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Biorepositories as a Guiding Resource for Research & Drug Discovery

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Biobanks are used for the coordination of high-yield patient sample collection. Moreover, biobanks are no longer passive biorepositories for accrual of samples and serve a more utilitarian function in identifying and coordinating specific research cohorts for longitudinal and prospective studies. Biobanking Models.

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How biomarkers can help discover new treatments for women’s health

Drug Discovery World

RA: You’ve recently announced a collaboration with the University of Oxford to access genotype data on women with endometriosis. SG: Endometriosis is a common disease that causes chronic pain and reduced fertility, reducing the quality of life of over 200 million women around the world.

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HFpEF vs. HFrEF: How To Improve Heart Failure Drug Development

XTalks

A 2015 study published in Nature Genetics found that the availability of human genetic data made investigational drugs twice as likely to pass pivotal trials and eventually be approved. Figure 1: The use of Mendelian randomization to validate genetic drug targets.