Industry T The Labs Report
Delivery Makes the Medicine
Innovation in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) is enabling the next generation of nucleic acid medicines.
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Industry T The Labs Report
Innovation in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) is enabling the next generation of nucleic acid medicines.
Agriculture E European Seed
Pollinator loss could pose a serious risk to European crop production, food security and agricultural resilience. EU-funded researchers say stronger pollinator stewardship is needed across farming, land use, pesticide regulation and policy. The post Europe Warned Pollinator Loss…
Software P Practical Cheminformatics
A guest post by Hakan Gunaydin The problem Before a molecule ever reaches the clinic, we want to know roughly how fast the body will clear it. In lead optimization, this prediction is the most important triage tool: it determines which compounds are good candidates for further pr…
Industry W What do you mean heterogeneity?
There are no actual rules about the order of authorships of papers in academic journals.
Agriculture E European Seed
The European Commission has excluded soybean seed for sowing from the EU Deforestation Regulation. Euroseeds says the decision provides legal certainty for breeders, supports variety development and helps strengthen European plant protein production. The post EU Excludes Soybean…
Industry I In the Pipeline
As readers will well know, I have been unrestrained in my opinion of the anti-amyloid antibody therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. I think that they show remarkably small levels of efficacy, quite possibly invisible to the untrained eye, at great financial cost. And what’s more, t…
Software C Corin Wagen
TW: profanity, sarcasm, misuse of theological concepts. Hosea and Gomer, from the Bible Historiale (1372) There’s something special about “Venice Bitch,” the nine-minute-long song from Lana Del Rey’s 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell. Wikipedia writes that the song earned “unani…
Software T This Week in Cheminformatics
M-JEPA, reaction network reduction, MolRank, how to find interesting molecules, automated parallel synthesis, and a long list of papers
Agriculture E European Seed
Crop nutrition is becoming a growing concern as climate change affects both food production and the nutritional value of major crops. Ghent University researchers say future crop improvement must address yield, nutrition and climate resilience together. The post Climate Change Th…
Industry V Virological
Hi Erik, Thank you so much for a great suggestion of how to improve this analysis. Just to clarify, in the original analysis we used only a central estimate of the generation time for Bundibugyo because there was no generation time estimate available. Below, we extended this orig…
Industry P Practical Fragments
Last month Practical Fragments wrote about make-on-demand libraries, such as those offered by Enamine. We’ve also written about fluorine-detected NMR screening of fragments, which is both rapid and particularly sensitive for low affinity binders. A new paper in ChemMedChem by Pat…
Agriculture E European Seed
The Horizon Europe-funded COLiBRI initiative will bring together 17 organizations to strengthen crop breeding research coordination across Europe. The project will develop a shared roadmap, implementation strategy and recommendations for future research investment and collaborati…
Industry I In the Pipeline
Transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis is not a disease with a particularly high profile, although it’s a very serious diagnosis indeed for the patients who have it. There’s a whole set of genetically-determined forms, but what they have in common is the production of a malfunctionin…
Software
Ground Truths
Proteins Tell How Fast Our Organs and Cells Are Ticking
Software L Latch Bio
In current generation models, behavioral priors introduce by harnesses such as Claude Code, and Codex cause substantial performance swings on our benchmarks.
Software O Omics! Omics!
Okay, this is one of those cases where I kvetch about other people not having built the tools I want to use - perhaps a bit of a insufferably egotistical position. I mean, what gives me the chutzpah to do that? My title, according to me, is "Automation Visioneer", so…
Agriculture E European Seed
EU pesticide reform proposals could reduce oversight of active substances and weaken safety safeguards, according to researchers from 27 European institutions. The scientists say efficiency gains should not come at the expense of biodiversity, human health or sustainable crop pro…
Industry S SecureBio
Mythos showed that governments are underprepared for emerging dangerous AI capabilities. To prepare for advanced bio capabilities, we should build biosecurity assurance infrastructure proactively.
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Test your knowledge of our stories on rotaxanes, EPA regulations, flexible batteries, and more
Software C ChEMBL-og
This image was generated by AI.Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out what we were up to on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the course of a week in early June. A typical Wednesday in Sally’s weekSince we had a spe…
Software C ChEMBL-og
This image was generated using AI.Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out what we were up to on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the course of a week in early June. A typical Tuesday in Sally’s weekFirst thing in the morn…
Software C ChEMBL-og
This image was generated using AI.Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out what we were up to during the course of a week in early June. There are two biological curators in the ChEMBL team. Together, we'll revisit that week one day at a ti…
Software C ChEMBL-og
This image was generated using AI. Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out what we were up to on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in early June. A typical Friday in Emma’s week Fridays are usual…
Agriculture E European Seed
Crop diversity delivered practical benefits for food systems in 2025, from new seed deposits at Svalbard to disease-free sweet potato vines, opportunity crops and climate-resilient varieties reaching farmers. The post Five Ways Crop Diversity Strengthened Food Systems appeared fi…
Agriculture E European Seed
Climate adaptation is becoming a central priority for plant breeding as weather extremes reshape crop performance. The seed sector is responding with resilience traits, expanded testing, genomic tools and new strategies for stable yields under unpredictable conditions. The post T…
Software L Latch Bio
A verifiable benchmark for practical decisions about taxonomy, variants, AMR, source tracking, anomaly detection, and engineered sequences in pathogen genomic surveillance workflows.
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Multistep vaccination strategy coaches B cells to raise broadly neutralizing antibodies
Software C Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Co-founder Priscilla Chan shares reflections following Aspen Ideas: Health on the models, tools, and people driving Biohub's progress this year. The post Protein Modeling, Cell Imaging and Patient-Powered Science: Reflections on Biohub’s Start to the Year appeared first on Biohub…
Industry S SecureBio
Wastewater sequencing as a tool for sensitively detecting viral sequences
Research V Virological
Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa – DRC and partners Context On 15 May 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare, Dem…
Agriculture E European Seed
A genome editing milestone in the U.K. seed sector, low-asparagine wheat has received precision-bred status and will move toward food and feed evaluation for potential use in reducing acrylamide formation. The post Low-Asparagine Wheat Gains U.K. Precision-Bred Status appeared fi…
Software C ChEMBL-og
This image was generated using AI. Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out what we were up to on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in early June. A not-so-typical Wednesday & Thursday in Emma’s weekThe…
Industry I In the Pipeline
Here are two rather related stories that I’d like to bring together. The first is this very interesting article from Bloomberg on the humble nitrile glove, companion to laboratory and medical workers around the world, not to mention food service, security, and more. (There’s an a…
Software N Nextstrain
Agriculture E European Seed
The European Parliament’s objection to the soybean oil ILUC classification has been welcomed by agricultural and biofuel groups. The coalition says the vote supports evidence-based policymaking and gives Europe’s soy value chain greater certainty. The post European Parliament Rej…
Software S Scaling Biotech
Anthropic and OpenAI made a number of announcements last week about tools they’re making specifically for drug discovery/biopharma.
Industry I In the Pipeline
I wrote here a few years ago about the rather startling idea of purifying crude oil (and such mixtures) by doing something other than distilling them, which takes out progressively high-boiling fractions. You can get pretty far that by that technique (waves hands around the horiz…
Software R Ryan Wick
Software A Arcadia Science
We're applying Raman spectroscopy to high-throughput biology, and we’ve found that realizing its potential is difficult in practice. We want feedback — positive, negative, and inconclusive — from people who've used these techniques.
Software O Omics! Omics!
An interesting news item this week is that BioNano Genomics has appointed Alex Hastie as Chief Scientific Officer. Hastie is an obvious choice for CSO, as for many years he was very much the public scientific face of BioNano's development. . But in February 2025…