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AI-engineered Vaccine Approach Could End Cycle of Variant Chasing
Aug 12 | Bio-IT World | A spin-out company of the University of Cambridge is developing a pipeline technology to serve as the computer chip for a whole new class of vaccines covering a family or group of viruses targeted at different stages of their lifecycle. DIOSynVax, short for Digital Immune-Optimized Synthetic vaccines, brings together genomics, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence (AI), and immunology to design broadly protective vaccine antigens that are compatible with most vaccine delivery systems. More -
A Brain Orchestra … Playing at a Range of Unsynchronized Tempos
Aug 11 | Bio-IT World | How does the human brain process information at different speeds, coordinate these different frames of reference, and not lose its way? Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, along with several collaborators, sought to answer these questions by concurrently studying resting-state brain signaling and connectivity dynamics across a range of timescales using functional magnetic resonance imaging and source-localized electro-encephalography. More -
New CEO for PacBio, Updated Chemistry for Vega System
Aug 07 | Bio-IT World | PacBio made several announcements this week: Mark Van Oene is the new President and CEO for the company and new chemistry and software are available for its Vega systems. Both changes aim to position the company for wider platform adoption across labs and research areas. More -
‘Reproductive Resilience Hypothesis’ Highlights the Ovary as a Discovery Source in Longevity Research
Aug 06 | Bio-IT World | In research published today, scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have used inductive reasoning to come up with a “Reproductive Resilience Hypothesis” suggesting that the ovary serves as the central biological hub helping to coordinate overall health. The proposal has implications for women before and after menopause, as well as men, who stand to benefit from what might be learned about the mechanisms controlling beneficial ovarian communication. More -
Trends from the Trenches: Why Semantics Matter in Life Sciences
Aug 05 | Bio-IT World | The AI boom has pushed life sciences data strategy into an uncomfortable spotlight: the answers look polished, but hallucinations, weak reproducibility, and fuzzy audit trails make them risky in regulated work. That pressure is why knowledge graphs, ontologies, and FAIR data principles are showing up in more conversations about AI readiness. In the latest episode of Trends from the Trenches, Tom Plasterer, CEO and co-founder, and Eric Little, chief data officer, of Knowledge3 break down what it takes to turn semantics into something practical. More -
Vibrating Capsule Reveals Gut-Brain Biomarkers for Anorexia Relapse
Aug 04 | Bio-IT World | An ingestible vibrating capsule combined with computational modeling of gut-brain signaling may help identify patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) at risk of relapse while opening the door to new therapeutic strategies. More -
Beyond Sequence: Building the Next Generation of Structural Genomics Platforms
Jul 31 | Bio-IT World | For more than three decades, genomics has been driven by a simple but extraordinarily successful premise: biological information is encoded in nucleotide sequence. Advances in sequencing technologies, genome assembly, annotation, variant analysis, and computational biology have transformed our understanding of genes and genomes. More -
Follow the Money: Fresenius Expands Multiple Growth Areas, Off-the-Shelf CAR-T Therapies, Antibody for Full Season Influenza
Jul 29 | Bio-IT World | Beeline Medicines advances a differentiated portfolio to target underlying causes of immune-mediated diseases; Hemispheric’s platform is Descartes, the world’s first frontier NeuroAI model; and more. More -
Baylor College Serves as Sequencing Center, Immunai, Boehringer Ingelheim Multi-Project Collaboration, Spatial Biology
Jul 28 | Bio-IT World | PumasAI helps establish the Dr. Ramalingam Sankaran Computational Lab for Quantitative Sciences at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research; Novogene Europe launches its Untargeted Metabolomics Service through its Cambridge Omics Centre; and more. More -
The Most Expensive AI Mistake in Biotech Isn’t a Hallucination, It’s a Process Failure
Jul 24 | Bio-IT World | The most expensive AI failures in biotech and pharma are unlikely to come from a model inventing a sentence. They are more likely to come from organizations treating AI as a standalone tool instead of a controlled business process. That distinction matters because regulated life sciences have spent decades building systems around process integrity. More
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