Nov 19, 2020, 01:00 AM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | COVID-19 is switching the risk paradigm for biotech and pharma. It’s too risky, now, not to do something digital. It’s driving changes in investing as well. A recent panel discussion explored how venture capital and new tech companies evaluate technology, invest cash, and plan to move forward.

Nov 17, 2020, 01:00 AM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | A decades-old technology initially used to hide secret messages in dots of DNA—along with Oxford Nanopore sequencing—could get a reboot as a tracking system for commodities that might be too small or numerous for tagging with QR codes or radio-frequency identification, such as experimental drugs and controlled substances.

Nov 13, 2020, 14:26 PM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | Illumina has announced the commercial availability of the P3 high-output flow cell, offering 1.1 billion reads in a single sequencing run. The company also announced the commercial availability of the NextSeq 1000.

Nov 13, 2020, 01:00 AM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | A look at how COVID-19 patients fare after recovery, Mount Sinai’s new ML model analyzes EHRs, overlapping genes in viruses, conferred immunity from other coronaviruses, and a picture of RNA-RNA interactions. Plus a new Intel system at LLNL for COVID-19 research, Baylor’s coronavirus curriculum, and a recommended vaccine distribution framework.

Nov 12, 2020, 01:00 AM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have teamed up to develop disease risk prediction models using deep learning, according to Ravi Madduri, a computer scientist at the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and co-lead of the collaboration.

Nov 11, 2020, 14:51 PM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | New products, collaborations and deployments from the past two months from Quantum, Mission Bio, Seqster, Takeda, Optibrium, the Pistoia Alliance, Caris Life Sciences, Genomenon, and more.

Nov 10, 2020, 01:00 AM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | Pharma has had a long history with data. Of course, it wasn’t always digital but there’s always been a data trail. We asked Bryn Roberts from Roche for insights gleaned from his nearly three decades in the pharma industry, mainly in roles related to data science, information technology, and automation. Generating and collecting data has never really been a problem, he said. Managing it, however, has always been a challenge.

Nov 6, 2020, 10:38 AM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World I Isolated cannabis compounds decrease cytokines, spike protein disrupts blood-brain barrier, aprotinin potential treatment, D614F mutation made virus more contagious, seven forms of disease identified, and new nanoparticle vaccine a promising candidate. Plus: Cornea of the eye may be resistant, propranolol reduces inflammation, autoimmune antibody culprit for blood clots, and lung damage found in ‘long COVID’.

Nov 5, 2020, 14:58 PM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | Data governance is a somewhat fluid term, encompassing all aspects of making sure our data are accurate, consistent, current, and secure. Successful data governance relies on input from scientists, IT teams, and executives, and it must remain flexible as stakeholders change, business interests evolve, and collaborations mature.

Nov 4, 2020, 12:56 PM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | Gaming and science—two seemingly incompatible areas of activity—have come together nicely in the case of citizen science games such as Foldit, Phylo, and Borderlands Science, as reported by academics close to the action who presented at the recent Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Virtual. The games are all played online, involve analyzing large sets of data, and endeavoring to solve real scientific problems. And players get credit individually (when willing) or as a crowd when findings appear in scholarly, peer-reviewed publications.

Oct 30, 2020, 10:51 AM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World I Neutrons chart atomic map of COVID-19’s viral replication, Organs-on-Chips technology, coronaviruses mimic proteins that control blood coagulation and inflammation, therapeutic effects of Chinese herbal medicine, crystal structure identified on SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease, and potent antibody isolated. Plus: NIH researchers discover key pathway in lysosomes for coronaviruses exit, deep learning models to target SARS-CoV-2 main protease, RBD nanoparticles may be effective vaccine, predicting outbreaks, virus may ‘hide’ in asymptomatic people, and NYC outbreak linked to Europe.

Oct 30, 2020, 09:51 AM by Abhinav Singh

JUPITER, FL, UNITED STATES - Oct 30, 2020 - Dyadic International, Inc. (NASDAQ: DYAI) a leading biotechnology innovator focused on accelerating the development and lowering the manufacturing costs of vaccines and biopharmaceuticals, recently announced results which further support record expression levels of the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) antigen produced from Dyadic’s industrially proven proprietary & patented hyper-productive C1 gene expression platform

Oct 29, 2020, 14:22 PM by Abhinav Singh

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 29, 2020 - The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) announced today the launch of the neuroMuscular ObserVational Research (MOVR) Visualization and Reporting Platform (VRP)

Oct 29, 2020, 08:27 AM by Abhinav Singh

AUSTIN, TX - Oct 29, 2020 - Plus Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTV) (the “Company”), today announced that it has treated the first patient in the sixth and final cohort of its National Cancer Institute (NCI)-supported, multi-center ReSPECT™ Phase 1 dose-finding clinical trial evaluating Rhenium NanoLiposomes (RNL™) for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma (GBM)

Oct 28, 2020, 07:02 AM by Abhinav Singh

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 28, 2020 - Announcing the new challengeThis week the 7th CSP Blind Test begins - a major challenge in computational chemistry

Oct 28, 2020, 04:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Money for oral microbiome drugs, ‘omics, a biology plus technology transistor, digital biomarker platform, a vaccine patch that doesn’t require refrigeration, and more.

Oct 27, 2020, 17:58 PM by User Not Found

Bio-IT World | Illumina is launching version 3.7 of its DRAGEN bio-IT platform this week, Rami Mehio, Vice President, Bioinformatics and Instrument Software at Illumina, told Bio-IT World last week. The newest release will include DRAGEN for Single Cell RNA, unique molecular identifier (UMI) support including UMI-aware small variant calling, CYP2D6 genotyping, and accuracy gains in both germline variant calling and tumor-only analysis.

Oct 27, 2020, 11:50 AM by Abhinav Singh

MILPITAS, CA, UNITED STATES - Oct 27, 2020 - OmniTier Inc., an AI and multiomics application company whose bioinformatics solutions help deliver the promise of personalized medicine, debuted the CompStor Insight™ appliance for tertiary analysis in next-generation sequencing (NGS) applications

Oct 27, 2020, 11:24 AM by Abhinav Singh

RALEIGH, NC, UNITED STATES - Oct 27, 2020 - Vidence, an oncology informatics company, has selected the 2bPrecise™ platform, a precision medicine data delivery solution, to make it easier for its Consortium Fellows to unlock the true power of genomic data at the point of care and facilitate the advancement of precision oncology

Oct 27, 2020, 09:48 AM by Abhinav Singh

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Oct 27, 2020 - Kyruus, the leader in provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, today announced that Baptist Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in Kentucky, has engaged the company to help elevate its digital access experience for consumers