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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:04/08/2025
Post category:Astronomy Biology Chemistry Pharma
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific research by accelerating data analysis, automating experiments, and enhancing knowledge discovery. AI platforms such as Semantic Scholar, Sparrho, and OpenResearcher streamline literature reviews, while tools like AlphaFold and Insilico Medicine drive breakthroughs in protein prediction and rapid drug design. Case studies include Stanford’s virtual AI scientists proposing novel nanobody vaccines, BioNTech’s AI lab assistant “Laila,” and the Flora Incognita app for biodiversity monitoring. Despite challenges of transparency, bias, and reproducibility, AI empowers researchers to generate hypotheses, optimize workflows, and open new scientific frontiers, making it a powerful catalyst for interdisciplinary innovation and discovery.

$1M Healthcare Innovation Award to Fight Child Mortality

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:31/07/2013
Post category:Business Pharma

GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children have launched a fund totalling $1,000,000 to reward organisations practicing innovative approaches for reducing under-5 child mortality.

US Supreme Court stops patenting of human genes

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:18/06/2013
Post category:Biology Pharma

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that human genes cannot be patented, drawing a red line between naturally occurring DNA sequences and artificial genes created in the lab.

The Open Innovation Revolution

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:03/06/2013
Post category:Business Pharma

Open innovation is today a modern management tool within corporate innovation management - in the last decade open innovation has become an important extension to the classical innovation approach, to improve the success rate of the innovation pipeline.

Big pharma´s patent wars in India

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:24/04/2013
Post category:Business Pharma

The Indian Supreme court has rejected a key patent of Novartis for their cancer drug Glivec. The verdict adds to a series of strikes against multinational pharmaceutical companies to gain patent rights in India, potentially one of the biggest pharmaceutical markets in the world.

Inventor Jack Andraka

Teenager invents cheap and highly selective cancer diagnostics test

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:24/02/2013
Post category:Biology Pharma

15 year old teenager Jack Andraka invented a pancreatic cancer test many times faster, considerably cheaper and more accurate than the current testing standard in today’s standard cancer diagnostics.

CRAMS outsourcing in pharmaceutical and chemical research and manufacturing, part III.

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:03/09/2012
Post category:Business Chemistry Pharma

In this article we discuss CRO offshore outsourcing in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, especially what drives outsourcing, the process for vendor selection, typical problems in CRO outsouring, and CRO Offshore Outsourcing to China and India.

CRAMS outsourcing in pharmaceutical and chemical research and manufacturing, part II.

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:20/08/2012
Post category:Business Chemistry Pharma

We will outline in the second part of this article series how big is the business of Contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) in the pharmaceutical, bio-technological and chemical industry.

CRAMS outsourcing in pharmaceutical and chemical research and manufacturing Part I.

Post author:Christian Schumacher
Post published:14/08/2012
Post category:Business Chemistry Education Pharma

Contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) in the pharmaceutical, bio-technological and chemical industry is massive, a multi-billion dollar business. We will outline in this article how big is this business, what drives this business and what are the implications for enterprises and for the society ? We will outline in this article the political and macro-economical implications of outsourcing.