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News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

Cyclica and SK Chemicals to co-develop novel therapeutics

Cyclica Inc. and SK Chemicals Co., Ltd. have announced an AI-driven drug discovery and development partnership to develop therapies across a range of disease areas. Under this collaboration, Cyclica will deploy its proprietary drug discovery platforms to identify novel drug candidates for challenging biological targets across therapeutic areas of mutual interest to both companies. SK […]

December 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Etcembly reveals breakthrough in optimizing TCR assets

Etcembly has announced the successful prediction and optimization of multiple T cell receptor (TCR) assets for targeting leukemias and solid tumors. The company’s machine learning platform EMLy (Etcembly machine learning) enables AI based engineering of novel TCRs from the complete theoretical TCR repertoire. The unification of machine-learning-based optimization with empirical validation has facilitated the rapid […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

PhoreMost and ThinkCyte collaborate on AI-based drug discovery

PhoreMost Ltd. and ThinkCyte K.K have announced a strategic research partnership aimed at advancing modern phenotypic drug screening using artificial intelligence (AI). The partnership leverages both companies’ technologies in high-throughput drug discovery. These are PhoreMost’s next-generation phenotypic screening platform, SITESEEKER, and ThinkCyte’s AI-driven cell characterization and sorting platform, Ghost Cytometry. The aim is to develop […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 12 Dec 2022

Artificial intelligence: a new era in rare genetic disease diagnosis

Despite the onset of the genomics era, rare disease diagnosis remains a challenge. Nostos Genomics’ co-founder, Rocío Acuña Hidalgo, and chief operating officer, Ansgar Lange, shed light on how artificial intelligence (AI) could fill in the gaps. It is estimated that 300 million people worldwide are affected by rare diseases and around 80% of these […]

December 12, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 9 Dec 2022

Vevo Therapeutics launches with $12M to ‘discover better drugs’

Vevo Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using its Mosaic in vivo drug discovery platform and next generation AI models to uncover better drugs for more patients, has launched with an oversubscribed and upsized $12 million seed financing round. Wing Venture Capital and General Catalyst co-led the round with participation from Mubadala Capital, AIX Ventures, and Camford […]

December 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

Ibex and Source announce agreement to aid pathologists with diagnostic accuracy

An agreement has been announced between Ibex Medical Analytics and Source LDPath, part of Source BioScience. It will expand the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to Source’s entire pathology network. Ibex works with AI-powered cancer diagnostics and the expansion builds on its previous work with LDPath. Source, which provides integrated laboratory services and products, acquired […]

December 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 6 Dec 2022

Tetra announce significant results from the study of Onternabez combined with Favipiravir

Tetra Bio-Pharma Inc. a leader in cannabinoid-derived drug discovery and development announced today significant results from the study of Onternabez combined with Favipiravir. The combination acts against ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), Sepsis, and Covid-19 through PREPAiRE, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform. The platform, the companies say, purposely integrates target identification, validation, lead discovery […]

December 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 24 Nov 2022

AI works on artificial DNA for future drug development

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that controls the cells’ protein production. The technology can contribute to the development and production of vaccines, drugs for severe diseases, as well as alternative food proteins much faster and at significantly lower costs […]

November 24, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Nov 2022

BC Platforms partners on AI-driven EU cancer data project

BC Platforms (BCP), a provider of healthcare data management and analytics, has been chosen as a key partner in a European Commission (EC) project. Under the EC’s Horizon Europe program, Helsinki University Hospital (HUS), has been awarded a contract to lead a €7 million ($7.2 million) consortium project termed ONCOVALUE. BCP will work with HUS […]

November 24, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

Startup Cradle raises $5.4M to design protein machines and cell factories with AI

Cradle, a Dutch startup, has received €5.5 million ($5.4 million) in seed funding to further help scientists design and program proteins to produce a wide variety of everyday products including milk and meat. Cradle uses synthetic biology, adapting the genes of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi, to create ‘cell factories’ that use programmable proteins […]

November 17, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

Eden Bio raises £1m to boost AI protein yields

Eden Bio, a U.K.-based biotech using machine learning to increase protein yield, has raised £1 million ($1.17 million) from a seed investment round. The company said this strengthens its R&D capacity and ability to expand the underlying machine-learning platform over the coming years. By using artificial intelligence to genetically optimize microorganism strains, the company improves […]

November 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

Google and Meta AI could boost cancer research and drug discovery

Encoded in the DNA, a protein may be represented as a thread of hundreds of individual molecules called amino acids, linked together. Depending on the particular amino acids combination, a protein folds in a particular way, resulting in a functional 3D shape. The shape makes the function, and with 20 different amino acids available, the […]

November 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Cyclica and SK Chemicals to co-develop novel therapeutics

Etcembly reveals breakthrough in optimizing TCR assets

PhoreMost and ThinkCyte collaborate on AI-based drug discovery

Artificial intelligence: a new era in rare genetic disease diagnosis

Vevo Therapeutics launches with $12M to ‘discover better drugs’

Ibex and Source announce agreement to aid pathologists with diagnostic accuracy

Tetra announce significant results from the study of Onternabez combined with Favipiravir

AI works on artificial DNA for future drug development

BC Platforms partners on AI-driven EU cancer data project

Startup Cradle raises $5.4M to design protein machines and cell factories with AI

Eden Bio raises £1m to boost AI protein yields

Google and Meta AI could boost cancer research and drug discovery

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