2023

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GDC-6599

Drug Hunter

A First-in-Class TRPA1 Antagonist Overcomes Toxicity Hurdles to Become Cough Candidate Genentech’s GDC-6599 is the first oral TRP Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) antagonist to reach Ph. IIa ( NCT05660850 ) for chronic cough after preclinical studies and a Ph. I trial showed it was well-tolerated, in contrast to prior molecules. The transient receptor potential (TRP) family of ion channels has been the subject of intensive drug discovery efforts due to their critical role in the development and progression of

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Companies Seek To Increase Life Span By A Decade Or More

Forbes: Drug Truths

But keep in mind that it’s going to be a long while before such drugs are actually available.

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New method tags cells with location coordinates for single-cell studies

Broad Institute

New method tags cells with location coordinates for single-cell studies By Corie Lok December 13, 2023 Breadcrumb Home New method tags cells with location coordinates for single-cell studies The technique, called Slide-tags, allows scientists to map the location of cells within tissues in standard single-cell experiments. By Sarah C.P. Williams December 13, 2023 Credit: Andrew Russell Different cell types (each represented by a different color) are mapped to their native location in human brain

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Neanderthals were the world's first artists, research reveals

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. The findings reveal that the Neanderthals were the first humans with an appreciation of art.

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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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‘No tolerance for failure’: An oral history of the first CRISPR medicine

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A new sickle cell disease therapy developed by CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals is now approved in the U.S. and U.K. This is the story of how it came to be.

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Drug Discovery Industry Roundup with Barry Bunin — December 18, 2023

Collaborative Drug

Discover the impact of 'junk DNA' on cancer, teen obesity treatments, Neanderthal genes on sleep patterns, and Nobel discoveries shaping medicine

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AI's memory-forming mechanism found to be strikingly similar to that of the brain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers has revealed a striking similarity between the memory processing of artificial intelligence (AI) models and the hippocampus of the human brain. This new finding provides a novel perspective on memory consolidation, which is a process that transforms short-term memories into long-term ones, in AI systems.

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As ALS research booms, one treatment center finds itself in the spotlight

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The Healey center is at the front of ALS research and care, earning acclaim from patients, doctors and scientists. Still, the complexities of the disease and of drug development have brought hard-felt losses.

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A decade later, biotech’s CRISPR revolution is still going strong

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Once the specialty of a few select drugmakers, CRISPR gene editing is now an essential technology for a growing group of biotechs, many led by former students of the field's pioneering scientists.

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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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CRISPR therapy for sickle cell approved by FDA in gene editing milestone

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

In addition to clearing Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ Casgevy, the FDA also granted an early OK to Bluebird bio’s sickle cell treatment Lyfgenia.

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Octopuses rewire their brains to adapt to seasonal temperature shifts

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Octopuses don't thermoregulate, so their powerful brains are exposed to -- and potentially threatened by -- changes in temperature. Researchers report that two-spot octopuses adapt to seasonal temperature shifts by producing different neural proteins under warm versus cool conditions. The octopuses achieve this by editing their RNA, the messenger molecule between DNA and proteins.

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Future floods: Global warming intensifies heavy rain -- even more than expected

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming, a new study finds. The analysis shows that state-of-the-art climate models significantly underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming -- meaning that extreme rainfall could increase quicker than climate models suggest.

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Humans are disrupting natural 'salt cycle' on a global scale, new study shows

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new paper revealed that human activities are making Earth's air, soil and freshwater saltier, which could pose an 'existential threat' if current trends continue. Geologic and hydrologic processes bring salts to Earth's surface over time, but human activities such as mining and land development are rapidly accelerating this natural 'salt cycle.

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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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Verve gets FDA green light to run base editing study in US

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The trial, which is ongoing in the U.K. and New Zealand, has been on hold in the U.S. since late last year as the FDA sought more details on Verve’s in vivo treatment for heart disease.

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Pfizer to cut costs, lay off staff on waning demand for COVID products

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Sales of Pfizer's antiviral Paxlovid and shot Comirnaty have been slower than it anticipated, while a shift to the commercial market for the antiviral has been delayed.

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'Cooling glass' blasts building heat into space

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new 'cooling glass' that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new technology, a microporous glass coating, can lower the temperature of the material beneath it by 3.5 degrees Celsius at noon, and has the potential to reduce a mid-rise apartment building's yearly carbon emissions by 10 percent.

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Brittle stars can learn just fine -- even without a brain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research reveals. These shy marine creatures have no brain to speak of -- just nerve cords running down each of their five wiggly arms. But that seems to be enough to learn by association, researchers report.

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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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Climate report: 'Uncharted territory' imperils life on Earth

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international coalition of climate scientists says that the Earth's vital signs have worsened beyond anything humans have yet seen, to the point that life on the planet is imperiled.

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Vertex, CRISPR therapy for sickle cell passes FDA panel test

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The high-profile meeting focused on the theoretical risks of CRISPR gene editing, as both the FDA and its advisory committee appeared convinced by the efficacy of the companies’ exa-cel treatment.

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More than a meteorite: New clues about the demise of dinosaurs

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story, a new study suggests. Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage for the dinosaur extinction, challenging the traditional narrative that a meteorite alone delivered the final blow to the ancient giants.

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From the first bite, our sense of taste helps pace our eating

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

When you eagerly dig into a long-awaited dinner, signals from your stomach to your brain keep you from eating so much you'll regret it -- or so it's been thought.

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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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Common Stomach Bug Is Linked to Higher Alzheimer's Risk

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Dec. 28, 2023 -- A common stomach bug may play a part in Alzheimer's disease risk.New research found that older folks infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) had greater odds for developing Alzheimer's, the most common type of.

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FDA Approves First Blood Test to Predict Preeclampsia in Pregnant Women

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- A new blood test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can predict imminent preeclampsia, helping pregnant women who are at risk for this severe and sometimes deadly form of high blood pressure. The test can.

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BioMarin finally secures FDA approval of hemophilia gene therapy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

After a prolonged journey, the medicine, known as Roctavian, is now cleared for certain patients with hemophilia A, the more common form of the rare bleeding disorder.

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New protein linked to early-onset dementia identified

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have identified abnormal aggregates of a protein called TAF15 in the brains of individuals with early-onset dementia, known as frontotemporal dementia, where the cause was not previously known.

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Tome Biosciences debuts with $213M and a new way to edit the genome

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Based on the work of MIT scientists, the well-funded startup is developing ways to insert large sizes of genetic material anywhere in the genome without damaging or breaking DNA.

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