Regulatory compliance is the top supply chain concern for healthcare companies globally

Complying with ever-changing regulations continues to be the top concern for healthcare executives, according to the 2014 UPS Pain in the (Supply) Chain survey. Six out of ten executives mentioned regulatory compliance as their...

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...

Calculating risk scores for Alzheimer’s

A new epigenetics collaboration has been announced between Sheffield Hallam University and PharmaKure, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing precision medicines for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. The partnership will focus on ‘gene-based...

Limiting damage from an asthma attack could stop disease

Scientists at King’s College London have discovered a new cause for asthma that sparks hope for treatment that could prevent the life-threatening disease. Most current asthma treatments stem from the idea that it is an...

When do brains grow up?

Research shows mouse and primate brains mature at the same pace, writes Kristen Mally Dean. A study from Argonne National Laboratory reveals that short-lived mice and longer-living primates develop brain synapses on the exact same...

Technology unscrambles microbe chatter

Using a database of over 60,000 microorganisms curated by researchers from across the globe, a new search tool instantly matches microbes to the metabolites they produce. This is the claim of researchers from University of...