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ELRIG’s Drug Discovery 2025 announces event speakers
ELRIG has announced the keynote speakers for Drug Discovery 2025, its flagship life sciences event taking place in Liverpool, England this October.
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Women in STEM with Kate Whyatt
We had the privilege of speaking to Kate Whyatt, Director of Technology and Engineering - Quadrupole Products at Waters Corporation. Beyond her many technical contributions, she is a passionate advocate for diversity and STEM education.
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Beyond ELISA: the future of biomarker validation
The era of precision medicine demands more rigorous biomarker validation methods. While ELISA has long been the gold standard, advanced technologies such as LC-MS/MS and Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) offer superior precision, sensitivity and efficiency. Here, Prasad Lakshmanan Selvaraj, Director of Technical Review at Sannova, explains that by embracing these…
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Using microgravity to address limitations of tissue engineering techniques
The self-assembly of human liver tissues in low Earth orbit could improve their differentiation and functionality.
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Bridging science and technology: a biotech CEO’s perspective
In this article, Dr Raminderpal Singh speaks to Neil Wilkie of Mironid Ltd. for a biotech CEO’s perspective on the transformative potential of AI, and the importance of bridging communication gaps between scientific and technical teams to drive innovation and efficiency in the pharmaceutical industry.
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A novel class of drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases
At AAIC 2024, AC Immune unveiled a new class of antibody drug conjugates, called morADC (Morphomer® antibody drug conjugate). In this Q&A, CEO of AC Immune, Andrea Pfeifer, discusses how morADC uses the capabilities of the company’s two discovery platforms to combine two highly selective molecules, resulting in drug candidates…
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Combatting disease with antibody drug conjugates
Tune into this episode where we investigate how antibody drug conjugates can be optimised, as well as the future of the field.
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Women in STEM with Charlotte Owens
As Senior Vice President and Head of Global Medical Affairs & Outcomes Research at the global healthcare company Organon, Charlotte Owen’s extensive work is advancing women’s healthcare and overcoming health inequities.
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How mRNA technology could revolutionise therapeutics
In this episode, we explore how mRNA technology could revolutionise cancer therapeutics.
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Supercharging conventional monoclonal antibodies
In this Q&A, Krishna Polu and Dennis Pedersen, senior leaders of Commit Biologics, which is backed by Novo Holdings and Bioqube Ventures, elucidate how their technology differs from other existing therapeutic platforms and highlight its implications for the treatment of both cancer and autoimmune disease.
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Unleashing the potential of lab-grown recombinant polyclonal antibodies
In this Q&A, Sheila Keating, Vice President of Immunology at GigaGen, a Grifols company, explains how its developments in recombinant polyclonal antibody therapies are helping to build a pipeline of highly effective treatments for a wide range of diseases, including the hepatitis B virus.
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Part two: how ChatGPT enriched animal study results
Recently there has been a flurry of announcements from AI-led biotechs around the potential of Large Language Models (LLM) in early drug discovery. In the second of a three-part series, Dr Raminderpal Singh presents an example of usage of ChatGPT, which demonstrates how accessible LLMs have become for lab scientists.
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Could illuminating the surfaceome help find new targeted cancer therapies?
At the heart of precision oncology is the need to increase our understanding and knowledge of surface proteins found on tumour cells. Here Roman Thomas, CEO of DISCO Pharmaceuticals, explains how it is using cutting-edge technology to explore the surfaceome – a map of the proteins on the cell’s surface…
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Capturing the computational abilities of real neurons
A new neural network computational model has been developed, which more closely reflects the abilities of real neurons and could advance AI progress.
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Tessera Therapeutics: addressing Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
As the industry looks beyond CRISPR to safely introduce therapeutic genomic changes anywhere in the body, in vivo gene editing holds immense potential to address diseases with a genetic basis. Boston-based biotech Tessera Therapeutics is pioneering the next generation of genetic medicines with its Gene Writing™ platform. At this year’s…
