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Cyrus Biotechnology

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

by Lisa Stiffler on June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 at 12:15 am

Seattle startup Cyrus Biotechnology is spinning out a business that will expand access to the company’s software technology, with the potential of supporting innovation in drug development, agriculture, synthetic biology… Read More

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

by Charlotte Schubert on July 10, 2023March 8, 2024 at 10:03 am

Inside the headquarters of Outpace Bio in Seattle, senior scientist Bobby Langan shows a video of one of his favorite deep learning tools. A fuzzy blob coalesces into a molecular… Read More

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

by Charlotte Schubert on November 11, 2022November 11, 2022 at 11:43 am

Life scientists have a data problem: information is fragmented, siloed and incomplete. And that gets in the way of taking full advantage of using artificial intelligence technology. A panel of… Read More

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

by Charlotte Schubert on June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 at 9:44 am

Three Seattle biotech companies are joining forces to support open-access development of protein folding and design software. The project, called OpenFold, brings together Cyrus Biotechnology, Outpace Bio, and Arzeda, startups… Read More

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

by Charlotte Schubert on December 16, 2021December 28, 2021 at 11:42 pm

Science magazine has revealed its breakthrough of the year: Artificial intelligence discoveries that predict how proteins fold, forged by researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design and… Read More

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

by Charlotte Schubert on December 6, 2021July 6, 2022 at 1:27 pm

The news: Seattle-based protein engineering company Cyrus Biotechnology has raised $18 million and acquired Orthogonal Biologics, a spinout from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, which is developing a… Read More

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

by Charlotte Schubert on December 2, 2021March 28, 2023 at 6:40 pm

New protein structures not seen in nature have emerged from deep learning software deployed by University of Washington researchers and their colleagues. The approach is a step toward building bespoke… Read More

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

by Charlotte Schubert on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 at 10:23 pm

Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology is entering a protein engineering collaboration with Boston-based Selecta Biosciences that could pull in up to $1.5 billion for the University of Washington spinout. The partnership will… Read More

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

by Alan Boyle on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 at 4:33 pm

Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology says it’ll collaborate with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard on ways to optimize CRISPR gene-editing techniques for use in developing novel human therapeutics. CRISPR has… Read More

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

by James Thorne on April 16, 2019April 18, 2019 at 8:41 am

Proteins, algorithms and apps — oh my! Health innovators across the Pacific Northwest continue to embrace technologies that go well beyond traditional drugs. The finalists for the Health Innovation of… Read More

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