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NIH to boost COVID-19 testing capabilities

September 3, 2020 By Sean Whooley

The National Institutes of Health announced a $129.3 million plan to support scaling and manufacturing for COVID-19 tests. As part of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, NIH is awarding contracts to nine companies for their technologies that include portable point-of-care tests for immediate results and high-throughput laboratories that can produce results in 24 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Funding Roundup, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics Tagged With: Aegis Sciences, Broad Institute, Ceres Nanoscience, coronavirus, COVID-19, Illumina Inc., MatMaCorp, Maxim Biomedical, MicroGEM International, National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH, PathGroup, Sonic Healthcare USA

Broad Institute, IBM Watson launch initiative to study cancer drug resistance

November 10, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

IBM Watson Health (NYSE:IBM) and the Broad Institute said today that they’ve launched a research initiative with the hopes of discovering the basis for cancer drug resistance. The 5 year, $50 million collaboration will study the genetic information of thousands of drug resistant tumors and use Watson’s machine learning methods to help understand the underlying […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Drug-Device Combinations, Oncology Tagged With: Broad Institute, IBM Watson

Stanford uses CRISPR to correct sickle cell, human trials planned

November 8, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have reportedly used CRISPR, a gene-editing tool, to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease. The team is planning the 1st human clinical trial using this technique to correct cells with sickle cell disease, according to Reuters.  “What we’ve finally shown is that we can do it. It’s […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Drug-Device Combinations, Research & Development, Stem Cells Tagged With: Broad Institute, Stanford University, University of California

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