Phase II of Singapore’s National Precision Medicine strategy to begin in April 2021
Precision medicine is part of Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 strategic goal to transform and protect the health of every Singaporean. Identified as a priority by the Ministry of Health, precision medicine...
Pandemic’s mitigation efforts may have contributed to drop in clinical trial completion rates
Social distancing and lockdowns may have reduced the spread of COVID-19, but researchers from Penn State College of Medicine also report those actions may have affected clinical researchers' ability to finish trials. Study completion...
Novartis, Artios Pharma Target Cancer in Up-to-$1.3B DDR Collaboration
Artios Pharma CEO Niall Martin, PhD
Novartis has agreed to identify and validate next-generation DNA Damage Response (DDR) targets for precision cancer treatments using Artios Pharma’s discovery platform, through a collaboration that could generate more...
New super parallel computer system ‘KAGAYAKI’ based on Dell at JAIST now in operation
Provides 2.24x higher performance than previous system
Credit: JAIST and Dell Technologies
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (“JAIST”; Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture ; President: Minoru Terano)...
Vir Biotechnology to Present at the 20th Annual Needham Virtual Healthcare Conference – Yahoo...
BloombergSwedish Central Bank Reveals First Study of Digital Currency(Bloomberg) -- The Swedes are learning that their once pioneering vision for a central bank digital currency might take a lot longer to enact than initially...
New grants awarded by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre for biotech research – Holyrood
Fifteen new grants awarded the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) will be used to fund cutting-edge research in biotechnology. The grants will fund PhD projects run in collaboration between universities and biotech companies....
New RNA-Sequencing Method Opens a Pandora’s Box of Opportunity
Panoramic RNA Display by Overcoming RNA Modification Aborted Sequencing (PANDORA) is a new RNA sequencing method developed by scientists from the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Unlike Pandora’s box which refers to a source...
Are you using antihistamines properly?
Antihistamines can be helpful during spring allergy season and as COVID vaccines roll out, for which rashes are common
Credit: McMaster University
Hamilton, ON (April 6, 2021) –...
SNP-Chip: CRISPR-Based Transistor Detects Single Point Mutations
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on CRISPR-based diagnostics, Kiana Aran, PhD, was developing the CRISPR-Chip. It was, according to Aran, the first transistor that uses CRISPR to search the genome for...
Strella Biotechnology Is Using Biosensors to Combat Food Waste – Philadelphia magazine
NewsStrella Biotechnology monitors an increase in ethylene production in fruit, signaling when produce needs to get to consumers before spoiling.
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