New Science

BPGbio: Fusing Patient-Driven Innovation With Causal AI

 
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Biotech BPGbio applies causal AI to generate insights from samples from what the CEO says is one of the world's largest biobanks. With several promising late-stage programs, its platform seems to be yielding fruit.

Taking The Temperature Of UK Biotech 2025

 
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With British Science Week upon us, how are UK life science firms faring, what’s the outlook for the future, and how can the environment be improved to better foster innovation – and make it pay?

20 Voices: What Does 2025 Hold For Biopharma?

 

Twenty executives in the biopharma industry outline their expectations for key trends and developments this year. A selection of commentary from a broad industry survey by Scrip.

Biotech Aims For NET Gains By Targeting Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

 
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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps are a double-edged sword in the immune system, capable of both defending against pathogens and driving inflammatory diseases. Their complex role in health and disease is being approached by innovative researchers and biotechs, who are working to harness their power while mitigating their harmful effects.


Neurodegenerative Disease Investment: Shifting Paradigms Beyond Amyloid And Tau

 
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Companies are exploring new mechanisms of action beyond traditional amyloid and tau and both investors and big pharma are willing to make deals when the science is compelling, panelists at Biotech Showcase said.

Google Co-Authored Report Lays Out Roadmap For AI In Tackling AMR

 
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Close collaboration between industry, academia and government in employing artificial intelligence could solve the looming threat of antimicrobial resistance, a new report co-authored by Google says.

Orano Med And Molecular Partners Transform Thorium Into Cancer Therapy

 
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Swiss firm Molecular Partners and French national offshoot Orano Med have partnered to develop a potent new class of radiopharmaceuticals.

Ginkgo Bioworks' LLM Addresses mRNA Stability

 
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Gingko Bioworks has released a large language model designed to improve mRNA stability.


CCRM: Building A Global Regenerative Medicine Ecosystem From Canadian Roots

 
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The Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine has spent over a decade crafting a cell and gene therapy ecosystem in Canada. Now it is replicating the model abroad.

From Stem Cells To Organoids: Roche’s Hans Clevers’s Quest To Transform Drug Development

 
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This is Part 1 of a 2-part profile of Hans Clevers, Head of Pharma Research and Early Development at Roche.

Artiva Leverages Unmodified NK Cells To Challenge CAR-T Paradigm

 
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Artiva Biotherapeutics is hoping its NK cell therapy approach, which uses un-engineered cells, will prove effective in both oncologic and autoimmune indications and safe enough to be given in the community setting.

Podcast: How Fauna Bio Gleans Therapeutic Insights From Animals

 
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In Vivo speaks with Ashley Zehnder, CEO of Fauna Bio, a company using AI to identify drug targets based on natural disease resistance in animals.


Podcast: The Future Of Immunotherapy

 
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In this episode of the In Vivo podcast, Harvard immunologist and co-founder of early-stage biotech Corner Therapeutics, Jonathan Kagan, talks about harnessing the power of the innate immune system by weaponizing dendritic cells and creating immunotherapies that are safer and more durable.

TechBio Investment Snapshot: Funding, Alliances And Collaboration

 
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Data provided by Biomedtracker show that data-driven methodologies within R&D are propelling life sciences to unprecedented advancements. It is making drug development faster, more efficient and more personalized.

Into 2025: APAC’s Medtech Innovation And Investment Climate Emerging Into The Light

 
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Medtech innovators in the APAC region have in recent years seen a slowdown in investment following a combination of rising costs, supply chain challenges and inflationary pressures. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, says MedTech Innovator APAC leader Fredrik Nyberg.

Biopharma Plumps Pipeline With Healthy Weight Loss Candidates

 
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Despite the stellar success of the class so far, biotech is now looking past GLP-1s to more tolerable, sustainable approaches to obesity.


Podcast: Treating Rare Diseases With tRNA

 
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In this episode of the In Vivo podcast Michelle Werner, CEO of Alltrna, discusses using tRNA as a therapeutic modality for rare diseases.

Podcast: Mapping The Immune System To Predict Immune Responses

 
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Israeli-American biotech Immunai is mapping the immune system and using AI to predict immune responses to drugs.

The Future Of Inflammation: The Inflammasome And Beyond

 
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Novel targets for managing inflammation hold the promise of greater efficacy and safety for diseases not widely viewed as inflammatory in nature.

Freely Available Microbiome Data ‘Atlas’ Could Provide Industry Boost

 

King’s College London has released a freely available ‘Human Gut Microbiome Atlas’ to help researchers better understand how microorganisms in the gut impact disease.