• From Hard Drives to Self-Service: How ASU and Starfish Storage Unlocked 25 Years of Indigenous Health Data

    Bio-IT World | Arizona State University's Center for Evolution and Medicine and Starfish Storage won an Innovative Practices Award at Bio-IT World 2026 for turning a chaotic CT-scan archive into a searchable, consent-governed research platform.

    Oct 15, 2026

  • Eric Schadt on Truly Precise Medicine and AI in Pharma and Healthcare

    Bio-IT World | In the latest episode of Trends from the Trenches, computational biologist Eric Schadt explains why he has spent decades arguing that disease is a network property, not a single-gene story, and why the real goal is combining large-scale biomedical data with predictive modeling that actually changes patient outcomes.

    Oct 14, 2026

  • 2027 Innovative Practices Awards Call for Entries

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is now accepting entries for the 2027 Innovative Practices Awards, a competition designed to recognize the most exciting partnerships and projects pushing the life sciences industry forward.

    Oct 13, 2026

  • Is AI The Key To Earlier Detection Of Pharmaceutical Safety Risks?

    Bio-IT WorldPost-marketing surveillance generates an unprecedented volume of safety data. Pharmacovigilance teams must continuously evaluate evidence from Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs), clinical studies, scientific literature, electronic health records, patient registries, and real-world data sources. The challenge is no longer data collection, but the timely detection and interpretation of clinically meaningful safety signals amid increasing data complexity.

    Oct 8, 2026

  • MIT Microscope Captures Whole-Brain Voltage Activity at Millisecond Speed, Opening New Doors for Neurotech and Drug Discovery

    Bio-IT World | A new high-speed microscope developed at MIT can image electrical activity across an entire zebrafish brain 200 times per second, a speed that lets researchers follow individual neuronal spikes in near real time. The work, published in Nature Methods and led by Ed Boyden's group at MIT, may give biotech and pharmaceutical researchers a faster, more direct way to see how neural circuits behave and how they might respond to intervention.

    Oct 7, 2026