{"title":"Can large, simple trials bring drug developers back to common diseases?","authors":"Asher Mullard","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00030-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/d41573-025-00030-0","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical trials for common diseases can be done much more cheaply, says Martin Landray, a physician and epidemiologist at Oxford University and CEO of Protas, a non-profit clinical trial organization. Clinical trials for common diseases can be done much more cheaply, says Martin Landray, a physician and epidemiologist at Oxford University and CEO of Protas, a non-profit clinical trial organization.","PeriodicalId":19068,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery","volume":"24 3","pages":"162-163"},"PeriodicalIF":122.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-025-00030-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First muscle-growing antibody heads to the FDA, with obesity opportunities on the horizon","authors":"Ken Garber","doi":"10.1038/d41573-025-00029-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/d41573-025-00029-7","url":null,"abstract":"Scholar Rock’s myostatin blocker has shown its efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy, and the 28-year-old myostatin field is now looking to muscle in on obesity. Scholar Rock’s myostatin blocker has shown its efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy, and the 28-year-old myostatin field is now looking to muscle in on obesity.","PeriodicalId":19068,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery","volume":"24 3","pages":"155-157"},"PeriodicalIF":122.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}