Drug Discovery & Development
News on drug screening, clinical trials, companion diagnostics, immunotherapy, & personalized therapies in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Twist Bioscience, DeepCDR Collaborate on Antibody Library Design
Basel, Switzerland-based DeepCDR combines deep learning computational methods with a proprietary mammalian display antibody platform.
Hexagon Bio Raises $61M in Private Financing Round
The company has developed a platform designed to identify therapeutic small molecules and their protein targets directly from microbial genomes.
Persephone Biosciences, Janssen Biotech Ink Biomarker Discovery Agreement
Persephone is developing precision immunotherapeutics using microbiome and other medical data from healthy individuals and cancer patients.
Fauna Bio Raises $9M in Seed Money
The company is developing drugs using genomic and other data from animals that have developed protective traits against disease and environmental stress.
54gene Raises $25M in Series B Round
54gene was founded in 2019 to gather genomic, phenotypic, and other data relevant to Africans to improve healthcare in this population.