Posts tagged ‘pharmaceutical innovation’

We previously discussed how there are software methods to screen for potential drug leads and researchers have been able to increase their drug...

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...

This is the third and final post of a series (part 1 and part 2) on directed evolution. What do protein engineers actually produce using directed...

Illumina recently announced the $1000 solution for the sequencing of the human genome in the form of its new instrument, the HiSeqX. This system...

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...

The annual “Science Innovations” competition from The Scientist magazine uncovered a bonanza of interesting technologies that made their way into...

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

Stem cells are being used to develop robust, reliable disease models that are advancing our understanding of underlying disease progression and...