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News and Trends 14 Jul 2023

Life saved: AI discovers existing drug works for rare disease

A patient’s life was saved after researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, Medidata, and Every Cure, used artificial intelligence to use an existing drug to treat idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD). Every Cure and its partners are developing medical databases and AI algorithms to unlock new uses for existing medicines across […]

July 14, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jun 2023

AI program finds multiple influenza drug targets

Poolbeg Pharma, a clinical-stage biopharma company focusing on infectious and other prevalent diseases, has announced a breakthrough in its world-first influenza Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programme working with the company CytoReason. Poolbeg’s disease progression data from influenza human challenge trials combined with CytoReason’s broad repositories of curated disease data were analyzed using CytoReason’s AI-led platform. The […]

June 29, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Jun 2023

SandboxAQ launches new division to boost drug development

After several years of stealth development, SandboxAQ has announced its bio-pharma molecular simulation division, AQBioSim, and some of its customers. The division is helping bio-pharma and research institutions achieve breakthroughs in treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other conditions. The company is currently working with biopharma companies and university research labs, including AstraZeneca, Sanofi and […]

June 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jun 2023

BIO International Convention 2023: The Highlights

BIO International Convention, one of the largest networking events hosted for the biotech industry, has been influential in helping biopharmas discover new opportunities and building and strengthening partnerships within the biotech and pharma community. This year, the event took place from June 5 to 8, in the bustling biotech hotspot of Boston, Massachusetts, and saw […]

June 20, 2023 - 14 minutesmins - By Dylan Kissane

In Depth 16 Jun 2023

Can ChatGPT be used to advance drug discovery?

Chat GPT – which is a large language model (LLM) and belongs to a family of artificial intelligence (AI) known as generative AI – has been a revelation for many people around the world, and, since its launch, has been used by professionals in many industries to assist with work-related tasks, such as editing and […]

June 16, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

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News and Trends 13 Jun 2023

How AI can advance research and treatment of CNS disorders

By Xiao Xu, senior research fellow, Cerevance The combination of large-scale biological datasets and developments in artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized our understanding and treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders. By leveraging AI’s computational power, researchers have been able to interrogate diverse datasets to provide insights into disease mechanisms, discover novel therapeutic compounds, detect […]

June 13, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

In Depth 7 Jun 2023

How Ireland connects AI and life sciences

Depending on your point of view, artificial intelligence (AI) can create jobs, make life easier, and solve many global problems; or, it’s going to cause mass unemployment, take over the world, and enslave humanity. In the life sciences space, AI is capable of tackling some of the biggest challenges when it comes to tasks like […]

June 7, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Optimizing early discovery by unraveling cancer complexity within precision therapeutics

June 6, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

News and Trends 31 May 2023

Artificial intelligence combats lethal superbug, new antibiotic discovered

A new antibiotic called abaucin that can kill a deadly, drug-resistant pathogen has been discovered with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Research published in Nature Chemical Biology showed that AI was able to rapidly screen 7,500 molecules that were found to inhibit the growth of the superbug Acinetobacter baumannii, a task that would be […]

May 31, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 16 May 2023

LabGenius looks to create molecules with huge increase in tumor killing ability

LabGenius, which uses machine learning (ML) for antibody discovery, has presented data in a poster presentation at the Protein Engineering and Biotherapeutics (PEGS) annual meeting. The data were from LabGenius’ T-cell engager (TCE) lead optimization platform, which delivered highly potent and efficacious single-domain antibodies with best-in-class killing selectivity. Optimizing antibody therapeutics across multiple properties is […]

May 16, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 May 2023

Achilles Therapeutics’ new platform identifies most potent T-cell antigens

Achilles Therapeutics plc says its newly-developed AI application, trained with proprietary real-world data, outperformed current AI and non-AI methods for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction in a recent analysis, enabling the identification of the most potent clonal neoantigens for personalized cancer therapies. Further details of the company’s AI-powered PELEUS bioinformatics platform are expected to be presented at […]

May 12, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 May 2023

Recursion boosts drug discovery with Cyclica and Valence acquisitions

Recursion has signed agreements to acquire two companies in the AI-enabled drug discovery space: Cyclica, for $40 million, and Valence, for $47.5 million. Chris Gibson, co-founder and CEO of Salt Lake City headquartered Recursion, said: “Recursion has pioneered the massive, parallel generation of -omics data with machine learning in order to map and navigate biology […]

May 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Life saved: AI discovers existing drug works for rare disease

AI program finds multiple influenza drug targets

SandboxAQ launches new division to boost drug development

BIO International Convention 2023: The Highlights

Can ChatGPT be used to advance drug discovery?

How AI can advance research and treatment of CNS disorders

How Ireland connects AI and life sciences

Optimizing early discovery by unraveling cancer complexity within precision therapeutics

Artificial intelligence combats lethal superbug, new antibiotic discovered

LabGenius looks to create molecules with huge increase in tumor killing ability

Achilles Therapeutics’ new platform identifies most potent T-cell antigens

Recursion boosts drug discovery with Cyclica and Valence acquisitions

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