• Current Microbiome Analyses Turning Up High Number Of False-Positives

    Mar 16 | Bio-IT World | Insufficient taxonomic information in public sequence records is a longstanding problem that was again brought to light in a recent study of simulated microbial communities. Researchers in Spain, using standard techniques to explore virtual microbiome communities, found that results obtained from DNA analyses bear little resemblance to the real-world bacterial populations being imitated and many of the detected species are not actually present. More

  • Marker Discovered Signaling Squamous Cell Skin Cancer About To Spread

    Mar 15 | Bio-IT World | Researchers have found that dyskerin, a protein that provides stability to non-coding small nucleolar RNAs, signals when cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas are preparing to metastasize by migrating to the lymph nodes. Because these cancer cells temporarily stop consuming glucose and instead feed on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol molecules, the new marker may be a promising candidate for treatments involving lipid metabolism inhibitors. More

  • Spatial Biology Poised for Explosion by 2027

    Mar 14 | Bio-IT World | Spatial biology is poised for an explosion in the next few years, said Colin Enderlein, a principle at DeciBio Consulting. Speaking in San Diego at the Molecular and Precision Med Tri-Con, Enderlein shared the results of DeciBio’s recent market report on the space. More

  • Craig Venter on Genomics’ Past and Precision Medicine’s Future

    Mar 09 | Bio-IT World | Kevin Davies and Craig Venter sat down together to celebrate thirty years of the Molecular and Precision Med Tri-Con this week in San Diego on Monday night. Davies—the founding editor of Bio-IT World—gave a guided tour of human genomic research and sequencing since 1991 with Venter offering first person color commentary along the way. More

  • New Telomere Measuring Method Addressing Limitations Of Current Options

    Mar 08 | Bio-IT World | A research collaboration led by led by Duke-NUS Medical School and National Heart Centre Singapore has set the stage for telomere measurement to one day be added to the list of clinical-grade methods for assessing biological aging. The focus is on rapid and precise measurement of individual telomeres using a technique that employs “telobaits” that latch onto the ends of telomeres in large pools of DNA fragments. More

  • Pharma-Diagnostics Lockstep: How Two Industries Can Work Together for Precision Medicine

    Mar 07 | Bio-IT World | Sarah Hersey, VP of Precision Medicine at Bristol Myers Squibb, gave a balanced view of the challenges and opportunities facing precision medicine in her keynote address at the Molecular & Precision Medicine Tri-Conference in San Diego this week. After her presentation she was joined by others in the space to talk about the future for diagnostics and precision medicine. More

  • Therapeutic Targets For MS Found In The Gut

    Mar 02 | Bio-IT World | Neuroscientists at the University of Virginia have succeeded in alleviating the harmful inflammation of multiple sclerosis in a mouse model of the disease by modulating the gut microbiome to disable a key immune regulator known as aryl hydrocarbon receptor. More

  • Forged in Steel, Exscientia Brings New Processes to Drug Development

    Feb 28 | Bio-IT World | Andrew Hopkins, CEO and Executive Director of Exscientia, speaks with host Stan Gloss of BioTeam about Exscientia’s machine learning-based and model-driven approach to drug design, the connection between knowledge and efficiency in drug optimization projects, and its fourth platform-designed drug launch into the clinic. More

  • Oxford Nanopore, Tecan Launch Automated NGS Library Prep Workflow

    Feb 28 | Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore Technologies and the Tecan Group announced their collaboration on an automated NGS library preparation workflow, and released a technical note outlining a proof-of-concept use case where the Oxford Nanopore’s Ligation Sequencing Kit XL V14 processing multiple DNA samples on the Tecan DreamPrep NGS achieves high yield and raw read sequencing modal accuracy of Q20 (99%) and above. More

  • Oxford Nanopore Extends Collaboration With UPS Healthcare, Illumina Delivers High Throughput Sequencing System to the Broad Institute, More

    Feb 23 | Bio-IT World | Advanced machine learning provides objective tumor response assessments and unlocks novel biomarkers to predict patient outcomes; a comprehensive single-cell multi-omic solution enables the simultaneous exploration of the whole genome and whole mRNA transcriptome from the same single cell; cutting-edge generative AI models, proprietary wet-lab technologies, and a leading cancer biospecimen repository and molecular database identify new therapeutic candidates at accelerated speeds; and more. More
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