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Flow cytometry: breaking bottlenecks in drug discovery and development

20 September 2016 | By ,

The discovery and development of novel drug candidates is a highly complex, time-consuming and expensive process. Pharmaceutical scientists and clinicians should, therefore, reevaluate and modify the existing standard platforms and increase their uptake of robust advanced technologies such as flow cytometry to overcome the bottlenecks in these processes...

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NIH to research health disparities of chronic diseases

25 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

This program responds to the need for more robust, ecological approaches to address chronic diseases among racial and ethnic minority groups, under-served rural populations, people of less privileged socio-economic status, along with groups subject to discrimination who have poorer health outcomes often attributed to being socially disadvantaged...

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Depression genes found by tapping crowd-sourced data

4 August 2016 | By National Institute of Health (NIH)

Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites — the first ever — linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many of these regions of depression-linked genetic variation turn out to be involved in regulating gene expression and the birth of new neurons in the developing brain...