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fromFast Company
1 week ago

Bet on the big idea-the only way to change the world

But at the time, his skepticism represented a familiar story: Bold, visionary ideas are met with resistance and fear from industries entrenched in conventional wisdom. Yet, time and again, we've seen how disruptors use technology and sheer conviction to rewrite the rules and yield transformative outcomes. In the last decade alone, this played out across industries like transportation, aerospace, and defense-from electric vehicles challenging Detroit to reusable rockets shattering the assumption of expendable space travel.
Medicine
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month ago

Prepared Remarks of Peter-Anthony Pappas for Senator Tillis at FTC-DOJ Listening Session on Lowering Drug Prices

The U.S. and its citizens should not be the ones to shoulder the burden of subsidizing the world's access to drugs and biologics. Nor should the U.S. patent system - the envy of the world - be made the scapegoat for the lack of lower drug costs domestically.
Intellectual property law
Science
fromFortune
2 months ago

Google DeepMind has grand ambitions to 'cure all diseases' with AI. Now, it's gearing up for its first human trials

Isomorphic Labs is set to launch human trials of AI-designed drugs, leveraging advancements from DeepMind's AlphaFold for drug discovery.
Healthcare
fromNature
2 months ago

Obesity drugs made in China could power next wave of treatments

Ecnoglutide is a promising next-generation obesity drug developed in China, showing significant advantages over placebo in weight loss.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Scientists engineer bacteria to turn plastic waste into painkillers

"We're able to transform a prolific environmental and societal waste into such a globally important medication in a way that's completely impossible, using chemistry alone or using biology alone," says study coauthor Stephen Wallace, a chemical biotechnologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Nasal spray similar to ketamine to be added to PBS for treatment-resistant depression

Spravato, also known as esketamine, targets glutamate and can produce rapid effects for those with treatment-resistant depression, offering hope where traditional antidepressants fail.
Alternative medicine
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