Tag Archives: drug development

May, 2018

16 May
Emulate and AstraZeneca Partner to Develop Organs-on-Chips Technology to Improve Prediction of Safety and Efficacy or Drug Candidates

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Emulate, Inc. has formed a collaborative partnership with AstraZeneca’s Innovative Medicines and Early Development (IMED) Biotech Unit to embed its Organs-on-Chips technology within the laboratories of the IMED Drug Safety organization. As part of the agreement, Emulate plans to co-locate scientists within AstraZeneca’s laboratories. The aim of this agreement is …
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6 October
Scientists Develop ‘Body-On-A-Chip’ System to Accelerate Testing of New Drugs

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, Oct. 5, 2017 – Using the same expertise they’ve employed to build new organs for patients, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues have engineered micro hearts, lungs and livers that can potentially be used to test new drugs. By combining the micro-organs in a …
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15 June
New Genetic Research Can Significantly Improve Drug Development

With drug development costs topping $1.2bn (£850 million) to get a single treatment to the point it can be sold and used in the clinic, could genetic analysis save hundreds of millions of dollars? According to a new study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology this week, genetic research …
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