clinical trial
noun
: a scientifically controlled study of the safety and effectiveness of a therapeutic agent (such as a drug or vaccine) using consenting human subjects
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What’s more impressive is that Iambic was able to move the treatment from its discovery phase to its clinical trial initiation in just two years — shaving years off what can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of new drug development.
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Brad Quick, CNBC, 19 May 2026
The AIs weren’t being asked to design entirely new molecules, and most drugs fail during the animal and clinical trials phase, rather than during testing in cell culture.
—ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Experimental vaccines have been tested in animal models, but none have completed the clinical trial pathway to approval.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
The clinical trial, led by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, tested the drug in 168 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer whose tumors had mutations in the RAS gene.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
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Brad Quick, CNBC, 19 May 2026
The AIs weren’t being asked to design entirely new molecules, and most drugs fail during the animal and clinical trials phase, rather than during testing in cell culture.
—ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Experimental vaccines have been tested in animal models, but none have completed the clinical trial pathway to approval.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
The clinical trial, led by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, tested the drug in 168 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer whose tumors had mutations in the RAS gene.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
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“Clinical trial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clinical%20trial. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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