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In seconds, AI builds proteins to battle cancer and antibiotic resistance

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Artificial intelligence is now designing custom proteins in seconds—a process that once took years—paving the way for cures to diseases like cancer and antibiotic-resistant infections. Australian scientists have joined this biomedical frontier by creating bacteria-killing proteins with AI. Their new platform, built by a team of biologists and computer scientists, is part of a global movement to democratize and accelerate protein design for medical breakthroughs.

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Renasant Bio, chasing drugs for ADPKD, raises $55M in seed funding

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The biotech is taking inspiration from cystic fibrosis treatment and applying a similar approach to developing "corrector" and "potentiator" medicines for the kidney disease.

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More Florida Teens Strapping Up, Study Says

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TUESDAY, July 8, 2025 — More Florida teens are roaming the streets packing heat, a new study says.Handgun carrying among Florida middle and high school students increased by 65% between 2002 and 2022, researchers reported July 7 in the journal P.

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CDD Vault Update (July 2025): Custom Axis Scaling, AUC Fold Change, Copy Reactions and Stoichiometry Tables, and Sample Tracking Improvements for the ELN

Collaborative Drug

CDD Vault Update (July 2025): Custom Axis Scaling, AUC Fold Change, Copy Reactions and Stoichiometry Tables, and Sample Tracking Improvements for the ELN

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Rational Design of CDK12/13 and BRD4 Molecular Glue Degraders

Covalent Modifiers

Nathanael Schiander Gray , Zhe Zhuang , Woong Sub Byun , Zuzanna Kozicka , Katherine Donovan , Brendan Dwyer , Abby Thornhill , Hannah Jones , Zixuan Jiang , Xijun Zhu , Eric Fischer , Nicolas Thomä , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025 , e202508427. [link] Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic approach for the selective elimination of disease-related proteins.

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Researchers grow 400+ brain cell types—a leap for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By systematically experimenting with combinations of morphogens and gene regulators, the researchers replicated the vast diversity of neurons found in the human brain.

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Clash Of Drugs Impedes Lung Cancer Treatment, Lowers Survival

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TUESDAY, July 7, 2025 — Two drugs used in lung cancer treatment appear to be tripping over each other, reducing patients’ chances for a cure, a new study says.Corticosteroids are commonly prescribed to alleviate cancer-related symptoms in patients w.

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Collaborative Drug Discovery and deepmirror Announce Collaboration for Humanitarian and Commercial Drug Discovery

Collaborative Drug

BURLINGAME, Calif. — July 8, 2025. Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) , the leading provider of data management solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, and deepmirror , the AI drug design platform that empowers chemists to focus on more promising drug molecules, today announced a strategic partnership integrating deepmirror with CDD Vault to enhance drug discovery.

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Structure‐Based Bioisosterism Design, Synthesis, Antitumor and Toxicity Assessment of Novel Aplysinopsin Analogs

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Aplysinopsin analog 12g displayed moderate antiproliferative activity upon breast and cervical cancer cells, and in Zebrafish-based model showed the lethality rate of embryos and larvae, sublethal effects and significant inhibition of larvae growth in a period higher than cytotoxicity assay. In silico ADME analysis indicated 12g with good orally bioavailable.

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This AI-powered lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new leap in lab automation is shaking up how scientists discover materials. By switching from slow, traditional methods to real-time, dynamic chemical experiments, researchers have created a self-driving lab that collects 10 times more data, drastically accelerating progress. This new system not only saves time and resources but also paves the way for faster breakthroughs in clean energy, electronics, and sustainability—bringing us closer to a future where lab discoveries happen in days, not y

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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FDA turns back Capricor’s Duchenne cell therapy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company said it was “surprised” by the decision, which followed the ouster of cell and gene therapy officials from the agency during deramiocel’s review.

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Insured? You're More Likely To Survive Cancer Through Immunotherapy Treatment

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, July 9, 2025 — Powerful new immunotherapies are offering fresh hope for patients with many different types of cancer.Unfortunately, that hope doesn’t extend to people without health insurance, a new study says.Immune checkpoint inh.

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Best Practices for Pitching, Geared Towards First-Time Founders

LifeSciVC

By Aimee Raleigh, Principal at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC If you are a first-time founder who has heard the phrase “This isn’t a good time to be raising for X,” where X is a platform, a preclinical play, a non-consensus story, I empathize! After you’ve spent years contemplating an idea, potentially investing some of your own money to generate early data, and carefully thinking through the pitch, it’s difficult to hear that an entire scope of companies is

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Fixing drug discovery’s most persistent problem with AI

Drug Target Review

Before a compound can become a viable therapy, it must pass a series of tests – not just for potency, but for how it behaves in the body. Absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity – collectively known as ADMET – are among the most critical and challenging hurdles in small molecule drug discovery. Medicinal chemists often describe ADMET optimisation as a frustrating ‘whack-a-mole’ problem: improve one property and another tends to deteriorate.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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One shot, seven days: Long-acting levodopa gel tackles Parkinson’s tremors

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers in Australia have created a biodegradable gel that delivers Parkinson’s medications through a single weekly shot, replacing the need for multiple daily pills. Injected just under the skin, the gel steadily releases levodopa and carbidopa for seven days, helping keep tremors and stiffness in check while easing side effects linked to fluctuating doses.

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Lilly gets FDA OK of modified dosing for Alzheimer’s drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A slower ramp-up of Kisunla dosing lowers the rate of dangerous brain swelling, a risk that has made doctors reluctant to prescribe Lilly’s amyloid-busting drug.

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FDA Publishes Full Texts of Response Letters to Drug Applications

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, July 10, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published more than 200 complete response letters, or decision letters, sent as replies to drug and biological product applications submitted to the agency from 2020 to 2024.The.

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Generative AI Can Design Drugs. But Can It Own Them?

Drug Patent Watch

"The Future of Pharma is in Flux: Can AI-Designed Medicines Be Owned? As the pharmaceutical industry grapples with the rise of generative AI, a new question is emerging: who owns the rights to medicines designed by machines? In a groundbreaking development, researchers have successfully used AI to design novel compounds with unprecedented efficacy.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)

addgene Blog

This post was written by Alfonso Timoneda, with significant contributions from Robert Hurt and Mohamed Soufi. So you’ve learned about the Modular Cloning (MoClo) system and what it can do for you, and you’ve chosen one of the MoClo kits available through Addgene that suits your experimental purposes. But what now? MoClo really simplifies vector construction by combining restriction and ligation steps together in the same tube at the same time, however, it can prove itself to be quite the mental

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Your Brain’s Hidden Defenses Against Alzheimer’s

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through neural highways and how certain genes either accelerate its toxic journey or shield brain regions from damage. Their extended Network Diffusion Model pinpoints four gene categories that govern vulnerability or resilience, reshaping our view of Alzheimer’s progression and spotlighting fresh therapeutic targets.

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Novartis gets approval of first malaria medicine for newborns

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Coartem Baby, which was cleared by health authorities in Switzerland, will fill an important gap in treatment. Novartis plans to sell it “largely” on a not-for-profit basis.

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Popular Chronic Pain Med, Gabapentin, Linked To Dementia Risk

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FRIDAY, July 11, 2025 — A drug used to treat seizures, nerve pain and restless leg syndrome might be linked with increased risk of dementia, a new study says. Regular gabapentin use appeared to increase risk of dementia by 29% and mild.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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What single cells are revealing about brain disorders

Drug Target Review

Neurological diseases are among the most complex and least understood conditions in medicine. Despite the knowledge that certain genes increase the risk of contracting diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, it is still not fully understood how those diseases develop in the brain. But that is beginning to change. At the centre of this shift is 10x Genomics – a company building tools that enable researchers to study individual cells and their gene activity, both in isolation and in their origi

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Sunvozertinib

New Drug Approvals

Sunvozertinib CAS 2370013-12-8 DZD9008, 584.1 g/mol, C 29 H 35 ClFN 7 O 3 , A-1801, L1Q2K5JYO8 N -[5-[[4-[5-chloro-4-fluoro-2-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)anilino]pyrimidin-2-yl]amino]-2-[(3 R )-3-(dimethylamino)pyrrolidin-1-yl]-4-methoxyphenyl]prop-2-enamide FDA Zegfrovy, 7/2/2025 To treat locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor exon 20 insertion mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test, with disease progression on or after platinum-based c

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Scientists just found 200+ hidden proteins that may drive Alzheimer’s

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A surprising new study has uncovered over 200 misfolded proteins in the brains of aging rats with cognitive decline, beyond the infamous amyloid and tau plaques long blamed for Alzheimer’s. These shape-shifting proteins don’t clump into visible plaques, making them harder to detect but potentially just as harmful. Scientists believe these “stealth” molecules could evade the brain’s cleanup systems and quietly impair memory and brain function.

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Cargo agrees to Concentra buyout after trial setback, layoffs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The cell therapy developer, which raised nearly $500 million in 2023 on the promise of its CAR-T work, has floundered since a safety setback forced it to scrap its lead candidate.

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FDA Fully Approves Moderna’s COVID Vaccine for Some Young Kids

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, July 11, 2025 — Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine has received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in children with medical conditions that put them at higher risk of severe illness.The move makes Moderna’s vacci.

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NGS is evolving: collaboration and tech lead the way

Drug Target Review

The next-generation sequencing (NGS) market is experiencing rapid growth, which is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Research by Markets and Markets projects the market to grow from $12.13 billion in 2023 to about $23.55 billion by 2029, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 13.2 percent.​ 1 Emergen Research attributes this to the advantages of high-throughput sequencing technologies and declining sequencing costs​. 2 This trend reflects the increasing demand for g

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Rezatapopt

New Drug Approvals

Rezatapopt, PC 14586 CAS 2636846-41-6 Molecular Weight 545.57 Synonyms PC14586 Formula C 28 H 31 F 4 N 5 O 2 CAS No. 2636846-41-6 4-[3-[4-[[(3 S ,4 R )-3-fluoro-1-methylpiperidin-4-yl]amino]-1-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)indol-2-yl]prop-2-ynylamino]-3-methoxy- N -methylbenzamide 4-[3-[4-[[(3S,4R)-3-fluoro-1-methylpiperidin-4-yl]amino]-1-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)indol-2-yl]prop-2-ynylamino]-3-methoxy-N-methylbenzamide Benzamide, 4-[[3-[4-[[(3S,4R)-3-fluoro-1-methyl-4-piperidinyl]amino]-1-(2,2,2-trifluoroe

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Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to AI-powered genetic research, scientists have revealed a far more entangled history. Modern humans and Neanderthals didn’t just cross paths; they repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and even merged populations over nearly 250,000 years.

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FDA, in policy shift, publishes some drug rejection letters

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The agency disclosed a tranche of more than 200 complete response letters from the past five years, but only those involving medicines that it later cleared.

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Three-Quarters of Stomach Cancers Could Be Prevented By Targeting Helicobacter Pylori Bacteria

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TUESDAY, July 8, 2025 — Three-quarters of stomach cancer cases could be prevented if doctors eradicate infection by a common type of bacteria, a new study says. The bacteria, Helicobacter pylori, is linked to 76% of future stomach cancer.

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