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AbbVie Acquires Capstan Therapeutics for $2.1B, Gaining In Vivo CAR-T Platform Targeting Autoimmune Diseases

AbbVie announced a definitive agreement to acquire Capstan Therapeutics for up to $2.1 billion in cash, gaining access to its targeted …

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Chai Discovery Releases All-Atom Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Antibody Design with 16–20% Hit Rates

Chai Discovery has released Chai-2, a generative molecular design model for zero-shot antibody and binder discovery. The model is capable …

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Arc Institute Opens Virtual Cell Challenge With $175K in AI Benchmarking Prizes

The Arc Institute has launched the Virtual Cell Challenge, a new open competition to benchmark computational models that predict how …

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SandboxAQ Releases Public Database Containing 5.2 Million Synthetic Protein-Ligand Structures

SandboxAQ has launched what it claims is the largest public dataset of protein-ligand complexes with associated binding affinity data. The …

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DeepMind Introduces AlphaGenome for Predicting Effects of Human DNA Variants

A new AI model from Google DeepMind, called AlphaGenome, has been released in preview for non-commercial research, offering a high-resolution, …

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AI Drug Discovery Firm XtalPi Secures $100M Upfront in a Deal with DoveTree, Eyes $10B+ in Milestones

XtalPi has signed a letter of intent with DoveTree LLC, a company founded by Harvard University professor Gregory Verdine, to …

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Arc Institute Releases its First Virtual Cell Model

Arc Institute has launched its first virtual cell model, State, designed to predict gene expression changes in response to chemical, genetic, …

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NVIDIA Releases Agentic AI Blueprint for Literature Review and Target Discovery

NVIDIA has released a new AI-driven workflow, the Biomedical AI-Q Research Agent Developer Blueprint, designed to accelerate the early phases …

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Nabla Raises $70M Series C to Expand Agentic AI Platform for Clinical Workflows

Nabla, developer of a widely adopted AI assistant used by over 130 healthcare organizations, has raised a $70 million Series …

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Axiom Bio Releases Human Liver Toxicity Dataset with 130,000 Compounds to Advance AI-based Toxicity Prediction

San Francisco-based startup Axiom Bio, previously backed by $15 million in seed funding from investors including Amplify Partners, Dimension Capital, …

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Xaira Publishes Largest Public Perturb-seq Atlas to Advance Virtual Cell Modeling

Xaira Therapeutics has announced the release of "X-Atlas/Orion", a large genome-wide Perturb-seq dataset, reportedly the largest publicly available resource of its …

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Agenus and Noetik Partner to Develop AI-Based Biomarkers Using Virtual Cell Models

Agenus has partnered with San Francisco-based Noetik to develop AI-enabled predictive biomarkers for its lead immunotherapy regimen, botensilimab (BOT) and …

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