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Chelsea Weidman Burke

Business
Updated: A Ventilator Helmet Alternative for COVID-19 Patients
BioSpace spoke to Aurika Savickaite, RN, MSN, to learn more about the ventilator helmet initiative, NIV helmets, and how they can be used during this coronavirus pandemic.
April 30, 2020
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Business
Using AI to Find Peptide Therapeutics for COVID-19
Nuritas, a biotech company that focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to discover therapeutic peptides, is joining the fight by tasking their powerful AI platform to find peptides that can be used as therapeutics for COVID-19.
April 24, 2020
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
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Policy
Mobilizing Drug Development Efforts Against the Novel Coronavirus
Now that global responses are fully mobilized, what is being done to identify and develop drugs and vaccines against this novel coronavirus?
February 14, 2020
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Biotech Beach
Getting to the Root of the Disease: Developing Drugs Against the Hard-to-Target Wnt Pathway
The Wnt pathway is a mastermind signaling pathway in your cells, creating a complex dance of proteins that must be choreographed and executed correctly for proper cell functioning.
January 21, 2020
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Biotech Bay
Harnessing the Body’s Own Protein Waste Removal System to Drug the ‘Undruggable’
How do you catch just one kind of fish in a sea of similar fish? That’s the question being answered by researchers at Nurix, except they aren’t catching fish – they are ‘catching’ proteins in your body.
January 7, 2020
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Business
Helping Cancer Patients Navigate Clinical Trials
While trials may be listed online in readily accessible databases, it can be hard to know what to search for and how to make sense of the medical jargon of the listings.
October 15, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Genetown
Improving How Neurological Drugs are Developed Using Cell-Type-Specific Analysis
Cerevance, a pharmaceutical company focusing on central nervous system diseases, has developed a new process for peering into the gene expression of specific brain cells.
October 9, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Using Fruit Flies to Personalize Cancer Treatment
When you think about personalized cancer care, those annoying fruit flies in your kitchen are likely not the first things that come to mind. But they are exactly what My Personal Therapeutics uses to create personalized cancer treatment combinations.
September 30, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Deals
OncoCyte Acquires Razor Genomics to Improve Management of Early-Stage Lung Cancer
OncoCyte, a global oncology diagnostics company, recently announced that it will acquire Razor Genomics, which has developed a novel molecular diagnostic test for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.
September 24, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Receptivadx gives new hope to women with infertili
Biotech Beach
New Test (Receptivadx) Brings Hope and New Answers for Unexplained Infertility, Failed IVF and Miscarriage
The receptivadx can have meaningful impact on women struggling with unexplained infertility by giving them an answer to their infertility. Learn more here.
September 18, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Pharm Country
Seeking Small Molecule Drugs to Control mRNA Translation
Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to see a protein being made in a cell in real time? And wouldn’t it be even better if you could use that capability to discover new drugs to previously “undruggable” targets, creating new medicines? Well that’s exactly what Anima Biotech is aiming to do.
August 27, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Business
Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Female Infertility and Endometriosis
Predictive Laboratories, a biotech company focused on genetic testing to understand human infertility and women’s health recently formed in 2017, is making an effort to speed up its research with a recently announced collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, which is a major player in female infertility research.
August 22, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Genetown
Tunable CAR-T Therapies: A New Generation of Small, Molecule-Controlled Therapies
What if you could more precisely control CAR-T cells using FDA-approved small molecules to enhance their activity against solid tumors? That’s exactly what Obsidian Therapeutics is aiming to do.
July 29, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Developing a Ketone Body-Based Drug to Combat Alzheimer’s Disease
Part of the problem with developing Alzheimer’s drugs has also been that the disease is still not well understood. What is known is that problems with cellular functions and/or improperly functioning proteins cause brain cells, called neurons, to become damaged, leading to their decreased function and eventually death.
July 10, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
Business
The Importance of Increasing Diversity in Genetic Research
The advent of increasingly more mainstream and affordable genetic testing enables powerful genetic research – but that power is directly associated with the strength and diversity of the database of genetic information available.
June 18, 2019
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Chelsea Weidman Burke
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