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After kickstarting the GLP-1 wave that transformed the pharma landscape and briefly sending its market value above Denmark’s annual economic output, Novo Nordisk now trades about 5% below where its shares stood five years ago. After its shares hit an all-time closing high of $137.40 on June 25, 2024, the stock slid about 66% to…

Amazon Web Services today launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an application that routes AI-designed antibody candidates directly to DNA Synthesis firm Twist Bioscience and the techbio Ginkgo Bioworks for synthesis and testing, with results flowing back into the same interface that generated them. AWS launched Amazon Bio Discovery with Bayer, the Broad Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced a significant expansion of Amazon Omics at the annual AWS Life Sciences Executive Symposium in Boston. Amazon Omics, which the company introduced last year, helps life science organizations to store, query and analyze genomic, transcriptomic and other omics data. While other tools such as Qlucore Omics Explorer, Genospace, StrandOmics,…

It doesn’t get any bigger than Amazon in the world of cloud computing. The Amazon Web Services cloud computing business at Seattle-based Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is the largest player in the industry, with control of about a third of the market and a significant lead over cloud competitors Microsoft and Google. Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, the…

The goal of using artificial intelligence to transform drug discovery and development may not be novel. But a new alliance is unique in both the stature of companies belonging to it and its choice of an innovation model. Big Pharma firms AstraZeneca (LON:AZN), Merck KGaA (ETR: MRK), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Teva (NYSE:TEVA) will partner with Amazon…