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BenchSci raises $50m to grow AI-powered R&D platform

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The Toronto-based company already counts many of the world’s largest pharma companies among its customers, using its platform for a range of tasks such as improving reagent and antibody selection to help scientists run more successful experiments, drawing on data from published studies and organisations’ internal databases.

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Listicle: Maximising outsourcing models beyond time and cost

Drug Discovery World

Challenges in outsourcing drug discovery. The goal of drug discovery is clear: Identify the most promising leads in the shortest amount of time. Many companies have several projects ongoing simultaneously, which can limit internal resources (space, lab equipment, personnel) and delay progress.

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Yale-NBA Partnership Results in FDA Approval for COVID-19 SalivaDirect Test

XTalks

SalivaDirect, a saliva-based COVID-19 test that was tested among players of the National Basketball Association (NBA), has been given emergency use authorization (EUA) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The EUA comes after Yale partnered with the NBA to study the efficacy of the saliva-based test.

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Turning science into business: An optimised alternative to antibodies

Drug Discovery World

Addressing this need in the market has allowed us penetration to work with 75% of the top twenty pharma companies. Equally, the controlled chemistry of Optimer offers the ability for precise aptamer-drug ratios, with conjugation at specific sites on the molecule to simplify therapeutic manufacture.

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Transitioning Between Academia and Industry: Advice from Leading Scientists That Made the Switch

XTalks

Xtalks spoke with WeiQi Lin, MD, PhD, executive vice president, research & development, and principal scientist at DURECT Corporation — a company focused on developing drugs and drug delivery methods in therapeutic areas with significant unmet need — about her transition from academia to industry. Key Moments.

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BioSpace Global Roundup, Oct. 15

The Pharma Data

The AOP Orphan Group manufactures 80% of its drugs in Europe and has more than 20 subsidiaries and representative offices across the whole of Europe as well as in the United Arab Emirates and Israel. Food and Drug Administration granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to France-based Inventiva’s experimental NASH treatment lanifibranor.

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You think you need an ELN… but are you asking the right questions?

Drug Discovery World

There’s even a name for the downsides of such under-supported products, poor integrations, and bad user experience: frustrated ELN users call this the “tax on science” That tax has a real cost in terms of drug discovery. This transition improved intellectual property management for early drug discovery.