• Vizgen’s Terry Lo on Creating Maps of Biology’s Backroads

    Bio-IT World | On the latest episode of the Trends from the Trenches podcast, Lo speaks with BioTeam’s Stan Gloss about spatial biology, why it matters, and how he imagines the technology changing healthcare’s future.

    Dec 27, 2022

  • Gene Editing in 3D Patient-Derived Tumor Organoids, Machine Learning Model As Diabetes Prevention Tool, More

    Bio-IT World | A novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting is also believed to limit inflammation during sepsis; supercomputing and AI resources apply large language models to track how a virus mutates into more dangerous or transmissible variants; Amazon Web Services to create, fund, and build 10 successful start-up companies based out of UNC-Chapel Hill; and more.

    Dec 27, 2022

  • Follow the Money: AI-Fueled Endoscopic Procedure Recording, New Computational Biological Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, More

    Bio-IT World | Funding for targeted cancer treatment AI platform, oligo-conjugated antibodies and nucleic acid-encoded pixels to identify and spatially locate cell surface proteins, life sciences SaaS solutions, and more.

    Dec 22, 2022

  • Killing Cancer With Synthetic Lethality

    Bio-IT World | A key member of the team that discovered the BRCA2 breast cancer susceptibility gene in 1995 is now enamored of the idea of taking on cancer with synthetic lethal therapies, a nontraditional approach that exploits the weaknesses of cancer cells. The promise of the treatment concept was the topic of the Heath Memorial Award keynote address delivered at the recent Leading Edge of Cancer Research Symposium of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

    Dec 21, 2022

  • Teachable Neurons Could Improve Preclinical Drug Screening

    Bio-IT World | When sent electrical signals, a living model of the brain succeeded in “playing” Pong, a simple, tennis-like computer game popular in the 1970s. It was a notable feat for a single layer of neural cells in a dish, recapitulating how a real brain functions better than a computer or artificial intelligence ever will.

    Dec 20, 2022