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Florida: Multi-organ-on-a-chip system of overdose
A research team led by Prof. James Hickman of Hesperos Inc., in collaboration with the University of Central Florida in Orlando, has developed a novel multi-organ MPS model to investigate the efficacy and off-target toxicity of naloxone in combination with opioids.
Written on Thursday, 16 January 2025 18:26
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FDA guidance on the use of AI in the development of drugs and biological products
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a draft guidance document on the use of artificial intelligence for the safety assessment of drugs and biological products.
Written on Wednesday, 15 January 2025 14:26
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SCORPIO: Using artificial intelligence to easily predict cancer treatment success
A research team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York has developed an AI program that uses routine blood tests to predict which patients will respond to a particular immunotherapy.
Written on Friday, 10 January 2025 17:42
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Neurodegenerative diseases: Membrane anchor protects from prion clumping
A research team led by Prof. Dr. Jörg Tatzelt from the Department of Biochemistry of Neurodegenerative Diseases at Ruhr-Universität Bochum has used new in-vitro and cell culture models to show that a lipid anchor on the outside of nerve cells prevents the prion protein from clumping together.
Written on Thursday, 09 January 2025 12:44
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Heidelberg: Tumor organoids from blood samples
For the first time, a team from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Heidelberg Stem Cell Institute HI-STEM and the NCT Heidelberg has succeeded in cultivating stable tumor organoids directly from blood samples of breast cancer patients.
Written on Thursday, 09 January 2025 10:25
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Forcheurs Prize 2025: Call for applications
Since 2017, the French Embassy in Germany, in partnership with the Franco-German University of Applied Sciences, has been awarding the Forcheurs Prize to honor promising Franco-German scientific collaborations between a tandem of young researchers (under 45 years of age) in the field of chemistry, pharmacology or at the interface between chemistry and health. The prize is under the patronage of Jean-Marie Lehn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Written on Wednesday, 08 January 2025 14:27
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