• SPT Labtech and EMBL GeneCore Team Up for Fully Walkaway Automated Genomics Workflows

    Bio-IT World | SPT Labtech and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s Genomics Core Facility (EMBL GeneCore) have entered a collaborative partnership to advance fully walkaway automated genomics workflows.

    Apr 16, 2026

  • AWS Launches Agentic Drug Discovery-Wet Lab Pipeline

    Bio-IT World | AWS this week announced Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to help scientists design novel drugs quickly and send them to wet lab partners for synthesizing and testing.

    Apr 15, 2026

  • PARTAGE Method Reveals Genome Regulation in Single Approach

    Bio-IT World | Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School propose PARTAGE, a multiomics approach that allows researchers to measure replication timing, changes in copy number, and gene activity from the same DNA sample.

    Apr 14, 2026

  • CAS Releases Agentic Tool for Literature Discovery

    Bio-IT World | CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has launched CAS Newton, science-smart agentic AI built specifically for scientific discovery. CAS Newton is grounded in published scientific knowledge curated by CAS scientists, drawing on more than 150 years of literature within the CAS Content Collection across chemistry, biology, materials science, and intellectual property to ensure accuracy and scientific rigor.

    Apr 10, 2026

  • 'Mini-brain' Model Explores Concussion's Effects at Cellular Level

    Bio-IT World | A biomedical engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati is using studying how cells in the brain are affected by concussive forces—and how this trauma can lead to neurodegenerative diseases.

    Apr 9, 2026

  • ‘Humble’ AI Reveals When It is Uncertain in Diagnoses

    Bio-IT World | Artificial intelligence models have assisted doctors with several clinical tasks, and they hold great promise in helping with patient diagnosis and personalized treatment options. However, an MIT-led team of researchers cautions that AI systems, as they are currently designed, may influence doctors toward the wrong path due to overconfidence. According to the researchers, a “humble” AI is needed.

    Apr 7, 2026