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AI-Designed Enzymes

Codon

By training PLACER on structures stored in the Protein Data Bank, the team taught the model to predict atom arrangements that follow the physical and chemical rules governing protein-small molecule interactions. They synthesized DNA encoding each protein variant, expressed the proteins in E.

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A Cross-Functional Mindset in DMPK

Drug Hunter

Dian eventually made her way to Shanghai, where she encountered a much bigger world while earning degrees in pharmaceutical engineering and medicinal chemistry. researching DNA photoproducts related to skin cancer. In her small molecule DMPK research, proteomics also served to identify reactive metabolites (e.g.,

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Re-Imagining Med Chem Strategies: the Tyranny of the n+1 Compound

DrugBaron

Finding small molecule drugs is much harder than finding a needle in a haystack – discovering the right arrangement of atoms to bind precisely to a protein target to elicit a particular response is a problem of vast dimensionality. Yet the situation with small molecules is even worse.

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Driving Toward Nanopores

Codon

And unlike traditional DNA sequencers, which parse genetic material by breaking it up into fragments and interpreting it chunk-by-chunk, a nanopore device unspools a long strand of DNA and reads it all at once. A scientist can isolate DNA and load up a flow cell in fifteen minutes. Nanopore devices work incredibly fast.

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Engineering an “invisible cloak” for bacteria to deliver drugs to tumors

The Pharma Data

Columbia Engineering researchers report that they have developed a “cloaking” system that temporarily hides therapeutic bacteria from immune systems, enabling them to more effectively deliver drugs to tumors and kill cancer cells in mice. Sheng Professor of Biomedical Engineering. ” An Effective On/Off Switch.

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The Data-Driven Future of Drug Development

DrugBank

Data Science in Lead Optimization and Drug Design Data science accelerates the lead optimization and drug design process, transforming how molecules are engineered for therapeutic applications. These complex molecules require precise engineering to ensure optimal efficacy and safety.

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Women in STEM July: Meet Michelle Arkin

Drug Target Review

For my PhD project, I chose an advisor who worked on DNA and I started working with her on the physical properties of DNA. I worked with Jackie Barton in the early days of what’s now called DNA-mediated electron transfer. I went to Genentech and postdoc-ed for Jim Wells in protein engineering.

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