Feeding data to AI to speed up drug discovery

Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective ...
Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society

FDA revises master protocol guidance with new section on basket trials

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revised a 2023 draft guidance on master protocols for drug and biological ...
Frontiers

Open Microbiome Data: A FAIR² Collection for AI-Ready and Reusable Data

Scientific knowledge is fundamentally built on data; yet, for too long, microbiome datasets have remained siloed in ...
Scientific American

Report: FDA just launched a study on the abortion pill

The Trump administration is officially conducting an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, the Wall Street Journal reports. Health experts worry that the process may be ...
RAPS

FDA aims to speed gene therapy development with prior scientific knowledge guidance

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed guidance on the types of scientifically valid prior knowledge sponsors should consider when developing certain gene therapies (GT). The agency ...
The New York Times

Experimental Drug Yields Dramatic Weight Loss

People who got the injection, retatrutide, lost 28 percent of their body weight on average after 80 weeks, Eli Lilly said. By Gina Kolata and Rebecca Robbins An experimental shot helped participants ...
Medscape

Finding the Next Weight-Loss Drug in Python Blood

“How do they do that?” is a reasonable response to certain things we see in nature. Pythons and snakes like them can eat prey as big as they are, sometimes even bigger, and digest their massive single ...
News Medical

How an AI system learned to write expert-level scientific code

A new study shows how ERA combines large language models with tree search to rapidly build expert-level research software, outperforming leading benchmarks in tasks from single-cell genomics to ...
FierceBiotech

Incyte inks deal with Edison Scientific to train AI through drug discovery

The collaboration is designed to ensure AI does not just analyze data, but learns from it to improve outcomes. (iStock / Getty Images Plus) Edison Scientific will deploy its AI scientist, Kosmos, ...
C&EN

AI companies introduce new agent-based tools for scientific discovery

Close-up on the pipetting arm of a robot; some hydraulics and the top of a 96-well plate are also visible. A pipetting robot handles liquid in a laboratory in 2023. Researchers developing autonomous ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

5 Key Regulatory Shifts From Makary's Era at the FDA

Single adequate and well-controlled trial plus confirmatory evidence became the default approval paradigm, formalizing a trend already common for first-in-class oncology and rare-disease products.
Newsweek

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary Resigns: Who is Acting Chief Kyle Diamantas?

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary ...