Drug discovery and development – Page 34
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News
Former student sues Harvard for $10 million
PhD chemist seeks damages in row over patent royalties
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Opinion
Target acquired
Knowing a drug’s exact biochemistry has never been a prerequisite for approval, says Derek Lowe, and nor should it be
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Business
Data-sharing partnership for drug discovery
Collaborative project aims to assist medicinal chemistry efforts
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Opinion
Compulsory licences: necessity or threat?
Are compulsory licences for patent-protected drugs a necessary measure, or a threat to innovation?
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News
Antibiotic resistance is a ‘ticking time bomb’
Efforts to tackle the threat will need new thinking, but their may be no easy solutions or short cuts to new drugs
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Opinion
New antibiotics: what's the hold up?
It’s more a research problem, than a commercial one, says Derek Lowe
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News
PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs
Bioprospecting project will investigate marine organisms in the search for new antibiotics and central nervous system therapies
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Business
Flu vaccine without the eggs approved
Flublok does not require flu virus or eggs for manufacture
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Business
TB drug milestone for bedaquiline
First TB drug with a new mechanism of action for 40 years wins approval
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Feature
Making pain history
From ancient folk remedy to the wonder drug of the early industrial age and beyond. Mike Sutton traces the remarkable history of aspirin
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Business
Return on drug R&D dropping
The pharma industry is getting less and less return on investment in R&D but trend seems to be bottoming out
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Business
Drug R&D costs rising
Review from UK consultancy suggests ten-fold increase in per medicine R&D costs over last 30 years
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Careers
Nobel signals for new drugs
Sarah Houlton talks to a company that’s capitalising on the chemistry of communication
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Business
Bayer and Evotec team up on endometriosis
German collaboration aims to develop three drug candidates in five years
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News
Chinese drug makers accused of using ‘gutter oil’
Oil reclaimed from drains may have been used to make an antibiotic intermediate
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Feature
Food with a function
Compounds normally thought of as medicines are being added to food. Elinor Hughes looks at the scientific and regulatory challenges facing these nutraceuticals.
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Opinion
Monopoly money
Dean Baker says it’s time to start talking seriously about the way in which pharma is funded
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Opinion
Protecting patients at all costs
Suffering stagnant output, and beset by patent expiries and spiralling costs, drug discovery is in poor health. Simon Campbell prescribes a remedy
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Feature
Fast, flexible and flourishing
Paul Workman’s experiences in big pharma, academia and biotech gave him the tools to develop new drugs and spin out successful companies. Sarah Houlton profiles the 2012 Chemistry World entrepreneur of the year
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