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Dec 22, 2020

The Pistoia Alliance has developed a research paper which sets out to consider what the life science, biopharma R&D and healthcare ecosystem might look like in 2030, in particular how the increasing adoption and sophistication of technology will affect companies and patients alike.

This article is the second part of a...


Dec 8, 2020

This article is the first in a two-part series based on The Pistoia Alliance report. Written in retrospect from the world as it is in 2030, it looks at how healthcare has changed in the intervening decade, covering the socio-economic and political evolutions that have happened, the subsequent effects on population...


Nov 24, 2020

Since 2017 we have seen the slow and steady adoption of User Experience (UX) within the life sciences. User Experience is an evidence-based design process that centres on the behaviours and needs of users.

The clear benefits of UX offered in the retail and consumer sectors have been slow to percolate to other more...


Nov 10, 2020

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has quietly become one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease in the modern world. If this prevalence is allowed to continue the economic and clinical burden will reach a staggering level.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) consists of a complex combination of...


Oct 27, 2020

This article will describe, with examples, how understanding the likely mechanisms of false positives in advance of screening informs the design of the hit triage, thus increasing the likelihood of discovering optimisable chemical matter and avoiding costly wasting of resource.

We describe the use of a bespoke...