Using clever chemistry, a Scripps Research team has pinpointed the enzyme target of a drug group that stops the progression of the devastating disease Friedreich’s ataxia in mice and may do the same for humans. The findings, developed in collaboration with scientists from Repligen Corporation, help advance this treatment approach one step closer toward human [...]

The growth of personalised medicine, which aims to better target treatments to patients, is expected to increase the number of alliances between diagnostic and pharmaceutical businesses, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report entitled Diagnostics 2009: Moving towards personalised medicine (Personalised medicine: The use of information about an individual’s genes, proteins and environment to prevent, [...]