Blogs

Blogs written by our own experts or selected members of the drug discovery community.





Blogs
19 December 2025
Better tools, better medicines: deploying CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering in drug discovery 

In this blog, Dr Phil Auckland details how MDC has established a reproducible CRISPR-Cas9 pipeline and generated new tools to better inform nanotherapeutic design





Blogs
19 December 2025
Rupturing endosomes are not created equal  

Nanotherapeutics often fail because of Endosomal entrapment. In this blog by Dr Phil Auckland, we explore how MDC are using real-time imaging to reveal why.


Blogs
24 September 2025
Human Models for Human Pain: iPSC-Derived Sensory Neurons for Medicines Discovery

Accelerating analgesic development through human-specific in vitro systems


Blogs
03 March 2025
Preclinical to Clinical: The Power of Using Multiple Models and Technologies for Neuroinflammation Drug Discovery

Preclinical to clinical, building a translational link between in vitro and in vivo models of neuroinflammation for drug discovery.


Blogs
24 July 2024
Access to Labs

With availability limited and lab facilities not evenly spread across the UK, it is important to make well-informed decisions on the kind of lab space you need early on, because these choices can have consequences further down the line.







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