claire Hendershot February 16, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Study finds youth-onset diabetes is a genetically distinct form of the disorder Researchers suggest diabetes exists in multiple forms on a spectrum of varying genetic factors and symptoms. By Claire Hendershot February 16, 2024 Image by Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications.

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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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Alnylam change to heart drug trial sparks doubts, sinking shares

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Analysts pressed Alnylam executives on the reasons for the changes to HELIOS-B, a Phase 3 study in ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy that is important to the company’s future.

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Accelerating Drug Discovery at Receptor.AI with NVIDIA BioNeMo Cloud APIs

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

The quest for new, effective treatments for diseases that remain stubbornly resistant to current therapies is at the heart of drug discovery. This traditionally. The quest for new, effective treatments for diseases that remain stubbornly resistant to current therapies is at the heart of drug discovery. This traditionally long and expensive process has been radically improved by AI techniques like deep learning, empowered by the rise of accelerated computing.

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Can hydrogels help mend a broken heart?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

You can mend a broken heart this valentine s day now that researchers invented a new hydrogel that can be used to heal damaged heart tissue and improve cancer treatments.

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Perficient’s Thoughts on use of GenAI in Commerce Solutions

Perficient: Drug Development

Revolutionizing B2C Commerce: The Impact of Generative AI In the dynamic landscape of commerce and consumer-driven markets, Business-to-Consumer (B2C) organizations are increasingly turning to generative AI to revolutionize their operations and enhance customer experiences. Generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence, empowers these organizations to create content, personalize interactions, and optimize various aspects of their business processes.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Tom Ireland writes about the companies and technologies that are reimagining phage therapy. Read it on our website here. Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank and Scripps Research. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048 The Virus that Cures It’s been over 25 years since the science magazine Discover first ran an extraordinary article about how a long-forgotten medical treatment, used in the former Soviet country of Georgia, could save us from the growing threat of u

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Scientists Develop Sensor That Tests Saliva for Breast Cancer

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Mammograms are a lifesaving misery for middle-aged women, but a new tool could make getting a breast cancer screening as easy as spitting.Literally.A new hand-held biosensor can detect breast cancer biomarkers from a tiny.

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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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Artificial cartilage with the help of 3D printing

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Growing cartilage tissue in the lab could help patiens with injuries, but it is very hard to make the tissue grow in exactly the right shape. A new approach could solve this problem: Tiny spherical containers are created with a high-resolution 3D printer. These containers are then filled with cells and assembled into the desired shape. The cells from different containers connect, the container itself is degradable and eventually disappears.

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Hunting a non-opioid painkiller, a biotech startup reveals plans to chase Vertex

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Latigo Biotherapeutics has raised $135 million to develop drugs that block NaV1.8, a target shared by a Vertex therapy that just succeeded in Phase 3 testing.

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Finding the Right Fit—Is Your Respirator “The One”?

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

Finding the right fit is one of the most important parts of a relationship. You don’t just grab any old fish from the sea that swims by and hope for the best. First, it’s necessary to test the waters and ensure you’re simpatico before settling on a partner. It’s Valentine’s Day, and yes, this advice could apply to your romantic life, but we also love to use today to show our love of respirators and we love to play matchmaker on your behalf as well.

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Drug That Treats Cocaine Addiction May Curb Colon Cancer

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay news) -- A drug first developed to treat cocaine addiction might also help slow the spread of advanced colon cancer, a new study suggests.The drug vanoxerine appears to suppress cancer stem cell activity by.

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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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International Day for Women and Girls in Science: Denise Bowser

Drug Target Review

Denise, could you share some insights into your journey at Onyx Scientific, highlighting key milestones and challenges you’ve faced during your nearly 25 years with the company? At the turn of the millennium in early 2000, I was approached by the founders of Onyx Scientific to join the company as their Business Development Manager. I considered this to be an exciting opportunity and became part of the original team that established the company.

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Sage offers details on launch of new postpartum depression pill

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company and partner Biogen say signs from payers and doctors suggest the launch of Zurzuvae, the first oral therapy for PPD, is off to a good start.

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#ScienceSaturday: February 10, 2024

KIF1A

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Unraveling the genetic landscape of undiagnosed cerebellar ataxia in Brazilian patients In this week’s article, researchers in Brazil performed genetic sequencing on 87 patients with cerebe

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CDC May Recommend COVID Boosters for Some This Spring

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is weighing whether to recommend another COVID booster shot this spring, most likely for those who are vulnerable to severe illness.An advisory panel to the CDC is.

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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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Study finds acute alcohol poisoning is a significant component of alcohol-related mortality

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Who’s most likely to die from alcohol poisoning, and what do they drink? A new study led by researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney, has explored the circumstances of death and characteristics of fatal alcohol poisoning cases. The study, published in Drug and Alcohol Review, examined deaths from acute alcohol poisoning in Australia, 2011–2022.

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Great apes playfully tease each other

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Babies playfully tease others as young as eight months of age. Since language is not required for this behavior, similar kinds of playful teasing might be present in non-human animals. Now cognitive biologists and primatologists have documented playful teasing in four species of great apes. Like joking behavior in humans, ape teasing is provocative, persistent, and includes elements of surprise and play.

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A new genetic biomarker to predict immunotherapy success

Drug Target Review

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered that tumours with a greater intragenic rearrangement (IGR) burden may respond better to immune checkpoint blockades (ICB). This could lead to more precise treatment for patients with cancers like oesophageal, breast, ovarian and endometrial, which solves an unmet need to discover genetic abnormalities that predict ICB responses in these tumour types.

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Blood Test Helps Predict Future Heart Attacks

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 -- A standard blood test can reveal whether a person is at high risk of having a heart attack within six months, a new study shows.Researchers identified dozens of biomarkers in blood linked to the risk of a first heart.

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Microservices Architectural Design by using Spring Boot

Perficient: Drug Development

What is Microservices Architecture? Microservices Architecture Software development follows an architectural and organizational approach where small independent services communicate with each other through well-defined APIs. Overview of Microservices Architecture Microservices architecture provides a set of rules and guidelines to develop a project as a set of loosely coupled/de-coupled services, and this can be implemented using Spring Boot + Spring Cloud + Netflix and many other tools.

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Reforestation programs could threaten vast area of tropical grasslands

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research reveals the scale of inappropriate reforestation projects across Africa. A new study reveals that an area the size of France is threatened by forest restoration initiatives, such as the AFR100 initiative (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative), due to inappropriate restoration in the form of tree-planting.

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ALS drug from Denali, Sanofi falls short in mid-stage study

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The disclosure the experimental therapy missed its trial goal comes after Sanofi had earmarked the drug for advancement into Phase 3.

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FDA Expands Use of Asthma Med Xolair to Treat Food Allergies

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 -- People threatened by accidental exposure to foods they're allergic to may have a new weapon of defense: On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the use of the asthma drug Xolair to help prevent.

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“Ordinary Soil” Revisits the Weedkiller and AgBiotech Story, While Feeding the Scientist-As-Nerd Stereotype

PLOS: DNA Science

I love the spectacular symbiosis of my vegetable garden as harvest time approaches. Beanstalks spiral up cornstalks, their tendrils teasing nearby tomato stems. Below, broad leaves protect ballooning squashes from the slugs that appear, seemingly from nowhere, after a rain, while providing water for passing furry creatures. The synergism of a garden is an ancient and somewhat obvious idea.

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Advanced artificial photosynthesis catalyst uses CO2 more efficiently to create biodegradable plastics

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A research team that had previously succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid using bicarbonate and pyruvic acid, and carbon dioxide collected directly from the gas phase as one of the raw materials, has now created a new photosensitizer and developed a new artificial photosynthesis technology, effectively doubling the yield of fumaric acid production compared to the previous method.

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Astellas teams up with startup Kelonia to make ‘in vivo’ cell therapies

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Kelonia will receive $40 million upfront through a partnership to develop “off-the-shelf” cell therapies for cancer.

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Acupuncture May Lower Stroke Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14, 2024 -- Acupuncture may protect people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from stroke, new research suggests.The study indicates that a course of acupuncture treatment may lower blood levels of inflammatory proteins called.

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Drug Excipient Business Development Reports now Available on Amazon

Drug Patent Watch

Elevate your excipient business strategies with the comprehensive Drug Excipient Business Development Reports from DrugPatentWatch. Designed for excipient manufacturers seeking lucrative opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, these reports offer invaluable… The post Drug Excipient Business Development Reports now Available on Amazon appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A team found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has the tell-tale signs of warm or even hot geochemistry in their rocky cores, which is markedly different than the signature of methane from a comet.

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Rare case of opossum infected by rabies sounds alarm regarding circulation of this virus in urban environments

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

A female White-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) found dead in 2021 in Bosque dos Jequitibás Park in the center of Campinas, one of the largest cities in São Paulo state, Brazil, died from rabies meningoencephalitis, according to a group of researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) and Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), the regional reference […]

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