• The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018

    Futurism | For the first time ever, a CRISPR clinical trial has been applied for and will hopefully prove that the gene-editing technique truly holds potential.

    Dec 19, 2017

  • Year In Review: 2017 Conferences, Discussions, Awards

    Bio-IT World | A look back at the conferences held by Cambridge Healthtech Institute, covering a wide range of content focusing on bringing members of the biotech, next generation sequencing, IT, and personalized medicine communities to come together to promote innovation at the intersection between biology and technology.

    Dec 19, 2017

  • Engaging The Black Box: How AI Changes The Stakes For Pharma

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies  are looking to leverage AI to reverse the decline in R&D productivity that has persisted in the face of other IT technologies, such as structure-based drug design or bioinformatics.

    Dec 14, 2017

  • Gamers Help Researchers Tackle The Problem Of Protein Folding

    Bio-IT World | Foldit is an online puzzle video game designed to fold the structures of selected proteins as perfectly as possible. Recently, the developers of the game have been partnering with companies and institutions, including Mars Incorporated and Thermo Fisher Scientific, to help target the issue of carcinogens in food.

    Dec 13, 2017

  • Researchers At Mount Sinai, Sema4 Develop Powerful New Method For Microbiome Analysis

    Bio-IT World Brief | Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Sema4, and collaborating institutions New York University and the University of Florida published a report detailing their new, more accurate method for identifying individual microbial species and strains in a community.

    Dec 12, 2017

  • Race And Ancestry: Distinguishing The Two For Genetic Studies

    Bio-IT World | The findings from a study elucidating the differences in molecular alterations in multiple myeloma as a function of self-reported race and genetic ancestry were recently published in PLOS Genetics.

    Dec 11, 2017

  • The Biotech Industry Needs To Pay More Attention To Women's Health

    STAT | In this opinion piece, the authors argue that reversing the dearth of investment in women's health would be good for women, for the biotech industry, and for the U.S. economy.

    Dec 8, 2017