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Sep 23, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to optimize for ligand affinity. Of course, this is a central theme of all drug discovery projects. At...

Sep 8, 2014

Anyone who has taken a general laboratory class knows that the lab manual has multiple protocols that one follows in order to complete each week’s...

Aug 14, 2014

Innovation is suddenly the word on everybody’s lips. Pfizer launched “Centers for Therapeutic Innovation”, Johnson and Johnson followed with their...

Aug 4, 2014

Sometimes, in tragic circumstances, a lesson can be learned and applied in unexpected ways. That appears to be the case with a rare disease that...

Jul 28, 2014

We have recently discussed here how crowdfunding – donations from the general public in support of a cause, idea, or invention – has caught the...

Jul 14, 2014

As we previously discussed, CRISPR-mania is sweeping the globe. (Okay, it might not be as big as Beatlemania, but more than a few life science...

Jul 7, 2014

It’s a sad story that everyone is familiar with: A patient takes one or more well-known cancer drugs, and they work – for a while. However, after...

Jun 30, 2014

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...

Jun 23, 2014

The vast majority of compounds that enter clinical trials fail to make it through. The result: few drugs, plenty of bills. The consensus in drug...

Jun 18, 2014

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