• Mouse Models, Machine Learning, Triggering Proteins: COVID-19 Updates

    Bio-IT World   A potential new screening approach, improving immune response to vaccines, new mouse models of SARS-CoV-2, exploring ACE2 receptor activity, a protein that may trigger blood clots, the importance of placenta tissue, hopeful signs that a single vaccine can do the job, and a bioengineering technique to boost production of proteins that prompt antibody development. Plus, machine learning to help identify drug combinations that can be repurposed as potential therapies.

    Sep 3, 2020

  • Phil Baran on the Quest to Make Chemistry Boring Again

    Bio-IT World | Phil Baran of Scripps Research is dedicated to simplifying chemical synthesis, not to create techniques that are “gimmicky” but will instead become the standard processes of the future. Maybe, “fifty years from now,” he predicts, “we’ll look back in curiosity at chemists of our age who had stages in their syntheses instead of making everything in 1-3 steps.”

    Sep 2, 2020

  • Truth Challenge v2: Latest Challenge Results From Genome In A Bottle

    Bio-IT World  PrecisionFDA and The Genome in a Bottle (GIAB) consortium have announced the results of the Truth Challenge V2: Calling Variants from Short and Long Reads in Difficult-to-Map Regions such as segmental duplications, and the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC).

    Sep 2, 2020

  • A Virtual Feast: A Preview of Bio-IT World 2020

    Bio-IT World | The 2020 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Virtual includes three days full of content, networking, and interaction across 16 tracks, plenary session, workshops, posters, awards, and happy hours. And for the first time ever, many presentations will be available on demand after their first showing. We are already building our agenda.  

 

Sep 1, 2020

  • Racial Impacts of COVID-19, Neutralizing Antibodies, More

    Bio-IT World | Racial segregation of COVID-19 is following HIV patterns, more data on neutralizing antibodies, four months of data from Italy's use of hydroxychloroquine, and a computer model for school launches. Plus, an award from the UK government for vaccine development. 

    Aug 28, 2020

  • UK Biobank Contracts With DNAnexus, AWS to Build Data Analysis Platform

    Bio-IT World  UK Biobank, a long-term study of health data from 500,000 UK volunteers, announced today that it is developing its own cloud-based Data Analysis Platform to make its extensive medical data available to a broader range of researchers around the world. Funding for the Data Analysis Platform has come from Wellcome, and it will be developed over the next three years by DNAnexus in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

    Aug 26, 2020

  • Vertiv, Pure Storage, And More: News From August 2020

    Bio-IT World   August featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Vertiv, Pure Storage, and more.

    Aug 25, 2020

  • Beetle Viruses, Nitrate Supplements, Missing Sense of Smell: COVID-19 Updates

    Bio-IT World | How a beetle virus is informing SARS-CoV-2 research, plus nitrate supplementation for aid breathing, new small molecules active against the virus, and a theory for why COVID-19 patients lose their sense of smell. Plus, $9.8 million from DOD for vaccine research and virus-like particles for vaccine development.

    Aug 21, 2020