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Absci and M2GEN partner to expedite cancer drug development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Absci has collaborated with bioinformatics firm M2GEN to expedite the development of new cancer medicines. Absci stated that this collaboration combines AI drug creation technology and oncology bioinformatics, thereby reducing the time and cost of cancer drug development.

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CancerVar: A New Bioinformatics Tool Developed for Clinical Interpretation of Cancer Mutations

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On Saturday, researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have announced that they developed and launched a new bioinformatics software tool called CancerVar (cancer variant interpretation). Why Was CancerVar Developed? What is CancerVar?

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Rensselaer team receives NIAID grant to develop antiviral drug for Covid-19

Pharmaceutical Technology

grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for developing a Covid-19 oral antiviral drug. The team’s work will be based on the prior research of Structural Bioinformatics Constellation Endowed chair Dr Montelione. Meanwhile, the NIH also granted a $2.7m

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NSF backs bioinformatics approach to understanding plant RNA modifications

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Led by Boyce Thompson Institute’s Andrew Nelson, four partners will identify RNA modifications and develop resources that may lead to hardier crops Credit: Photo credit: Anna Nelson Dittrich ITHACA, NY, August 4, 2020 — RNA perform a variety of functions in cells, helping with everything from regulating genes to building proteins.

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The future of AI drug discovery & development in immunology and GPCR research

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A mere six months ago Verily launched the study with Sosei Heptares – a global leader in GPCR structure-based drug design – with an aim to “prioritise protein targets for therapeutic targeting in immune-mediated disease”. Kim recognised then, he said, that better tools for medicine needed to be developed, and that they still do.

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Astellas teams up with UK biotech Mogrify on hearing loss project

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The new partnership will apply Mogrify’s cellular reprogramming and bioinformatics expertise to try to identify transcription factors – proteins which can turn specific genes on or off – that can be used to generate new cochlear hair cells. An estimated 1.57

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Country focus: Hungary carves out a niche in digital pharma

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We speak to the company’s CEO and co-founder, Szabolcs Nagy, to find out why moving beyond traditional biotech drug development is a good fit for the country’s ecosystem. For example, you can simulate what would happen if you inhibited thousands of different proteins in thousands of different cell models.”. So what do they do?