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ByteDance’s spun-off AI drug discovery unit Anew Labs raised $290M in its first external financing, reaching a reported valuation of $1.5B.
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Polyphron raised $20M in seed funding to develop AI-driven human tissue manufacturing and simulation systems designed to physically verify drug hypotheses against living human biology.
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Ayana Bio and Zenfold acquired 300,000L of fermentation capacity from Meati Foods for $75,000 to help scale plant-cell-culture production of high-value bioactives.
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@judegomila launched an open oncology resource mapping cancers, treatments, technologies, bottlenecks, institutions, startups, key papers, open questions, and 1,000+ ideas for advancing cancer research.
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I've attempted to map everything in oncology in a public website and open source repo for all.
The site is trying to get all cancers, products, technologies, bottlenecks, people, startup opportunities with 1000+ ideas for upgrading the field.
If you have a loved one with cancer and you are technical or can engineer, go take a look, file improvement requests or bugs or help with the open repo and make this the best open and free info resource for individuals, researchers and educational use.
This should save people time, aid AI oncology projects and generate positive action. If you are not technical just complain in this thread about broken or annoying or things you want and I'll fix them live.
Some of the interesting pages:
Treatments: onco.cc/drugs
A gallery of the molecules being used onco.cc/molecules/
And targets: onco.cc/targets/
The technologies in oncology: onco.cc/technologies/
1100 ideas for helping oncology: onco.cc/ideas/
Bottlenecks on oncology: onco.cc/bottlenecks/
Open questions (LETS GO RESEARCH PEOPLE) onco.cc/open-questions/
Startup requests (LETS GO STARTUP PEOPLE) onco.cc/startup-requests/
Mechanics of cancer: onco.cc/mechanics
Battlefronts: onco.cc/fronts/
Isotope supply: onco.cc/isotopes
Key papers: onco.cc/key-papers
Pipeline funnels: onco.cc/pipeline
Cancer by type: onco.cc/cancers/
Institutional rankings: onco.cc/institutions/
The startups: onco.cc/startups/
Heros and heroines : onco.cc/heroes/
Key medical people: onco.cc/people/
Here is the project roadmap: onco.cc/roadmap/
Models and data sets: onco.cc/models/
There are other views as well, take a browse.
Try making a PR if you have an upgrade to this on the repo here: github.com/judegomila/OnCo
If you are biologically/medically minded and something is wrong, file a bug as well or say on the thread and we will get it fixed live.
If this is a useful project star the repo and help get it calibrated.
I've tried to add some other languages but I cannot speak them so tell me if that doesnt work well.
I believe we will crack oncology and having total information dominance is key to the problem.
Let the feedback flow!
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@novonordisk and @AnthropicAI are collaborating to use Claude Science and frontier AI models to accelerate drug discovery, scientific reasoning, and AI-driven software development across R&D.
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Life sciences M&A spending reached $196B in H1 2026 as companies pursued larger strategic transactions and increasingly targeted early- and mid-stage biopharma assets.
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@Ginkgo’s Datapoints partnered with @EliLillyandCo’s Lilly TuneLab to connect biological data generation and wet-lab testing with AI/ML models for drug discovery.
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Cellares and GenomeFrontier Therapeutics will evaluate automated Cell Shuttle manufacturing for GF-CART01, a virus-free CAR-T therapy advancing toward U.S. clinical development.
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@NYSERDA’s Sun and Soil Program is seeking proposals to help New York farmers and communities plan, implement, and scale agrivoltaics integrating solar energy, active agriculture, and in some cases battery storage.
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The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes recognized unconventional but meaningful research spanning splash-free urinals, mosquito microprinting, snakebite behavior, and soil-health experiments.
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The OpenAI Foundation launched Public Data for Health with $125M+ in initial grants to create and preserve high-quality, broadly accessible scientific datasets for AI-enabled life sciences research.
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@mithrl_ai raised a $20M Series A to build AI infrastructure for biopharma R&D, reflecting pharma’s shift from standalone AI tools toward integrated systems spanning research workflows.
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A microbiome model trained without human samples was still transferred to human-gut prediction tasks.
Outpost Bio trained Waypoint on 539,308 microbiome samples, then open-sourced the model, data, and benchmark through @huggingface.
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AI-powered molecular design is expanding beyond drug discovery.
@dsmfirmenich is partnering with Boltz to combine biomolecular foundation models with extensive taste and odor receptor data—supporting the prediction and design of new scent and flavor molecules.
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Europe’s largest bacterial cellulose plant is coming to Germany.
@BIOWEG_UG plans to produce up to 10,000 tonnes annually of biodegradable ingredients made from local industrial side streams, with construction beginning in Q4 2026 and commercial volumes expected in 2028.
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@inductivebio has launched Indy, an AI assistant for medicinal chemistry.
It handles assay QC, SAR analysis, synthesis tracking, FEP and dose projection. In Inductive’s 84-curve evaluation, Indy reached 89% accuracy and the company says its scientists doubled productivity.
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FairJourney Bio has selected @SapioSciences to unify antibody discovery data across its Porto, Cambridge and San Diego sites.
Its LIMS, ELN and Elain AI tools will replace disconnected records and manual reporting, potentially returning up to 40% of staff time to science.
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FY2027 starts October 1. If federal funding is part of your plan, @EverGlade and QNova LifeSciences are running a webinar Wednesday on what the landscape looks like.
Agency priorities across DoD, HHS, and DOE, how to prep at each phase from proposal through post-award, and where regulatory and commercialization strategy fit in.
Sept 24, 12pm ET
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A £700K @ARIA_research grant will support Bitrobius Genetics and @MRC_MBU in adapting Gentrafix™ for mitochondrial DNA delivery.
The project targets the double-membrane barrier that has constrained mitochondrial gene therapy.
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@NSF is investing $20M in a two-year pilot led by @UCF to help deep-tech small businesses cross the commercialization gap.
The program will test funding, mentorship and investor connections while identifying which approaches best move federally backed technologies to market.
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Engineered marine bacteria increased olivine dissolution by up to 3.1× in pilot reactors using seawater and renewable acetate. The system weathered 4 kg of olivine and removed a measured 0.50 g of CO₂ from the air per day.
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Five pharmas trained OpenFold3 on 20,167 private structures without pooling the data. @apheris_AI reports that high-quality interface predictions rose from 35.6% to 52.1%, while correct ligand poses increased from 28.9% to 46.8%.
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Ride Therapeutics has secured up to $7.3M from @CF_Foundation to develop nonviral carriers for delivering genetic medicines to the lungs. Its AI-powered Molecular Logistics platform will advance both IV and inhaled delivery approaches.
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Partillion Bioscience has secured a two-year, $2.1M @NIH SBIR award to scale Cell-Cell-seq toward datasets of up to 1M cell pairs. The Nanovial-based workflow connects cell interactions and functional outputs with sequencing data.
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@TempusAI is building a research platform linking 100,000 whole genomes with longitudinal clinical outcomes, imaging and pathology.
Designed for AI model development, the dataset has a longer-term goal of reaching 1M genomes.
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Five @UCBerkeley leaders have been nominated for the inaugural UC Regents Innovation Awards. Their work spans CRISPR therapies, biotech, topical biologics, startup ecosystems and semiconductor design automation.
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What makes a biological target worth drugging?
@theorema_ai has launched Causal Disease Models across 15 diseases, combining human-cell data, genetics, perturbations and clinical results to evaluate targets, uncover overlooked biology and identify new indications.
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@WatchmakerGeno1 is expanding in Boulder with a roughly 100,000-square-foot manufacturing campus expected to more than double capacity and create hundreds of Colorado jobs. The site is scheduled to open in the second half of 2027.
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AI misuse is shifting from chatbot assistance to operational orchestration.
@AnthropicAI says it disrupted campaigns spanning cyberattacks, surveillance, influence operations, fraud, biological misuse, weapons development and model distillation.
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NunaBio has secured @innovateuk funding through the Biomedical Catalyst to advance its DNA manufacturing technology. Its platform is designed to address challenges involving complex sequences, production scale and access.
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What if minds are patterns that can take form through biological, artificial or hybrid bodies?
In a new conceptual paper, @drmichaellevin proposes a framework linking morphogenesis, bioelectricity, AI and the ethics of novel beings.
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@BeyondMeat is expanding beyond meat alternatives with Phytosphere, spanning Starmatter protein powders, Starcut savory protein bars, veggie burgers and Immerse sparkling drinks. The strategy targets more plant-protein occasions.
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Precision-fermented egg protein is entering the breakfast aisle. @Onego_Bio has partnered with Zen Waffles to use Bioalbumen® in its high-protein waffles, bringing the non-animal egg-white protein to products shipped nationwide.
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One peptide, five tumor-associated targets. @TwoStepTx raised a $62.5M Series A and received FDA clearance to begin a Phase 1 trial of TS-104, its lead peptide-drug conjugate for solid tumors. Enrollment is expected later in 2026.
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Could targeting fat tissue directly reshape obesity treatment?
@MoonwalkBio raised a $70M Series B to advance MW101, an adipose-targeted RNAi therapy. First-in-human studies are planned for late 2027; current findings remain preclinical.
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@RobigoBio stopped treating the microbe as the active ingredient and started treating it as the factory.
"Our engineered microbes act as living biomanufacturing systems. They colonize a particular plant niche and produce bioactives directly in the field." — Dr. Andee Wallace, @RobigoBio
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Series A led by @LeapsByBayer. A soybean product matching commercial chemistry at half the cost. Under 20 months from design to field data.
The companies changing agriculture are in the room at SynBioBeta 2027. Deals happen there, not in the feed.
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Applications are open for the @bmsnews Golden Ticket at MBC BioLabs.
Eligible U.S. biotech startups can compete for one year of laboratory space in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease or neuroscience. Deadline: Sept. 30.
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@DARPA is hosting a Proposers Day for Hubble, a program seeking to model 100M+ protein interactions and map how those networks change in disrupted physiology. The Sept. 25 event is in Arlington, VA. Registration closes Sept. 18.
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Cultivarium has launched PRIME, an @ARIA_research-supported effort to develop tools for delivering, expressing and maintaining new DNA in mammalian mitochondria. The goal is to create reproducible methods other laboratories can use and build upon.
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Applications are open for @NucleateHQ’s free, equity-free Activator program. Early-stage biotech founders receive venture-building support, mentorship, pitch opportunities and access to a network of 3,000+ industry leaders and partners.
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Ridge Bio has expanded its seed financing to approximately $38M to scale its AI and cell-free platform for designing bioconjugate medicines. The funding will support new partnerships, enzyme and linker development, and internal discovery programs.
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@LumaGroup_ has closed its inaugural life sciences venture fund with $410M in committed capital. Structured as a 15-year vehicle, LumaBio Fund I will invest early and support selected companies from discovery toward commercialization.
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Holiferm and Organica UK are combining biosurfactant production, formulation and finished-product manufacturing into an integrated platform. Sadorp will remain a commercial partner, helping move sustainable cleaning innovations from development to retail.
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From pilot scale to commercial manufacturing: @eXoZymes has selected @CuriaCDMO to scale its cell-free NCT process in Spain and Italy. The Q4 2026 program will support a roadmap toward larger-scale production in 2027.
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Lower costs and faster access are drawing some international cancer patients to China for CAR-T therapy. In @WSJ, @JChengWSJ follows a New Zealand patient who entered complete remission after treatment in Shanghai—and examines the opportunities and risks behind the trend.
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Synthetic cell research needs more than open protocols—it needs a reliable supply chain. Led by @akshaywari, b.next has opened a pilot facility and shipped 100+ open-specification Cytosol kits to support projects at roughly 20 labs.
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EV Biotech has become DANU Strain Engineering.
The company is combining AI, strain engineering and fermentation to develop application-specific biopolymers, beginning with biodegradable polymers for seed coatings.
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@AllenInstitute, @UW and @fredhutch have launched AI BioDesign with $95M from FFST.
The project will pair AI-designed biology with large-scale lab testing and openly share resulting models, datasets, assays and tools.
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@Battelle researchers engineered proteins that separated lanthanum and neodymium in one chelator-free stage with over 90% purity and yield.
Supported by @DARPA, the work could advance critical-mineral processing.
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@NSF is investing $90M over five years in new centers led by @michiganstateu, @NorthwesternU and @UTAustin.
The research will advance turbulence and fusion models, 3D genome engineering, and human-robot co-adaptation.
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