Industry G GCBR Organization Updates
GCBR Organization Updates, July 2026
Updates from CLTR, Coefficient Giving, Global Health Security Network, Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund, CSR, and Blueprint Biosecurity
Headlines from across biotech and life sciences, gathered from the industry press. Every story links straight to its publisher.
Industry G GCBR Organization Updates
Updates from CLTR, Coefficient Giving, Global Health Security Network, Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund, CSR, and Blueprint Biosecurity
Industry T The Labs Report
Following our deep dive on lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery, Justine Levin-Allerhand sits down with Head of Platform at Mirai Bio, Jagesh Shah for the story behind the data — from why delivery has remained such a persistent challenge to how machine learning,
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
By undoing lysine glycation, Revel Pharmaceuticals hopes to address tissue stiffness, inflammation
Agriculture E European Seed
The Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre will receive €5.4 million for a five-year upgrade of its crop phenotyping facility, adding advanced imaging, drones, AI tools and field research capacity to support crop resilience and sustainable food production. The post Netherlands…
Software M Molecules and Empires
The best AI in the world may not "crack" biology, but it can still change how a drug company is run.
Research I In the Pipeline
For as long as there have been computational models, there have been arguments about how to measure how useful they are. Benchmarking this stuff is a problem all its own, and that problem has just become more fraught as the variety and power of computational chemistry and biology…
Agriculture E European Seed
Hutton Scientific Services has launched a potato virus testing service for the 2026 seed potato campaign, following SASA’s withdrawal from commercial testing. The service will screen for PVY and PLRV to support seed certification, marketing and crop management decisions. The post…
Software
Ground Truths
Patrick Hsu Comes Back to Ground Truths
Software C ChEMBL-og
The first ChEMBL User Group Meeting in the modern era took place last month. A huge thanks to everyone who came along and joined the discussions, as well as to the Chemical Biology Services team and the Training team for making everything run smoothly. The overridi…
Software O Omics! Omics!
A recent publication in Molecular Cell involving Fiber-Seq caught my attention, though I've since discovered this preprinted over a year ago. One of the challenges in exploring the effects of genetic variations is the cost & effort to generate collections of variation w…
Industry P Practical Fragments
Differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF), also known as a thermal shift assay, is one of the most common techniques for fragment screening according to the most recent methods poll on Practical Fragments. This popularity is in part due to the simplicity of the assay: just mix your…
Software M Matt Gamber
Despite a 80% run since the last time I wrote about CGEM the company remains extremely under-valued and under-appreciated. Still one of my largest positions.
Clinical
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Two sets of studies for COVID-driven conditions show the struggles of drug development
Agriculture E European Seed
Euroseeds has named 10 finalists for the Euroseeds InnovAction Stage at its 2026 Congress in Valencia. The selected companies will present seed treatment, enhancement, biological input and crop resilience technologies to the European and international seed community. The post Eur…
Agriculture E European Seed
EFSA’s GMO Panel says stacked GM crops may not always require additional comparative field trials or some dietary exposure assessments when previously assessed traits are combined and no new metabolic effects are expected. The post EFSA Opinion Could Streamline Stacked GM Crops a…
Agriculture E European Seed
Nordic Melons is testing 12 heritage melon varieties to determine whether historic genetics can support locally grown, commercially viable production. The NordGen project aims to revive regional cultivation knowledge while supporting sustainability, food security and premium loca…
Industry I In the Pipeline
Let’s talk about pancreatic cancer vaccines, because there are some really interesting long-running projects in that area. I’ve written several times about a therapeutic vaccine for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (the most common type) being developed by Roche and BioNTech, mo…
Software T This Week in Cheminformatics
How useful are Cavity Prediction Algorithms, NMR-AI, (Failing at) Predicting Alternative Binding Modes via Docking and a long list of papers...and maybe the last one of these from PT.
Agriculture E European Seed
For over 40 years, SATEC® has provided high-quality seed treatment solutions—from pelleting to coating—serving agriculture, vegetables, ornamentals, and forestry with German-engineered equipment. The post Concepts For Your Seeds appeared first on Seed World.
Software D Dave Tang
I started learning about bioinformatics back in the days when a lot of bioinformatics was done in Perl. Nowadays I don't see much Perl used in new tools, which are mostly written in Python or R or both. Perl was dominant back in the day because you could get work done quickly. Pe…
Software
Decoding Bio
AI x Bio Summit standard admission is officially sold out.
Agriculture E European Seed
Wheat salt tolerance could be improved by selecting for potassium retention, lower sodium accumulation and proline content. Researchers say these traits are linked to stronger grain yield under sodic stress. The post Wheat Salt Tolerance Traits Could Improve Yields appeared first…
Industry
LifeSciVC
By Julia Pian, Senior Associate at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC Before attending my first board meeting, I fondly remember imagining a board as the “Room Where It Happens,” yearningly described by Aaron The post The Plus-1 in “The Room Wher…
Agriculture E European Seed
Tufts University researchers have developed battery-free plant sensors that attach to leaves and stems to monitor water loss, growth and crop stress. The technology could help farmers detect water shortages, salt stress or other problems before visible symptoms appear. The post P…
Software M Molecular Design
I’ll open the post on the OpenBind initiative with photos from my visit last year to Korea which was timed to coincide with the cherry blossoms (this meant that the customary April Fools post was from Seoul). Things did not start well on the day that I took these photos (having l…
Industry S SecureBio
Well-calibrated AI safeguards must strike a Goldilocks balance: refusing the dangerous without blocking the benign. BioTIER measures how close models get.
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
The $2.8 billion deal brings a drug candidate for treatment-resistant depression
Regulatory
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Merck & Co.'s macrocyclic peptide enlicitide to be marketed as Lipfendra
Software L Latch Bio
A verifiable benchmark for variant discovery, statistical genetics, and personal genomics
Agriculture E European Seed
Barley genes identified by International Barley Hub researchers help control protective surface traits linked to environmental stress protection and grain quality. The findings could support future work on drought tolerance and grain skinning in malting barley. The post Barley Ge…
Research V Virological
Dear Placide, Great analysis. We replicated your results using a very different maximum likelihood phylodynamics pipeline and different software. We are sharing here, since the replication using very different methods should give more confidence about your main findings. The full…
Agriculture E European Seed
Euroseeds has joined 39 European agri-food organisations in urging policymakers to keep agriculture and food central to the European Competitiveness Fund for 2028–2034, citing the sector’s role in security, resilience, innovation and economic growth. The post Euroseeds Urges Agri…
Industry I In the Pipeline
I have a couple of papers to mention today that (to me, anyway) demonstrate how little we know about what’s going on with biomolecular condensates, the membraneless droplets that appear and disappear in every part of the cell. It’s only been in recent years that these have had th…
Industry C Cell Systems
Thayer et al. used multiple approaches to uncover why only a few cells in a population express IFN upon RNA stimulation. They found that variation in cell signaling state at the time of stimulation is a key determinant of the potential for IFN expression.
Software R RDKit Blog
Updated 26.07.2026 to fix some of the preliminary queries. This did not affect the results. I’ve had a long-running interest in data from lead-optimization projects in drug discovery. I talked about this recently at the 2nd CheMBL User Group Meeting. There’s a copy of my slides a…
Software S Scaling Biotech
I’m increasingly convinced that for AI/ML/etc.
Agriculture E European Seed
Soybean seed quality could decline under combined climate stress from elevated CO₂, heat and drought, according to an AI-supported study. Researchers found potential yield gains but lower starch and protein levels in seeds. The post Climate Stress May Lower Soybean Seed Quality a…
Agriculture E European Seed
Plant genomes contain regulatory patterns that help control traits such as flowering time, disease resistance and heat stress response. IPK researchers used deep learning to predict how transcription factors bind to DNA and influence gene activity. The post AI Model Maps Hidden G…
Industry I In the Pipeline
I wrote here a couple of years ago about the problems being experienced by Bluebird Bio, pioneers in commercializing human gene therapies. The summary is that despite getting three of these through FDA approval, the company was in desperate conditions and heading for bankruptcy,…
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week