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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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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 antiviral will be a low-dose drug which can be taken in the at-home setting. Those drugs that hinder only CLpro did not enhance the effects of remdesivir.

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

XTalks

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). Millions of somatic cancer variants have been identified due to precision medicine and next-generation sequencing (NGS).

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Bioinformatics Jobs: How to Succeed in This Competitive Space

XTalks

Bioinformatics jobs are commonly found in the fields of computer information science, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical technology, computational biology, proteomics and medical informatics. The Human Genome Project could not have succeeded without the use of bioinformatics. Wondering which bioinformatics job is right for you?

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M2GEN partners with Zephyr AI to identify treatments for cancer patients

Pharmaceutical Technology

Oncology-focused bioinformatics firm M2GEN has entered a multi-year strategic collaboration with Zephyr AI to identify treatments and cures for cancer patients. The collaboration will expedite the discovery of drugs and expand the use of investigations for cancer treatments.

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A human interactome to prioritize drug discovery

Medical Xpress

Scientists at Open Targets, EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and GSK are revealing the shared basis of diseases using a map of interacting human proteins.

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Jafri conducting study of in silico prediction of cancer drug susceptibility

Scienmag

Mohsin Jafri, Director, Neuroscience Program; Professor Bioinformatics/Computational Biology, is studying cancer drug susceptibility. This technology may be applied to data extracted from the molecular […].