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News and Trends 11 Jan 2023

We DUB this target ‘druggable’

By Sheelagh Frame, CSO at Ubiquigent Modulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) presents a rich source for drug discovery. Recent years have seen the clinical validation of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) unlock the ability to drug the undruggable, by exploiting E3 ligases to mediate targeted protein degradation (TPD), paving the way to tackle exciting new drug […]

January 11, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

How biotech startups can innovate through embracing applied research

By Kathleen Lee, director of the Arizona WearTech Applied Research Center Innovation is about breaking new ground and forging new pathways to confront societal issues and solve problems. Many startup companies, especially in the biotech industries, are working towards finding solutions to some of these most complex problems. All solutions start as mere ideas, and […]

December 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Navigating running a startup as a Gen Z female founder

By: Alina Su, CEO and founder of NovaXS Biotech Corp The next generation of biotech founders are facing new challenges. Despite the access to a world of opportunity on the internet, pursuing your dreams as a Generation Z female biotech founder is not easy. Gen Z has the unpopular stereotype that they are lazy and […]

December 14, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

The crucial importance of project management for healthcare startups

By Clémentine Duflot, consultant at HC NEXT In an effervescent healthcare innovation field, where risk-assessment and time-to-market are key to break through and survive, speeding and derisking drug and medical device developments to ensure each innovation becomes a product to benefit patients is essential. A drug or medical device development project requires a high level […]

December 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 12 Dec 2022

Artificial intelligence: a new era in rare genetic disease diagnosis

Despite the onset of the genomics era, rare disease diagnosis remains a challenge. Nostos Genomics’ co-founder, Rocío Acuña Hidalgo, and chief operating officer, Ansgar Lange, shed light on how artificial intelligence (AI) could fill in the gaps. It is estimated that 300 million people worldwide are affected by rare diseases and around 80% of these […]

December 12, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

A new treatment for tackling epidermolysis bullosa

By Jordi Casals, president, EMEA, Amryt Pharma Epidermolysis bullosa (EB), sometimes described as “the worst disease you’ve never heard of,” is a group of rare and distressing inherited skin disorders primarily diagnosed in young children. The genetic mutations that cause EB can result in the skin being extremely fragile. Any physical contact with the skin […]

November 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

RSV cases are rising fast in children. Early detection can help.

By Shawn Gaskell, MilliporeSigma RSV-related hospitalizations for 2022 have already surged to unusually high numbers, surpassing cumulative cases typically reported in late December each year, and we’re not even one month into the season. While no age group is immune to RSV— respiratory syncytial virus— and the trouble it can cause, young children are being […]

November 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

A biotech boom manifesting real results in rare pediatric diseases

By Bob Coughlin, managing director, life sciences, JLL For the last two years, the pandemic has resulted in the explosive growth in life sciences. The world watched in awe and anticipation as biotech successfully raced to develop vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics for Covid-19. It has been a good moment for an industry that deserves such […]

November 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 11 Nov 2022

Program management support: accelerating growth for early stage biotechs

More academic groups, new start-ups, biotechs and small pharma companies are turning to external consultants for professional program management support and guidance to help them progress their ideas into medicines for patients. Ian Hollingsworth, associate director of product development at Boyds, a global drug development consultancy, explains the common reasons why academic spinouts and small […]

November 11, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 25 Oct 2022

Precision medicine research must lose its Eurocentricity

Precision medicine research relies on genetic testing at scale, but how do we reach more diverse patient populations and collect nationally representative samples? Patrick Short, CEO and co-founder of Sano Genetics, and Natasha Ratcliffe, director of community engagement and partnerships at Couch Health, explain how Eurocentricity is holding back genetics, and what can be done. […]

October 25, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 24 Oct 2022

Hiding in plain sight: how to solve bioscience’s software problem

Guy Levy-Yurista, CEO of the experiment platform developer Synthace, gives his take on what’s missing in increasingly software-dependent life sciences labs: a holistic mindset for improving experimental methods. There’s a major problem holding back progress in biotech, and more widely in the life sciences. It’s not an obvious one, but based on the conversations I […]

October 24, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 20 Oct 2022

The role of long-read sequencing in validating CRISPR outcomes

Neil Ward, general manager of PacBio EMEA With applications of CRISPR across the spectrum of microbial, plant and gene therapy increasingly being realised, enthusiasm from the research community for this technology is not expected to wane. It has the potential to, among other applications, create knock-out animal models for use in research, revolutionise agriculture and […]

October 20, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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We DUB this target ‘druggable’

How biotech startups can innovate through embracing applied research

Navigating running a startup as a Gen Z female founder

The crucial importance of project management for healthcare startups

Artificial intelligence: a new era in rare genetic disease diagnosis

A new treatment for tackling epidermolysis bullosa

RSV cases are rising fast in children. Early detection can help.

A biotech boom manifesting real results in rare pediatric diseases

Program management support: accelerating growth for early stage biotechs

Precision medicine research must lose its Eurocentricity

Hiding in plain sight: how to solve bioscience’s software problem

The role of long-read sequencing in validating CRISPR outcomes

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Catalonia: A biotech hub going from strength to strength, with Barcelona at its core

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Catalonia: A biotech hub going from strength to strength, with Barcelona at its core

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These 7 biotechs are shaping the next generation of endometriosis care

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