Posts tagged ‘drug development’

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) is hosting their users and community meeting at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on...

A quick scan of recent advances in the scientific community will show that genomic data and new techniques in next-gen sequencing have been gaining...

One major challenge in drug discovery is determining whether a drug is behaving as intended, binding the “right” protein, inhibiting the correct...

Incretins are hormones that the body uses to stimulate insulin release when nutrients are ingested. The two that are the most well-studied are...

This is Part 1 in a three-part series on Big Data in the pharma and biotech industries. (Check out Part 2 and Part 3). Medical research and...

The need for CNS therapeutics is on the rise. Neurological diseases are expected to increase steadily in the coming years. Previously, we addressed...

More than $2 trillion dollars a year are spent on treatments for CNS disorders. One in three people over 80 currently has Alzheimer’s disease. With...

The BRAIN Initiative sponsored by the NIH has pushed neuroscience and technology to center stage with President Obama supporting advancing...

Is there a way to quantify early drug discovery productivity to improve pharmaceutical innovation? Pharmaceutical innovation is dependent upon a...

How are stem cells advancing compound screening and analysis of drug-like properties? Stem cells are emerging as significant reagents in drug...