pharmaphorum

Alphabet's Isomorphic raises $600m for AI drug discovery

Isomorphic Labs has raised a whopping $600 million to refine its artificial intelligence-powered drug discovery engine, advance its pipeline, and expand its headcount in its first external funding ...
People

Billy Strings Says He's Still in 'Denial' Over His Mom's Shocking Cause of Death: 'It Was Just Unnecessary'

The bluegrass musician's mom Debra died of a drug overdose in June Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Wants to ‘Honor’ His Late Mom With a New Album Featuring Her Poetry

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...
Game Rant

What Does Spider Strings Do in Silksong

Hamza is a gaming enthusiast and a Writing Specialist from Pakistan. A firm believer in Keyboard/Mouse supremacy, he will play Tekken with WASD if you let him. He has been writing about games since ...
NPR

After losing his mother to an overdose, musician Billy Strings plays to honor her

Singer-songwriter Billy Strings says his guitar has been his best friend for as long as he can remember. "I slept with my guitar when I was 4 or 5 years old," he says. "I'd put it right under the ...
NDTV

Google Ready To Start Human Trials Of Its AI-Designed Drugs

Google DeepMind's drug discovery company, Isomorphic Labs, is set to launch human trials of its AI-designed drugs. The company is aiming to use cutting-edge AI to design medicines faster, cheaper and ...
Hindustan Times

Isomorphic Labs’ AI designed drugs are about to hit human trials

Google DeepMind's spinoff Isomorphic Labs is set to begin human trials of a drug desinged completely by Artificial Intelligence. Isomorphic Labs, a drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, ...
Yahoo

Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs has grand ambitions to ‘solve all diseases’ with AI. Now, it’s gearing up for its first human trials

In April 2025, Isomorphic Labs raised a $600 million in its first-ever external funding round, led by Thrive Capital. Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs is preparing to launch human trials of AI-designed ...
Billboard

Billy Strings Shares Heartbreaking News of His Mom’s Death at Kentucky Show

"Instead of a moment of silence, can you please make as much noise right now for my mom?" he asked the crowd. By Mitchell Peters Billy Strings paid tribute to his mother during a concert in Kentucky, ...
Lansing State Journal

Billy Strings' mother, Debra Apostol, dies hours after son played show back in Michigan

Correction: Billy Strings' mother is Debra Apostol. Her name was misspelled in an earlier version. LANSING - Debra Apostol, the mother of Grammy-winning artist Billy Strings, died Friday, June 20, ...
The Boston Globe

Isomorphic Labs sets up US presence in Cambridge, with an eye on clinical trials

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. As Isomorphic Labs aims its artificial ...