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Cyrus Biotechnology

Between hype and hope: Seattle biotech leaders size up AI’s real impact on drug development

Seattle biotech companies are using AI to design new medical treatments, but scientists caution the tech holds enormous promise, but needs to stay grounded in reality. Read More

Cyrus Biotech spins out company to expand reach of versatile drug development software

Seattle startup Cyrus Biotechnology is spinning out a business that will expand access to the company’s software technology, with the… Read More

How AI is changing the way scientists engineer drugs, biosensors, enzymes and more

Inside the headquarters of Outpace Bio in Seattle, senior scientist Bobby Langan shows a video of one of his favorite… Read More

‘The dark matter is just sitting there’: What’s standing in the way of AI for life sciences

Life scientists have a data problem: information is fragmented, siloed and incomplete. And that gets in the way of taking… Read More

Biotech startups join AWS and other partners in open-source project to help design new proteins

Three Seattle biotech companies are joining forces to support open-access development of protein folding and design software. The project, called… Read More

Univ. of Washington AI protein folding discovery wins ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ award from Science

Science magazine has revealed its breakthrough of the year: Artificial intelligence discoveries that predict how proteins fold, forged by researchers… Read More

Funding news: Cyrus lands $18M and buys startup developing COVID-19 therapeutic; Spare Labs snags $18M for mobility software

The news: Seattle-based protein engineering company Cyrus Biotechnology has raised $18 million and acquired Orthogonal Biologics, a spinout from the… Read More

Univ. of Washington deep learning researchers ‘hallucinate’ protein designs from scratch

New protein structures not seen in nature have emerged from deep learning software deployed by University of Washington researchers and… Read More

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Seattle startup Cyrus inks protein-design deal with immune biotech Selecta worth up to $1.5 billion

Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology is entering a protein engineering collaboration with Boston-based Selecta Biosciences that could pull in up to $1.5… Read More

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Cyrus Biotechnology and CRISPR pioneers team up to boost gene-editing therapies

Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology says it’ll collaborate with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard on ways to optimize CRISPR gene-editing… Read More

Vote for your favorite Health Innovation of the Year, a new category at the GeekWire Awards

Proteins, algorithms and apps — oh my! Health innovators across the Pacific Northwest continue to embrace technologies that go well… Read More

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