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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

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). 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

Scienmag

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

pharmaphorum

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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Study finds new therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease

Drug Discovery World

AI-driven drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and the University of Cambridge have discovered an approach to identify therapeutic targets for human diseases associated with protein phase separation (PPS). Recent research has demonstrated that PPS is widely present in cells and drives a variety of important biological functions.

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Evotec Achieves Key Milestones in Its Collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb On Targeted Protein Degradation

The Pharma Data

Evotec and Bristol Myers Squibb (the successor in interest to Celgene ) initiated their long-term strategic drug discovery and development partnership in the field of targeted protein degradation in 2018 with the goal to identify novel drug targets.

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