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Epigenetics: an emerging target class for drug screening. Spring 11

By Dr John Comley
Heightened awareness of the potential importance of epigenetic targets in many disease areas, and growing vendor interest in developing new assays to screen DNA methylation and histone mo...
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Moving forward with label-free technology. Winter 10

By Dr Jennifer Hartigan, Cindy Liu and William Downey
Label-free technology is gaining acceptance and opening doors for new drug discovery. Relatively new in the well-established world of high throughput screening (HTS), label-free technolog...
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HTS Systems: impact of reliability on downtime and drug discovery. Winter 10

By Dr John Comley
This article reports the results of a survey on the reliability of automated HTS assay systems and the effect of reliability on output. Evidence supporting the view that HTS systems have ...
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Current trends in label-free technologies. Fall 10

By Philip Rawlins Drug Discovery
Label-free technologies have been used throughout drug discovery for the detection and characterisation of molecular interactions. The implementation of automated systems, increased sensi...
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The industrial evolution of screening infrastructure industrialisation of screening depends upon the use of a stable,mature infrastructure. Fall 03

By Chris Molloy
According to a recent Boston Consulting Group report, a pharmaceutical company needs to spend 900 million ($810 million) on R&D to bring a product to market.This is almost three times th...
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Fluorescence Lifetime: finally picking up momentum! Summer 10

By Dr John Comley
Fluorescence lifetime (FLT) largely failed to make a significant inroad as a screening technology when it was first introduced nearly a decade ago, despite the fact that intrinsically it ...
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Tracking HTS Assay Development Time: opportunity for improving drug discovery. Summer 10

By Dr Jennifer Hartigan, Cindy Liu and William Downey High throughput screening assays are developed more quickly now due to advances in technology, improved liquid handling and sensitive detection, as well as increased communication between... Read more...

Recent Advances in HCS Laser Scanning Cytometry. Spring 10

By Dr John Comley Laser scanning cytometers have matured over the past decade to meet the needs of end-users for higher throughput cell analysis, to access to previously difficult applications and to keep ... Read more...

Current and emerging trends in cell-based assays. Winter 09

Winter 2009 In 2009 Drug Discovery World hosted a collegial-style roundtable discussion on the present and emerging developments in this exciting and now, fundamental area of drug discovery. The part... Read more...

Modular automation for screening: a cost/benefit analysis. Summer 09

By Dr Jonathan Wingfield Cost is now a key driver for pharmaceutical companies and in many respects shapes the capital, revenue and resource decisions that have to be made during the drug discovery process. Where... Read more...

High throughput screening using G-protein coupled receptors as the target plate-based and biochromatographic technologies. Summer 03

By Professor Irving W.Wainer, Dr Farideh Beigi and Dr Ruin Moaddel The G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family constitutes the largest class of cell surface receptors and GPCRs are the targets for more than 50% of the marketed drugs.The therapeutic impo... Read more...

High Throughput Screening, High Content Screening, Primary and Stem Cells. Spring 09

By Dr Richard M. Eglen Over the past decade, the use of cell-based assays has accelerated in modern drug discovery. Indeed, the majority of assays in either target validation or lead identification/optimisation... Read more...