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Monkeypox Test Kit in Development by Becton Dickinson in Partnership with CerTest Biotec

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Leading global medical technology company Becton Dickinson (BD) and Spain’s CerTest Biotec have announced they will be collaborating to develop a molecular diagnostic test for the detection of the monkeypox virus. Related: Monkeypox Case Reported in the US as Virus Spreads Across Europe and North America.

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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 1

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Although mHealth has been gaining in popularity for at least the past decade, before commercializing their mHealth products, developers must determine whether the product is subject to U.S. If so, developers must develop and execute on a regulatory strategy. The FDA’s General Approach to Regulating mHealth Products.

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Reflecting on ELRIG’s Drug Discovery 2022 

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The DDW team spent 4-5 October, 2022 at ELRIG’s annual meeting, Drug Discovery 2022, which remains Europe’s largest meeting for life sciences industry professionals and took place at ExCel, London, UK. Over the two days at ExCel, 1554 delegates attended the event. Of those delegates, 75% work in drug discovery.

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Turning science into business: An optimised alternative to antibodies

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DS: What motivated you and Dr David Bunka, CTO, to create Aptamer and did you imagine you would one day be operating on such a global scale?    I quickly recognised the commercial value of aptamers as being able to address the gap in the market where antibodies fail to perform, and together we established the business to begin aptamer development.

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Healthy.io’s Smartphone-Powered Minuteful Kidney Test Gets FDA Clearance

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Around one in three adults in the US (or about 80 million Americans) are at risk of developing CKD. The Minuteful Kidney test kit is delivered to the patient’s home and is made up of all these things needed for in vitro home ACR testing: A urine collection cup. An ACR urine reagent dipstick/strip. Healthy.io Healthy.io

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Receptor Occupancy Assays by Flow Cytometry: Benefits for Clinical Trials

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Both the areas of drug development and clinical trials are increasingly using in vitro assays to help determine the efficacy of an investigational therapeutic. All drug development processes evaluate a drug’s pharmacokinetics (PK) to gather data about its absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion in the body.

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The evolution of assays for immuno-oncology research

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Further discovery of PD-1 and CTLA4 as negative immune regulators led to the development of a new class of cancer therapeutics, namely the immune checkpoint inhibitors 5,6. Between 2017 and 2020, the number of IO therapies being developed has increased significantly from 2030 (for 265 targets) to 4,720 (for 504 targets).