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In a small study carried out by researchers at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, it was found that psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, may be at least as effective as a leading antidepressant medication in a therapeutic setting. In a rigorous trial which assessed the therapeutic potential of a […]

Researchers from Biocom California and the California Life Sciences Association (CLSA) have released data analysing the potential impact of international reference pricing (foreign price controls) on California’s biopharmaceutical innovation ecosystem, including investment into small company capital formation and the new drug development pipeline. The analysis shows that implementing foreign reference pricing in Medicare Part D […]

Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK), a charity tackling bacterial antibiotic resistance, has launched its 2021 Small Research Grants / Career Development Awards scheme. This is the charity’s largest grants programme to date. The charity will be awarding one grant of up to £50,000 and six grants of up to £25,000 each. Monies applied for can be […]

RSV is a complicated virus, and traditional vaccine methods have not worked. But UW’s Institute for Protein Design may have solved the problem using computational design. With the help of an innovative computer program, Icosavax has constructed virus-like particles (VLPs) using a two-part assembly (like a soccer ball). Adam Simpson, CEO of Icosavax, talks to […]

Lu Rahman looks at the role precision medicine is playing in how we approach the patient and the way we  treat disease. We hear increasingly about the shift away from one size fits all medicine. It does of course, make perfect sense and in the cancer space in particular we have been well versed on […]

Evotec has launched beLAB2122, a US$20 million BRIDGE (Biomedical Research, Innovation & Development Generation Efficiency) collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb. beLAB2122 brings together academic institutions from the Rhine-Main-Neckar region of Germany with the goal of efficiently advancing first-in-class therapeutic options across all therapeutic areas and formats into investable drug discovery and early development projects. Supported by […]

A near-£1 million investment will help University of Dundee spinout company Ten Bio to commercialise the human skin culture system it developed to provide a viable alternative for many experiments currently performed on animals. The investment will enable the company to progress its mission to transform the testing of new pharmaceutical products. The initial launch […]

The latest free to listen to DDW podcast episode, titled Flow Cytometry in Drug Discovery, covers an article written by Urmi Roy for DDW, read aloud by Megan Thomas. This article is called “Why flow cytometry in drug discovery is a real life-saver”, in which Roy, Global Product Manager at Miltenyi Biotec, outlines the benefits […]

New research has uncovered an unexpected role for so-called “jumping” genes that are a source of genetic mutations responsible for many human diseases. In the new study from Children’s Medical Centre Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI), scientists discovered that these DNA sequences, also known as transposons, can protect against certain blood cancers. These findings, […]

Olink has created a summary article of a study recently published by Consiglio et al. in Cell. This study focuses on the rare cases when children develop Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) in response to infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Typically in these cases the syndrome manifests four to six weeks after infection, producing […]