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Assays In-Depth Focus 2019
In this In-Depth Focus: the importance of characterising chemical starting points of drugs using appropriate in vitro ADME-toxicity assays, and why do we have no effective treatments for osteoarthritis?
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Assays
An assay is an analytical procedure in laboratory medicine, pharmacology and molecular biology for measuring the activity of a target entity.
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Drug Target Review – Issue 1 2019
In this issue: AI-driven automated chemistry as a tool to accelerate drug discovery processes, the shifting landscape of immuno-oncology, and how lipid molecules provide an insight into biological research.
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Application note: Fast track antibody discovery
Learn more about an emerging high-throughput method for identifying and isolating rare cells secreting antigen-specific antibodies.
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Phenotypic screening using iPSC-based human disease biology
18 February 2019 | By Tecan and Ncardia
Ncardia, will discuss the application of human iPSC-derived cell-based assays and high throughput screening for drug discovery and development.
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Live-imaging technique reveals cellular plug for leaky bio barrier
A microscopy assay has shown the repair mechanism involved in the activation of a protein called Rho, used to plug leaky biological barriers in the body...
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PD-L1 assay specifically selects ideal patients for cancer treatment
An assay assessing the level of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) could help to determine the method of treatment for lung cancer patients...
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Efficacy of breast cancer therapy measured using PET imaging
Researchers have developed a method using PET imaging along with 18F-fluorofuranylnorprogesterone to analyse the efficacy of breast cancer treatments...
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Intellicyt® T Cell Activation Cell and Cytokine Profiling Kit
17 January 2019 | By IntelliCyt, a Sartorius Company
Multiplexed approach to measure T-cell activation, proliferation and quantify cytokine release in a single well
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Application note: GABAA Receptors
SB Drug Discovery shows the validation of fluorescence and automated electrophysiology assays designed to assess agonists, antagonists and allosteric modulators of these receptors, culminating in a high-throughput electrophysiology assay suited to assessing multiple GABAA receptor subtypes on a single assay plate.
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Webinar highlights: Recent advances in diagnostics and treatments – from small molecules to cellular therapies
The webinar presented an overview of the pre-clinical milestones, the current status of the global drug pipeline and a description of a number of novel drugs undergoing clinical trials.
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Expert view: Three-dimensional cell cultures as predictive tools in early drug discovery
Three-dimensional cell cultures (spheroids, organoids) are becoming widely used as a new predictive tool in early drug discovery. The use of 3D cell cultures is believed to provide a more physiologically relevant response than monolayer (2D) cell cultures because they closely mimic the extracellular matrix and cell-cell interactions that occur…
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Immunoassay developed to detect small molecules
An immunoassay developed to analyse small molecules has shown 50 times greater accuracy than current systems of analytical techniques...
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Expert view: Challenges in drug discovery screening
The basic premise of drug discovery screening necessitates that the biological assays upon which it depends can be performed in a reproducible manner. In addition, the techniques employed must generate results that are biologically relevant and actionable.
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Webinar highlights: Cell-based and biochemical high-throughput screening in 1536-well plates
The Small Molecule Screening Facility (SMSF) at the University of Wisconsin Madison is a comprehensive high-throughput screening (HTS) centre where researchers have investigated antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and screening for protein-protein interactions using HTS methods.
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Expert view: High-throughput screening – make an impact by removing barriers
For drug discovery and biomarker research, screening campaigns are employed to identify potential new treatments for diseases and to answer questions that remain unknown in the scientific community.
