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GraphBAN Marries Graphs and LLMs to Predict New Compound-Protein Interactions

Understanding how small molecules interact with proteins is a cornerstone of modern drug discovery. These compound–protein interactions (CPIs) determine whether a candidate molecule can modulate a bio...

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Nov 2, 2025

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BoltzGen: Transforming Protein Binder Design with Open-Source Generative AI

Designing protein and peptide binders for any biomolecular target once seemed out of reach, especially for novel or highly complex molecules. Today, BoltzGen is changing that narrative. This innovativ...

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Oct 30, 2025

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Lilly’s AI Factory Is Accelerating the Future of Drug Discovery with NVIDIA Blackwell and DGX SuperPOD

What if we could develop new life saving medicines in months instead of years. Lilly partnerig with NVIDIA to turn this vision into reality by launching the pharmaceutical industry's largest AI factor...

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Oct 30, 2025

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Google’s Cell2Sentence C2S-Scale 27B AI Is Accelerating Cancer Therapy Discovery

Artificial intelligence is setting a new standard in cancer research, with Google's C2S-Scale 27B model leading the way. This advanced AI formulates innovative, testable hypotheses that could shape th...

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Oct 18, 2025

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SPR Finds Small-Molecule Binders For CHI3L1, A Hard Cancer Target

Cancer cells often rely on proteins that don't behave like typical enzymes to survive and spread. One such protein is CHI3L1 (also called YKL-40) , which cancer cells secrete to communicate with ...

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Oct 14, 2025

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AI Is Fast-Tracking Precision Antibiotics for a Healthier Gut

Thanks to innovative research from MIT’s CSAIL and McMaster University, researchers are leveraging a generative AI model to rapidly decoded how a novel antibiotics work, opening the door to targeted t...

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Oct 6, 2025

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How AI Agents Are Changing Scientific Research Workflows

What if you could hand off the repetitive but essential tasks of research like data curation, code writing, or hypothesis testing, to an intelligent digital assistant? AI agents are making this scenar...

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Oct 6, 2025

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NIH Unveils SOM Center: Pioneering Standardized Organoid Research

The National Institutes of Health is reshaping the landscape of biomedical research with the launch of the Standardized Organoid Modeling (SOM) Center, the nation’s first dedicated hub for organoid de...

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Sep 26, 2025

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Reimagining Metastatic Brain Cancer: Block Biosciences and the Preventive Revolution

For decades, metastatic brain cancer has been an almost insurmountable hurdle for oncologists and patients alike. With survival odds notoriously low, the diagnosis has often meant heartbreak and limit...

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Sep 18, 2025

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CRISPR and AI Are Revolutionizing Ebola Drug Discovery

Halting a deadly virus like Ebola may seem impossible without targeting the virus directly. Yet, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in partnership with Boston University’s NEIDL, h...

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Aug 27, 2025

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MIT's New AI Model For Molecular Solubility Prediction

Designing drugs and chemicals has always hinged on one major challenge: accurately predicting how molecules dissolve in various solvents. Thanks to MIT chemical engineers, a new machine learning model...

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Aug 20, 2025

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ChemXploreML: Breaking Barriers in Chemical Property Prediction with User-Friendly Machine Learning

Predicting a molecule’s boiling point, melting point, or pressure once demanded extensive experiments and deep programming skills. Now, thanks to ChemXploreML, a desktop application developed at MIT, ...

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Jul 26, 2025

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