Drug Research

As per a recent study that was published in JAMA, a not so well-known syndrome with high mortality has a much higher prevalence than it was thought. The syndrome called VEXAS was first identified in 2020 in patients who...

A collaboration between Chinese researchers and UK researchers has led to the unlocking of facilities related to evolutionary secrets that help the medicinal herb called barbed skullcap develop cancer-fighting compounds. The CEPAMS partnership made use of DNA sequencing tech to...

The World Health Organization has urged regulators, suppliers, as well as medicine manufacturers to take strict steps against medicines in the supply chain that are contaminated. This is due to the recent instances of over-the-counter cough syrups which had...

Recent work by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the US has improved the accuracy of inserting long DNA fragments into genomes. This method might be used to introduce an entire wild-type or normal substitute gene, acting as a...

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company developing and commercializing therapeutics for serious eye disorders, has entered into a lease agreement to design and construct a 40,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Northbridge, MA to support the global manufacturing of programs, including EYP-1901...

CytoReason, a pioneer in computational disease modeling, expanded its collaboration with Sanofi. The multiyear collaboration will further Sanofi’s target discovery efforts via CytoReason’s AI platform in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), to identify patient subtypes and pair...

The current EU antibiotic shortages are being closely watched, according to the Executive Steering Group on Shortages and Safety of Medicinal Products (MSSG), which has also declared that it is taking action. Through the Executive Steering Group on Shortages and...