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Personalized cancer vaccines in glioblastoma

July 05, 2026

A Phase Ib trial of a personalized neoantigen dendritic cell vaccine in newly diagnosed glioblastoma reported early clinical activity, according to results published in Nature Communications. The...

On-demand control of therapeutic CRISPR editing

July 05, 2026

Researchers unveiled small-molecule-controlled CRISPR editing systems in living tissues, publishing in Science Translational Medicine. Led by Dr. Wang Yu at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced...

Next-generation ADC design targeting protein synthesis

July 05, 2026

ATB Therapeutics detailed a new ADC-adjacent format designed to widen the therapeutic window, presenting its antibody-peptide “atbodies” at the Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference in...

FDA action: IND submission for multiple myeloma therapy

July 05, 2026

Brightpath Biotherapeutics submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the FDA to start a Phase I trial of BP-2202 in the United States for multiple myeloma, according to the...

Precision cancer immunotherapy prediction using AI

July 05, 2026

Researchers from Harvard Medical School unveiled COMPASS, an AI model built to predict patient response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), with results described as improving accuracy in...

New company collaborations in AI-driven small-molecule discovery

July 05, 2026

Insilico Medicine and Takeda announced a collaboration for AI-driven drug discovery, with Insilico leading molecule identification under predefined scientific and early development criteria....

Discovery-stage small-molecule targets for inflammatory disease

July 05, 2026

Merck Sharp & Dohme disclosed new benzimidazole derivatives that inhibit the NLRP3 inflammasome, expanding its disclosed chemistry around inflammasome modulation. The patent describes compounds...

Early biology-to-therapeutics concept: PGK1 inhibition in pancreatic cancer models

July 05, 2026

A newly reported PGK1 inhibitor showed efficacy in pancreatic cancer models, with the compound demonstrating potent target inhibition in vitro. The report describes dose-dependent suppression in...

Local pipeline: mTOR inhibitor patents from University of Edinburgh

July 05, 2026

The University of Edinburgh disclosed new benzoxazol mTOR (FRAP1) inhibitors, describing potential therapeutic use across cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, metabolic disease,...

Clinical data tooling: NLP replaces ICD-10 capture for clinical interpretation

July 05, 2026

Research described Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools that outperform ICD-10 coding in capturing clinically relevant information, highlighting limitations of structured diagnosis coding for...

Personalized cancer immunotherapy

July 05, 2026

A phase Ib clinical trial in newly diagnosed glioblastoma reported promising activity for a personalized neoantigen dendritic cell vaccine that pulses autologous dendritic cells with...

Off-the-shelf CRISPR control with small molecules

July 05, 2026

Researchers reported in Science Translational Medicine two small-molecule-controlled genome editing systems—PRINCE and Little Prince—that keep CRISPR activity largely silent without drug and...

Regulatory path: FDA IND to start a first US clinical study

July 05, 2026

Brightpath Biotherapeutics Co. Ltd. filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the FDA to initiate a U.S. phase I trial of BP-2202 for multiple myeloma, under NCT07667868. The...

Platform dealmaking for AI-driven drug discovery

July 05, 2026

Insilico Medicine and Takeda announced a collaboration in drug discovery, with Insilico leading AI-driven molecule identification under predefined scientific and early development...

Cancer immunotherapy response prediction with an AI model

July 05, 2026

Harvard Medical School researchers developed COMPASS, an AI model designed to predict patient response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), and reported that it outperforms ICD-10-based...

Clinical data extraction using NLP

July 05, 2026

New research reported that natural language processing (NLP) can capture clinically relevant information more accurately than ICD-10 coding, a finding aimed at improving downstream clinical...

Antibody-peptide fusion concept aimed at widening ADC therapeutic window

July 05, 2026

ATB Therapeutics described at an antibody engineering conference how its antibody-peptide fusion approach, branded as “atbodies,” is engineered to extend the ADC therapeutic window by targeting...

Ophthalmology preservation device for potential eye transplantation

July 05, 2026

Researchers reported progress on an eye preservation device—Eye-in-a-Care-Box (ECaBox)—designed to maintain freshly removed eyeballs using oxygen-rich perfusion via the eye’s artery. In...

Small-molecule inhibitors: early preclinical signals in cancer models

July 05, 2026

Independent reports described multiple early-stage inhibitor programs across oncology targets, including a novel PGK1 inhibitor showing dose-dependent suppression in pancreatic cancer assays. The...

Data counting and assay reproducibility for low-abundance therapeutics analytics

July 05, 2026

Countable Labs introduced a single-molecule precision PCR platform aimed at improving rare-event detection and run-to-run reproducibility in applications such as viral titer testing, vector copy...