• Bring Spatial Techniques to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology

    Bio-IT World | At this week’s Molecular & Precision Medicine Tri-Con event, Simon Gregory, profession or neurology at the Duke University School of Medicine, outlined how his team has been using 10X Genomics’ Visium platform and Oxford Nanopore long read sequencing to understand the pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease development.

    Feb 23, 2022

  • New Tools for Achieving MRD Detection, Accuracy

    Bio-IT World | On the first morning of the Molecular & Precision Med Tri-Con event, Viktor Adalsteinsson, associate director of the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute, explored new tools and techniques for detecting minimal residual disease.

    Feb 23, 2022

  • Launching a New Trends from the Trenches Podcast

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World and BioTeam have been exploring the drivers of life sciences innovation for years during the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo and in regular columns in the publication. Now, together, we’ve launched a new podcast to capture in-depth conversations with leaders in the field about data, culture, technology, and more.

    Feb 22, 2022

  • Why R? The Next Generation in Pharma

    Bio-IT World | All industries drive innovation. The pharmaceutical industry is no different — except that their innovations improve or save lives. The clinical trial process is an important activity that any drug or medical device company works with daily. This is often a target for innovations so that they can improve activities within the trial process. For years, the industry has been dominated by SAS software for its statistical and clinical reporting. Organizations are now actively starting to use other technologies with the R language being heavily adopted.

    Feb 18, 2022

  • Pistoia Alliance Plans Microbiome Atlas

    Bio-IT World | The Pistoia Alliance launched a new project on the microbiome yesterday, which could help speed up the advancement of new, precision medicines and treatments. The project is funded by Bayer, BMS, Eagle Genomics, Pfizer, Roche and Takeda and aims to incorporate microbiome data into the drug development pipeline by gathering all existing microbiome data to create a global standardized ‘atlas’ that scientists can refer to when choosing new drug candidates.

    Feb 17, 2022

  • NIH Sleep Research Plan Highlights Women’s Health, Reducing Disparities

    Bio-IT World | In December the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the latest version if its Sleep Research Plan that used a crowdsourcing campaign to ensure all willing voices on the topic were captured. The congressionally-mandated plan, the fourth in a series published since 1996, seeks to draw the attention of investigators to high-priority areas that could “make an impact within the next five to 10 years,” according to Marishka K. Brown, Ph.D., director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR).

    Feb 15, 2022

  • GIAB Establishes New Benchmark for Several Medically Relevant, Difficult-to-Sequence Genes

    Bio-IT World |The Genome in a Bottle (GIAB) Consortium has just reported a new, expanded benchmark for 273 medically relevant genes that are challenging to clinically assess with current sequencing methods. The work is published in Nature Biotechnology.

    Feb 14, 2022