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2019 in Review – Major Acquisitions, Population Studies, Gigantic Founding Rounds, Technological Advancements, and ….

The year 2019 comes to an end with significant advancements in precision medicine, genetics, genomics, CRISPR technology, liquid biopsy, and immunotherapy. Highlights and notable news included various technological...read more

BC Platforms Aims to Advance Clinical Decision-Making by Enhancing Clinical Data with Genomics Information

This month’s “Company Spotlight” provides a closer look at the Finnish-Swiss company BC Platforms, a genomic data management and analysis solutions provider, working to revolutionize drug development and to enable...read more

An interview with Michael Snyder, Stanford W. Ascherman Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics & Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine

The following is an interview I recently conducted for the PMWC Intl. team with Dr. Mike Snyder, Professor of Genetics at Stanford University, and in essence is a repost of the original interview that can be found on...read more

Nebion Provides Curated Omics Data Combined with Innovative Visualizations for Target Discovery, Indication Finding, and Drug Safety Assessment

For this month’s “Company Spotlight” blog series we are reviewing Nebion, a Swiss bioinformatics company, in an interview with Philip Zimmermann, Co-founder and CEO of Nebion. Nebion is a 30-person company headquartered...read more

Mike Pellini, Section 32: “I hope we will find a way where the payers and the healthcare industry will work much more closely together to generate the data that will ultimately be useful in answering difficult, cost-based decisions.”

The following is an interview I recently conducted for the PMWC Intl. team with Dr. Mike Pellini, Managing Partner of Section 32 (former CEO of Foundation Medicine), and in essence is a repost of the original interview...read more

Basepair Provides an Intuitive, Easy-to-Use NGS Data Analysis Platform Which Does Not Require Coding Skills

This month’s Company Spotlight provides a closer look at Basepair, a developer and supplier of a suite of automated NGS analysis solutions for research, clinical, and pharma teams. The company’s mission is to provide an...read more

Immunotherapy and the Basis of Neoantigen Biology: Part II Cancer Immunotherapies

Last month’s Immunotherapy and the Basis of Neonatigen Biology blog post focused on neoantigens along with some facets of immunology and cancer that are interrelated. We described in detail how neoantigens and other...read more

BioIT 2019: The New “Official” Future Involves Data Sharing, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, and More

The 18th installment of Boston’s Bio-IT World Conference was attended by over 3,400 participants and featured more than 185 exhibiting companies, both established and startups. The conference program kicked off with a...read more

Immunotherapy and the Basis of Neoantigen Biology: Part I Neoantigens

Since the dawn of the 20th century it was thought that the immune system could ultimately play a role in the treatment of cancers (Wirth and Kunhel, 2017). There has been a resurgence of interest in the last decades in...read more

Sentieon Solves Complex Mathematical Problems – Applied to DNA Sequence Secondary Data Analysis – by Enhancing them With Extreme Accuracy and Efficiency

This month’s “Company Spotlight” provides a closer look at Sentieon, a developer and supplier of a suite of bioinformatics secondary analysis tools that process genomics data with high computing efficiency, fast...read more

AGBT 2019, And the Winners are “Spatial Genomics, Single-cell Genomics, and Long-read Sequencing”

For the first time in three years AGBT returned to Marco Island for its 2019 conference. It was pleasant to be back and be able to enjoy the warmth and the friendly setting we’ve all remembered. The weather played along...read more

Blueprint Genetics Aims to Automate and Improve Clinical Interpretation Processes with Software That Will Change the Industry

This month’s “Company Spotlight” takes a closer look at Blueprint Genetics, a rare disease diagnostics company on a mission to deliver the highest quality standards for genetic diagnostics. Tero-Pekka Alastalo, Chief...read more

JP Morgan 2019 – Drug pricing, drug development, immunotherapy, cancer moonshot, cell/gene-therapy, …

As we all know the JP Morgan Healthcare conference is an invitation-only conference. For this reason, I have summarized various announcements for the purpose of this review. As we have witnessed in the past, exciting...read more

Review of Emerging 2018 Genomic Variants – a Genomenon Research Report

2018 has been another banner year in the progression of Precision Medicine! Year over year, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of scientific studies and initiatives that resulted in meaningful published...read more

2018: Population Studies, Immunotherapy, CRISPR, Genomic Medicine,…2019

2018 was full of significant developments in the life sciences, precision medicine, genetics, and genomics sector. Highlights and notable news included various technological advancements, new clinical applications of...read more

CRISPR Base Editors: An Upgrade for Treatment of Genetic Disease

The CRISPR(Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-Cas9(CRISPR-associated system 9) technology, often touted as one of the greatest recent inventions to drive progress in biotechnology, is currently...read more

Nebula Genomics’ Goal Is To Make The Value of Genome Sequencing a Reality

This month’s “Company Spotlight” provides a closer look at Nebula Genomics, a human genome sequencing and health big data company on a mission to usher in the era of genomic sequencing by building a large and trusted...read more

Now Available: Individual Clinical NGS Process Report Chapters

We are currently offering the individual chapters and the full report at a 10% discount with promo code 10OFFCLINNGSNOW. The recently released Clinical NGS Process Report – released January 12, 2018 – details...read more

Long Non-coding RNAs and Their Clinical Relevance in Cancer and Cancer Therapy

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are clinically relevant in at least two major ways: as biomarkers for cancer or carcinogenesis and as actual targets for cancer therapy. LncRNAs as biomarkers for cancer and carcinogenesis...read more

Bio-IT World Conference 2018 – Data Science Has Replaced Bioinformatics

This year’s conference kicked off with an interesting Data Science panel that included Tanya Cashorali (TCB Analytics), Jerald Schindler (Alkermes), John Reynders (Alexion Pharmaceuticals), and Lihua Yu (H3 Biomedicine)...read more

Happy National DNA Day

The National DNA Day commemorates the 1953 Nature publication of the Structure of DNA by James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and colleagues. It has been…. Image credits: Zen Sutherland 65...read more

ACMG 2018 – “There is Still So Much We Have to Learn”

This year’s ACMG conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, included a very well received first installment of TED-style talks which reflected on the evolution and impact of healthcare. All three talks delivered by...read more

Genohm Aims to Hit the Sweet Spot With a Customizable SLIMS + ELN Solution for Lab Information Management

For this month’s “Company Spotlight” blog series we are reviewing Genohm with an interview with Nick Beckloff, Director of US Operations at Genohm. Genohm is a 50-person company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. I...read more

Just Released – Our New Clinical NGS Process Report

Palo Alto, CA, January 12, 2018 – enlightenbio LLC, today announced the publication of its Clinical NGS Process Report. This new report details the observations and learnings across the complex...read more

Genomenon’s Automated Genomic Search Engine Mastermind Illuminates Current Trends in Genomic Literature – A Look at the Top Cited Variants Across the Scientific Literature

For this month’s “Company Spotlight” blog series we are taking a deeper look at Mastermind, an automated genomic search engine created by Genomenon, a University of Michigan spin-off. Mastermind, a comprehensive...read more

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