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TARA Biosystems and Insilico Medicine collaborate to discover novel therapies for cardiac disease

TARA Biosystems, Inc. a company offering “heart-on-a-chip” tissue models for drug discovery and risk assessment applications and Insilico Medicine, an artificial intelligence company developing end-to-end drug discovery pipelines for age-related diseases, announced today the launch of a collaboration to discover and develop novel therapies for cardiac disease and diseases associated with cardiac muscle aging.

9 Jan 2019

Certain psychiatric drugs may increase risk of pneumonia

A review of published studies indicates that use of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine related drug, which are prescribed to treat various psychiatric diseases, may increase the risk of pneumonia.

9 Jan 2019

Drug combination has added benefit for patients with melanoma

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care investigated whether the drug combinations of dabrafenib plus trametinib and of encorafenib plus binimetinib have an added benefit in comparison with the appropriate comparator therapies for patients with melanoma.

9 Jan 2019

Scientists develop new resource-saving green alternative for drug production

For the production of drugs, pesticides and smartphone displays, most of the processes are cost-intensive and generate a large amount of waste. Scientists at the University of Göttingen have now succeeded in developing a resource-saving "green" alternative. The results were published in Nature Catalysis.

8 Jan 2019

Study offers new insight on mechanism underlying control of gene expression

Researchers have provided new insight on the mechanism underlying the control of gene expression in all living organisms, according to a study published today in eLife.

8 Jan 2019

Exposure to cannabis, stress during adolescence may lead to long-term anxiety disorders

A new study conducted on laboratory animals shows that exposure to cannabis and stress during adolescence may lead to long-term anxiety disorders characterized by the presence of pathological fear.

8 Jan 2019

Hormone therapy effective in reducing prevalence of knee osteoarthritis, shows study

There is an ongoing debate regarding the relationship between knee osteoarthritis and hormone therapy, with small-scale studies providing mixed results.

8 Jan 2019

Faulty brain immune cells cause Alzheimer's disease

Mutations of the TREM2 gene can significantly increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich now shed light on the reasons why TREM2 is so important for brain health.

8 Jan 2019

New analytic method can precisely detect viral infections using immune responses

Cytomegalovirus is widespread and remains in the body for a lifetime after infection. In healthy individuals, this virus is usually kept in check but can become dangerous when the immune system is weakened or during pregnancy.

8 Jan 2019

Health care industry spends $30b a year pushing its wares, from drugs to stem cell treatment

Hoping to earn its share of the $3.5 trillion health care market, the medical industry is pouring more money than ever into advertising its products — from high-priced prescriptions to do-it-yourself genetic tests and unapproved stem cell treatments.

8 Jan 2019

Scientists demonstrate potential of imaging technique based on physical properties of tumors

A team of physicists at the Institut Lumière Matière, in collaboration with the Cancer Research Center of Lyon, has demonstrated the potential, for oncology, of an imaging technique based only on the physical properties of tumors.

8 Jan 2019

New anti-Wolbachia drug could potentially treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis

Researchers from LSTM and the University of Liverpool have successfully optimized a hit from a whole cell screening of a 10000-compound library to deliver the first novel fully synthetic and rationally designed anti-Wolbachia drug, AWZ1066S, which could potentially be used to treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.

8 Jan 2019

Exercise hormone can prevent Alzheimer's finds study

According to a large worldwide study, the hormone that is produced in the body during exercise called irisin, can prevent and delay the onset of mental faculty decline and Alzheimer’s disease. The results of the study were published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

8 Jan 2019

MGH-led research team reveals how solid stress impacts tissue surrounding brain tumors

A Massachusetts General Hospital-led research team has demonstrated, for the first time, how solid stress - the physical forces exerted by the solid components of a tumor - impacts the tissue surrounding brain tumors and contributes to resulting neurological dysfunction and neuronal cell death.

8 Jan 2019

Insilico Medicine and TARA Biosystems collaborate to develop novel therapies for cardiac diseases

Insilico Medicine, an artificial intelligence company developing end-to-end drug discovery pipelines for age-related diseases and TARA Biosystems, Inc. a company offering "heart-on-a-chip" tissue models for drug discovery and risk assessment applications, announced today the launch of a collaboration to discover and develop novel therapies for cardiac disease and diseases associated with cardiac muscle aging.

8 Jan 2019

Biomarkers identified that could predict the risk of stroke

Researchers have successfully developed two biomarkers that could help predict the risk of a heart condition and stroke.

7 Jan 2019

New findings from a safety and feasibility clinical trial on removal of senescent cells

Mayo Clinic researchers, along with collaborators from Wake Forest School of Medicine and the The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, have published findings from a safety and feasibility clinical trial on the removal of senescent cells from a small group of patients with pulmonary fibrosis

7 Jan 2019

Drugs News and Research

TARA Biosystems and Insilico Medicine collaborate to discover novel therapies for cardiac disease

Certain psychiatric drugs may increase risk of pneumonia

Drug combination has added benefit for patients with melanoma

Scientists develop new resource-saving green alternative for drug production

Study offers new insight on mechanism underlying control of gene expression

Exposure to cannabis, stress during adolescence may lead to long-term anxiety disorders

Hormone therapy effective in reducing prevalence of knee osteoarthritis, shows study

Faulty brain immune cells cause Alzheimer's disease

New analytic method can precisely detect viral infections using immune responses

Health care industry spends $30b a year pushing its wares, from drugs to stem cell treatment

Scientists demonstrate potential of imaging technique based on physical properties of tumors

New anti-Wolbachia drug could potentially treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis

Exercise hormone can prevent Alzheimer's finds study

MGH-led research team reveals how solid stress impacts tissue surrounding brain tumors

Insilico Medicine and TARA Biosystems collaborate to develop novel therapies for cardiac diseases

Biomarkers identified that could predict the risk of stroke

New findings from a safety and feasibility clinical trial on removal of senescent cells

Faulty immune receptor in HIV patients could be reason why many experience complications

New bioinspired material interacts with surrounding tissues to promote wound healing

Newly discovered biomarkers can help identify heart condition in patients who have three 'clinical risks'

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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