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Few biomarkers progress from discovery to become validated tools or diagnostics. To bridge this gap, three European biomedical research infrastructures — EATRIS-ERIC (focused on translational medicine), BBMRI-ERIC (focused on biobanking) and ELIXIR (focused on data sharing) — are paving the way to developing and sharing best practices for biomarker validation.
A resurgence in synthetic lethality screening, enabled by CRISPR gene editing, is unlocking targeted drugs for patients with cancerous loss-of-function mutations.
In vitrodata can be used to accelerate the approval of drugs that target specific disease-causing mutations for additional subpopulations of patients with rare diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
This analysis investigates whether some companies may be negatively affecting their overall commercial success by aiming to maintain steady earnings per share growth and/or a target ratio of R&D spending to sales.
Invasive fungal infections are a major medical concern, particularly in immunocompromised patients. In this Review, Perfect discusses the antifungal pipeline, including advances in the currently used drug classes, novel molecular targets, drugs that could be repurposed from other areas and the use of immune-directed therapies.
Restoring damaged myelin could reverse the neurological effects observed in patients with multiple sclerosis. In this Review, Yong and colleagues discuss the progress made in remyelinating therapies, including novel and potential repurposed agents, and highlight the challenges in preclinical and clinical development for such drugs.
The angiopoietin (ANG)–TIE growth factor receptor pathway regulates pathological vascular remodelling during inflammation, tumour angiogenesis and metastasis. It has become an attractive pharmacological target for oncological and ophthalmological indications, as well as sepsis, diabetic vasculopathies, organ transplantation and atherosclerosis. Here, Alitalo and colleagues provide an overview of the biology of the ANG–TIE pathway and discuss the development of therapeutics that target it.
