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Cross-Department Collaboration Reveals Business Intelligence Already On Hand
Bio-IT World | INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AWARDS—There are questions every research group could ask. At Regeneron’s Research and Preclinical department, tackling these questions meant accounting for more than 2,000 expensive and space-constrained instruments and seeking insight into how they are used.
Sep 14, 2023
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COVID Vaccine Developers May Want To Pivot To Symptom Prevention
Bio-IT World | Vaccine developers may want to consider designing formulations intended to prevent symptoms rather than infection, which the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated can be hard to do with any long-lasting effect.
Sep 13, 2023
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Study Finds Breast Cancer Spreads During Sleep, Highlights Role Of Hormones
Bio-IT World | The recent discovery that the metastatic spread of breast cancer accelerates during sleep sparked a lively conversation at last month’s Next Generation Dx Summit about new paths of exploration for thwarting a deadly pan-cancer process claiming 12 lives worldwide every minute.
Sep 12, 2023
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Scaling R&D Drug Discovery: The Future Of Lab Automation
Bio-IT World | In the coming decades, many of the grand challenges that society faces, from global food shortages to disease control and climate change, has the opportunity to be solved by biology. To achieve this, we must enable researchers within the biotech and healthcare ecosystems to be more productive than ever by improving scale, reproducibility, and accessibility.
Sep 8, 2023
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Illumina Names Jacob Thaysen of Agilent New CEO
Bio-IT World | Illumina today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Jacob Thaysen, Ph.D., senior vice president of Agilent Technologies and president of its Life Sciences and Applied Markets Group, as Illumina’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective September 25, 2023.
Sep 5, 2023
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Novel Biomarker Tracks Tightly With Tau Tangles In Alzheimer’s Disease
Bio-IT World | Researchers in the U.S. and Sweden have identified a biomarker (MTBR-tau243) for Alzheimer’s disease that tracks with the amount of damaging tau tangles in the brain and, when combined with a specific phosphorylated tau species (p-tau205), is nearly as predictive of cognitive function as tau-positron emission tomography (tau-PET) imaging.
Sep 5, 2023
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Nanopore News from Oxford Nanopore, University of Missouri, New Genedata Product, More
Bio-IT World | University of Missouri researchers developed an innovative method using nanopores; Oxford Nanopore speeds basecalling for MinKNOW; Standigm and Nashville Biosciences partner on early drug discovery research, and more.
Aug 31, 2023
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The First Commercial-Scale IDMO Smart Factory, Company Advancements, RNA Editing Platforms, More
Bio-IT World | Cellares will use funding to launch the world’s first commercial-scale IDMO Smart Factory; Genesis Therapeutics plans to use Series B financing to elevate into a clinical stage company and further invest in its AI platform; Amber Bio will use funds to advance first-of-its-kind RNA editing platform; more.
Aug 30, 2023
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The Future of Innovation, Generative AI, and More with Jeanne Kehren
Bio-IT World | When the first human genome was sequenced, Jeanne Kehren switched from veterinary medicine to the pharmaceutical industry. After that “magical moment of hope,” Kehren and her colleagues looked forward to a bright future for individualized medicine and treatment.
Aug 29, 2023
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AbbVie’s R&D Convergence Hub
Bio-IT World | The AbbVie R&D Convergence Hub, known as the ARCH, was conceived in 2020 and already the data platform is breaking silos and improving productivity.
Aug 24, 2023
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Neurosurgeons In Czech Republic Test Writing Capabilities Of ChatGPT
Bio-IT World | Researchers in the Czech Republic succeeded in using ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) to produce a convincing scientific article in only one hour with no special human training—a feat intended to point out the current capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
Aug 23, 2023
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Gero Taps Quantum Computing and AI To Tackle Diseases Of Aging
Bio-IT World | A movement is afoot to apply quantum computing to the puzzling business of designing drugs with the right molecular properties.
Aug 22, 2023
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Demographics Matter Under New Diagnostic Paradigm For Breast Cancer
Bio-IT World | In a surprising twist, researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys have found that both age and sex may matter a great deal when it comes to the consequences of many types of cancer.
Aug 17, 2023
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Nanopore Sequencing Detects Protein Structures
Bio-IT World | University of Oxford researchers have detected protein structure modifications using nanopore technology.
Aug 16, 2023
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Researchers Close In On Protein Panel For Predicting Islet Autoimmunity
Bio-IT World | A team of researchers from North America and Europe have identified a panel of 83 markers in the blood of children genetically predisposed to develop type 1 diabetes that looks promising as a predictor of which individuals will progress to islet autoimmunity six months prior to its onset.
Aug 15, 2023
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New Illumina CTO, Q2 Updates
Bio-IT World | Illumina today announced that Alex Aravanis, CTO, has departed Illumina to pursue an opportunity outside of the company effective immediately. In his place, Steven Barnard, Illumina's Vice President and Head of Global Advanced Science, will serve as its next Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Aug 9, 2023
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Using ML to Diagnose Chronic Kidney Disease in a Bias-Free, Privacy-Protecting, Physician-Friendly Manner
Bio-IT World | Carenostics is a healthcare AI startup founded with the mission of addressing the underdiagnosis, undertreatment, and health inequities of chronic disease using AI and ML on existing healthcare data.
Aug 9, 2023
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Generate Biomedicines’ R&D Data Platform to Support ML-Driven Drug Discovery
Bio-IT World | “Generate Biomedicines’ goal of leveraging machine-learning powered generative biology to discover and develop new drugs faster and cheaper is supported by an integrated and cohesive R&D data platform… FAIR to its core, this integrated data platform leverages industry best practices and lessons-learned from a talented team of informatics engineers to form the critical foundation of a unique company with equal parts ‘bio’ and ‘tech’.”
Aug 8, 2023
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An AI Tool for Lung Cancer Diagnosis in Indian Populations, Settings
Bio-IT World | The prognosis of lung carcinoma has changed since the discovery of molecular targets and their specific drugs. Somatic EGFR mutations have been reported in lung carcinoma, and these mutant proteins act as substrates for targeted therapies.
Aug 3, 2023
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Discovery To Creation: Highlights from the 2023 Single-Cell and AI in Medicine Symposium
Bio-IT World | The field of drug discovery is shifting its approach from viewing complex biology as something to be overcome using reductionist principles to something to embrace in a more holistic approach to cell biology.
Aug 2, 2023