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Douglas Pharmaceuticals | January 27, 2023

A clinical advisory board has been established to support Douglas Pharmaceuticals' lead program R-107, an oral extended-release dose of racemic ketamine being developed as an adjunctive or stand-alone therapy for treatment-resistant depression. Douglas Pharmaceuticals is a New Zealand-based pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of specialty generic and repurposed medications (TRD). Peter Surman, Chief Scientific Officer expressed, "We are ver...

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Vivera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | April 25, 2022

Vivera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application No. 17/066,985 entitled, "Self-Contained, Portable, Sanitization Device and Telemedicine Station," for the Company's MDZone platform from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This Notice of Allowance indicates that the patent application has passed its examination for issuance. MDZone will be a HIPAA compliant, portable telemedicine sta...

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Mission Bio | July 13, 2022

Mission Bio, Inc., the pioneer in high-throughput single-cell DNA and multi-omics analysis, announced the launch of solid tumor assays through its Pharma Assay Development services. The availability of this new service offering will help to accelerate the development of cancer therapeutics by reducing the time and cost associated with the characterization of solid tumor cells. Precision therapeutics for solid tumors have been historically bottlenecked due to technical challenges a...

Slashdot: Science | February 21, 2020

A powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world has been discovered using artificial intelligence. The Guardian reports To find new antibiotics, the researchers first trained a "deep learning" algorithm to identify the sorts of molecules that kill bacteria. To do this, they fed the program information on the atomic and molecular features of nearly 2,500 drugs and natural compounds, and how well or not the substance blocked the growth of ...