Drug discovery articles
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Xaira, an AI drug discovery startup, launches with a massive $1B, says it's 'ready' to start developing drugs
Advances in generative AI have taken the tech world by storm. Biotech investors are making a big bet that similar computational methods could revolutionize drug discovery. On Tuesday, ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Labs, an affiliate of Foresite Capital, announced that they incubated Xaira Therapeutics and funded the AI biotech with $1 billion. Other investors […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Cambridge drug discovery firm CN Bio raises £17m
Cambridge-based drug discovery company CN Bio has closed a $21m (£17m) Series B funding round to develop technology that it says eliminates the need for animal testing. The company specialises in organ-on-chip (OOC) technology, a process in which engineered or natural tissues are grown inside chips to mimic human physiology. CN Bio uses OOC tech […]
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A shortcut for drug discovery: Novel method predicts on a large scale how small molecules interact with proteins
For most human proteins, there are no small molecules known to bind them chemically (so-called "ligands"). Ligands frequently represent important starting points for drug development but this knowledge gap critically hampers the development of novel medicines.