Bottlebrush particles deliver large range of chemotherapy drugs directly to tumor cells

One major example is protein structure. Methods such as AlphaFold and Boltz-2 have transformed how we generate 3D structural data. Accurate protein structure prediction has been a decades-old challenge, and while there is still work to do on underrepresented protein classes, these models have opened an extraordinary pathway. We have also seen progress in multi-output models. Just over a decade ago (circa 2013), toxicology and property prediction models often focused on one endpoint at a time. Now, multi-output models, especially from methods such as graph neural networks (GNNs) and other deep learning methods, can predict multiple endpoints simultaneously. This allows for transfer learning between related properties. That creates opportunities across ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity) prediction and toxicology. Another exciting area is machine learning potentials. Molecular simulations traditionally rely on fixed mathematical functions to describe molecular interactions, but neural potentials can now replace or augment those functions. They can, in many cases, provide highly accurate simulations and structures at lower computational cost than quantum chemistry. However, its not just down to model architectures. The biggest blind spot behind all of these advances remains careful data curation, annotation, and collection. Open databases for example ChEMBL, PubChem and Chemspider together with data initiatives such as OpenADEMT and OpenBind to name but a few are making notable progress here. We still see some data for example on formulation chemistry often receiving less attention. Its is not just about data scale, but quality that is critical here to. Accessible high quality data sets are the fuel of AI methods. Architecture matters, but high-quality, accessible and abundant data is also absolutely critical.

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With the current drug discovery paradigm, it takes up to 15 years to translate an idea, such as hypothesizing a certain protein is important in a disease and testing this with targeting the protein with a drug, all the way through to proof of concept. The drug has to be filed with the regulatory authorities, having done all the safety and efficacy testing. It's a long process and it's also very costly. Estimates vary, but it's currently reckoned to cost over 1 billion dollars per drug. That’s partly because you have to pay for all the drugs that didn't make it. By the time you've taken a protein target and you've made a whole load of molecules that affect that target in the way you want them to, you've probably already spent a couple of years on it and then you have to take the best molecule through the appropriate safety testing in animals before proceeding to phase 1 testing in people. Even if you get to phase 1 testing, where you are just giving it to human volunteers for the first time, not even patients, about 95% of the compounds at the stage then fail to make it all the way through to the market. So, you’ve only got a 5% success rate. The odds are not good and, essentially, it is why so many companies have had to merge because, over time, this is becoming less and less sustainable as a business model.

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This is a win for the field. Until now, we have been focused on immune therapies that might make tumors more vulnerable to the body's immune system, and on finding new chemotherapy combinations that kill cancer cells. This new treatment has given us a new focus, and I think it will spur a lot of scientific discovery over the next few years. There have only been a handful of KRAS researchers and their relevance to therapy was always questioned. That is about to change. The most important next step for the field is to better understand the biology of cancer. We know that many pancreatic tumors will eventually become resistant to daraxonrasib, and we need to understand how this happens. We also need to identify additional genetic pathways and treatments that can target them. That's how we will turn pancreas cancer from a deadly, deadly cancer into something we can manage-and one day, even cure.