• Black Swan Initiative: Multi-Pronged Research Strategy Targets Multiple Myeloma Cure

    Bio-IT World | The International Myeloma Foundation's ambitious Black Swan Research Initiative is orchestrating a global collaborative effort to achieve what has long eluded researchers: a true cure for multiple myeloma. Through research partnerships spanning five continents, the initiative is systematically testing multiple therapeutic approaches while revolutionizing how cancer drug approvals are evaluated.

    Jun 18, 2025

  • Pistoia Alliance’s FAIR Maturity Assessment Tool

    Bio-IT World | Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles continue to hold an important place in data management and access, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) development, and data sharing between organizations. But FAIR is also complex to implement due to the original FAIR guidelines not being explicit and difficult to understand or visualize for non-experts. The FAIR community of experts with the Pistoia Alliance developed a self-assessment tool that can measure an organization’s FAIR maturity level.

    Jun 17, 2025

  • Veteran ‘Lord of the Flies’ Takes a Crack at Addiction

    Bio-IT World | The brain of fruit flies and humans may be vastly different in size and complexity, but at the circuit level they are not all that different, according to a veteran fly geneticist who has spent much of his career trying to understand why humans abuse drugs. An interest in alcohol dependence segued to another major health problem, cocaine abuse disorder, which has some of the same genetic underpinnings.

    Jun 12, 2025

  • NVIDIA, Novo Nordisk Collaborate to Bring AI Agents to Drug Discovery

    Bio-IT World | Today, NVIDIA announced a collaboration with Novo Nordisk to accelerate drug discovery efforts by creating customized AI models and agents that Novo Nordisk can use for early research and clinical development and to apply advanced simulation and physical AI technologies.

    Jun 11, 2025

  • A Farewell to Stan Gloss: Leading with Generosity and Other Words of Wisdom

    Bio-IT World | BioTeam co-founder and host of Trends from the Trenches Stan Gloss is passing the torch to BioTeam CEO Ari Berman. Gloss founded BioTeam with William van Etten, Chris Dagdigian, and Michael Athanas 22 years ago and built an organization that focuses on helping scientists find solutions, manage data, and accelerate scientific innovation. In his last episode of Trends from the Trenches, Gloss is interviewed by Berman to discuss the founding of BioTeam and words of wisdom for those who are starting their own company.

    Jun 10, 2025

  • MIT Researchers Unveil Boltz-2: AI Model Predicts Protein Structure, Binding Affinity in Seconds

    Bio-IT World | Researchers at MIT and Recursion today announced the release of Boltz-2, an updated artificial intelligence model that can predict protein structure (building on Boltz-1) and also binding affinity—how strongly potential drugs bind to their target proteins—in just 20 seconds with a single GPU.

    Jun 6, 2025