2023

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Potentially game-changing schizophrenia drug enters Phase I trials

Drug Discovery World

A potential schizophrenia treatment, discovered at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the US, has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration for use in Phase I clinical trials. NMRA-266, an allosteric modulator that works through a mechanism that has been clinically validated in the treatment of disorders like schizophrenia, will be developed by Neumora Therapeutics.

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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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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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Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

addgene Blog

Primer design. Plasmid mapping. DNA sequence analysis. We all have our favorite tools for tackling these particular tasks, but they tend to be scattered about the internet. To help you keep your virtual molecular biology toolbox organized, today’s post features a list of free online molecular biology tools all in one place.

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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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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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The Power of Personalization Amid the Changing CRO Landscape

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

Amidst a shifting clinical landscape characterized by increasingly complex trial designs and growing patient subpopulations, many contract research organizations (CROs) have adopted a “one-stop-shop” strategic approach. As a result, various CROs have undergone significant consolidations and acquisitions of specialized capabilities to address the escalating complexity in clinical trials.

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Keypoint Newsletter: Welcoming the New Fellows Class of 2024

keypoint

Keystone Symposia is pleased to introduce the Keystone Symposia Fellows Class of 2024! This year we welcome seven early-career investigators and seven post-doctoral fellows, a new addition to the program this year.

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Buprenorphine now replaces methadone as the most common medicine for opioid dependence’: 10-year trends in opioid agonist treatment medicines in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Kendal Chidwick NDARC’s Kendal Chidwick discusses the findings from a recently published study that examined how patterns of opioid agonist treatment medicines have changed over the past decade. In Australia, both methadone and buprenorphine have been subsidised by the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) for the treatment of opioid dependence (termed ‘opioid agonist treatment’ or OAT) for several decades.

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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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Counterfeit Pills Fuel Rising Number of Fatal Drug Overdoses

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Sept. 1, 2023 -- A growing number of overdose deaths in the United States involve counterfeit pills, health officials reported Thursday. Overdose deaths involving counterfeit pills were twice as common in the latter half of 2021 as they were.

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Social Connection and Worker Well-being

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

In May, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, released Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community calling for a whole-of-society approach to address the epidemic of loneliness and isolation.1 Below we briefly highlight information from the Advisory and its implications for worker well-being.

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Clinical trial phases: What’s the difference?

Antidote

Clinical trials are how researchers advance their knowledge about potential new treatments, including medications, medical devices, and lifestyle interventions. Clinical trials are divided into phases , each with a distinct duration, purpose, and number of volunteers needed. Before any new treatment becomes available on the market, it must go through this process, as required by the FDA.

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New patient-partnered research project will study heart disease and diabetes risk in South Asian populations

Broad Institute

New patient-partnered research project will study heart disease and diabetes risk in South Asian populations By Corie Lok October 23, 2023 Breadcrumb Home New patient-partnered research project will study heart disease and diabetes risk in South Asian populations The OurHealth study aims to increase representation of people of South Asian ancestry in cardiometabolic research.

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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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Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

addgene Blog

Plasmids need antibiotic resistance genes so that you can specifically isolate bacteria containing your constructs of interest. But does it matter which antibiotic resistance gene you select? In this blog, we’ll break down the mechanism of action of the most common antibiotic resistance genes and which applications are best (or worst) for each antibiotic.

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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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New molecular insights on medical cannabis

Drug Target Review

Autotaxin (ATX) is a 99-125 kDa lysophospholipase D involved in a large range of physiological and pathological processes. 1 This critical enzyme is part of the nucleotide pyrophosphatase/ phosphodiesterase family and is also referred to as ENPP2. Five ATX isoforms have been identified, with ATX-b expressed in most human tissues and ATX-g specific to the central nervous system.

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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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Getting Real with Molecular Property Prediction

Practical Cheminformatics

Introduction If you believe everything you read in the popular press, this AI business is easy. Just ask ChatGPT, and the perfect solution magically appears. Unfortunately, that's not the reality. In this post, I'll walk through a predictive modeling example and demonstrate that there are still a lot of subtleties to consider. In addition, I want to show that data is critical to building good machine learning (ML) models.

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Using Rendering Parameters on a XM Cloud component

Perficient: Drug Development

What about Rendering Parameters? I recently did a POC using rendering parameters in a component in XM Cloud. In this blog i will describe my approach, issues faced and how i overcame them. Adding a rendering to a component, is relatively straight forward in Sitecore development, i.e.( [link] ). However, there are some circumstances where things are a little bit more complex (than they need to be).

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AI/ML-enabled Medical Devices Have Everyone’s Attention, Including FDA’s

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Gail H. Javitt & Steven J. Gonzalez — The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently published a series of articles as part of its special report “What’s Ahead for Artificial Intelligence.” Three of these articles focus on medical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) and explore FDA’s role in regulating such products. The first article—“Is the Eye the Window to Alzheimer’s?

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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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The power of protective layers: Employers advancing whole-person health

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

The power of protective layers: Employers advancing whole-person health mfleming Fri, 10/06/2023 - 17:56 Nora's Blog October 11, 2023 This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn.com. Image @GettyImages/ SolStock There is a growing movement among employers to holistically recognize employees’ mental, financial, and physical health through a "whole-person" approach.

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A guide to clinical trial phases [infographic]

Antidote

Before any new treatment or therapy is able to be used by the patient population, it must go through the process of a clinical trial — this is the case for any new prescription drug, but also true for over-the-counter medications, medical devices, and more.

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Evolved prime editors are smaller and more efficient for therapeutic applications

Broad Institute

Evolved prime editors are smaller and more efficient for therapeutic applications By Corie Lok August 31, 2023 Breadcrumb Home Evolved prime editors are smaller and more efficient for therapeutic applications Researchers have evolved the editing machine at the heart of the prime editing system, which can make a wide range of changes to the genome. By Sarah C.P.

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New optogenetic tools for cytoskeleton and membrane control

addgene Blog

Optogenetics gives you the power to control cells or organisms with the flip of a switch. You may be familiar with popular light-sensitive ion channels used to control activities like neuronal signaling — think of a mouse with an LED brain implant or a worm wiggling back and forth under blue light — but there’s a lot more to optogenetics than neuronal activity.

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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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New biomarkers found for diabetic kidney disease

Drug Target Review

Scientists in China have published their findings 1 regarding novel biomarkers, which they hope will benefit patients by identifying the disease at an earlier stage. Minjia Tan’s group from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shichun Du’s group from Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, analysed urinary and exosome proteome profiling and discovered biomarkers for diabetic kidney disease (DKD).

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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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Puerto Rico on Gene & Cell Therapy: An Unparalleled Proposal for Non-Dilutive Funding

Fierce BioTech

Puerto Rico: A Hub of Opportunity for Non-Dilutive Funding | Puerto Rico is becoming the best place in the world to conduct R&D activities for emerging technologies. Could your organization maximize growth potential by capitalizing on Puerto Rico’s unique tax incentives & culture of innovation?

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Suspend Reality – 6 Steps to Move from Fantasy to Execution

Perficient: Drug Development

We’re just now finishing up the holiday season. At this time of year, I’m always intrigued by the magic of the holidays we celebrate, and the optimistic goals we set for the new year. It amazes me how we collectively like to suspend reality for a bit, reflect, and forecast. And I wonder why we don’t drift into thoughts of the extraordinary more often.

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Are Predetermined Change Control Plans on the road to Global Harmonization?

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Lisa M. Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — In October 2021, FDA and MHRA (United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) jointly developed 10 guiding principles for the development of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP) with the goal of promoting “safe, effective, and high-quality medical devices” that are based on Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies.

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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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Breakthrough in Functional Annotation with HiFi-NN

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

Enzymes are vital biological catalysts for a multitude of processes, from cellular metabolism to industrial manufacturing. The applications of artificial. Enzymes are vital biological catalysts for a multitude of processes, from cellular metabolism to industrial manufacturing. The applications of artificial intelligence for enzyme generation is an exciting field of research with direct applications in the life sciences.