• NVIDIA’s Synthetic Brain Images, Genomic Research Diversity, New Products

    Bio-IT World | Kings College London uses NVIDIA’s Cambridge-1 supercomputer to build synthetic brain images, Singapore researcher detect SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, American Heart Association Issues statement on genomic research diversity, and biobank acquisitions. Plus new products from 10x Genomics, Paradigm4, Thermo Fisher, Cresset.

    Aug 3, 2021

  • Russia Will Introduce Special Digital Genetic Passports

    Bio-IT World | Russia plans to introduce special digital genetic passports that will contain genome sequencing of each citizen of the country—the data could be further used for the formation of genetic profiles and identification of susceptibility to diseases, according to recent statements made by some senior officials of the Russian federal government and analysts.

    Jul 29, 2021

  • Duke, Regeneron, Micronoma Named 2021 Bio-IT World Innovative Practices Winners

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced the 2021 Innovative Practices Awards winners. Grand prize awards were granted to Duke Cancer Institute with University of California, San Francisco, Micronoma, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Pure Storage and the Folding@home project received honorable mention recognition. All four groups will be presenting their projects at the 2021 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston in September.

    Jul 28, 2021

  • NHGRI Takes New, WGS Look at Mendelian Diseases

    Bio-IT World | The National Institutes of Health has made a five-year, nearly $80 million commitment to the establishment of a Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium of five clinical laboratories and one data coordinating center. The Consortium will build on previous National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) work to develop new methods for identifying the genetic causes of single-gene diseases.

    Jul 27, 2021

  • Sema4 Begins Trading, Eyes Healthcare Partnerships, Liquid Biopsy

    Bio-IT World | The board members of both Sema4 and CM Life Sciences voted this week to approve the special purpose acquisition company. The resulting combined company, Sema4 Holdings Corp, will commence trading of its shares of common stock and warrants on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbols "SMFR" and “SMFRW” today or Monday.

    Jul 23, 2021

  • DeepMind Releases Open Protein Structure Database Including Complete Human Proteome

    Bio-IT World | DeepMind and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) today unveiled the most complete and accurate database of predicted protein structure models for the human proteome. The database includes about 350,000 protein structures and will be freely and openly available to the scientific community.

    Jul 22, 2021

  • PacBio Acquires Short-Read Sequencer Omniome for $800M

    Bio-IT World | Pacific Biosciences announced this morning that it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which it will acquire Omniome, a San Diego-based company developing a highly differentiated, proprietary short-read sequencing platform capable of delivering high accuracy.

    Jul 20, 2021

  • Pfizer’s Digital Strategy and Transformation

    Bio-IT World | Bill Leister, Pfizer’s Senior Vice President of Advanced Analytics and Data Platforms & Learning and Development, discusses the pandemic, platforms, and Pfizer’s digital vision.

    Jul 20, 2021

  • Why NLP Is the Key to Interpreting Unstructured Data in Pharma Drug Discovery

    Bio-IT World | Natural language processing can help the pharma industry assess the market potential of a new drug, as well as target patient populations more accurately for existing drugs. NLP is much faster than human processing and can standardize mass amounts of both qualitative and quantitative unstructured data quickly into usable information with actionable insights.

    Jul 19, 2021

  • Inflammatory Clock Measures ‘Universal’ Hallmark Of Aging

    Bio-IT World | Systemic chronic inflammation—a universally strong signal of ill health associated with all nine hallmarks of aging and diseases that collectively represent the leading causes of disability and mortality worldwide—can now be measured by an inflammatory clock of aging (iAge) developed by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. It is the first “actionable clock” that predicts multimorbidity, frailty, immunological health, and chronic diseases of aging.

    Jul 15, 2021