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News and Trends 28 Jan 2022

AI Hot in Healthcare Despite IBM’s Watson Health Pullout

Earlier this week, the tech giant IBM sold off chunks of its once-promising artificial intelligence (AI)-guided division Watson Health. Despite this setback, European firms see a bright future for the use of AI in healthcare. The tech giant IBM hit the headlines this week when it sold off parts of Watson Health — a division […]

January 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 26 Jan 2022

Bioinformatics Startups in Focus as SeqOne Genomics Bags €20M

The French company SeqOne Genomics has raised €20M in a Series A round as growing investments reach startups delivering the next generation of genomics and bioinformatics. The cost of sequencing the human genome has plummeted over the decades to less than €900 ($1,000) today. Partly thanks to advances in cloud computing, innovations are flourishing in […]

January 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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In Depth 4 Sep 2018

The Past, Present and Future of Genome Sequencing

The last two decades have seen a revolution in genome sequencing with dramatic increases in speed and efficiency coupled with massive reductions in cost. There is so much going on in this area it can be difficult to keep up, so here is what you should know. Gene sequencing has proved its usefulness as a […]

September 4, 2018 - 9 minutesmins - By Editorial Team

Startup Scout 9 Feb 2018

This Polish Biotech Uses AI to Help Others Speed Up Precision Medicine Development

Following on from BioNext’s software last week, we’re in Kraków to visit Ardigen. This biotech develops technology to help us decipher the huge amount of data generated by research. Mission: Ardigen came to our attention when it finished 2nd place in the prestigious NCI-CPTAC DREAM-Proteogenomics Challenge – a competition with more than 500 competitors. Universities and research institutes […]

February 9, 2018 - 1 minutemin - By Alex Dale

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World’s First Molecular Computer Makes Data Storage 100 Times Smaller

A team of French scientists has built the first molecular computer using polymers to store data, making each bit 100 times smaller than with current data storage. Just eight bytes encoding the word “Sequence” in ASCII code. A feat for the team of researchers that encoded and read the word using a synthetic polymer sequence. Their […]

October 17, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 21 Apr 2017

Fungi Genomes could be a Gold Mine of New Antibiotics

Good old Penicillium still has a lot more tricks upon its sleeve: Swedish researchers see its potential as a gold mine for new antibiotics. The genomic analysis of Penicillium species represents a potential gold mine for new bioactive compounds, or improved versions of those we already use. Published recently in Nature Microbiology, the work was carried at Chalmers University […]

April 21, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 27 Mar 2017

You Can Now Search Worldwide Genomic Data in a Single Platform

Access to data is still the main bottleneck for genomic researchers. Repositive has created a free online platform to solve this problem once and for all. Repositive is building an online platform that makes genomic data from different sources easily searchable and accessible from a single portal. Its mission is to speed up genetic diagnostics […]

March 27, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

More News! 21 Mar 2017

Better than Quantum Computing: The EU Launches a Biocomputer Project

The EU Horizon 2020 has launched Bio4Comp, a five-year €6.1M project to build more powerful and safer biocomputers that could outperform quantum computing. The Bio4Comp project has the ambitious goal of building a computer with greater processing speed and lower energy consumption than any of the most advanced computers existing today. Ultimately, this could translate into […]

March 21, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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Interview 20 Mar 2017

Machines are Helping Healthcare: An Interview with their Biotech Leader

BenevolentAI is leading the charge in artificial intelligence. We talked to Jackie Hunter, who is the CEO of the company’s bioscience arm, BenevolentBio. Jackie Hunter has had quite an impressive career! After defending her PhD in psychology, she transitioned to GSK, where she clocked nearly 20 years in various leadership positions — Director while the […]

March 20, 2017 - 8 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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More News! 27 Feb 2017

Fundraising in the UK will Support Rare Disease Diagnostics Worldwide

Congenica has raised £8M in its Series B financing round to sustain the international rollout of its clinical genome analysis platform Sapientia. Congenica is a genomic diagnostics company in Cambridge’s biotech cluster. Its genome analysis platform, Sapientia, takes on the challenge of interpreting the avalanche of genomic data becoming available in healthcare. The £8M (€9.5M) raised will sustain the […]

February 27, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

More News! 4 Feb 2017

This PhD-Carrying Musician Tells the Story of Life through Music & Video

Max Cooper bridges the age-old divide between science and art with a transfixing blend of glitchy electronica, classical music and haunting vocals. I was lucky enough to catch Max Cooper live in Dublin last weekend, during his tour to showcase his latest album, Emergence. Inspired by natural processes and the laws underlying them, Emergence is a tour-de-force of […]

February 4, 2017 - 6 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 16 Jan 2017

Merck partners with Big Data Unicorn to help Cancer Patients

Merck will use Palantir’s big data software to improve drug development and patient services, starting with cancer treatments. Merck will step up its data analytics capabilities in partnership with Palantir. The US company, co-founded by PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel, provides data integration and analysis software that Merck plans to use to improve patient care and […]

January 16, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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AI Hot in Healthcare Despite IBM’s Watson Health Pullout

Bioinformatics Startups in Focus as SeqOne Genomics Bags €20M

The Past, Present and Future of Genome Sequencing

This Polish Biotech Uses AI to Help Others Speed Up Precision Medicine Development

World’s First Molecular Computer Makes Data Storage 100 Times Smaller

Fungi Genomes could be a Gold Mine of New Antibiotics

You Can Now Search Worldwide Genomic Data in a Single Platform

Better than Quantum Computing: The EU Launches a Biocomputer Project

Machines are Helping Healthcare: An Interview with their Biotech Leader

Fundraising in the UK will Support Rare Disease Diagnostics Worldwide

This PhD-Carrying Musician Tells the Story of Life through Music & Video

Merck partners with Big Data Unicorn to help Cancer Patients

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