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Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
Headlines from across biotech and life sciences, gathered from the industry press. Every story links straight to its publisher.
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
A mild, modular approach to adding bicyclobutanes could bring more selectivity to these therapies
Software
Owl Posting
5.8k words, 26 minutes reading time
Software T The Labs Report
Algorithmic value is hard to capture in biotech if every model requires its own company. An ecosystem approach can change that.
Software
LifeSciVC
By Abbas Kazimi, CEO of Nimbus Therapeutics, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC The Japanese Zen term shoshin means “beginner’s mind”. It’s the discipline of approaching familiar territory with fresh eyes and openness to see what The post Evolving Drug Discover…
Industry I In the Pipeline
There are people who will tell you that a cell is just the way that ribosomes make more ribosomes, and I’m not in a position to say that they’re wrong. It’s for sure that these protein-synthesizing factories are extremely ancient, extremely well-optimized, and they’re constantly…
Industry
Pharmaceutical Processing World
Consider a common scenario: a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant has identified the equipment most critical to the success of its processes and has begun tracking overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) for those assets. Management has set an ambitious OEE metric of 95% for those c…
Software P Paired Ends
A proposed successor to IARPA's FunGCAT program
Industry P Practical Fragments
Earlier this year we highlighted a study that compared the affinities of kinase inhibitors for isolated proteins vs those same proteins in cells and found differences – sometimes dramatic. A new open-access paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc. by Blake Peterson and colleagues at Ohio State…
Software T This Week in Cheminformatics
Equilibrist, DiffDock-Pocket on LIT-PCBA, Ligand Drift Rate Descriptor and a long list of papers
Agriculture E European Seed
Euroseeds says the European Parliament’s rejection of the soybean oil ILUC proposal is an important step for Europe’s soy value chain, protein crop ambitions and breeding investment, though the policy file now returns to the Commission. The post Euroseeds Welcomes EP Rejection of…
Industry I In the Pipeline
Now this is some futuristic medicine, I have to say (commentary here at Cell). The authors are looking at “dry eye disease” (keratoconjunctivitis sicca), which can have a rather complex biological background. There are quite a few contributing causes (contact lens use, aging, clo…
Software I Is life worth living?
Now there are lots of AI tools for drug discovery. I think it’s difficult to expect 8 years before when I moved to cheminformatics team from MedChem :) And one of the hot area is Folding AI such as Boltz, Alpha fold and OpenFold etc. Boltz-2 has not only cofolding prediction modu…
Software P Paired Ends
Primers on how ARPA-H (and other ARPAs) are different than your typical NIH/NSF research programs and proposals
Industry I In the Pipeline
I’m fond of saying that the most important single statistic about the drug industry is the clinical failure rate, which is (by any reasonable standard) appallingly high. To my mind, everything that is infuriating or inexplicable to outside observers (or patients!) about the bioph…
Agriculture E European Seed
Scottish farmers and growers are being urged to prepare for water scarcity as climate change brings longer and more frequent dry periods. CREW says drought could affect river flows twice as often by 2050, creating new risks for crops, livestock and water supplies. The post Scotti…
Agriculture E European Seed
An AI caddy can carry the routine work, offer perspective and speed up ideas, but it should never take the shot for you. The real value remains in human judgment, relationships, planning and experimentation. The post The Best Way to Use AI? Think Like a Golfer, Not a Robot appear…
Software R Ryan Wick
Industry S SecureBio
We report findings from our comprehensive pre-deployment assessment of biological and biosecurity-relevant capabilities of GPT-5.6 Sol.
Software P Paired Ends
What happens when you try to rebuild containerized bioinformatics tools from five years of software papers
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
New methods offer simpler routes to diabetes drugs and other carbohydrate-derived medicines
Agriculture E European Seed
A new review examines how biochar may help protect soil health in continuously cropped solanaceous vegetables, including tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and potatoes. Researchers say biochar may improve soil structure, support beneficial microbes and reduce disease pressure. The pos…
Agriculture E European Seed
Low-input farming is becoming a strategic priority for European seed companies as farmers face tighter input constraints, reduced plant protection options and rising biodiversity expectations. The shift is increasing demand for varieties with nutrient-use efficiency, durable resi…
Industry P Patent Docs
By Donald Zuhn – In a Patent Alert distributed last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reminded stakeholders that beginning on Monday, July 20, patent applicants and owners who are not domiciled in the U.S. or its territories are now required to be represented by a USPTO-…
Funding I In the Pipeline
Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am…
Software S Scaling Biotech
There’s a nebulous gap in how biopharma teams approach data that I ran into when I was leading data science and engineering at my first two biotech startups, and have since noticed at many of the clients I’ve worked with.
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Companies aim to improve drug discovery by training AI on one another’s data and generating large, open datasets
Industry E EUCOPE
EUCOPE regularly spotlights a member company and the great work they’re doing to advance the life sciences industry and drive innovation to serve patients better. In July, we spoke with Stephanie Manton, CEO & Co-founder of WinQure Medicine. Stephanie Manton is the CEO &…
Agriculture E European Seed
International study maps more than 66,000 structural variants linked to yield, nutrition, insect resistance and other breeding priorities. Researchers have developed the world’s first graph-based pan-genome for mung bean, uncovering […] The post Mung Bean Pan-Genome Reveals Key C…
Agriculture E European Seed
Discover how the OECD Fruit and Vegetable Scheme creates consistent quality standards, supports fair trade and helps fresh produce move across global markets. The post A Common Language for Quality: Inside the OECD Fruit and Vegetable Scheme appeared first on Seed World.
Agriculture E European Seed
HARVEST will bring together more than 60 participants from 19 countries to make agricultural data AI-ready for crop breeding, research and farm decision-making. The European initiative will use barley as a model crop to improve data integration and climate resilience. The post HA…
Industry P Patent Docs
By Kevin E. Noonan – Since the institution of inter parte review (IPR) proceedings under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act in 2012, parallel proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board and district courts have become somewhat commonplace. Frequently, the former…
Industry I In the Pipeline
I’ve been meaning to write about this post, provocatively entitled “Biotech is Entering Its Netflix Era”. I find a lot to agree with in it, but I have what I think are some fundamental disagreements as well. The author, Matt Shlosberg, believes that the coming wave of AI-accelera…
Software O Omics! Omics!
Last week news broke that Element Biosciences had won a patent lawsuit against Illumina, and that it affected MiSeq. MiSeq???? How did a patent battle in 2026 affect a platform launched nearly a decade and a half ago? And which had been launched about five years…
Industry C Cell Systems
A computational method identifies subcellular signaling microdomains from live-cell movies. The detected microdomains reveal distinct spatiotemporal organization in the signaling of canonical Rho GTPases and GEFs and are sensitive to optogenetic perturbation.
Industry C Cell Systems
Wang et al. show that oscillatory phase-separated condensates enhance TTFL clock robustness by separating translation enhancement from transcriptional repression. Modeling and knockdown experiments support a hybrid architecture in which condensates retain intrinsic rhythmicity wh…
Software L Latch Bio
Today we released results for Kimi-K3, an open-source LLM boasting GPT-5.6/Mythos-level coding-benchmark scores, across our short-horizon therapeutics and -omics benchmarks on benchmarks.bio.
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C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week