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Developing and testing a drug candidate can take years of effort and billions of dollars of investment. Any shortcut that AI can offer could be a game changer

From keeping wind turbines ice-free to catalytically converting waste carbon dioxide into useful products, advanced materials will be critical for developing the sustainable technologies of the future. And a new system known as the ‘Sputtertron’ could help find them.

A novel approach to suppress the growth of glioblastoma cells Inhibiting a key enzyme that controls a large network of proteins important in cell division and growth paves the way for a new class of drugs that could stop glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer, from growing. Researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and University of Toronto, showed that chemically inhibiting the enzyme PRMT5 can suppress the growth of glioblastoma cells. The inhibiti...