Tucson, Arizona – Mosquito-borne illnesses remain a formidable challenge threatening millions of people each year with diseases such as malaria, dengue, zika and chikungunya. To develop a mosquito control strategy with a minimal ecological footprint, biochemists and entomologists from the University of Arizona have pioneered a novel approach by harnessing...
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ROCKVILLE, Md. and SUZHOU, China — Innovent Biologics, Inc., a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, autoimmune, metabolic, ophthalmology and other major diseases, and Xuanzhu Biopharma, today announce that they entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement for...
Okayama, Japan – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive loss of motor functions, which eventually leads to death within 5 years of its onset. This disease causes weakness and atrophy of limbs and other muscles, which affect mobility speech, eating, and even breathing in patients....
The cellular glitches underlying a rare genetic disorder called activated PI3K Delta syndrome 2 (APDS2) have been identified by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. The disorder is caused by genetic variations that disrupt immune cell signalling through a protein called PI3K. “This study tells us how signalling...
Hong Kong – Artificial intelligence is a growing presence in biopharma, with applications beyond the discovery apparatus. It was a hot-button issue in San Francisco last week as the industry gathered around the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. Eli Lilly and Novartis even announced multi-million-dollar discovery deals with Alphabet’s Isomorphic...
Rockville, Maryland – Insilico Medicine, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical-stage biotechnology company, today announced that the company has initiated the first-in-human study for ISM5411, a potentially first-in-class poly hydroxylase domain (PHD) 1/2 inhibitor for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Designed and developed by Insilico’s proprietary end-to-end AI...
Executives from clinical stage artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company Insilico Medicine will present on the impact of AI on biotechnology at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine and Petrina Kamya, PhD, Head of AI Platforms and...
Hong Kong – Insilico Medicine, a clinical stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, recently published an early research that it has identified MYT1 as a promising new therapeutic target for breast and gynecological cancer, and discovered a series of novel, potent, and highly selective inhibitors specifically targeting MYT1....
JUPITER, Fla. — Like the Greek mythological beast with a snake’s tail and two ferocious heads, a potential Parkinson’s medicine created in the lab of chemist Matthew Disney, Ph.D., is also a type of chimera bearing two heads. One seeks out a key piece of Parkinson’s-causing RNA, while the other...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – TG4050, a personalized neoantigen vaccine, induced tumor-specific immune responses and led to low rates of disease relapse in patients with surgically resected HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC), according to results reported at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024, held April 5-1...