drug discovery

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• March 9, 2026 8 min read

  The Diabetes Drug That's Turning Medicine Upside Down

  Semaglutide was approved to lower blood sugar. Then it dramatically cut heart attacks. Then kidney failure. Then it showed signs of slowing Parkinson's disease. Scientists are still figuring out why a gut hormone seems to protect nearly everything.

• March 8, 2026 6 min read

  AlphaFold 3: The AI That Can See How Life's Molecules Fit Together

  Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 doesn't just predict protein structures — it predicts the entire molecular dance: proteins with DNA, RNA, drugs, and ions all at once. A look at what this means for biology and drug discovery.