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New Scientist - 10-Apr-2025Early success is promising, but bigger studies are needed
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It's surprising how much pharmaceutical research to date has been more art than science. Computing power is still a long way off predicting the properties of proteins and cells from their DNA, so until then the more research that can be accelerated by automation (e.g. lab robots, lab-on-chip) the better.
And this is being driven by the big pharma companies who can't afford the failure rate at late stage drug development, or worse after release which can result in multi-billion law suits. I attended an excellenty talk by the chief scientific office for GE Healthcare recently and they are mass producing stem cell lines, and the machinery to test them, so that drugs can be tested for cardio-toxicity much earlier on in the development process.
Early success is promising, but bigger studies are needed
Insilico’s "Supervisor" robot automates lab work and speeds up drug discovery
The partnership merges acoustic tech with Revive™ SVF to boost stem cell purification
Ongoing clinical trials aim to confirm its effectiveness in human therapies
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