How Can We Speed up Vaccine R&D?
With the rapid spread of the coronavirus 2019-nCoV through China and now globally, governments and organisations have implemented a range of preventative measures. Chinese provinces including Beijing and Shanghai have shut down long-distance bus services and entirely closed off some...
5 years agoHow Can We Speed up Vaccine R&D?
With the rapid spread of the coronavirus 2019-nCoV through China and now globally, governments and organisations have implemented a range of preventative measures. Chinese provinces including Beijing and Shanghai have shut down long-distance bus services and entirely closed off some...
5 years ago
Antibiotic Resistance: Is Pharma Doing Enough?
Developed resistances to certain antibiotics have occurred since their creation in the 1940s. Scientists found the first case of resistance just four years after antibiotics entered mass production. Only recently, however, has the issue taken a critical turn. Resistant strains of...
5 years agoAntibiotic Resistance: Is Pharma Doing Enough?
Developed resistances to certain antibiotics have occurred since their creation in the 1940s. Scientists found the first case of resistance just four years after antibiotics entered mass production. Only recently, however, has the issue taken a critical turn. Resistant strains of...
5 years ago
Weekly News Round-up – 17/1/20
The week passed fairly uneventfully this time, with the baffling politics and shocking events of the new decade struggling to get started. Instead, research from Scottish universities indicated a link between a type of common gut bacteria and Parkinson's; a...
5 years agoWeekly News Round-up – 17/1/20
The week passed fairly uneventfully this time, with the baffling politics and shocking events of the new decade struggling to get started. Instead, research from Scottish universities indicated a link between a type of common gut bacteria and Parkinson's; a...
5 years ago
The Future of Organ-on-a-Chip
Dozens of solutions have been suggested to lessen the crisis that has been hitting pharma R&D recently. Over the last decade, the cost of creating drugs has skyrocketed even as the amount of new medicines reaching market is steadily declining....
5 years agoThe Future of Organ-on-a-Chip
Dozens of solutions have been suggested to lessen the crisis that has been hitting pharma R&D recently. Over the last decade, the cost of creating drugs has skyrocketed even as the amount of new medicines reaching market is steadily declining....
5 years ago
Cancer Drugs Could be Hitting Wrong Targets
Current cancer drugs may be hitting the wrong protein targets, a study has found, giving a possible explanation for the low success rates of those drugs during their early stages. The study, recently published in Science Translational Medicine journal and...
5 years agoCancer Drugs Could be Hitting Wrong Targets
Current cancer drugs may be hitting the wrong protein targets, a study has found, giving a possible explanation for the low success rates of those drugs during their early stages. The study, recently published in Science Translational Medicine journal and...
5 years ago