AI revealing hidden binding pockets in formerly undruggable proteins for drug discovery
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The Quiet Drug Discovery Revolution: How Protein Degraders Are Cracking the Undruggable Proteome in 2026

More than thirty targeted protein degraders are now in human trials, with the first Phase 3 readouts arriving in 2026. Inside the vepdegestrant breast cancer data, the BTK degrader race,…

Pancreatic cancer clinical trial research 2026 | Healthcare Discovery
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The Unexpected Cancer Shield: ASCO 2026 Data Shows GLP-1 Drugs Cut Advanced Tumor Progression by Up to 50%

A major study being presented this week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting found that patients with early-stage cancer who took GLP-1 receptor agonists were 38 to…

HealthcareDiscovery.ai title card showing clinicians reviewing AI-assisted medical imaging for FDA AI medical devices guide
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The First Wave of AI-Designed Drugs Hits Human Trials: A 2026 Status Report on Insilico, Isomorphic, and Recursion

As of May 2026, more than 75 AI-discovered drugs are in human trials. Inside the Insilico IPF Phase 2 program, Isomorphic Labs partnerships with Novartis and Lilly, Recursion’s Phase 2…

Healthcare AI prediction versus next step for patients | Healthcare Discovery
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Cracking the Undruggable Code: How Daraxonrasib Just Rewrote the Rules for Pancreatic Cancer Survival

A new KRAS-targeting oral drug called daraxonrasib has nearly doubled survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer, with median overall survival of 13.2 months versus 6.7 months on chemotherapy in the landmark…

Senolytic therapy targeting senescent zombie cells in aging tissue during 2026 longevity clinical trials
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Senolytics in 2026: How the Science of Killing Zombie Cells Reached Its First Human Proof of Concept

A decade of senolytic research is converging into something new. Inside the Mayo Clinic dasatinib quercetin work, the AFFIRM-LITE fisetin trial, Rubedo’s March 2026 Phase 1 readout of RLS-1496, and…

Healthcare Discovery lipoprotein(a) RNA therapy cardiovascular risk 2026 showing inherited Lp(a) risk and RNA silencing in the liver
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Lp(a) and Heart Disease 2026: The Genetic Risk Factor Statins Cannot Touch and the New Wave of Therapies That Could Change Cardiology

An estimated 1.4 billion people globally carry elevated lipoprotein(a), a genetically inherited cardiovascular risk factor that statins do not lower. Inside the biology of Lp(a), why the science went quiet…

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…