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Genome of near-extinct northern white rhino offers hope for reviving the species

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the species to reproduce. Now, scientists have mapped the entire genome of a northern white rhino. This represents a crucial step toward bringing the critically endangered species back from the edge using advanced reproductive technologies.

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Ubrogepant (Ubrelvy) Effective Against Early Migraine Symptoms

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 -- Migraines don’t just cause headaches. These attacks often are accompanied by symptoms like light and sound sensitivity, nausea, neck pain and dizziness. What’s more, those non-headache symptoms tend to crop.

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UV light and CT scans helped scientists unlock hidden details in a beautifully-preserved fossil Archaeopteryx

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Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs. And while the first Archaeopteryx fossil was found more than 160 years ago, scientists are continuing to learn new things about this ancient animal. A set of feathers never before seen in this species help explain why it could fly when many of its non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.

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GSK to buy liver disease drug for $1.2B

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The new acquisition from Boston Pharmaceuticals adds to a wave of dealmaking undertaken by GSK to build its liver disease franchise.

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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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Why are urban children more prone to allergies?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Evidence of a unique T cell may explain why urban children are more prone to allergies than rural children. Differences in the development of the gut microbiome may be an underlying cause.

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More U.S. Teens Getting Weight-Loss Surgery

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 More U.S. teenagers are getting weight-loss surgery, despite the discovery of new drugs like Ozempic/Wegovy that help people drop pounds surgery-free, a new study says.Weight loss surgeries for teens increased 15% between 2.

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RFK Jr. Criticized for Swimming With Grandkids in Bacteria-Filled Creek

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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under fire after posting photos of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a long-polluted creek. The water at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., i.

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An ink that boosts coral reef settlement by 20 times

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With coral reefs in crisis due to climate change, scientists have engineered a bio-ink that could help promote coral larvae settlement and restore these underwater ecosystems before it's too late. Researchers demonstrate that the ink could boost coral settlement by more than 20 times, which they hope could contribute to rebuilding coral reefs around the world.

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FDA to Review and Possibly Ban Fluoride Supplements for Kids

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to review and possibly remove prescription fluoride supplements for children from the market.The FDA announced Tuesday that it intends to conduct the review by Oct. 31, 2.

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Astronomers take a second look at twin star systems

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Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years searching for comparable objects and formations to study. And it is rarer still when those objects are side-by-side. But a new study offers a road map for finding 'twin' planetary systems -- showing whether binary stars that orbit each other, and that were born at the same time and place, tend to host s

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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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Sports, Exercise Protects Mental Health Of Growing Kids

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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 Exercise and sports appear to help kids avoid mental health problems as they grow into young adults, a new study says.Young children who participated in sports teams and physical education classes were less likely to d.

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New global model shows how to bring environmental pressures back to 2015 levels by 2050

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A new study finds that with bold and coordinated policy choices -- across emissions, diets, food waste, and water and nitrogen efficiency -- humanity could, by 2050, bring global environmental pressures back to levels seen in 2015. This shift would move us much closer to a future in which people around the world can live well within the Earth's limits.

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Drug Effective Against Early Migraine Symptoms

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 -- Migraines dont just cause headaches.These attacks often are accompanied by symptoms like light and sound sensitivity, nausea, neck pain and dizziness.Whats more, those non-headache symptoms tend to crop up before a ful.

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Bluebird extends deal deadline; Affimed files for insolvency

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Shareholders in Bluebird now have a choice of two offers from would-be acquirers Carlyle and SK Capital. Elsewhere, Cytokinetics shared more aficamten data and BridgeBio started a new kind of Attruby trial.

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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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Weight Gain, Delayed Motherhood Linked To Breast Cancer Risk

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 Significant weight gain paired with delayed or foregone motherhood nearly triples a young womans risk of later breast cancer, a new study says.Women were 2.7 times more likely to develop breast cancer if they:Had a more th.

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The key to spotting dyslexia early could be AI-powered handwriting analysis

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A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young children.

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AI Can Catch Hard-To-Detect Breast Cancers In Mammograms

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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) can help prevent breast cancers that develop between routine mammograms, by catching ones that trained radiologists would overlook, a new study says.Incorporating AI into mammography could.

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Boosters and Biologics: Is Space-Based Biomanufacturing Real?

LifeSciVC

By Cody Tranbarger, EIR at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC Its an interesting time to be thinking about space. Just a few months ago, SpaceX captivated and inspired the world by catching a reusable rocket booster with mechanical chopsticks for the first time. Meanwhile, humanitys march toward a multi-planetary future continues, with Mars on the itinerary for the 2030s (unless youre on Elon time ).

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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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Celtics Star Jayson Tatum Out for Season With Torn Achilles

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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum will miss the rest of the season after tearing his Achilles tendon. The team announced Tuesday that Tatum had surgery to repair the injury.Tatum, 27, was hurt in the fourth quarter of M.

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What behavioral strategies motivate environmental action?

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A collaborative study tested 17 strategies in an 'intervention tournament.' Interventions targeting future thinking, such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future, are the most effective ways to motivate climate action.

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Computational Drug Repurposing: Approaches and Case Studies

Drug Patent Watch

"Reviving Old Medicines: How AI-Powered Repurposing is Revolutionizing the Pharmaceutical Industry The pharmaceutical industry is on the cusp of a revolution, driven by the power of computational drug repurposing. By leveraging cutting-edge AI and machine learning algorithms, researchers are breathing new life into old medicines, unlocking unprecedented potential for treating a wide range of diseases.

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Sharp depletion in soil moisture drives land water to flow into oceans, contributing to sea level rise

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The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team has analyzed the estimated changes in land water storage over the past 40 years by utilizing space geodetic observation technology and global hydrological change data. This innovative method has revealed a rapid depletion in global soil moisture, resulting in a significant amount of water flowing into the oceans, leading to a rise in sea l

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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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The Pharmacy Benefit Management Landscape: A Music Industry Analogy

Drug Patent Watch

"The Prescription for Change: How PBM's are Ripping the Rhythm of the Pharmaceutical Industry Imagine a music industry where a single middleman controlled access to every song, dictating who could play them, when, and at what price. That's essentially the world of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the pharmaceutical industry. In this exclusive article, we delve into the complex web of PBM's and their impact on the pharmacy landscape.

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Dexterity and climbing ability: how ancient human relatives used their hands

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Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South African hominins not only may have had different levels of dexterity, but also different climbing abilities.

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How AI and LLMs are transforming drug discovery: part 1

Drug Target Review

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into scientific workflows represents both tremendous opportunity and significant challenges. I recently discussed the subject with two founders at the cutting-edge of this transformation: Andr Frana of Ergodic and Eli Pollock of Ontologic. We explored the barriers scientists face when adopting AI tools , contrasting approaches to building AI systems for specialised domains, and their visions for how these technologies will reshape scientific work.

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Too much sleep can hurt cognitive performance, especially for those with depression

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Sleeping nine hours or more per night is associated with worse cognitive performance, and it is even more the case for those with depression.

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PIM for Azure Resources

Perficient: Drug Development

Privileged Identity Management Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is a service in Microsoft Entra ID that enables you to manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization. These resources include those in Microsoft Entra ID, Azure, and other Microsoft Online Services such as Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Intune. This blog has been written to help those who want to set up just-in-time access for Azure resources and provide access to the subscription level only.

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New study finds that tea and chocolate may help lower blood pressure

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We might have another reason to enjoy our daily cup of tea or small piece of dark chocolate, as a new study has found that naturally occurring compounds called flavan-3-ols -- found in cocoa, tea, apples and grapes -- may improve blood pressure and the health of our blood vessels.

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HCL Commerce V9.1 – Coexistence of the Headless Next.js Ruby & Aurora Storefronts

Perficient: Drug Development

HCL Commerce v9.1 release saw a major change in features, functionality, and technology. This blog series will focus on each of these components separately. Some examples of these changes include HCL Commerce Search, which is powered by Elasticsearch, a modern storefront that uses Next.js, containerized cloud native architecture, modern business user tooling, and provides support for new integrations and companion software.

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Dark matter formed when fast particles slowed down and got heavy, new theory says

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Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could have formed in the early universe from the collision of massless particles that lost their energy and condensed -- like steam turning into water -- into cold, heavy particles.

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Advancing Spatial Biology: Unlocking Insights with Nanostring Transcriptomics & Proteomics

Crown Bioscience

Spatial biology is transforming our understanding of tissue microenvironments, providing unprecedented insights into gene expression and protein interactions in situ. By preserving spatial context, researchers can gain a deeper comprehension of cellular heterogeneity and the intricate communication between cells within tissues. This field is particularly valuable in studying complex biological systems, such as tumors, the immune system, and neurological networks, where spatial relationships sign

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Research shows how hormone can reverse fatty liver disease in mice

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A pioneering research study details how the hormone FGF21 (fibroblast growth factor 21) can reverse the effects of fatty liver disease in mice. The hormone works primarily by signaling the brain to improve liver function.

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