Optimization of experimental assay design is crucial for the overall success of any drug discovery initiative. The factors that need to be considered include: selection of the most appropriate assay ...

Understand the importance of targeted assays in personalised medicine and how early decisions shape clinical outcomes.

In writing about what attributes and skills qualify a scientist for a successful career in assay development for drug discovery, one characteristic that rarely gets discussed — but which is essential ...

Optimizing PCR assays for assay development (AD) workflows typically involves a range of interdependent factors. These include thermocycling conditions, enzyme levels, buffer chemistry, and ...

As AI accelerates target discovery and pushes more candidates toward the bench, assay development and transfer have become critical bottlenecks. Teams relying on one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) workflows ...

Since biological therapeutics are derived from living organisms, their manufacture and validation presents difficulties not encountered during traditional small molecule drug development. Despite the ...

Lateral flow assay applications have become increasingly diverse in a post-pandemic world, and the areas of infectious disease and oncology continue to be at the forefront. In both areas, the use of ...

The global pandemic has increased focus and scrutiny on molecular diagnostic assay development, resulting in a need for assays that provide quick results while delivering expected performance and ...

Allogene Therapeutics has announced an expanded collaboration with Foresight Diagnostics to develop a minimal residual disease (MRD) assay as a companion diagnostic tool for identifying patients with ...

Friends of Cancer Research initiated a research partnership, inviting HRD assay developers to participate in two blinded analyses. In the first, 11 assay developers reported HRD status for the Cancer ...