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Chemistry World July 26, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Screen shots You might not think that the makeup of a compound screening collection could set off many arguments, but there are a few issues there that will do the trick almost every time. |
Chemistry World November 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline Drug discovery chemists live by assay data; we depend on these numbers to tell us if we're heading in the right direction with our molecules. |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses how companies are increasingly trying to do more with the compounds they already know a lot about |
Chemistry World October 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author seeks a cure for 'compound bloat' |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that. |
Chemistry World April 2009 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author considers the problems of addressing drug development out of sequence |
Chemistry World November 2006 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Is there a way to kill off bad drug candidates before companies invest valuable time and money and in them? |
Bio-IT World September 2005 John Russell |
BioSeek's MAP to Discovery Now, after roughly five years of platform development and building a database of assays, BioSeek seems poised for growth. |
Chemistry World September 2007 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline Will Phase Zero trials actually help drug development? |
Chemistry World June 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline The author, a medicinal chemist working on preclinical drug discovery, takes a look at the differences between chemists and biologists working on the same team. |
Chemistry World June 17, 2015 James Urquhart |
Promising compound offers single dose knock-out for malaria Ian Gilbert and colleagues, working with the Medicines for Malaria Venture, have found a compound dubbed DDD107498 which kills Plasmodium falciparum -- the species responsible for most dangerous form of malaria. |
Chemistry World July 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe ponders the possibility of phosphatase inhibitors |
Chemistry World October 27, 2010 Manisha Lalloo |
Pepper plant provides drug hope Researchers have found potential new treatments for the tropical disease leishmaniasis, by isolating compounds from a pepper plant used by Peru's native Chayahuitas people as an anti inflammatory. |
Chemistry World January 2009 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author discusses the age-old tradition of passing the buck in drug development. |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Brian Lawler |
Array's Bright Pipeline Array BioPharma announces its goals for the months ahead in its fourth-quarter results. What is interesting is the varied mix of new compounds in their pipeline. |
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Derek Lowe |
A precision instrument? How much do medicinal chemists and their biology colleagues really trust each other's data? In the end, they have to, because drug discovery is a team sport. |
Chemistry World May 2010 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author wonders whether tagging molecules with fluorescent labels for assay is like tracking the members of a shoal of fish by tying each one to a whale. In the pharmaceutical business, our work absolutely lives and dies by assay results. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2006 Ron Feemster |
Gene Logic: Rescue Squad One or two late-stage clinical failures can land promising drug candidates on the shelf. Forever? Maybe not. Gene Logic tests Big Pharma's dead drugs for hundreds of different targets. |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Amylin Sifts for Gold The biotech mines extra value from its compound library. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World January 16, 2014 |
The art of alternatives Recent years have seen great advances in alternatives to animal tests. Yet we still need to understand how and why compounds are toxic before we can make the giant leap to replacement. |
Chemistry World July 2, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Target acquired Phenotypic screening has recently seen a revival in popularity. This technique assesses drug candidates first by their effects in some organism, then works back to their causes. It can be an effective strategy, but when you find some interesting results, the need to explain them can become acute. |
Chemistry World June 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Chemists are human. Humans are hierarchical. Therefore...well, therefore, you'll find a number of different roles and levels for scientists in a drug company's labs. Here's a rough ordering, from least experienced to most. |
Bio-IT World April 16, 2004 Kevin Davies |
The Matrix Revolutions Serenex, a company dedicated to drug discovery, uses a proprietary matrix, or affinity media, to bind purine-binding protiens - a process that could transform the drug discovery business. |
Reactive Reports Issue 41 David Bradley |
Chip Chops Time off Drug Discovery Process A next-generation optical screening platform can screen a vast number of compounds rapidly by passing wave after wave of compounds in solution over the surface of the biochip. |
Chemistry World June 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success |
Bio-IT World May 19, 2004 Julia Boguslavsky |
Is Microfluidics Equipped for HTS? As microfluidics technologies mature and increase in throughput, they are starting to offer a highly accurate, flexible, and economical alternative to conventional high-throughput screening (HTS) platforms. |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 James Golden |
The Business of Bioinformatics The industry has reached an interesting crossroads. As an academic branch of learning, bioinformatics remains mostly what it always was, a cross-disciplinary endeavor between computer science and molecular biology. But bioinformatics as a money-making proposition has different criteria for success. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Missing the target There are enzymes that no mustard has ever cut, to steal a phrase from science fiction author James Blish. Phosphatases, the flip side of kinase activity, are a perfect example. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Conquering Infinity with Chemical Genetics Harvard superchemist Stuart Schreiber defines the convergence of chemistry and biology. Now the field of chemical genetics is heading toward the clinic. |
Chemistry World February 22, 2011 Amaya Camara-Campos |
Repairing faulty genes Israeli scientists have developed compounds that could be better treatments for genetic diseases than current drugs. |
Chemistry World July 24, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
A Viable Alternative Tests on mice, rats, rabbits and guinea pigs to stop harmful chemicals reaching humans were once a necessary evil. But such checks now seem embarrassingly old-fashioned, according to a report on toxicity testing. |
Chemistry World August 2009 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author considers what makes a good looking drug molecule - and how beauty is in the eye of the beholder |
Chemistry World February 14, 2011 Catherine Bacon |
New hepatitis C drug Scientists in the UK have developed a compound to combat the hepatitis C virus that could be taken as a pill. |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Malorye A. Branca |
Scenes from a Cell Breakthroughs are making cell-based screening faster, easier, more powerful. |
Chemistry World April 2, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Fluorescent probes take screening to next level Researchers have developed a new high-throughput screening technique that could shed light on the biochemical activities of numerous proteins about which little is currently known. |
Chemistry World April 14, 2011 Sarah Farley |
Fish in chips: growing embryos in microfluidic systems Scientists in the Netherlands and the UK have shown for the first time that an animal embryo can develop in a microfluidic environment. |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2007 Brian Lawler |
Following Up on Exelixis Budding development stage pharma Exelixis announces its third-quarter financial results and updates investors on what they can expect for the rest of the year. |
Chemistry World January 3, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
One-pot synthesis creates anticancer candidates Researchers in Germany have developed a simple, rapid and high-yielding cascade synthesis of a collection of polycyclic compounds that resemble indole alkaloid natural products and which interfere with cell division. |
Chemistry World May 31, 2009 Nina Notman |
The natural approach to winning at drug discovery High throughput drug screening is often described as a casino, with the odds stacked on the side of success as long as a big enough library is used. |
Chemistry World May 2007 Derek Lowe |
In the Pipeline After months of bleak news about faltering pipelines and redundancies, it's time to find reasons to be cheerful about the drug industry. |
Chemistry World October 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe investigates the comeback combinatorial chemistry has made in the field of drug discovery |
Chemistry World April 2011 |
Column: In the Pipeline If you look over the whole pharmacopeia, you'll see there are a lot of compounds that got their start as natural products. |
Bio-IT World April 2006 Robert M. Frederickson |
High-Content Cell-Based Imaging Increasingly, equipment providers are incorporating modules for high-content and single-cell analyses into their drug discovery platforms. In addition, new strategies and equipment designs are bringing new types of analysis into the drug discovery marketplace. |
Chemistry World December 1, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Progress at the pace of the slowest Chemistry is a means to an end in drug research, not an end in itself, and that can take some getting used to. It's worth thinking about where chemistry fits into the big picture. |
Food Processing March 2009 Diane Toops |
Kraft Foods Global Thinks Outside the Box with Bioactive Ingredients Kraft hires a pharmaceutical company to help it develop functional foods. |
The Motley Fool March 21, 2007 Brian Lawler |
New Indication for Pain Pain Therapeutics brings a new drug into the clinic. When drug companies attempt to bring new drugs that are outside of their core competencies to market, investors always need to be wary. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Rolling boulders uphill A lot of preclinical projects don't even get off the ground, and many that do still never deliver anything to the development groups. |
Chemistry World August 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe highlights the less visible pitfalls on the road to a new drug |
Bio-IT World August 18, 2004 John Russell |
Curbing a Killer Iconix Pharmaceuticals is working on building biomarkers that can predict toxicity and efficacy. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2015 Emma Stoye |
'Robot scientist' speeds up drug discovery An artificial intelligence system -- or 'robot scientist' -- capable of screening potential drugs almost completely independently could speed up drug development, say the UK researchers who created it. |