Advancing Medical Research
Foundations of Science
Could Diversity in Clinical Trials Be the Key to Understanding Liver Disease?
BY BREAKTHROUGHS STAFF
Apr 27, 2018In a New Yorker article about how evolutionary psychology findings are usually based on surveys of undergraduates, Anthony Gottlieb wrote, “American college kids, whatever their charms, are a laughable proxy for Homo sapiens.”
Biomedical research can suffer from a similar bias: Subjects don’t always represent the full range of patients in terms of gender, race and ethnicity. But why is it…
Treating Disease with 'Precision Medicines' that Target Specific Patients
BY BREAKTHROUGHS STAFF
Apr 27, 2018‘Bucket Brigades’ Gone Rogue: A New Path to Shutting Down Cancer Growth
BY BREAKTHROUGHS STAFF
Apr 25, 2018Getting a Medicine to the Brain Is a Major Challenge in Drug Design: How This Scientist Solved It
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Apr 25, 2018How a Former Neuroscience Researcher Is on a Mission to Close the Diversity Gap in Clinical Trials (Q&A)
BY BREAKTHROUGHS STAFF
Apr 25, 2018
When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently gave a presentation on diversity in clinical trials, Dr. Ricardo Rojo wasn’t surprised to hear that — at least for medicines where gender is not overtly relevant — research participants today are predominantly white men.
Artificial Intelligence: On a mission to Make Clinical Drug Development Faster and Smarter
BY BREAKTHROUGHS STAFF
Apr 25, 2018The Action-Packed Search for Stability: A Breakthrough in the Fight Against RSV
BY BREAKTHROUGHS STAFF
Apr 12, 2018Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a major global childhood infectious disease without a vaccine, kills approximately 120,000 infants a year worldwide. It’s the most common reason infants are hospitalized. Additionally, RSV sickens millions of elderly people each year.
When most people catch RSV, they get a mild cold and recover quickly. But some — especially infants and the elderly — can get very sick.…
Better, Faster, Smaller: How an Advance in Microfluidics Can Speed Up Drug Discovery
BY BREAKTHROUGHS STAFF
Apr 06, 2018
Before preparing a new recipe for 20 guests at Thanksgiving, the smart cook starts small, making the dish for their immediate family to test things out before the big holiday dinner. What does a scientist do when attempting to discover a molecule that has the properties that potentially could be a miracle cure for diabetes, high blood pressure or another troublesome disease? She also starts small, testing…