Thu.Oct 19, 2023

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Beam to lay off 100 employees, seek partners in research restructuring

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The base editing specialist will prioritize medicines for sickle cell and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, while trimming its plans for other programs in cancer and hepatitis B.

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Red meat consumption associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat fewer servings, and the risk increases with greater consumption, according to a new study. Researchers also found that replacing red meat with healthy plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes, or modest amounts of dairy foods, was associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes.

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Structure-based design of a phosphotyrosine-masked covalent ligand targeting the E3 ligase SOCS2

Covalent Modifiers

Ramachandran, S., Makukhin, N., Haubrich, K. et al. Nat Commun 14, 6345 ( 2023 ). [link] The Src homology 2 (SH2) domain recognizes phosphotyrosine (pY) post translational modifications in partner proteins to trigger downstream signaling. Drug discovery efforts targeting the SH2 domains have long been stymied by the poor drug-like properties of phosphate and its mimetics.

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Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

In an unusual trial, researchers found that a patient's belief that they had received ketamine, even if they didn't, could improve their depression.

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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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PTC to sell spinal muscular atrophy drug royalties for $1B

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A second deal with Royalty Pharma around the Roche therapy Evrysdi will allow PTC to retire Blackstone debt and keep more cash for future operations.

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Roche eye drug sales grow as Regeneron plays catch-up

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The Swiss pharma reported expanding U.S. market share for its new AMD drug Vabysmo as Regeneron tries to rebound from a now-resolved delay for its high-dose Eylea.

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Black holes could come in 'perfect pairs' in an ever expanding Universe

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have shown it's theoretically possible for black holes to exist in perfectly balanced pairs -- held in equilibrium by a cosmological force -- mimicking a single black hole.

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Ultra-rapid Electrophilic Cysteine Arylation [@WangGroupURICHM]

Covalent Modifiers

Bradley M. Lipka, Daniel S. Honeycutt, Gregory M. Bassett, Taylor N. Kowal, Max Adamczyk, Zachary C. Cartnick, Vincent M. Betti, Jacob M. Goldberg, and Fang Wang Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10334 Rapid bond-forming reactions are crucial for efficient bioconjugation. We describe a simple and practical strategy for facilitating ultra-rapid electrophilic cysteine arylation.

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Holy bat skull! Fossil adds vital piece to bat evolution puzzle

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Bats may have lived in caves and used soundwaves to navigate much earlier than first thought.

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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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Laronde, Senda Biosciences merge to create new Flagship company

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The troubled RNA biotech is merging with Senda, another Flagship company that has drawn hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.

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Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A research team has discovered that parasites manipulate their hosts using stolen genes that they likely acquired through a phenomenon called horizontal gene transfer.

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Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

addgene Blog

Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are an important biological tool that allow scientists to express a gene of interest in a cell or animal model. AAV plasmids contain several important elements, but among the most important are the inverted terminal repeats (ITRs). ITRs are the elements that make an AAV plasmid an AAV plasmid.

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Astronomers detect most distant fast radio burst to date

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This 'fast radio burst' (FRB) is the most distant ever detected. Its source was pinned down by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach us. The FRB is also one of the most energetic ever observed; in a tiny fraction of a second it released the equivalent of our Sun's total emission over 30 year

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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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Key breast cancer facts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Antidote

Since 1985, Breast Cancer Awareness Month has been held every October with the goal of raising awareness about the importance of breast cancer screening and prevention. Catching breast cancer early is one of the best ways to increase a person’s prognosis — though one in 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime , when caught in early stages, the 5-year survival rate is 99%.

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International team develops novel DNA nano engine

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international team of scientists has recently developed a novel type of nano engine made of DNA. It is driven by a clever mechanism and can perform pulsing movements. The researchers are now planning to fit it with a coupling and install it as a drive in complex nano machines.

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FDA Returns Disappointing News for ALS Stem Cell Therapy

PLOS: DNA Science

Last week DNA Science covered a setback in a clinical trial of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Also recently, FDA’s Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committe turned down a stem cell treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, or motor neuron disease. The two conditions and the therapeutic approaches differ, but their clinical trials illustrate the importance of selecting patients whose characteristics suggest that the

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Researchers identify the oldest pieces of Baltic amber found on the Iberian Peninsula: imports began over 5,000 years ago

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Baltic amber is a luxury material used in jewellery and handicrafts all over the world. Researchers have shown that Baltic amber arrived on the Iberian Peninsula at least in the 4th millennium BC, more than a millennium earlier than previously thought.

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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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Could scratching nerve cells be the itch solution?

Drug Target Review

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have been exploring this question, and their recent breakthrough will focus on the treatment of conditions such as eczema and allergies. Their research centres around a remarkable immune protein called IL-31, which not only induces itching but also plays a crucial role in regulating inflammation.

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Dimethyl fumarate ameliorated cardio-renal-anemia syndrome and improved overall survival in Dahl/SS rats. [Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine]

ASPET

Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and anemia are known to adversely affect each other. Inflammation is commonly involved in these diseases. Cardiorenal anemia syndrome (CRAS) is the name given to this mutually harmful condition. Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) is an FDA-approved antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of DMF on Dahl/salt-sensitive (DS) rats, CRAS model.

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Digital Health Technologies in Pharmacovigilance

ProRelix Research

Pharmacovigilance is defined as the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects and other drug-related problems. It is an important component of the […] The post Digital Health Technologies in Pharmacovigilance appeared first on ProRelix Research.

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Meet the Expert: Savannah Kay Anzaldua

thought leadership

Our "Meet the Expert" series introduces you to our team of experts around the world. This "behind the curtain" view will help you get to know who we are on a professional and personal level, and highlight how our colleagues work together on our higher purpose to improve patient health and safety throughout the complete product lifecycle.

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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 AIDX

The ChEMBL-og

ChEMBL has recently begun to display the ‘AIDX’ field as part of our assay data. In this Blog post you can find out more about the AIDX as well as how to best populate this field when depositing data to ChEMBL. What is the AIDX? ChEMBL extracts bioactivity data from the core medicinal literature but also accepts deposited data from the scientific community.

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Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Hungary?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the pharmaceutical companies with the most patents in Hungary. Patents must be filed in each country (or, in some cases regional patent office) where patent protection is… The post Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Hungary? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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MPG Primer: Introduction to fine-mapping

Broad Institute

MPG Primer: Introduction to fine-mapping By Rose Circeo October 19, 2023 Breadcrumb Home MPG Primer: Introduction to fine-mapping The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of weekly lectures on genetics topics related to human populations and disease. Experts from across the Medical and Population Genetics community at the Broad Institute give in-depth introductions to research in human genetics through overviews of core concepts and practical tutorials on tools for biostatistics

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New patent for Bioxcel drug IGALMI

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for IGALMI Igalmi is a drug marketed by Bioxcel and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are four patents protecting… The post New patent for Bioxcel drug IGALMI appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Killer smile? An oral pathogen increases heart attack damage

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) find that a periodontal pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis, inhibits autophagosome–lysosome fusion, and can therefore worsen cardiac remodeling and cause cardiac rupture after myocardial infarction Credit: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) find that a periodontal pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis, inhibits autophagosome–lysosome fusion, and can […]

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New patent for Gw Res drug EPIDIOLEX

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for EPIDIOLEX Epidiolex is a drug marketed by Gw Res Ltd and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are twenty-seven… The post New patent for Gw Res drug EPIDIOLEX appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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With smartphone videos, clinicians can analyze human movement using open source “OpenCap” platform, 25x faster and at a fraction of the cost of labs

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

With smartphone videos, clinicians can analyze human movement using open source “OpenCap” platform, 25x faster and at a fraction of the cost of labs. Credit: Ulrich et al., 2023, PLOS Computational Biology, CC-BY 4.

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New patent expiration for Am Regent drug INJECTAFER

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for INJECTAFER Injectafer is a drug marketed by Am Regent and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are ten patents… The post New patent expiration for Am Regent drug INJECTAFER appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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