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Healthy eating in midlife linked to overall healthy aging

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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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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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AI specialist Recursion trims pipeline in latest shakeup

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The cuts to three advanced drug programs were “inevitable” given the company’s “unsustainable cash burn,” one analyst wrote in a note to investors.

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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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Site-Specific Molecular Glues for the 14-3-3/Tau pS214 ProteinProtein Interaction via Reversible Covalent Imine Tethering

Covalent Modifiers

DOI Ansgar Oberheide, Maxime van den Oetelaar, Jakob Scheele, Jan Borggrfe, Semmy Engelen, Michael Sattler, Christian Ottmann, Peter Cossar and Luc Brunsveld RSC Med Chem 2025 [link] Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are key regulators of various cellular processes. Modulating PPIs with small molecules has gained increasing attention in drug discovery, particularly targeting the 14-3-3 protein family, which interacts with several hundred client proteins and plays a central role in cellular net

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

Broad Institute

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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Evaluating GenMol as a Generalist Foundation Model for Molecular Generation

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

Traditional computational drug discovery relies almost exclusively on highly task-specific computational models for hit identification and lead optimization. Traditional computational drug discovery relies almost exclusively on highly task-specific computational models for hit identification and lead optimization. Adapting these specialized models to new tasks requires substantial time, computational power, and expertisechallenges that grow when researchers simultaneously work across multiple ta

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

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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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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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Boosting evolution: How humans unintentionally altered the skulls of pigs

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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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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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Scientists discover how aspirin could prevent some cancers from spreading

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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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Brain-wide activity change visualized as geometric patterns

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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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DNA nanorobots can alter artificial cells

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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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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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A long and ongoing look at the secrets of human longevity and healthy aging

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers participating in the Cilento Initiative on Aging Outcomes or CIAO study will gather in Acciaroli (Pollica-Cilento) Salerno, Italy to review a decade of work and plan their next steps. Launched in 2016, the CIAO study seeks to identify key factors (biological, psychological and social) that promote healthy aging and extreme longevity.

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New theory of gravity brings long-sought Theory of Everything a crucial step closer

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Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding of how the universe began.

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Black tea and berries could contribute to healthier aging

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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

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Breakthrough in clean energy: Palladium nanosheets pave way for affordable hydrogen

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Hydrogen energy is widely recognized as a sustainable source for the future, but its large-scale production still relies on expensive and scarce platinum-based catalysts. In order to address this challenge, researchers have developed Bis(diimino)palladium coordination nanosheets (PdDI), a novel two-dimensional electrocatalyst that effectively facilitates the hydrogen evolution reactions while minimizing the use of precious metals like platinum, paving the way for affordable hydrogen production.

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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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Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional development -- yielding similar results to studies in wealthier nations, finds a new analysis.

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HHS, NIH Unveil Vaccine Initiative to Protect Against Future Pandemics

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, May 2, 2025 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health announced a new initiative called "Generation Gold Standard" to develop next-generation, universal vaccines using a beta-propiolactone.

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New lipid nanoparticle platform delivers mRNA to the brain through the blood-brain barrier

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering messenger RNA (mRNA) to the brain via intravenous injection, a challenge that has long been limited by the protective nature of the blood-brain barrier. The findings demonstrate the potential of this technology to pave the way for future treatments for a wide range of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain cancer, and drug addiction.

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Deerfield secures more than $600M for its next biotech venture fund

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The firm, a prolific backer of drug startups, will use the cash to back companies working on therapeutics, medical devices and healthcare services.

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Man Bitten by Snakes 200 Times May Help Create New Antivenom

Drugs.com

MONDAY, May 5, 2025 Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the worlds most dangerous snakes sink their fangs into his arms, all for science.Now, his bold experiment could potentially he.

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What if we find nothing in our search for life beyond Earth?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we don't detect signs of life or habitability. Using advanced statistical modeling, the research team sought to explore how many exoplanets scientists should observe and understand before declaring that life beyond Earth is either common or rare.

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New Drug Could Quell Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure

Drugs.com

MONDAY, May 5, 2025 An experimental drug might help people with uncontrolled high blood pressure, according to early clinical trial results.People taking lorundrostat experienced twice the decline in their systolic blood pressure than people t.

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Discovery of dopamine receptors in a previously overlooked part of the brain sheds light on the complex circuitry for anxiety and depression

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior.

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