Maria Thompson

Over the course of this series so far we’ve looked at the role of the microbiome in two of the three major therapeutic areas targeted by drug...

Outsourcing has proven to reduce costs while dramatically improving productivity of the drug discovery process. Primary benefits to outsourcing...

Having introduced the age of the microbiome in drug discovery and the microbiome in metabolic disease we now turn to the influence of the...

In the Age of the Microbiome blog post which initiated this series we introduced the spectacular potential that the microbiome offers for drug...

Outsourcing drug discovery and development has become the key to making the entire drug research process more efficient. Over the past few years...

Over the course of the last century we’ve had the age of antibiotics, the genetic revolution, transplantation and immunotherapy, each of which...

Published in The Coast News last week, was a great article about how Bio, Tech and Beyond, the darling incubator lab of San Diego, is providing...

Three outstanding examples for fragment-based drug discovery A good example for the reliability of the fragment-based screening method is the...

Directed evolution is emerging as a powerful new tool to design proteins with new and interesting properties that may not have evolved naturally...

The selection and accumulation of desirable mutations – also known as natural selection – has shaped the living world. The proteins resulting from...