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AI-Designed Enzymes

Codon

The issue in enzyme design, then, isn’t so much about getting initial positioning of the reactive groups, but orchestrating a sequence of structural shifts needed for catalysis: guiding substrates into place, stabilizing intermediate states, and releasing products efficiently.

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The Future of Drug Discovery: Tackling the Undruggable with New Biotechnologies

DrugBank

These multifunctional small molecules are like tiny spies, hijacking the body’s natural protein degradation system to remove unwanted proteins. Multifunctional Small Molecules and Peptides Beyond PROTACs, there are other exciting tools in the new drug discovery toolbox.

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Unlocking Undruggable Targets: Shifting Paradigms in Modern Drug Discovery

DrugBank

Researchers are experimenting with biologics—larger biological molecules that can do things small molecules can't, like targeting larger, more complex structures on cell surfaces or even inside cells. These methods could bypass the need to directly target these proteins with traditional drugs.

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Unlocking a new molecular space in rapid drug discovery

Drug Target Review

Technologies for the rapid and efficient testing of small molecules and biologics have greatly accelerated drug discovery. Intermediate-sized molecules such as macrocycles combining the beneficial properties of both small molecules and biologics may enable the targeting of currently undruggable targets.

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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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DNA Barcodes Could Streamline Search for New Drugs to Combat Cancer

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

Instead of the black, printed stripes of the Universal Product Codes (UPCs) that we see on everything from package deliveries to clothing tags, they used short, unique snippets of DNA to label cells. DNA barcoding has already empowered single-cell analysis, including for nerve cells in the brain.

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Medicinal Chemistry In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

LifeSciVC

We are constantly reminded how we are in the midst of an artificial intelligence revolution of the drug development process which promises to completely transform how we develop drugs with increases in productivity of an order of magnitude or more. a company with the strongest pipeline in the entire industry.”