Drug Discovery and Development

Let’s say there’s a Black female patient with an aggressive form of breast cancer. She meets with her oncologist to discuss a promising targeted therapy that recently won FDA approval. The drug showed strong efficacy in clinical trials, with a 65% response rate. Yet when she asks about efficacy data specific to Black women, she…

Spatial biology is revolutionizing our understanding of how cells interact with their natural environments. Although that may sound like an overstatement, it isn’t.  Spatial biology involves the use of advanced imaging and molecular techniques to visualize and map the location of cells, transcripts, proteins and their interactions within tissues. Traditional biological studies have long focused…

A recent study published this week, on April 1, 2025, found that pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection may have a lower risk of developing long COVID compared to non-pregnant women. This finding, detailed in Nature Communications, shed light on pregnancy’s protective effects. The large-scale retrospective study, conducted under the guidance of researchers from Weill Cornell…

Cell therapies hold immense promise but, traditionally, carry a similarly large price tag often linked to complex, manual manufacturing. In its latest move to help make these life-saving  and -enhancing treatments more scalable and potentially accessible, Cellares is partnering with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to automate the clinical-scale manufacturing…