Pharma R&D Today
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Robots, Reactions & Automated Labs
Posted on April 18th, 2019 by Elia Lima-Walton, MD in Pharma R&D
Elseiver’s Elia Lima-Watson, MD explores the phenomenon of automation int he lab beyond just rote tasks. Fascinating developments in this field and others continue to accelerate the discovery process at a dizzying rate.
(more…)Data-Driven Technologies are Shaking Up the Drug Development Process
Posted on March 15th, 2019 by Nicki Catchpole in Pharma R&D
For many, many years, the findings of scientific research were published in an always-growing collection of scientific journals that spun off into more and more specialized disciplines. Today’s scientists have to think far beyond scholarly journals subscriptions and wrestle instead with search strategies and informatics.
Three ways to reduce the cost of precision medicine
Posted on March 12th, 2019 by Nicki Catchpole in Pharma R&D
In December 2018, the FDA announced it has formally recognized a public database containing genomic information, a huge milestone in the evolving field of precision medicine. Now researchers can use this information to validate their tests instead of having to generate their own data.
(more…)Emulating start-up success with purpose-built data tools
Posted on December 12th, 2018 by Nicki Catchpole in Pharma R&D
Innovation used to be almost solely accredited to Big Pharma, but many of the more established businesses in the industry are finding that their rate of discovery is slowing as they try to find answers to some the industry’s biggest problems, such as antibiotic resistance. (more…)
