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How parenthood may help keep your brain young

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers find that parents show patterns of brain connectivity that oppose age-related changes.

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MS Patients May Benefit From Eating More Fish

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 -- A diet rich in fish might slow the progression of multiple sclerosis in some patients, a new study says.The nutrients found in fish can quell inflammation and protect brain cells, and this might be of particular benefit.

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Morphing robot turns challenging terrain to its advantage

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A bioinspired robot can change shape to alter its own physical properties in response to its environment, resulting in a robust and efficient autonomous vehicle as well as a fresh approach to robotic locomotion.

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New Coronavirus Found in Bats, Experts Say It’s No Threat

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 -- Scientists in China have discovered a new type of coronavirus in bats that can infect human cells, but experts say its not a threat to public health -- right now.They reported recently in the journal Cell that they f.

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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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Feeding anemone: Symbiote fish actively feed hosts in wild

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A research team observing anemonefish in the field found they engage in interesting feeding behavior with their host sea anemones.

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Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known estimate.

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Study Reveals How the Brain Lets Go of Fear

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 -- Feeling scared? Your fear is a survival tool, but sometimes, it overreacts -- making us afraid of things that arent true threats. A new study shows how the brain learns to let go of unnecessary fears, offering potential.

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Multiplexing entanglement in a quantum network

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers use rare-earth ions to achieve the first-ever demonstration of entanglement multiplexing between individual memory qubits in a quantum network.

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A Buyer’s Guide for Scientific Data Management Platforms

Collaborative Drug

Analysis of Total Cost of Ownership across leading biotech R&D software lab data management platforms including CDD Vault, Benchling and Dotmatics.

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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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AI generates playful, human-like games

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A team of scientists has now created a computer model that can represent and generate human-like goals by learning from how people create games. The work could lead to AI systems that better understand human intentions and more faithfully model and align with our goals. It may also lead to AI systems that can help us design more human-like games.

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Utah Moves to Ban Fluoride in Public Water

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 -- Utah may become the first state in the U.S. to ban fluoride in public water statewide, a move that would override local decisions on whether to add the cavity-fighting mineral to drinking water.The bill now awaits the.

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Some fuel lodges in the inner walls of fusion vessels: Researchers now have a better idea of how much

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a minimum.

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Eikon raises $351M in one of the year’s largest biotech venture rounds

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The funding comes as Eikon, run by former Merck research chief Roger Perlmutter, has started a Phase 3 trial testing one of its cancer drugs against Keytruda.

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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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New low-cost challenger to quantum computer: Ising machine

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer also works at room temperature. The researchers have shown that information can be transmitted using magnetic wave motion in complex networks.

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Lilly CEO wields manufacturing plans to push pharma-friendly policies

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

While announcing billions of dollars in new U.S. investments, company chief David Ricks called for an extension of 2017 tax cuts and changes to Medicare's drug negotiation program.

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Infant mortality tied to concentration of lead in air

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

In a new study, researchers used data on lead emissions in the air to estimate the effects of air lead concentration on infant mortality. The study found a statistically significant relation between air lead concentration and infant mortality.

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Available for Preorder: The 2025 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Drug Channels

On March 18, 2025, Drug Channels Institute will release The 2025 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. This reportour sixteenth editionremains the most comprehensive, fact-based tool for understanding the entire U.S. drug pricing, reimbursement, and dispensing system. This unique, encyclopedic resource is your ultimate guide to the complex web of interactions within U.S. prescription drug channels. 12 chapters, 500+ pages, 267 exhibits, nearly 1,200 endnotes: There is

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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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Adsorptive regolith on Mars soaks up water, researchers reveal

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water on Mars over time.

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In Uncertain Times, Good Compliance and Quality Communication Habits Can Offer a Port in the Storm

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By John W.M. Claud The ongoing DOGE-led reductions to the federal workforce and recent sweeping policy changes have spawned many questions for compliance officers and quality managers in FDA-regulated companies. How will the cuts at FDA impact inspections and enforcement? Will there be a heightened appetite for mergers and acquisitions in the space?

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Researchers create the world's smallest shooting video game using nanoscale technology

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was made possible by real-time control of the force fields between nanoparticles using focused electron beams. This research has practical applications, as the manipulation of nanoscale objects could revolutionize biomedical engineering and nanotechnology.

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AstraZeneca’s next breast cancer drug; Madrigal’s accelerating MASH launch

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The British drugmaker claimed study success in a first-line setting in breast cancer. Elsewhere, Rezdiffra sales continued to grow and a cancer biotech cut staff.

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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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Fish teeth show how ease of innovation enables rapid evolution

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, according to new work.

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Rapid Gene Test Aids Brain Cancer Surgery

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 -- A rapid experimental genetic test can help guide the hands of surgeons as they delicately remove tumors from patients with brain cancer, new research suggests.The test can measure the level of cancer cells in a tissue.

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From Cloud to Local: Effortlessly Import Azure SQL Databases

Perficient: Drug Development

With most systems transitioning to cloud-based environments, databases are often hosted across various cloud platforms. However, during the development cycle, there are occasions when having access to a local database environment becomes crucial, particularly for analyzing and troubleshooting issues originating in the production environment. Sometimes, it is necessary to restore the production database to a local environment to diagnose and resolve production-related issues effectively.

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Childhood Long COVID Might Be Caused By Lower Blood Flow In Lungs

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, Blood flow problems within the lungs could be driving long COVID in some children, according to scans using an advanced form of MRI.Children and teens with long COVID appear to have significantly reduced blood flow through their.

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Drafting Drug Patent Applications for Biologic Drugs

Drug Patent Watch

The Complex World of Biologic Drugs: Navigating Patent Applications As a biotech professional, you're likely no stranger to the intricacies of developing life-changing treatments. But have you ever stopped to think about the patent landscape surrounding biologic drugs? It's a complex world, to say the least. Biologic drugs, also known as biologics, are a type of medication made from living organisms or their components.

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LA Wildfires Spewed Lead Into Atmosphere

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 -- The Los Angeles wildfires spewed toxic lead into the southern California atmosphere during their rampage, a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study says.Airborne lead soared to 110 times normal.

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What To Expect When Migrating Your Site To A New Platform

Perficient: Drug Development

This series of blog posts will cover main areas of activity for your marketing, product and UX teams in advance of, during and after site migration to a new digital experience platform. Migrating your site to a different platform can be a daunting prospect. Especially if the site is sizable in both page count and number of assets, such as documents and images.

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Young Women's Locale Plays Role In Breast Cancer Risk

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 -- Where a young American woman lives could play a role in her risk for breast cancer, a new study suggests.In fact, the breast cancer risk associated with a young womans locale is comparable to that from other known f.

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