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ArticleScrambling and gambling to scale up Covid-19 medicines
Organisations work towards making billions of doses of products not yet proven to work
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Opinion
Dragons of immunology
Anti-inflammatories like dexamethasone are triumphs amid the pitfalls of the immune system
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Podcast
Dexamethasone
News that this cheap, ubiquitous steroid drug may reduce deaths in Covid-19 cases has been greeted with cautious optimism
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News
Covid-19 is forcing pharma to rethink clinical trials
Drug trials have become a casualty of Covid-19, but the pandemic is also prompting change
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Webinar
WL Gore: Optimising production processes with Design of Experiments
Join us on August 4 to learn how WL Gore uses definitive screening designs to analyse multiple factors and optimise production processes
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Feature
The difficulties of drugging our brains
Following the withdrawal of many large pharma companies from central nervous system research, Andy Extance finds new drug development patterns are emerging
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Opinion
Collaboration is key to AI-aided drug discovery
The AI Cures project shows how artificial intelligence can assist the search for a cure for Covid-19
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Sponsored
Optimising biotech processes
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies achieve both speed and scale through designed experiments
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Research
Database offers another way to search for drugs – by activity not structure
Dataset offers new way for biomedical researchers to identify potential drug candidates
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Feature
Drugging the gut microbiome
Treating the bacteria that live inside us can improve our own health. Clare Sansom meets our tiny friends
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Webinar
Teaching Design of Experiments to chemists: lessons from Imperial College London
First-hand experience from Imperial College London: Join us to learn about the importance and efficient implementation of a DoE training program in chemistry
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Business
How Covid-19 is changing drug manufacturing
Catalent is adapting, focusing on employee safety and supply chain security
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Business
This little Crispr went to market
Gene editing technology heading towards commercial reality in pharmaceuticals, food and organ transplant
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Opinion
Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy
Nina Notman tells the overlooked story of historic African-American chemist Alice Ball who developed the first partially-effective treatment for leprosy
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Opinion
Hopes and fears for remdesivir
Available resources for testing coronavirus treatments need to be used wisely
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Opinion
Does the drug work, or not?
Coronavirus trials reveal the murky reality of disentangling compounds’ effects on human biology
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Podcast
Interferon beta
An immune-modulating compound used to reduce the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and now showing potential against coronaviruses
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Research
Introducing chirality to give organic electronics a twist
Medicinal molecules and electronic materials aren’t often found in the same research group. Meet Matthew Fuchter, who’s excelling at both
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