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Kura Oncology launches diabetes-focused Caspian Therapeutics
Lilly, T1D Fund back the new firm’s $50 million financing
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Lilly, T1D Fund back the new firm’s $50 million financing
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Medical Design and Outsourcing
NEWS RELEASE: Parasoft’s automated testing helps verify safety-critical firmware for Kitea Health’s investigational ICP sensor Testing verified the code running inside a new sensor for hydrocephalus MONROVIA, Calif. — Parasoft, a global leader in automated software testing…
Industry I In the Pipeline
Update: I can always tell when RealClearScience links to one of my vaccine posts, because suddenly in come a number of comments from people who know little or nothing about vaccines and who seem to assume that any favorable coverage of them is some sort of propaganda operation. O…
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Industry C Cell Systems
Small gene regulatory circuits can encode a surprising diversity of dynamical behaviors. A biophysical model of the AC-DC motif reveals over thirty distinct bifurcation structures and shows how molecular regulatory architecture and binding affinity orderings determine oscillation…
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MedCity News
LEP Biomedical is developing a dissolvable implant that replaces weeks of self-administered eye drops after glaucoma surgery, aiming to fix the compliance problems that drive surgical failure rates as high as 40%. The post This Startup Wants to Make Glaucoma Surgery Recovery Easi…
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
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Medical Design and Outsourcing
Claria Medical won FDA de novo classification in July 2026 for its minimally invasive system for hysterectomy. Hysterectomies are among the most common surgeries for women, but “many current approaches fall short,” the Mountain View, California-based company says at its website.…
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Drug Discovery and Development
On August 25-26, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) followed up on two Federal Register notices published on July 1 that signaled its intent to temporarily place several synthetic alkaloids associated with Mitragyna speciosa (commonly known as kratom leaf or kratom) i…
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Industry N Nature Reviews Bioengineering
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Medical Design and Outsourcing
Engineer-turned-executive Maggie Nixon is leading one of the most exciting startups in medtech. She’s the CEO of Intuitive-backed heart valve implant and robotics developer Capstan Medical and has spoken often with Medical Design & Outsourcing to offer updates on th…
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EMA Press
Review will assess risk of low blood phosphate levels and related bone problems with injectable iron medicinesEMA’s safety committee, PRAC, has started a review of injectable…, Agenda Agenda of the PRAC meeting 31 August - 3 September 2026Draft Reference Number: EMA/PRAC/164465/2…
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Test your knowledge of our stories on Ada Yonath, a safety incident at MIT, and regulatory changes in the US
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By Kevin E. Noonan – Written description jurisprudence has been one of the areas of statutory explication of Section 112(a) (along with enablement) primarily under the purview of the Federal Circuit (until the Supreme Court’s Amgen v. Sanofi decision on enablement; the Court has…
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Drug Discovery and Development
The COVID-19 pandemic left most of the world’s population with an immune memory for COVID. A Cleveland-based biotech wants to use that memory to fight cancer. Celloram, a preclinical stage company focusing on therapies for cancer, autoimmune diseases and…
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Pharmaceutical Processing World
Artis BioSolutions announced the launch of its Genetics Medicines Center of Excellence in Bilbao, Spain, where it already has a facility specializing in synthetic DNA manufacturing. The company, which also has facilities in Boston and San Diego, supports genetic me…
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
A methylation marker on the tRNA, and a new lipid nanoparticle, helps the ribosome ignore disease-causing mutations
Industry I In the Pipeline
If you thought that there was a lot of noise and action in the GLP-1 drug area before (medical, financial, societal), just wait. I think that this new paper at Nature is a preview of what’s to come. We’ve already been seeing a good bit of evidence that these compounds have what s…
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Lab animals on the drug live longer, mimicking well-known effects of caloric restriction
Industry I In the Pipeline
As much as I love an experiment designed to slice and dice the possible explanations in one smooth motion, I also have always enjoyed the blue-sky “I wonder what would happen if. . .” kinds as well. And the modern era of molecular biology and computation really gives people the t…
Industry F FDA Law Blog
By Sarah Wicks & Dara Katcher Levy & Jeffrey N. Wasserstein —
Industry C Cell Systems
The team developed a high-throughput platform to rapidly measure how hundreds of viral mutation combinations affect antibody binding, generating 31,740 quantitative affinity data points. The resulting landscapes reveal how mutation combinations drive immune escape and enable accu…
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MedCity News
GSK’s messenger RNA vaccine for seasonal influenza is designed to prompt an immune response to two proteins on the surface of the virus. That could be an advantage over Moderna’s recently approved mRNA flu shot, which addresses just one of those proteins. The post GSK’s Pivotal T…
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Medical Design and Outsourcing
Vitestro’s first-of-its-kind Aletta robotic phlebotomy device draws blood autonomously from “placing the tourniquet to applying the bandage,” in the company’s words. FDA granted de novo classification for Vitestro’s Aletta system in August 2026, calling it an “innovative approach…
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Updates from Active Site, IBBIS, the Pandemic Center at Brown SPH, Asia Center for Health Security, SecureBio and SecureDNA
Industry I In the Pipeline
There have been reports for a while now about altered images of Western blots in the catalogs of various antibody suppliers, and this news (sadly) will not have come as a real shock to many of their customers. The state of the commercial antibody market has always been a shambles…
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Bio.News
For years, advocates have pushed for more research and investment in women’s health. Now, it may be paying off. “I’m excited about the medicine […] The post BIO 2026: Are we entering the ‘golden era’ of women’s health? appeared first on Bio.News.
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Sheo Pharmaceuticals scientists queried AI tools about failed renin inhibitors and then built their own
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Drug Discovery and Development
Proteolysis Targeting Chimera (PROTAC) drugs have evolved from a promising concept to a clinically validated modality. In May 2026, the U.S. FDA approved vepdegestrant (Veppanu®), the first PROTAC drug, marking an important milestone for targeted protein degradation and reinforci…
Industry P Practical Fragments
We’ve written previously about the concept of synthetic lethality, in which changes to one protein make cancer cells more dependent on another. Inhibiting this second protein allows selective targeting of cancer cells while sparing normal cells. One such opportunity is the pair o…
Industry I In the Pipeline
We had a weird story develop over the weekend here in the Cambridge area (and among organic chemists in general). I’m glad that I wasn’t trying to blog it as it happened, because it’s taken some turns! This all started last Wednesday night, but most of us only heard something on…
Industry N Nature Reviews Bioengineering
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Industry W What do you mean heterogeneity?
TSNE is a method for visualizing high-dimensional data that preserves local neighborhoods on a two-dimensional plane.
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
First-time disclosures session at ACS Fall 2026 debuted compounds designed to treat cancer, acne, urinary tract infections, and more
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Test your knowledge of our stories on polymyxins, critical mineral recovery, skeletal editing, and more
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By Kevin E. Noonan – In addition to Arbutus Biopharma and Genevant Sciences defending on appeal the District Court’s summary judgment decision in their favor, these plaintiffs filed their complaint against the Federal Government pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1498 for recompense before…
Industry C Cell Systems
Cheng and Gu et al. introduce PROFET, a framework that reconstructs continuous single-cell trajectories from sparse scRNA-seq time series. By combining particle-based gradient flows with neural force matching, PROFET accurately captures nonlinear cell-state dynamics and reveals h…