Manufacturing B BioProcess International
AI's power depends on data quality, human oversight
An executive from Thermo Fisher discusses how AI stands to transform the industry without compromising the need for human operators.
Headlines from across biotech and life sciences, gathered from the industry press. Every story links straight to its publisher.
Manufacturing B BioProcess International
An executive from Thermo Fisher discusses how AI stands to transform the industry without compromising the need for human operators.
Software L Latch Bio
Benchmarking AI agents on experimentally grounded decisions in ASO/siRNA discovery
Industry
Medical Design and Outsourcing
The Medtech Big 100 is bigger than ever Medical Design & Outsourcing’s Medtech Big 100 is the authoritative ranking of the world’s largest medical device companies, and after many months of work we proudly present you with our 2026 edition. Total revenue has broken the h…
Software T The Niche
Karim Mikhail, acting CBER director, has just been named the permanent branch leader. What might this mean for the cell and gene therapy field? Karim Mikhail is permanent CBER director, unusual background Most people in the field want more stability and logic-based decision-makin…
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Nickel catalyst swaps hydrogen for deuterium to produce drugs that are metabolized more slowly
Manufacturing B BioProcess International
A recent scientific report found almost 19,000 doctored images of antibodies available in the commercial market.
Software B BLOPIG
On 16th July, fresh after England’s clean defeat to Argentina, OPIG took to the high seas. The OPIGlets pooled our resources and procured punts from many different berths. Organised by Admiral Alexander Hasson, we departed from the Cherwell boathouse and shipped out upriver to th…
Software S Scaling Biotech
Last week, I asked the question whether it’s possible for biopharma to adopt new digital technology that’s introduced from the outside, as opposed to the more common historical pattern of internal teams developing their own tools.
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
German firm is paying ‘mid-double-digit millions’ to acquire small-molecule fertility-drug candidates
Industry
MedCity News
Patient trust, physician credibility, and payer goodwill are not soft considerations alongside the balance sheet; they are the mechanism by which a pharmaceutical product generates revenue over time. The post Ethics Isn’t a Pharma Value — It’s a Competitive Moat appeared first on…
Industry
Medical Design and Outsourcing
Incisionless surgery is “around the corner,” Petal Surgical co-founder and CEO Prash Chopra said as he offered a first glimpse of his startup’s system ahead of a first-in-human procedure expected soon. The company’s technology combines noninvasive histotripsy ablation, robotics a…
Software B BLOPIG
With a new cohort of PhD students arriving imminently and my first year coming to a close, I am about to achieve an important milestone: I will no longer be the newest full-time OPIGlet in the group! Naturally, this makes me extremely qualified to impart wisdom. In all seriousnes…
Agriculture E European Seed
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem identified a salt stress germination system that helps seeds retain potassium while limiting sodium buildup. The finding could support future work on crop establishment in saline soils. The post Salt Stress Germination System Iden…
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Lilly, T1D Fund back the new firm’s $50 million financing
Software P Pistoia Alliance
In vivo efficacy data still arrives in bespoke formats. The Pistoia Alliance is developing in vivo efficacy data standards that build on SEND for toxicology data. The ultimate goal? Seamless data exchange. The post Existing toxicology data standards jumpstart in vivo efficacy sta…
Software
Medical Design and Outsourcing
NEWS RELEASE: nPhase launches industry’s first AI-native enterprise platform for end-to-end clinical data management: nPhase.AI nPhase.ai also introduces its agentic statistical computing environment (SCE) to reduce the time from raw study data to submission-ready outputs by 75%…
Industry
Medical Design and Outsourcing
NEWS RELEASE: Parasoft’s automated testing helps verify safety-critical firmware for Kitea Health’s investigational ICP sensor Testing verified the code running inside a new sensor for hydrocephalus MONROVIA, Calif. — Parasoft, a global leader in automated software testing…
Industry I In the Pipeline
Update: I can always tell when RealClearScience links to one of my vaccine posts, because suddenly in come a number of comments from people who know little or nothing about vaccines and who seem to assume that any favorable coverage of them is some sort of propaganda operation. O…
Industry N Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Industry C Cell Systems
Small gene regulatory circuits can encode a surprising diversity of dynamical behaviors. A biophysical model of the AC-DC motif reveals over thirty distinct bifurcation structures and shows how molecular regulatory architecture and binding affinity orderings determine oscillation…
Manufacturing B BioProcess International
A consultant at eXmoor Pharma discusses the evolution of CAR T therapies and how exciting innovations may change the advanced therapy landscape forever.
Industry
MedCity News
LEP Biomedical is developing a dissolvable implant that replaces weeks of self-administered eye drops after glaucoma surgery, aiming to fix the compliance problems that drive surgical failure rates as high as 40%. The post This Startup Wants to Make Glaucoma Surgery Recovery Easi…
Software I Institute for Protein Design
A new Seattle-based research coalition, AI BioDesign, was announced on September 3, bringing together scientists from the University of Washington, the Allen Institute, and Fred Hutch Cancer Center. The post New Seattle-based coalition emerges to learn and codify nature’s design…
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
Software
Decoding Bio
Prof James Zou is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford and leads the Stanford AI for Science Lab.
Software A Asimov Press
We are returning with a renewed focus on original reporting, investigations, and thesis-driven philanthropy.
Industry
Medical Design and Outsourcing
Claria Medical won FDA de novo classification in July 2026 for its minimally invasive system for hysterectomy. Hysterectomies are among the most common surgeries for women, but “many current approaches fall short,” the Mountain View, California-based company says at its website.…
Clinical
Drug Discovery and Development
The magic mushroom compound psilocybin, which has had favorable results in two Phase 3 trials of depression and could be available as soon as 2027, has shown promise in rodents as a potential preventative for Chemotherapy‑Induced Perip…
Industry
Drug Discovery and Development
On August 25-26, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) followed up on two Federal Register notices published on July 1 that signaled its intent to temporarily place several synthetic alkaloids associated with Mitragyna speciosa (commonly known as kratom leaf or kratom) i…
Software P Practical Fragments
Last week we highlighted how NMR-based fragment screening was able to identify cryptic pockets on a small protein. Experimental methods are (still) the gold standard, but they take considerable effort and resources. In a new open-access J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper, Neha Vithani, Davi…
Funding
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Cash will be used for a Phase 2 trial of the company’s treatment for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
Regulatory F FDA Law Blog
By Sarah Wicks & Deborah L. Livornese & Michelle L. Butler —
Software M MetaphysicalCells
By Arvita Tripati founder of Vahana Labs
Software T This Week in Cheminformatics
sr-SMILES, Markush structure image to SMILES, benchmarking GNNs on ChEMBL, and a long list of papers
Software R RDKit Blog
Shape Searching in Synthon Spaces Note this is a guest post written by Dave Cosgrove (GitHub: @DavidACosgrove). Substructure and fingerprint similarity searching in synthon spaces was introduced in the RDKit in December 2024. The motivation behind this method of searching synthon…
Agriculture
Global Ag Tech Initiative
Agtrinsic has announced the introduction of its Disease Intelligence Engine in South Asia, with an initial focus on […] The post Agtrinsic Expands AI Disease Intelligence Technology to South Asia’s Smallholder Farmers appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.
Agriculture E European Seed
Technical University of Munich researchers have identified a hormone-controlled mechanism that regulates the trade-off between plant growth and crop disease resistance. The finding could help future breeding programs develop resilient, high-yielding varieties. The post Plant Horm…
Software M Mac in Chem
This looks very useful. dock-postprocess is an open-source structure-based drug design toolkit for standardizing docking results and carrying them through restrained OpenMM minimization, pose QC, protein-ligand
Software P Paired Ends
I automate a prompt to Claude Code very early, kicking off a session while I'm sleeping, effectively giving me three five hour sessions in a day for the price of two.