• Three Reasons Biopharma Companies Can’t Afford To Miss The Digital Revolution

    Bio-IT World | In the biopharmaceutical industry, there’s no shortage of data—the issue organizations more often face is how to capture data in ways that derive insight from it. Rather than stitching together a patchwork of data from disparate systems after the fact, more emphasis should be placed on capturing data in context, right at the point of execution.

    Aug 20, 2021

  • Ovarian Cancer Chip Model Reveals Drug Repurposing Opportunities

    Bio-IT World | A novel organ-on-a-chip model of ovarian cancer has been used to showcase the sinister activities of tumors, including use of circulating platelets to fuel their growth and undermine treatment with chemotherapeutic drugs. The model also demonstrated the potential of an anti-platelet drug, currently in clinical trials for a different condition: to fight back.

    Aug 17, 2021

  • Unchanging Rules Of Gene Expression Could Improve Drug Approval Odds

    Bio-IT World | Network theory holds that everything is connected—including if the “nodes” are human cells, genomes, proteomes, or transcriptomes. It is “pure, algorithm-run precision math,” and it could be an entirely new approach to big data science that could erase the declining odds that a drug entering clinical studies will exit a winner.

    Aug 13, 2021

  • Spanish Team Builds Neural Network to Predict Small Molecule Characteristics

    Bio-IT World | A team of researchers in Barcelona have gathered bioactivity information for a million molecules using deep machine-learning computational models and a database of experimental results. Both the experimental results and the machine learning tool are available to the community at bioactivitysignatures.org.

    Aug 11, 2021

  • AI in Healthcare: Lessons Learned From Moffitt Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic

    Bio-IT World | Until recently, Ross Mitchell served as the inaugural AI Officer at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. Now he’s offering consulting expertise borne of a long career applying AI to healthcare and health systems.

    Aug 10, 2021

  • Follow the Money: RNA Therapeutics, AI-Driven Therapy Design

    Bio-IT World | Deep Genomics nets cash for AI-designed RNA therapeutics, Strata advances personalized minimal residual disease (MRD) assays, Frontier Medicines goes after the proteome, and more.

    Aug 5, 2021

  • #BioIT21: Insider’s Guide to Making the Most of the Hybrid Program

    Bio-IT World | The Bio-IT World Conference and Expo will be happening both in-person and online this year—giving our community even more options for learning and connection. We’ve been busy marking our schedules and making our plans. Here are our best tips for making the most both the in person and online options.

    Aug 4, 2021