A new approach to reduce the impact of ageing

For Newcastle University Professor Thomas Zglinicki the biggest challenge that lies ahead for medical researchers is tackling age-related multimorbidity, the incidence of people living with several long-term conditions at a time. The professor, who works...

Fledgling printing technology offers hope

One of the big medical changes ahead could relate to the production of tissue for implants, combining 3-D printing technology and bioscience. Among those leading the way are scientists at the University of Bristol who...

Exciting times in the field of asthma research

One of the areas in which truly exciting advances are being made is asthma, one of the commonest chronic diseases on the planet. Professor Stephen Holgate, CBE, Chair of the Research Committee of the British...

Companies announce new developments

An example of the new approach is seen in the way that several companies have been working to accurately and speedily diagnose zika virus. In March, the US Food and Drug Administration gave authorisation to...

Targeting the right treatment at the right patient

One of the rapidly growing concerns in medicine is the anxiety that a lot of drugs do not work for a large number of the patients for whom they are prescribed. By Frances Griss Finding the...

Conference to turn spotlight on biosimilars market

Biologics and biosimilars researchers from around the globe will gather for the 7th European Biosimilars Congress 2017 in Munich between May 15-17. The congress will bring together everyone from scientists, researchers and business development managers to...

Biosimilars offering encouraging results in rheumatology

One of the other areas in which biosimilars are attracting attention is rheumatology and an example of new products coming online was highlighted at the recent Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in London. Data demonstrating...

Biosimilars ‘making progress in the UK’

However, there still remain challenges for biosimilar companies trying to gain a foothold in the market, with reticence on the part of health trusts and clinicians taking time to break down. The UK is an...

Collaboration key as consortium targets Autism breakthroughs

Everywhere you look in the world of drug discovery, the talk is of collaboration, of sharing knowledge for the wider good. Collaboration is certainly key to the work done by an international consortium of scientists,...

Concerns expressed on 
drug-resistant infections

Another major concern for those developing new drugs is the risk that illnesses become resistant to them, with significant worries about antibiotics. More than 80 leading international pharmaceutical, generics, diagnostics and biotechnology companies, as well...

Improving the way information is shared

Effective sharing of information is at the heart of work to develop the world’s largest database for cancer drug discovery, which has been revolutionised by adding 3D structures of faulty proteins and maps of...

Team edges closer to breakthrough

Finding a way to defeat drug-resistance is driving many research projects, including at the  University of East Anglia where scientists say they are getting closer to solving the problem of antibiotic resistance. New research has...

Improving the targeting 
of drugs

Among those confronting the challenge is AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, which recently announced a genomics initiative to transform its drug discovery work. AstraZeneca believes that embedding genomics across its...

Overcoming the barriers 
to more effective 
drug research

The success or failure of health advancement stands and falls on the capacity of the pharmaceutical  industry to continually bring forward new drugs. It always has, it probably always will. From the herbalists of ancient...

Surface research could help control infection

Another front in the war against infection is the introduction of antimicrobial surfaces into hospitals. By making the environment more hostile to pathogens such as Clostridium difficile and Staphilococcus aureus there will be less...

System could tackle resistant bugs

Once resistant bugs are established in an environment, it can be difficult to eliminate them using ordinary cleaning methods but specialist companies have developed techniques for cleansing an area or individuals.  Rooms and whole departments...