Oct 15, 2020, 01:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo closed out with a plenary keynote presentation on preventive genomics by Robert Green, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician-scientist who directs the G2P Research Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Broad Institute. Data-sharing difficulties were a recurring theme at this year’s conference but, as the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative has demonstrated, it is possible to combine genomic data to rapidly explore markers of disease, he says.

Oct 14, 2020, 15:50 PM by Abhinav Singh

BELFORD, NJ, UNITED STATES - Oct 14, 2020 - SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AffaMed Therapeutics (“AffaMed”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative therapeutics to address ophthalmologic and central nervous system (CNS) disorders with high unmet medical need for patients in Greater China and beyond, today announced a definitive merger agreement with biopharmaceutical company EverInsight Therapeutics (“EverInsight”)

Oct 14, 2020, 14:29 PM by Abhinav Singh

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Oct 15, 2020 -   Partek Incorporated announced today that its software has been cited in over eight thousand peer-reviewed articles published in scientific journals, including the prestigious PNAS, Cell, and Nature Medicine  journals

Oct 14, 2020, 09:42 AM by Abhinav Singh

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Oct 14, 2020 - Kyruus today announced findings from its fourth annual survey of 1,000 healthcare consumers exploring how they learn about, select, and schedule appointments with new providers

Oct 14, 2020, 09:34 AM by Abhinav Singh

CHICAGO, MA, UNITED STATES - Oct 14, 2020 - While hospitals and health systems across the country face tremendous financial pressures and declining consumer confidence, AVIA Network Members continue to lead healthcare toward practical, impactful, and sustainable digital transformation

Oct 14, 2020, 01:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | On its 10th anniversary, the annual Trends from the Trenches presentation from Chris Dagdigian, co-founder and principle consultant of BioTeam, and friends had lost none of its characteristic candor and punch—even in a virtual environment and even as Dagdigian successfully continued to limit his own speaking time.

Oct 12, 2020, 14:37 PM by Abhinav Singh

PRINCETON, NJ - Oct 12, 2020 - WCG announced today the unification of its five industry-leading IRBs – Western IRB (WIRB), Copernicus Group IRB (CGIRB), Midlands IRB (MLIRB), New England IRB (NEIRB), and Aspire IRB – into the single WCG IRB brand

Oct 12, 2020, 09:15 AM by Abhinav Singh

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Dec 10, 2020 - Cambridge, UK, 9th October 2020: Mogrify Limited (Mogrify®), a UK company aiming to transform the development of ex vivo cell therapies and pioneer the field of in vivo reprogramming therapies, today announced the introduction of EpiMOGRIFY

Oct 12, 2020, 08:14 AM by Abhinav Singh

WESTBURY, NY - Oct 12, 2020 - BioIVT, a leading provider of research models and services for drug and diagnostic development, today announced the publication of research describing the use of HEPATOPAC® cultures with a targeted in vitro assay to identify small molecule drugs with high potential for drug-induced liver injury (DILI)

Oct 12, 2020, 02:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Virtual launched last week with an opening plenary keynote from Drs. Susan Gregurick, Associate Director for Data Science at NIH and Rebecca Baker, Director of the HEAL Initiative at NIH.

Oct 10, 2020, 01:53 AM by Abhinav Singh

NY, NY - Oct 10, 2020 - On October 8, 2020, Alfa Chemistry Materials announces to provide wide options of resins for customers worldwide, which have broad applications in decoration, manufacture of plastics as well as other fields

Oct 9, 2020, 04:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | MIT’s preprint reviewers debunk synthetic SARS-CoV-2 paper, genetic analysis of virus samples show most COVID-19 cases in Southern California early in the pandemic are linked to New York state via Europe, not directly from China, vaccines should not be affected by the dominant ‘G-strain’, severe cases of COVID-19 develop a novel T cell subset that can potentially kill B cells, and MS drug inhibits virus growth. Plus, NIH funds COVID-10 vaccine using bovine adenovirus.

Oct 8, 2020, 15:15 PM by Abhinav Singh

SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 8, 2020 - Leading contract provider of integrated discovery, development and manufacturing services for biologics and bioconjugates, Abzena, has invested $60m into a new facility for late phase and commercial cGMP manufacturing

Oct 7, 2020, 19:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  Day two of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Virtual was highlighted by a plenary keynote on artificial intelligence (AI) and citizen science, a new data commons maturity model, guidance for FAIRifying data, augmented intelligence systems for biological data, and much more. 

Oct 7, 2020, 05:07 AM by Michael Croft

BOURNEMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 7, 2020 - Solentim is pleased to announce the adoption of its VIPS™ single cell seeding platform and Cell Metric® CLD into Samsung Biologics’ new research and development facility in San Francisco, CA

Oct 7, 2020, 02:10 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 6, 2020 - A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright LLC to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the United States and others issued warnings that hackers were using the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their activities

Oct 6, 2020, 19:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Virtual launched today with an open plenary keynote from Drs. Susan Gregurick, Associate Director for Data Science at NIH and Rebecca Baker, Director of the HEAL Initiative at NIH. The rest of the day was full of workshops covering AI in clinical trials and drug discovery, tools for moving data quickly and safely, wearables to gather data, and much more.

Oct 6, 2020, 17:15 PM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Oct 6, 2020 - PetaGene and NVIDIA announce seamless integration of PetaGene's PetaSuite tools as a standard part of NVIDIA Clara Parabricks Pipelinesx

Oct 6, 2020, 13:08 PM by Michael Croft

JERSEY CITY, NJ, US - Oct 6, 2020 - TrialScope, the global leader in clinical trial disclosure and transparency management technology, has added a new study sponsor to its growing customer roster

Oct 6, 2020, 09:57 AM by Michael Croft

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Oct 6, 2020 - InSysBio, one of the world’s pioneers of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) modeling, releases the new version of mathematical simulation workbench DBSolveOptimum 2020