An international research team is perfecting a method to predict the potential clinical implications of new drugs before clinical trials even start. An international research team has develo... Read more
A new technique for precisely targeting molecules within cells is paving the way for safer drugs that are free of side effects. Researcher J. Julius Zhu, PhD, of the School of Medicine, and... Read more
IonStar could upend industry standards, and quicken medical diagnosis and drug development A new protein analysis tool developed at the University at Buffalo could vastly increase the speed... Read more
Today, a new study published in Science by Professors Yossi Paltiel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ron Naaman from the Weizmann Institute of Science describes a breakthrough techn... Read more
University of Pittsburgh scientists are unlocking the complexities of a recently discovered cell death process that plays a key role in health and disease, and new findings link their discov... Read more
Using the same expertise they’ve employed to build new organs for patients, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues have engineered micro hearts, lungs a... Read more
Cocaine, nicotine, capsaicin. These are just three familiar examples of the hundreds of thousands of small molecules (also called specialized or secondary metabolites) that plants use as che... Read more
Focus on increasing throughput of processes has favoured poorer models with lower chances of success The search for new medicines is becoming unsustainably expensive despite huge technologic... Read more
Microfluidic cell-squeezing device opens new possibilities for cell-based vaccines MIT researchers have shown that they can use a microfluidic cell-squeezing device to introduce specific ant... Read more
It’s only a small-scale project, but it’s exciting to see new funding models being tried out for drug development. Here on Techdirt we’ve been pretty scathing about the way... Read more
There is clearly something wrong with pharmaceutical innovation. Antibiotic-resistant infections sicken more than two million Americans every year and kill at least 23,000. The World Health... Read more
Analysis of clinical trials shows pipeline for therapeutics is small; 99.6 percent of drug attempts fail Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have conducted t... Read more
Tiny lab-grown organs connected by an artificial blood system on a two-inch chip could greatly improve drug testing Miniature human organs made by 3D printing could create a “body on a... Read more
A new approach for moving promising discoveries out of laboratories and into the hands of patients and physicians With the “Valley of Death” looming as an increasingly serious obstacle to in... Read more
A new, streamlined approach to genetic engineering drastically reduces the time and effort needed to insert new genes into bacteria, the workhorses of biotechnology, scientists are re... Read more
