Posts tagged ‘drug discovery’

Computational drug discovery has reduced the time and money required for research and development while increasing the potential number of drug...

Last year, Scientist announced our winners for the Rare Disease Challenge, as part of our efforts to raise awareness for rare diseases. We know how...

We previously discussed how there are software methods to screen for potential drug leads and researchers have been able to increase their drug...

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) is hosting their users and community meeting at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on...

Previously, we discussed in part 1 of this series the growing significance of computational methods in drug discovery. Traditional drug discovery...

Most people have probably heard of Alexander Fleming’s chance encounter with a penicillin-producing fungus. What is not quite well-known is that...

Traditional drug discovery is expensive, inefficient, and has huge barriers to entry. Big pharmaceutical companies continue to struggle to cope...

A quick scan of recent advances in the scientific community will show that genomic data and new techniques in next-gen sequencing have been gaining...

Illumina recently announced the $1000 solution for the sequencing of the human genome in the form of its new instrument, the HiSeqX. This system...

The BRAIN Initiative sponsored by the NIH has pushed neuroscience and technology to center stage with President Obama supporting advancing...