• Microway Provides Vyasa Analytics With NVIDIA DGX-1, NumberSmasher GPU Server

    Bio-IT World Brief | Microway announced it has provided an NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer and Microway NumberSmasher Tesla GPU Server to Vyasa Analytics.

    Aug 26, 2019

  • Researchers Beginning To Use CRISPR In Studies

    Bio-IT World | After years of discussion, patent lawsuits, and hype, the gene-editing tool know as CRISPR is finally making its way into clinical trials.

    Aug 26, 2019

  • The Next Trick For CRISPR Is Gene-Editing Pain Away

    MIT Technology Review | A family of street performers could walk on coals. Scientists have paired the discovery with the gene-editing tool CRISPR, in what they say is a step toward a gene therapy that could block severe pain caused by diabetes, cancer, or car accidents without the addictive effects of opioids.

    Aug 23, 2019

  • Color Receives Genetic Counseling Grant for All of Us

    Bio-IT World  | The All of Us research program has awarded $4.6 million in initial funding to Color, a health technology company in Burlingame, California, to establish the program’s nationwide genetic counseling resource. Through this funding, Color’s network of genetic counselors will help participants understand what the genomic testing results mean for their health and their families.

    Aug 21, 2019

  • U.K. Firm Creates Operating System To Handle Massive Genomic Patient Data Sets

    Forbes | We're making work digital on every desktop, we're empowering digital sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) on every street corner, we're building smart digital AI-powered IT systems with machine learning and decision-making abilities to automate our lives… and we're digitizing ourselves as well.

    Aug 16, 2019

  • 20% Enrollment For All of Us Program, Challenges Remain

    Bio-IT World | The All of Us research program announced updates today in a special report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. As of July 2019, the All of Us program has enrolled more than 175,000 core participants (those who contributed personal information, biospecimens, and physical measurements and who agreed to share EHR data) and more than 230,000 total participants; an additional 40,000 participants have registered on the website, the authors report. “More than 80% of these participants are from groups that have been historically underrepresented in biomedical research,” the authors observe.

    Aug 15, 2019

  • Tackling the Affinity Gap at Amgen

    Bio-IT World At Amgen, Agnieszka Kielczewska had a problem. The AMGN12 antibody, derived from an in vivo immunization of the XenoMouse, demonstrated single digit pM affinity to the human orthologue of the target protein, but a 200-fold weaker binding to the monkey orthologue. In order to conduct toxicology studies in non-human primate species, Amgen needed that affinity difference to be closer to 10-fold.

    Aug 14, 2019

  • Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news

    MIT Technology Review | Chipmaker Nvidia is betting that AI's language skills will advance rapidly-it's releasing a powerful tool for putting together chatty programs.

    Aug 13, 2019

  • Biobanking Is Changing The World

    Forbes | With the evolution of biobanks rapidly enabling the creation of massive collections of biological material and associated information, how are these collected terabytes of data transforming nations?

    Aug 13, 2019