Technology

News round-up for 11-15 September by DDW Digital Content Editor Diana Spencer. Spanning artificial intelligence, theranostics, radiopharmaceuticals, quantum simulation and small regulatory RNA, the top stories this week all cover cutting-edge technologies and techniques making a huge impact on modern drug discovery and development. The headlines: Pharma must embrace an AI future says new report […]

Adaptyv Bio, a Swiss/US technology company that develops infrastructure and tools for protein designers to engineer better proteins, has built a protein engineering foundry that it says will “pave the way” for protein designers to develop new medicines, novel enzymes and sustainable materials. AI tools like ChatGPT are revolutionising how the world generates text, images […]

A new eBook is now available for download. This latest eBook sponsored by Bethyl Laboratories/Fortis Life Science features expert opinions on how imaging technologies are informing drug discovery and bringing more insight into treating diseases. Download this exclusive eBook to learn more about: The importance of imaging innovations in the fight against cancer How magnetic […]

This latest eBook sponsored by Bethyl Laboratories/Fortis Life Science features expert opinions on how imaging technologies are informing drug discovery and bringing more insight into treating diseases. Download this exclusive eBook to learn more about: The importance of imaging innovations in the fight against cancer How magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a useful tool throughout […]

It’s impossible to be online and not hear about ChatGPT, the controversial chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. Here, DDW’s Diana Spencer takes a look at the ways ChatGPT and technology like it could change the future of drug discovery and development. Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (or ChatGPT) is a conversational chatbot, designed to […]

Download our latest eBook ‘Technology in the lab: what’s enabling drug discovery?’ sponsored by Analytik Jena. The eBook features insights and expert opinions on the solutions and technologies that are enabling drug discovery breakthroughs and assisting research and development. Download now to learn more about: The solutions helping drug discovery breakthroughs get to market faster and more […]

This latest eBook sponsored by Analytik Jena features insights and expert opinions on the solutions and technologies that are enabling drug discovery breakthroughs and assisting research and development. Download this exclusive eBook to learn more about: The solutions helping drug discovery breakthroughs get to market faster and more efficiently The technology assisting drug discovery research […]

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has launched a new Community of Experts (CoE) with the aim of harnessing real-world data (RWD) from social media. The organisation is calling on technology companies, data scientists and RWD experts to join the community.  The CoE aims to […]

This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Revealing the magic of cell therapy”. It covers two narrated articles written for Volume 22, Issue 4 – Fall 2021 of DDW. They are called “The magic of cell therapy” and “Cellular assays to bridge the gap in immunogenicity prediction”. In the first article, Marjie […]

News round-up by DDW’s Megan Thomas for 4-8 April   When considering trends in the drug discovery industry, the use of technology to advance treatments and therapeutics is consistently observed. DDW rounds up five of this week’s top news stories which reveal this theme of technology, AI and biotechnology.   1. Jumpcode Genomics launches tech to improve […]

PerkinElmer Informatics has announced version 21 of its ChemDraw software, which provides researchers with the ability to import, animate and share 3D chemical structures natively in the Microsoft PowerPoint application.   Impact  The key enhancement helps chemists create more intelligent research reports quickly and easily, improving information sharing and collaboration and supporting real-time decision making.  Using […]

Sixfold Bioscience (Sixfold), a company using computation and advanced chemistry to design RNA therapeutic delivery systems, has raised $10.5 million in its seed funding round, which will support the continued development of the company’s Mergo RNA therapeutics delivery platform.  Investors   Investors in the seed round included Cantos Ventures, Y Combinator, Lombard Street Ventures and Pi Campus, as […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Marjie Hadad talks to cell therapy expert and Kadimastem CEO Asaf Shiloni about the potential of cell therapy.  “I am attracted to cell therapy because traditional medicine has reached its limitation in treating the ailments of the 21st century,” says Asaf Shiloni, 20-year biotechnology executive, cell therapy expert and CEO of Kadimastem.  He continues: “It’s known […]

AstraZeneca has unveiled The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge, UK – a research and development (R&D) facility designed to the world’s highest environmental standards and accommodating over 2,200 research scientists.  The new £1 billion facility will include advanced robotics, high-throughput screening and AI-driven technology. It will support AstraZeneca’s focus on specialised and precision medicines and foster the discovery and […]

Gentronix, a UK-based contract research organisation (CRO) working in the field of genetic toxicology, has raised £700,000 in a funding round led by existing investor Mercia to support its continued growth.  The latest round, which includes a number of private investors, follows Gentronix’s recent acquisition of the Big Blue transgenic mutation assay from Merck KGaA. It will be used […]

Inscopix, a brain mapping platform company developing neurotechnologies for improved disease treatments, displayed the latest product and research innovations around its miniature microscope-based neural circuitry technology at the 50th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), which was held virtually November 8-11.  Showcasing new technologies that enable dual colour imaging, neurotransmitter release and blood flow dynamics visualisations with Inscopix’s platform for understanding the […]