• This Company Can Encode Your Favorite Song In DNA—For $100,000

    MIT Technology Review | It's not cheap. But Twist Bioscience thinks storing data in genes could be the next big thing.

    Apr 6, 2018

  • Five Use Cases For AI and Machine Learning In Commercial Pharma

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Over the last decade, early business uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI), or machine learning, in life sciences have proven successful in drug discovery – predicting molecule-target bonding, identifying new biomarkers, and uncovering new drug indications. Now machine learning is gaining broader traction into other areas, including commercial operations, and transforming the way the industry collects, synthesizes, and uses data.

    Apr 4, 2018

  • Kite Pharma Veterans Launching New Firm To Develop Off-The-Shelf CAR-T

    STAT | Two former Kite Pharma executives unveiled Allogene Therapeutics, a new company trying to develop a suite of CAR-T therapy assets designed so that they do not need to be personalized for each cancer patient.

    Apr 3, 2018

  • Platypus: Deep Data Dives For Clinical Data Reviewer

    Bio-IT World | If you are creating a tool designed to give a sixth sense, of course you name it after a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia. Not unlike the animal, Takeda’s Platypus is made up of various parts, specifically designed to meet the medical reviewer’s needs.

    Apr 2, 2018

  • Deceptive Cloud Efficiency: Do You Really Pay As You Use?

    Forbes | Cloud computing is often described as a "pay as you go" service, but that might not really be the case.

    Mar 30, 2018

  • Jennifer Doudna Joins Synthego Advisory Board

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Jennifer Doudna has joined Synthego’s advisory board. She will advise Synthego on a variety of product, partnership, and business strategy initiatives to help amplify the company's fast-growing impact in the genome engineering space. The advisory role builds on Doudna’s January 2017 individual investment in the company.

    Mar 29, 2018

  • AI Designs Organic Syntheses

    Nature | Software that devises effective schemes for synthetic chemistry has depended on the input of rules from researchers. A system is now reported in which an artificial-intelligence program learns the rules for itself.

    Mar 29, 2018

  • The Government Wants To Free Health Data. Will That Unleash Innovation?

    STAT | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to put patients in charge of their information - and it wants to do so explicitly to help app and device makers gain access to high-quality data.

    Mar 29, 2018

  • PAREXEL, Vanderbilt University, Boehringer Ingelheim, And More: News From March 2018

    Bio-IT World | March featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including PAREXEL, Vanderbilt University, Boehringer Ingelheim, and more.

    Mar 28, 2018

  • CRISPR Restored: Scientists Reverse Finding That Gene Editing Technology Had Flaws

    Forbes | Last summer a paper appeared suggesting that CRISPR gene editing could cause hundreds of off-target mutations. Turns out that was wrong, and the authors have just published a preprint admitting it.

    Mar 27, 2018