<div><p paraid="1212176438" paraeid="{28cd0328-a844-4eee-84af-4ec2255f1208}{170}"><b>By Allison Proffitt&nbsp;</b></p></div><div><p paraid="228051885" paraeid="{28cd0328-a844-4eee-84af-4ec2255f1208}{176}"><b>April 23, 2024</b> | High performance computing is enjoying an extreme vindication, said Dan Stanzione, Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of TACC. In the opening plenary presentation at last week&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/" target="_b ..read more

<p><b>Commentary Contributed by Luke Piggott, Debiopharm&nbsp;</b></p><div><p paraid="741361869" paraeid="{82793bce-ce2b-4b9d-a657-c163df8b389c}{173}"><b>April 19, 2024</b> | In modern medicine, biomarkers stand as pivotal indicators of biological processes or responses to <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9884646/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">therapeutic interventions, signaling a new era in clinical trial design and patient care</a>. The driving idea behind the use of these tools is that by inte ..read more

<p><b>By Bio-IT World Staff</b><b></b></p><p><b>April 16, 2024</b>&nbsp;| Bio-IT World announced six Best of Show winners today at the 2024 Bio-IT World Conference &amp; Expo in Boston. Honored new products came from winning companies including Combinatics, Osprey, Maxis.IT, Nurocore, Velsera, and Xybion.&nbsp;</p><p>The Best of Show Awards Program at Bio-IT World recognizes innovative new product solutions to important problems facing the Life Sciences industry. The awards program is open to any Bio-IT World exhibit ..read more

<div><p paraid="2028790974" paraeid="{a350b4df-c989-427b-a409-421ab90ba3e3}{226}"><b>By Irene Yeh and Allison Proffitt&nbsp;</b></p></div><div><p paraid="1313941698" paraeid="{a350b4df-c989-427b-a409-421ab90ba3e3}{234}"><b>April 16, 2024 </b>| At the <a href="https://www.triconference.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Precision Med TriConference 2024</a>, Illumina Ventures partner Mara Aspinall sat with Eric Topol, endowed chair and executive VP and professor at Scripps Translational Science Institute, in ..read more

<div><p paraid="1204068059" paraeid="{ab3c23bb-e1d2-48b8-a660-98d789e50c90}{161}"><b>By Deborah Borfitz&nbsp;</b></p></div><div><p paraid="493569070" paraeid="{ab3c23bb-e1d2-48b8-a660-98d789e50c90}{187}"><b>April 11, 2024</b> | Molecular biologists at Iowa State University report the potential for the effects of genetic mutations to be known using a &ldquo;super minigene&rdquo; system developed in the lab of Ravindra Singh, Ph.D., professor of biomedical sciences. The approach essentially enables scientists to reconstruct ..read more

<div><p paraid="1433120245" paraeid="{78e19b60-cbcb-4ed6-97ff-d6c872a591dd}{210}"><b>By Deborah Borfitz</b></p><p paraid="1433120245" paraeid="{78e19b60-cbcb-4ed6-97ff-d6c872a591dd}{210}"><b>April 10, 2024</b> | In drug discovery, the focus of machine learning and artificial intelligence tools has been on predicting outcomes without explanation or understanding of the biochemical pathways mediating those effects. But rigorous translation requires a solid science-based foundation to explain how a drug works, not just that it does, according to Jef ..read more

<div><p paraid="6286082" paraeid="{d397df1b-799a-4e71-9fb7-f7a7b1626d12}{187}"><b>By Paul Nicolaus&nbsp;</b></p></div><div><p paraid="1335986249" paraeid="{d397df1b-799a-4e71-9fb7-f7a7b1626d12}{197}"><b>April 9, 2024 </b>| During the NVIDIA GTC conference held at the San Jose Convention Center and online March 18-21, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlighted an array of advancements, including new <a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/bionemo-ai-drug-discovery-foundation-models-microservices/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopene ..read more

<div><p paraid="666705841" paraeid="{afc555a7-0a00-488b-a9c0-ae16e41d9200}{177}"><b>By Bio-IT World Staff&nbsp;</b></p></div><div><p paraid="530538877" paraeid="{afc555a7-0a00-488b-a9c0-ae16e41d9200}{185}"><b>April 8, 2024 </b>| Bio-IT World announced the 2024 Best of Show Finalists and People&rsquo;s Choice Contenders today, highlighting 26 new products from 27 different companies that will be on display at the <a href="https://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bio-IT World Conference a ..read more

<div><p paraid="978055170" paraeid="{6138f68e-0fe4-4d42-9164-a0f4b37afc5d}{175}"><b>Contributed Commentary By Matt Cato, Mission Bio&nbsp;</b></p></div><div><p paraid="1563319590" paraeid="{6138f68e-0fe4-4d42-9164-a0f4b37afc5d}{181}"><b>April 5, 2024</b> | The pace at which CRISPR has transitioned from a research tool to a therapeutic modality is remarkable. Initially targeting genetic diseases, CRISPR holds tremendous promise across various indications, rapidly expanding into oncology and infectious diseases, indicating CRISPR's ..read more

<div><p paraid="18385185" paraeid="{cabb67cc-4fdf-4ec7-b82c-3c103de58138}{185}"><b>By Deborah Borfitz&nbsp;</b></p></div><div><p paraid="1087355135" paraeid="{cabb67cc-4fdf-4ec7-b82c-3c103de58138}{195}"><b>April 3, 2024</b> | The single biggest risk factor for autoimmune disease is being biologically a female and many explanations have been proposed as to why that is, among them sex hormones and the X chromosome with its large number of immune-related genes. Scientists have more recently pointed to another culprit&mdash;a mole ..read more