Progress in the implementation of Label-Free Dectetion - part 1: cell-based assays: Fall 08

by Dr John Comley
Overall it remains unclear whether label-free will break into main stream cell-based lead discovery or will mostly fill the gaps that other technologies do less well?
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Growing Interest in Outsourcing Ion Channel Services; Summer 08

By Dr John Comley
Significant demand now exists in Pharma and Biotech to access ion channel testing services and this is reflected by the number and the variety of service offerings.
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Challenges in transferring bioanalytical methods; Fall 08

By Dr Chris Beaver
Drug development is arduous and expensive with any delay to market resulting in significant financial impact. Delays at any stage of the process cause challenges to programmes, however, s...
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The role of Thorough QT testing in managing drug development: Winter 07

By Dr William S. Wheeler
With few exceptions, all compounds being submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval in the United States will require an assessment of QT prolongation, either by a s...
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Perspectives for ADME/Tox Integration in the Discovery Process; Winter 07

By Dr Constance Höfer
ADME/T is a relatively new ‘symbiotic’ acronym for the investigation of basic compound behaviour in terms of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, combined with assessme...
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Dispense and Imaging Assays: Spring 08

By Dr John Comley
Progress towards the uptake and adoption of flash luminescence readouts in screening were the subject of HTStec’s recent Dispense & Imaging (D&I) Trends 2007 report. The report suggests...
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Where the (drug) action really is; progress in systems-based analysis of Cellular Signalling; Spring 08

By Dr Jeffrey A. Radding
Drug discovery currently focuses on targeted approaches, relying on validation of the target as a disease driver. However, the underlying biological complexity of disease often frustrates...
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Déjà vu all over again: emerging concepts of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) function and drug discovery; Winter 06

By Dr Richard M. Eglen, Dr Roger Bossé and Dr Graham S. Long; Winter 06
G protein-coupled cell surface receptors (GPCRs) have served a fundamental role in modern pharmacology, due to their central importance in cell communication, and have been the target for...
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Microarrays; Winter 06

By Richard Fisler Drug Discovery
The expectation that microarray technology will play a large role in shaping the future of pharmaceutical development and diagnostics has greatly increased due to new products and applica... Read more...

Ultra-sensitive measurement of protein and nucleic acid biomarkers may enable earlier disease detection and more effective therapies : Winter 06

By Dr Gregory Shipp
The pharmaceutical industry is striving to develop effective new therapies for diseases, ranging from cancers to cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders to a host of metabolic, inf... Read more...

Current biosensor technologies in drug discovery. Summer 06

By Dr Matthew A. Cooper
Over the past two decades the benefits of biosensor analysis have begun to make an impact in the market, and systems are beginning to be used as mainstream research tools in many laborato... Read more...

Exposure response modelling – a safe and profitable way to speed drugs to market. Spring 05

By Dr Gregory Fisher and Dr Arthur L. Craigmill
The applicability of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modelling (PBPK) far exceeds that of classical PK in predictive pharmacokinetics, tissue dosimetry, drug efficacy, and drug safe... Read more...

The impact of early ADME profiling on drug discovery and development strategy. Fall 04

By Dr Jianling Wang and Dr Laszlo Urban
The increased costs in the discovery and development of new drugs, due in part to the high attrition rate of drug candidates in development, has led to a new strategy to introduce early, ... Read more...

PATvCHERS SCREENERS divergent opinion on high throughput electro-physiology. Fall 03

By Dr John Comley
The prospect of enabling higher throughput electro-physiology (patch-clamping) has created much expectation from scientists within the ion channel community. Yet there are opposing views ... Read more...