by Stacey Hawkins | Jan 15, 2020 | Groundbreaking New Therapies in Development
Exosomes: Bio-trash to Bio-treasure We’ve all heard the phrase “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” It turns out that what often holds true for the antique business sometimes holds true for biotech as well. This WEEKLY shows how. Term of the Week: Exosome... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Jan 6, 2020 | Groundbreaking New Therapies in Development
Proteasomes to the Rescue Many drugs work by stopping overactive proteins that cause disease. The leukemia drug Gleevec, for example, is a small-molecule inhibitor (antagonist) of the protein Bcr-Abl, whose overactivity promotes excessive cell division. Humira... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Jun 17, 2019 | Groundbreaking New Therapies in Development
A Pathway Lies In The Bridge Between Cells As any high school biology teacher will happily remind us, cells are the basic building blocks of all living things: you, the office ficus tree, the yeast that bubbles your beer. In animals, cells join to form tissues and... 
by Stacey Hawkins | May 15, 2019 | Groundbreaking New Therapies in Development
Viruses to the Rescue? Last week, a paper in Nature Medicine described a British teenager whom doctors pulled back from the brink of death. The young woman had developed a deadly, antibiotic-resistant infection following lung surgery. The treatment? Phage therapy, in... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Mar 13, 2019 | Groundbreaking New Therapies in Development
AND THE BEAT GOES ON Earlier this week, most areas of North America and Europe observed the annual ritual of “springing forward.” People started setting their clocks ahead one hour in the U.S. in 1918. The federal government aimed to save electricity and increase... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Feb 7, 2019 | Groundbreaking New Therapies in Development
Decoding The Gut-Brain Axis Earlier this week, a newly published study made headlines for showing a direct link between the gut microbiome and depression. For the past several years, scientists have suspected a link between bugs in the gut and neurological health....
