Researchers at Wuhan University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed LoRA-Chem, a modular machine learning framework that accurately predicts diverse organic chemical reactions using a single unified model. The system achieves state-of-the-art performance whilst requiring only natural language descriptions of reactions as input.

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a method that measures whether antibiotics truly kill bacteria, not just inhibit their growth. The technique, called Antimicrobial Single-Cell Testing, tracks millions of individual bacterial cells in real time and has demonstrated that a drug’s killing power – rather than growth inhibition alone – predicts treatment success […]

A groundbreaking international study has demonstrated that Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers can be accurately detected using simple finger-prick blood samples collected at home and posted to laboratories without refrigeration. The DROP-AD project, involving 337 participants across seven European centres, found that capillary blood spots could measure key markers including phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217) with 86% accuracy […]

Researchers have engineered a highly accurate CRISPR variant that removes normal DNA before sequencing, enabling detection of circulating tumour DNA at levels as low as 0.005%. The MUTE-Seq method showed promising results in early-stage lung and pancreatic cancer patients, where conventional liquid biopsy often fails.

Revvity has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ACD/Labs, a global provider of scientific software solutions supporting analytical characterisation and molecular design across pharmaceutical and material sciences sectors.