Thyroid autoimmune disease visual showing clonal B cells with somatic mutations disabling immune checkpoints
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The Hashimoto’s Breakthrough: Somatic Mutations and the New Model of Autoimmune Disease

A landmark Nature study finds that Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is driven in part by acquired somatic mutations that disable the immune system’s brakes. A new model of autoimmune disease is taking…

Healthcare Discovery Adrian Woolfson reading DNA and writing medicine through synthetic genomics
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How Adrian Woolfson Is Helping Medicine Move From Reading DNA to Writing It

Adrian Woolfson trained under a Nobel laureate at Cambridge, ran global oncology programs at the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, and led research and development at Sangamo Therapeutics during the first…

Foundation model AI converging with computational drug discovery and protein design after a major biotech acquisition
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Anthropic Just Bought a Drug Discovery Startup for $400M. Here Is What It Means for Healthcare AI.

A foundation model company just paid $400 million in stock for a team of fewer than 10 people. The implications for drug discovery, precision medicine, and the entire healthcare AI…