In the pipeline from Derek Lowe – Page 3
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Opinion
How the pandemic might change drug research
Derek Lowe muses on some positive lessons learned
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A rough guide to pharma partnership deals
Coronavirus vaccines are driving unusual collaborations with a range of benefits
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Ruling out the rule of five
Simple calculations for clinical trial success failed to find a winning formula
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Stirring in my sleep
Cut off from the lab after 40 years, Derek Lowe returns to the bench in his dreams
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The ins and outs of vaccine trials
Derek Lowe lays out how the trials work, and why they get paused and restarted
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The Nobel prize that got binned
Ferrocene is a classic example of a discovery that was dismissed as a failed experiment
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From collaboration to collusion
The US government’s crackdown on academics not declaring Chinese funding highlights a moral hazard
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Dragons of immunology
Anti-inflammatories like dexamethasone are triumphs amid the pitfalls of the immune system
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Does the drug work, or not?
Coronavirus trials reveal the murky reality of disentangling compounds’ effects on human biology
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Vaccine development against the clock
How long will it take to develop a coronavirus vaccine and why is it so hard?
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Why picking projects is like poker
Sometimes you prefer the high-risk, high-reward project to the ‘sure thing’
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Two heads are better than one
Bifunctionals show that sometimes simply tethering two useful molecules together unlocks some useful activity
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Reviewing performance reviews
Assessing the value of researchers’ work is hard, but there are some easy ideas to avoid
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Will computers ever discover drugs from scratch?
With enough understanding and computing power, it should be possible, but will it happen?
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Embracing structural disorder
Medicinal chemists need to overcome their fear of fuzzy proteins
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Has x-ray had its day?
Will the giant of structure determination be toppled by blasts from electron beams?
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The silent rise of the robots
Mechanical helpers have been creeping into our labs for decades
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It's complicated
In a complex world, binary answers are often requested but rarely sufficient