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Weekly News Roundup | 17 August 2026
Life science news 17 August 2026: Donald Trump signs an executive order seeking to narrow the US childhood vaccine schedule, the MHRA makes the UK the first country in Europe to authorise Eli Lilly’s orforglipron tablet, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals pays $820 million...
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The Next Public Health Playbook: Why Trust Matters More Than Ever
The current news cycle is dominated by new and exotic-sounding organisms and chemicals: PFOS, bisphenols, phthalates, Mpox, New World screwworm, Andes hantavirus, Ebola bundibugyo, Borrelia burgdorferi, dengue, and chikungunya. What do they have in common? They are...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 10 July 2026
Roche’s divarasib demonstrates superiority over approved KRAS G12C inhibitors in the Phase 3 Krascendo 1 head-to-head lung cancer trial, Vera Therapeutics’ Trutakna receives FDA accelerated approval as the first BAFF/APRIL inhibitor for IgA nephropathy, Rhythm...
Adipose Tissue Isn’t Just Storage: Fat as an Endocrine and Immune Organ
For much of the 20th century, body fat was viewed mainly as the body's energy reservoir—a passive tissue that stored excess calories for future use. While this remains an important function of adipose tissue, research over the past few decades has revealed a far more...
FDA Drug Approval Decisions to Watch: July and August 2026
The second half of 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most consequential periods for FDA drug approval decisions in recent memory. Between mid-July and late August, the US Food and Drug Administration faces a succession of Prescription Drug User Fee Act target action...
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Professor Chris Van Tulleken to Headline Smart Ageing Summit in May
After the success of previous summits, the revolutionary Smart Ageing Summit has announced a return to Oxford this May to host its fourth annual event. Rhodes House, University of Oxford is the perfect setting for non-profit organisation Oxford Health Project to host...
J&J to Invest Over $1B in Pennsylvania Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility
Johnson & Johnson has announced plans to invest more than $1 billion in a new cell therapy manufacturing facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. This project marks a significant expansion of its advanced therapies infrastructure and reinforces the company’s...
UK Expertise: Faster Cancer Diagnosis and Cleaner Energy
British research expertise to deliver faster cancer diagnosis and cleaner energy Major new backing for medical imaging centres across the UK alongside tidal energy testing expansion in Orkney and cutting-edge materials. From: Department for Science, Innovation and...
NIH Scientists Pioneer “Digital Twin” of Eye Cells
NIH Scientists Pioneer “Digital Twin” of Eye Cells: A New Frontier in Treating Age-Related Macular Degeneration In a landmark achievement for computational biology and ophthalmology, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced the development...
The Evidence Behind Fertility Supplements: What the Research Actually Shows
Couples trying to conceive are bombarded with supplement recommendations. Scroll through any fertility forum and you'll find confident claims about CoQ10, vitamin D, and a dozen other compounds that supposedly hold the key to conception. Some of these recommendations...
Prices for GLP-1 Drugs Are Falling Fast and Forcing Companies to Adapt
The global market for GLP-1 receptor agonists, once defined by scarcity and premium pricing, is entering a new phase. Prices for these blockbuster medicines, used to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes, are beginning to fall rapidly, forcing pharmaceutical companies,...
AuDHD: Rethinking the Overlap Between Autism and ADHD
A Diagnostic Separation That Shaped a Generation For most of the modern history of psychiatry, autism and ADHD were treated as mutually exclusive conditions. Clinicians were trained to look for one or the other. Until the publication of DSM-5 in 2013, a dual diagnosis...
FDA Approves Commercial Manufacturing at Rezon Bio
Rezon Bio announces that its Warsaw-Duchnice facility has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the commercial manufacturing of a biosimilar. This milestone represents an important step in the continued development of Rezon Bio's...
Doctors Warn AI Diet Advice Should Not Replace Medical Care
As more people turn to AI tools and online algorithms for diet and weight-loss advice, doctors are warning that this growing reliance may be overlooking critical health risks. Doctors stress that AI-generated information should never replace personalised medical...
Fertility Decisions and AI: Clarity Without False Certainty
As a researcher studying how people interact with large language models (LLMs), and as a clinician trained at the master’s level in clinical psychology, I keep seeing the same pattern in fertility and reproductive contexts. People rarely turn to AI only for...
Uniphar | Clinical merges with BMclinical
Leading global healthcare services provider Uniphar announces a strategic merger between Uniphar | Clinical and BMclinical, reinforcing Uniphar | Clinical’s integrated clinical supply offering and solidifying its position as a trusted partner to pharmaceutical and...
AI-Enabled Pathology: De-risking Oncology Drug Development
Today, oncology drug development continues to experience the highest attrition rates across therapeutic areas[1]. Despite major advances in molecular profiling and biomarker-driven strategies, a significant proportion of oncology clinical trials still fail, often due...
Professor Chris Van Tulleken to Headline Smart Ageing Summit in May
After the success of previous summits, the revolutionary Smart Ageing Summit has announced a return to Oxford this May to host its fourth annual event. Rhodes House, University of Oxford is the perfect setting for non-profit organisation Oxford Health Project to host...
J&J to Invest Over $1B in Pennsylvania Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility
Johnson & Johnson has announced plans to invest more than $1 billion in a new cell therapy manufacturing facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. This project marks a significant expansion of its advanced therapies infrastructure and reinforces the company’s...
UK Expertise: Faster Cancer Diagnosis and Cleaner Energy
British research expertise to deliver faster cancer diagnosis and cleaner energy Major new backing for medical imaging centres across the UK alongside tidal energy testing expansion in Orkney and cutting-edge materials. From: Department for Science, Innovation and...
NIH Scientists Pioneer “Digital Twin” of Eye Cells
NIH Scientists Pioneer “Digital Twin” of Eye Cells: A New Frontier in Treating Age-Related Macular Degeneration In a landmark achievement for computational biology and ophthalmology, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced the development...
The Evidence Behind Fertility Supplements: What the Research Actually Shows
Couples trying to conceive are bombarded with supplement recommendations. Scroll through any fertility forum and you'll find confident claims about CoQ10, vitamin D, and a dozen other compounds that supposedly hold the key to conception. Some of these recommendations...
Prices for GLP-1 Drugs Are Falling Fast and Forcing Companies to Adapt
The global market for GLP-1 receptor agonists, once defined by scarcity and premium pricing, is entering a new phase. Prices for these blockbuster medicines, used to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes, are beginning to fall rapidly, forcing pharmaceutical companies,...
AuDHD: Rethinking the Overlap Between Autism and ADHD
A Diagnostic Separation That Shaped a Generation For most of the modern history of psychiatry, autism and ADHD were treated as mutually exclusive conditions. Clinicians were trained to look for one or the other. Until the publication of DSM-5 in 2013, a dual diagnosis...
FDA Approves Commercial Manufacturing at Rezon Bio
Rezon Bio announces that its Warsaw-Duchnice facility has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the commercial manufacturing of a biosimilar. This milestone represents an important step in the continued development of Rezon Bio's...
Doctors Warn AI Diet Advice Should Not Replace Medical Care
As more people turn to AI tools and online algorithms for diet and weight-loss advice, doctors are warning that this growing reliance may be overlooking critical health risks. Doctors stress that AI-generated information should never replace personalised medical...
Fertility Decisions and AI: Clarity Without False Certainty
As a researcher studying how people interact with large language models (LLMs), and as a clinician trained at the master’s level in clinical psychology, I keep seeing the same pattern in fertility and reproductive contexts. People rarely turn to AI only for...
Uniphar | Clinical merges with BMclinical
Leading global healthcare services provider Uniphar announces a strategic merger between Uniphar | Clinical and BMclinical, reinforcing Uniphar | Clinical’s integrated clinical supply offering and solidifying its position as a trusted partner to pharmaceutical and...
AI-Enabled Pathology: De-risking Oncology Drug Development
Today, oncology drug development continues to experience the highest attrition rates across therapeutic areas[1]. Despite major advances in molecular profiling and biomarker-driven strategies, a significant proportion of oncology clinical trials still fail, often due...
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Why Sugar May Matter More Than We Thought
A New Energy-Centered Model of Metabolic Disease For decades, sugar has been framed as a problem of excess. Too many calories. Too many insulin spikes. Too much sweetness in the modern diet. That framing has shaped public health guidance, food reformulation, and...
Cera and Promptly Health Partner to Bridge the ‘Evidence Gap’
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From Hype to Hard Science: Unlocking MSC Therapy’s Promise
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Thousands Recruited for “New Era” Severe Mental Illness Study
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THX Pharma and Biocodex Sign Licensing Deal for Batten-1 and TX01 Therapies
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Chronic Pain and Neuroplastic Pain: Rethinking How Pain is Created
Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and remains one of the most challenging problems in modern medicine. For decades, pain has largely been understood as a direct signal of tissue damage or disease. However, advances in pain science are...
Beyond Hallucinated Binders: The Enzymatic Frontier for Generative AI
Generative AI has already changed what is possible in protein engineering. In the last few years, the field has moved from predicting protein structures to proposing entirely new proteins, often with experimentally verified folding and binding, at a pace that was...
Neuroscience of Trauma, Stress & Alcohol: Integrated Treatment
Alcohol problems are often framed as a failure of willpower or “poor lifestyle choices”. Yet clinical neuroscience has made that narrative increasingly untenable. Problematic alcohol use is often a learned response to stress, a learned neurobiological adaptation,...
Auxilium and MBI Launch Life Sciences Accelerator Cohort in Worcester
Auxilium and Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) have announced a joint life sciences accelerator cohort in Worcester designed to attract and support founders developing the next generation of healthcare and life sciences technologies. Founders selected for the...
Experimental Alzheimer’s Pill Boosts the Brain’s Cleanup System
Wouldn’t life be easier if someone was there to keep on top of chores around the house? That’s the idea behind Anavex Life Sciences’ experimental, once-daily pill blarcamesine, which is being tested in patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. This drug...
Communicating Innovation Without Creating Regulatory or Commercial Risk
Biotech companies today face a delicate balancing act: communicating innovation early enough to build credibility and momentum, while avoiding regulatory and commercial risks that can undermine long-term value. This tension is most evident in how companies talk about...
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