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Actithera draws new investors to radiopharma drug pitch

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

M Ventures, which helped found the company in 2021, co-led the Series A round with Hadean Ventures, Sofinnova Partners and 4BIO Capital. The technology works by attaching a radioisotope to a targeting compound via a specially engineered “linker” molecule. Five other firms also participated.

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Boosters and Biologics: Is Space-Based Biomanufacturing Real?

LifeSciVC

Microgravity crystallization, in combination with modern innovations in antibody engineering (e.g., Convenience is an increasingly common competitive lever in the biopharma industry, particularly for crowded targets. half-life extension) and formulation / delivery (e.g., Pembrolizumab microgravity crystallization experimentation. IG-22-005).

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From siloed data to breakthroughs: multimodal AI in drug discovery

Drug Target Review

The lack of collaboration between biologists, chemists, engineers and data scientists represents a significant barrier. He is a senior data scientist and holds a master’s degree from Roma Tre University in computer engineering, where he also held the role of research fellow. Lifescienceleader.com.

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Oncology advances through the lens of women in STEM

Drug Target Review

At the time, in India, we typically had two major career choices, engineering or medicine. With artificial intelligence, the pace of change is exciting for STEM, whether in medicine, engineering, space, or technology. I opted for medicine due to my love for biological sciences.

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Targeting CD40 with bispecifics to outsmart tumours

Drug Target Review

This progress has been facilitated using internal technologies to isolate binders with desired properties and engineer functional and developable bispecific antibody molecules. In this way, the tumour can be tricked into telling the immune system how best to effectively attack the tumour cells.

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Can Plants Really “See”?

Codon

Inspired by this line of thinking, molecular botanists Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita performed the first and only controlled study focused specifically on the plant-vision hypothesis in 2021. Credit: White & Yamashita (2021). Charts adapted from White & Yasmashita (2021). Sign up for Asimov Press. Cite: Bourdev M.

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The Redevelopment of ChEBI

The ChEMBL-og

Outdated infrastructure Back in 2021, ChEBI's software infrastructure was increasingly fragile. ChEBI's current software code base dates back to its creation in the early 2000s and was ever-more difficult and costly to maintain, with significant amounts of redundant and non-functioning code.