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MSIT steps up \'K-Moonshot\' AI drug mission with stakeholder meeting
South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT held a meeting on Sunday at Catholic University to collect opinions on the K-Moonshot AI drug mission. The event brought together experts from industry, academia, research institutes and hospitals to share the project direction ahead of its full rollout. The national R&D project aims to apply AI across drug development, including candidate discovery, drug design and efficacy and toxicity prediction, shifting to an AI-based design approach.
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South Korea to spend 49.5 billion won on AI-native autonomous bio labs
South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT held a launch briefing on June 12 for a project to build AI-native autonomous laboratories for advanced bio research. The ministry plans to invest 49.5 billion won from 2026 to 2028 to establish 1 general-purpose autonomous lab and 5 specialised labs. The project aims to ease bottlenecks in bio R&D, promote lab-level AI transformation and create a closed-loop environment.
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KAIST develops mRNA platform that works well for ageing and obesity
KAIST said a joint research team developed a new mRNA platform by precisely designing the 5\' untranslated region, a key regulatory area that controls how efficiently proteins are produced. Using integrated analysis of large-scale bioinformatics data, the team identified 5\' UTR sequences that improve protein production across diverse cellular environments. In preclinical ageing and obesity models, an mRNA therapeutic based on the design increased protein production and immune responses compared with existing approaches.
