Traditional preclinical models are struggling to keep pace with a new generation of targeted therapies. As regulators embrace new approach methodologies (NAMs), vascularised tissue platforms are offering a more human-relevant approach to predicting drug efficacy and safety.
Dr Raminderpal Singh speaks with Dr Srijit Seal about why specialised AI agents are outperforming general-purpose models in drug discovery and what a new consortium paper shows about their use in practice.
Researchers at Phenomix Sciences are using machine learning and genetic risk scoring to investigate emotional hunger, an obesity phenotype linked to emotional and reward-driven eating behaviours. Dr Timothy O’Connor discusses how the approach could improve patient stratification, obesity research and treatment selection.
Tau tangles are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, but evidence suggests the real damage may come from rare, soluble tau species inside neurons. Targeting these hidden drivers of circuit dysfunction could be key to restoring memory and cognition.
Designing gene control from scratch is becoming possible. SynGenSys is using computational design to create synthetic promoters for advanced therapies.