• Combined Monogenic, Polygenic Risk Scores Could Change Medical Understanding of Disease

    Bio-IT World | In a paper published today in Nature Communications, IBM and the Broad Institute reported the first results of their collaboration to develop predictive models for cardiovascular disease.

    Aug 20, 2020

  • Bringing Peer Review To Early COVID-19 Research, More News

    Bio-IT World | New insights into the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, a daily aerosol protectant, a look a death rates in 1918 and now, and a journal dedicated to publishing COVID-19 research with visible peer review. Plus new funding from NIH and the American Heart Association to enable further research on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

    Aug 18, 2020

  • Bringing Peer Review To Early COVID-19 Research, More

    Bio-IT World | New insights into the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, a daily aerosol protectant, a look a death rates in 1918 and now, and a journal dedicated to publishing COVID-19 research with visible peer review. Plus new funding from NIH and the American Heart Association to enable further research on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

    Aug 14, 2020

  • Five Steps to Commercialization Success and Common Challenges You Can Easily Avoid

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | It’s no surprise that advancements in novel technologies and the advent of big data have propelled significant breakthroughs in pharmaceutical development. The last decade has not only seen an increase in new chemical and biological entities but also significantly more innovative medicines reaching the market. Looking to the future, we also expect to see an intensified focus on neglected diseases as new and emerging biopharma companies (EBP) drive new medicine launches. However, to get there, organizations reaching for “first-in-market” status or securing key market areas depends on their ability to swiftly commercialize these new technologies and therapeutics.

    Aug 17, 2020

  • New Computational Tool from St. Jude Tackles ‘The Other 98%’ of Human Genome

    Bio-IT World | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have developed a computational tool to identify cancer-causing mutations lurking in the vast and largely unexplored regions of the human genome.

    Aug 13, 2020

  • NIH Launches Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa Grant Program

    Bio-IT World In a virtual symposium this week—rescheduled from a live event in Uganda—the National Institutes of Health launched a new program: Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa). The program will leverage data science technologies and prior NIH investments to develop solutions to the continent’s most pressing public health problems through a robust ecosystem of new partners from academic, government, and private sectors.

    Aug 12, 2020