Presently, no drug has been officially and specifically approved for COVID-19 treatment, and symptomatic treatment...
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Belly bugs & Autism
For April’s Autism Awareness month, we wanted to return to the role of our gut bacteria in this neurodevelopmental...
About coronavirus detection methods
Today, a global pandemic affects the world and it is the defining global health crisis of our time. Since its...
Interview with OCR (Oncovet Clinical Research), Dr Dominique Tierny, DVM, CEO at OCR and Dr Agata Rybicka, DVM, PhD, Head of R&D at OCR
OCR is a veterinary Contract Research Organization specialized in the design and monitoring of clinical trials on companion dogs and cats that spontaneously develop various chronic diseases like humans, including cancer. As coordinator of the “Animal models Platform”,...
Interview with Dr Béatrice Perron, Oncology Portfolio Management Director at Servier
Dr Perron holds a MSc Engineering and a PhD in biotechnology from Ecole Centrale Paris. She joined Servier in November 2015 as Strategy and Portfolio Director in the Center for Therapeutic Innovation Oncology. She is involved in the management of the 13 oncology...
Demonstrating health improvements and building convincing health-claim dossiers through nutritional clinical trials
Dingqiang Li, Ph.D is speaker at Vitafoods Asia, on September 11th (13:30-14:10) Dingqiang Li, Ph.D. is the clinical research project manager at Biofortis Mérieux NutriSciences, China. He leads the team responsible for marketing strategy consultation, scientific...
Bioactive component:The four steps of Bioavailability
Bioavailability is a complex process involving different stages as defined by the 4 steps “LADME”: Liberation, Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Elimination. Regarding the efficacy of oral drugs as for bioactive food components, the bioavailability is the...
Effects of pemetrexed chemotherapy on gut microbiota and digestive inflammation in Patient-Derived Tumor Xenograft (PDX) Models
C. PENSEC, T. CARTON, S. LEUILLET, D. GUENOT, IMODI Consortium, M. CAMPONE, H. BLOTTIERE, F. LE VACON Introduction Despite significant progress in anti-cancer treatment such as immunotherapy, chemotherapy remains a gold standard. Pemetrexed is a chemotherapeutic agent...
Microbiome & Livestock Health
ANIMAL GUT MICROBIOME, A NEW LAND TO EXPLORE For years now, microbiome is getting serious traction in the scientific community with numerous studies and publications. It is now well demonstrated that the complex microbial ecosystem settled in the mammalian...