• Open-Source Medical Device Platform Aims to Accelerate Time to Market

    Aug 14 | Bio-IT World | San Francisco biotech Openwater is pioneering a multi-purpose platform approach to medical device development, combining infrared light and low-intensity focused ultrasound technologies to create what CEO Aaron Timm describes as the "smartphone" of medical devices. More

  • AI-Powered Cell Mapping Platform Accelerates Biotech Research and Drug Development

    Aug 13 | Bio-IT World | Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence platform that could dramatically accelerate biotech research by solving one of the field's most computationally intensive challenges—rapidly identifying and analyzing distinct cell types in complex biological tissues. More

  • AI in Medicine Making and Healthcare: Finding the Balance

    Aug 12 | Bio-IT World | The pharma industry excels at collaborating with startup companies and scaling up the production of drugs and biologics, but they may be missing the big-picture perspective of the U.S. government as well as some of the cutting-edge research happening within academia. It’s a problematic norm that needs addressing if artificial intelligence (AI) is to benefit drug discovery and diagnostics as well as healthcare delivery in terms of safety, equity, and effectiveness. More

  • Russia Targets National Database of 1 Million Genomes by 2030

    Aug 07 | Bio-IT World | Russia plans to significantly expand its national database of genetic information by 2030 according to a recent decree approved by the Russian government. As part of the plans, the volume of the already existing database will be increased by 35 times and reach 35 petabytes by 2030. More

  • New Research and Pipeline Updates at Alzheimer’s Conference

    Aug 06 | Bio-IT World | The Alzheimer's Association International Conference was held last week in Toronto and researchers and companies gathered to present their progress in the fight to diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease. Among the timely new developments: new products from Quanterix; pre-clinical data from AltPep, OncoC4, and NKGen Biotech; pipeline updates from Eisai, Biogen, and Roche; and more. More

  • XProteome Launches with AI-Powered Protein Corona Platform for Disease Detection

    Aug 05 | Bio-IT World | A new biotech company launched last month with a novel approach to protein discovery that could transform how researchers identify biomarkers and develop treatments for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative conditions. XProteome, founded by Michigan State University researcher Morteza Mahmoudi, has developed an integrated platform that combines nanomedicine, artificial intelligence, and causality analysis to pinpoint disease-causing proteins with unprecedented precision. More

  • Longitude Prize on ALS Launches, UK Biobank Completes World’s Largest Whole Body Imaging Project, More

    Jul 31 | Bio-IT World | The Longitude Prize on ALS, presented at this year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, has launched to incentivize and reward cutting edge AI-based approaches to transform drug discovery for the treatment of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis); UK Biobank completed the world’s largest whole body imaging project; and more. More

  • Follow the Money: Universal Flu Vaccine, Full-Length Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer, More

    Jul 30 | Bio-IT World | Centivax plans to get their first universal flu vaccine through a Phase I clinical trial; Portal Biotech will use their nanopore-based platform technology to deliver rapid, full-length, single-molecule protein characterization and expand its R&D, engineering, and data-science teams; and more. More

  • Arab Pangenome Reference Published

    Jul 29 | Bio-IT World | Researchers have published the first draft Arab pangenome reference, the UAE Pangenome Reference (UPR) based on 53 individuals of diverse Arab ethnicities residing in the United Arab Emirates. The work was done at the Center for Applied and Translational Genomics (CATG), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Health, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and was published in Nature Communications last week. More

  • Multiomics Platform Integration Advances Cancer Treatment Predictions

    Jul 24 | Bio-IT World | A groundbreaking biotech collaboration in Switzerland has successfully integrated nine molecular analysis platforms to create a comprehensive tumor profiling system that predicts optimal cancer treatments—showcasing how next-generation sequencing can be enhanced through multiomics approaches for transformative clinical outcomes. More
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