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In Depth 21 Jul 2023

How AI is shaping clinical research and trials

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere at the minute, seemingly being used in some capacity in almost every professional industry, including clinical research and trials. In fact, it is fair to say that AI has taken the biotech industry by storm, and the hype surrounding it has led to numerous AI startup companies coming onto the […]

July 21, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

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

Podcast 23 Jun 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 51

This week, we look at biomarkers, among other topics, with founder and CEO of Sapient, Mo Jain. We also have an overview of the Lund Spring Symposium with Dan Larhammar, Thoas Fioretos, and Sander van Deventer. Sapient Sapient is an end-to-end biomarker discovery organization dedicated to accelerating the mapping of circulating chemistries in humans through […]

June 23, 2023

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

News and Trends 16 Jun 2023

Key regulator of COVID viral receptor may be new drug target

Entry of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into human tissues depends on the activity of a host gene that regulates production of a key viral receptor, according to a study published in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Madison Strine and Craig Wilen of Yale University, U.S., and colleagues. The finding provides important new information on […]

June 16, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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

precision medicine, cancer, nRavel, Indivumed Therapeutics, early oncology discovery

Optimizing early discovery by unraveling cancer complexity within precision therapeutics

June 6, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

News and Trends 2 Jun 2023

Scientists develop probe to push for new drug discoveries

A study by Loughborough University and the University of Oxford in the U.K. has led to the development of a small molecule probe that could deepen the understanding of a crucial cellular messenger and lead to the development of new therapeutic drugs. The research paper showcases the researchers’ innovative probe that binds to inositol pyrophosphate […]

June 2, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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 19 May 2023

Google Cloud adds AI solutions for drug discovery

Google Cloud has announced two new AI-powered life sciences solutions to accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine for biotech companies, pharmaceutical firms, and public sector organizations. The Target and Lead Identification Suite helps researchers better identify the function of amino acids and predict the structure of proteins; and the Multiomics Suite accelerates the discovery and […]

May 19, 2023 - 6 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

News and Trends 3 May 2023

First drug discovered through 3D bioprinted tissue disease model

Viscient Bio, Inc. has announced it has identified the world’s first drug candidate discovered primarily using 3D bioprinted tissue models of disease formed from human cells. The company said it expects to develop the drug to treat non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a growing epidemic disease that is believed to affect more than 10% of the U.S. […]

May 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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How AI is shaping clinical research and trials

Life saved: AI discovers existing drug works for rare disease

Beyond Biotech podcast 51

Can ChatGPT be used to advance drug discovery?

Key regulator of COVID viral receptor may be new drug target

How Ireland connects AI and life sciences

Optimizing early discovery by unraveling cancer complexity within precision therapeutics

Scientists develop probe to push for new drug discoveries

Artificial intelligence combats lethal superbug, new antibiotic discovered

Google Cloud adds AI solutions for drug discovery

Recursion boosts drug discovery with Cyclica and Valence acquisitions

First drug discovered through 3D bioprinted tissue disease model

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