Drug Discovery Featured Articles & Applications
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Is Your Intellectual Property Safe With Indian CROs And CDMOs?
6/3/2024
Startups and Big Pharma companies alike are considering India as an alternative to working with China. Is it safe to do business with India? Let's do a deep dive, with insights from American and Indian attorneys.
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Revolutionizing Modifier Gene Therapy Through A Gene-Agnostic Approach
5/29/2024
Traditional methods reliant on individual gene replacement strategies have limitations. Researchers are now investigating ways to use a single modifier gene to treat an array of diseases.
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FDA's Draft Guidance On Safety Testing Of Human Allogeneic Cells For Use In Cell-Based Therapies
5/24/2024
This article provides a summary and analysis of the FDA's new draft guidance, Safety Testing of Human Allogeneic Cells Expanded for Use in Cell-Based Medical Products. The public comment period ends July 29.
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Cannabinoids Show Promise As New Treatment For Alzheimer's Disease
5/18/2024
Cannabinoids and their innate interaction with the endocannabinoid system, specifically with neuronal functioning, present an attractive therapeutic pathway for Alzheimer's disease, explains Eric Hsu, Ph.D., senior vice president of preclinical research and development at InMed Pharmaceuticals.
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Gene Therapy: How Should We Approach Benefit And Risk?
5/14/2024
Understanding the benefit-risk ratio is a complex exercise for gene therapies, where there hasn't been sufficient time to understand the long-term risks. How should we approach it?
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$25 Million Awards Help Cancer Researchers Make Clinical Trial Inroads
5/9/2024
Cancer Grand Challenges — a global research initiative cofounded by Cancer Research U.K. and the National Cancer Institute in the U.S. — supports cancer research that aims to answer some of the field’s most dire questions and pertinent needs.
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mRNA: The Fourth Pillar Of Pharmaceutical Innovation And Intervention
4/26/2024
mRNA medicines represent the genesis of a fourth pillar of pharma innovation. While exciting, there are several critical challenges we must solve to strengthen this pillar, including stability and deliverability.
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Bucking Convention: How Analog Ibogaine Could Help Conquer CNS Disorders
4/22/2024
EQUULUS Cofounder and CEO Robert Discordia discusses his company’s pursuit of an analog ibogaine as a potential therapy for CNS disorders.
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Innovating Bioequivalence: A Novel Approach To Developing Complex Generic Dosage Forms
4/16/2024
Achieving bioequivalence for complex generics is an intricate task. This article describes an approach using in vitro–in vivo correlation, PBMK modeling, and more.
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Cell Counting Is Growing More Important Amid Advanced Therapy's Rise
4/12/2024
You can't improve what you don't measure. This discussion explores advances in cell counting technology and the growing number of ways it aids the biotech industry and beyond.