Makary pointed to three bottlenecks: hospital contracting; ethical reviews and approvals; and the Investigational New Drug applications process ...

Three-letter DNA “words” can decide whether a yeast cell cranks out a medicine efficiently or sputters along. The words are called codons, and they are the genetic code’s way of spelling out amino ...

From antibiotic resistance to emerging viral threats, the global demand for new medicines is intensifying, yet traditional drug discovery pipelines remain slow and expensive. A new scientific review ...

Drug sponsors should nevertheless bolster their application with “confirmative evidence,” chief regulators Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad said on Wednesday, including mechanistic data or findings from ...

On Dec 19, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a major milestone by qualifying total hip bone mineral density (BMD), assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, as a surrogate ...

Over the past year, "progress" in drug development started to look very different. AI moved beyond pilots into day-to-day execution, while protocols, regulatory expectations, and budgets grew more ...

By Puyaan Singh Feb 18 (Reuters) - Contract drug developer Charles River Laboratories on Wednesday forecast annual profit above Wall Street estimates, betting on an improvement in demand for its drug ...

And there's more than one way to monetize this technology.

Researchers have applied AI and machine learning to every stage of the drug development process. This includes identifying targets in the body, screening potential candidates, designing drug molecules ...

Soo-Kyung and Jae Lee, whose daughter has FOXG1 syndrome, developed the gene therapy that could one day treat people with ...

Developing high-quality, safe, and effective drugs is a complex process that requires varied scientific skills and stringent regulatory assessments. Drug development is a process that spans many years ...