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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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Fluoride Ban Could Create Cavities For 1 Of Every 3 U.S. Kids

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MONDAY, June 2, 2025 Removing fluoride from the U.S. water supply could result in more than 25 million more decayed teeth in children and teenagers within five years, a new study warns.Thats the equivalent of a decayed tooth for 1 of every 3 kid.

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Bristol Myers allies with BioNTech on bispecific cancer drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The oncology giant will pay $1.5 billion to co-develop a BioNTech drug that targets the proteins PD1 and VEGF, following Merck, and Pfizer into what’s become a competitive development race.

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Drug Discovery Informatics for Big Pharma: Key Webinar Insights

Collaborative Drug

The pharmaceutical R&D landscape continues to evolve rapidly with advances in computational technologies and artificial intelligence. Our recent Q1 2025 scientific webinar brought together industry veterans Dr. Chris Waller and Dr. Dimitris Agrafiotis to discuss the current state and future directions of drug discovery informatics in large pharmaceutical organizations led by CDD's Founder and CEO, Dr.

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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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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of the activity-based probes for FGFR covalent inhibitor

Covalent Modifiers

Dandan Zhu, Zijian Zheng, Huixin Huang, Xiaojuan Chen, Shuhong Zhang, Zhuchu Chen, Ting Liu, Guangyu Xu, Ying Fu, Yongheng Chen, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry , 2025 [link] Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) represent promising therapeutic targets in various malignancies, yet the clinical application of FGFR covalent inhibitors has been impeded by several significant challenges, including unquantifiable target engagement, undefined off-target effects, and the emergence of drug

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Researchers devise new way to target and correct disease-related proteins

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Researchers devise new way to target and correct disease-related proteins By Leah Eisenstadt January 6, 2025 Breadcrumb Home Researchers devise new way to target and correct disease-related proteins Broad scientists built a diverse library of compounds and found one that stabilizes a dysfunctional protein in Crohns disease, demonstrating their librarys potential to uncover new therapeutic strategies.

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AI-Designed Enzymes

Codon

One of the ultimate aims of protein design has long been to build entirely new enzymes — proteins that perform specific chemical reactions — from scratch. These molecular machines power various cellular processes, from converting sugar into energy to switching genes on and off. Both Cas9 and hydrolases (widely used in the dairy and laundry industries) are also enzymes.

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Healthy eating in midlife linked to overall healthy aging

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Maintaining a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods, with low to moderate intake of healthy animal-based foods and lower intake of ultra-processed foods, was linked to a higher likelihood of healthy aging -- defined as reaching age 70 free of major chronic diseases and with cognitive, physical, and mental health maintained, according to a new study.

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Infant with rare, incurable disease is first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy treatment

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A research team has developed and safely delivered a personalized gene editing therapy to treat an infant with a life-threatening, incurable genetic disease. The infant, who was diagnosed with the rare condition carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency shortly after birth, has responded positively to the treatment. The process, from diagnosis to treatment, took only six months and marks the first time the technology has been successfully deployed to treat a human patient.

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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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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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Boosting evolution: How humans unintentionally altered the skulls of pigs

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Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. The researchers analyzed 3D scans of 135 skulls of wild boars and domestic pigs from the early 20th and 21st centuries.

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Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

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Researchers have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish. They discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in heart regeneration in zebrafish. In mice, this protein was able to restore the heart by activating dormant repair genes without causing side effects, such as heart enlargement. This study marks an important step toward regenerative therapies to prevent heart failure.

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'Cosmic joust': Astronomers observe pair of galaxies in deep-space battle

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Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results show that this radiation dampens the wounded galaxy's ability to form new stars.

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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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Are you curious? It might help you stay sharp as you age

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Psychology literature has shown that curiosity tends to decline with age. Psychologists shows one type of curiosity can increase well into old age, contradicting prior research. Older adults who maintain curiosity and want to learn new things relevant to their interests may be able to offset or even prevent Alzheimer's disease. Conversely, those who show muted curiosity and disinterest may be at risk for dementia.

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Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans

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Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second species of bacteria responsible for leprosy, Mycobacterium lepromatosis, has been infecting humans in the Americas for at least 1,000 years, several centuries before the Europeans arrived.

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Novel stem cell therapy repairs 'irreversible' corneal damage in clinical trial

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Results from a phase 1/2 clinical trial of a novel stem cell treatment for cornea injuries found 14 patients treated and tracked for 18 months had a more than 90% success rate at restoring the cornea's surface and improvements in vision. The procedure, called CALEC (cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells) involves taking stem cells from a healthy eye, expanding it into a graft over several weeks, then transplanting it into a patient's damaged eye.

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Researchers make breakthrough in bioprinting functional human heart tissue

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Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The breakthrough science focused on replicating heart tissues, bringing research closer to generating functional, bioprinted organs, which would have broad applications in disease modelling, drug screening and regenerative medicine.

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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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Cyberbullying in any form can be traumatizing for kids

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New research shows that cyberbullying should be classified as an adverse childhood experience due to its strong link to trauma. Even subtle forms -- like exclusion from group chats -- can trigger PTSD-level distress. Nearly 90% of teens experienced some form of cyberbullying, accounting for 32% of the variation in trauma symptoms. Indirect harassment was most common, with more than half reporting hurtful comments, rumors or deliberate exclusion.

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FDA Limits COVID-19 Boosters to Seniors, Other High-Risk Groups

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY May 21, 2025 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided that only seniors and people at high risk should get the latest COVID-19 booster shots this fall.The new framework, announced Tuesday, says adults 65 and older, and p.

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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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Scientists discover how aspirin could prevent some cancers from spreading

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Scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind how aspirin could reduce the metastasis of some cancers by stimulating the immune system. The scientists say that discovering the mechanism will support ongoing clinical trials, and could lead to the targeted use of aspirin to prevent the spread of susceptible types of cancer, and to the development of more effective drugs to prevent cancer metastasis.

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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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Brain-wide activity change visualized as geometric patterns

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Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal activity in the temporal and frontal lobes of the brain during object recognition and recalling memories. This achievement promises further extraction of brain activity observed in various aspects of daily life.

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GLP-1 Drugs Appear To Lower Cancer Risk

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MONDAY, May 19, 2025 Cutting-edge GLP-1 weight-loss drugs appear to help lower cancer risk even beyond the benefits from dropping excess pounds, a new study says.First-generation GLP-1 drugs like liraglutide (Saxenda) and exenatide (Byetta) were a.

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A new technology for extending the shelf life of produce

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Researchers developed a way to extend the shelf life of vegetables by injecting them with melatonin using biodegradable microneedles.

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DNA nanorobots can alter artificial cells

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Scientists have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes with the help of 'DNA origami'. The system they developed may facilitate the transportation of large therapeutic loads into cells. This opens up a new way for the targeted administration of medication and other therapeutic interventions. Thus, a very valuable instrument can be added to the toolbox of synthetic biology.

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Heat from the sun affects seismic activity on Earth

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Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data alongside solar activity records and surface temperatures on Earth and observed that when they included Earth surface temperatures into their model, the forecasting became more accurate, especially for shallow earthquakes.

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Why are urban children more prone to allergies?

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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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Black tea and berries could contribute to healthier aging

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Higher intakes of black tea, berries, citrus fruits and apples could help to promote healthy aging, new research has found.

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Too Much Cinnamon May Interfere With Some Medications, Study Shows

Drugs.com

MONDAY, May 5, 2025 Consuming too much cinnamon might affect how your body absorbs some medications, new research shows.The study published in the June issue of the journal Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences looked at how cinnamon and its key.

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