This Week in TechBio 2024/03/04
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Ginkgo bioworks announces the start of its “Ginkgo Technology Network”, as well as a few acquisitions; Novo inks a molecular glue partnership; and Moderna announces going back to rare diseases.
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This Week in TechBio 2024/02/26
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Quite a few company announced funding rounds this week, despite layoffs, in particular I am pretty stoked to see Bioptimus finally come out of stealth, I’m pretty curious to see what they’ll come out with.
This Week in TechBio 2024/02/15
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Less excitement than in the previous weeks for Techbio announcements. There were however two cool papers showing the “real world” performances of Foundation models for DNA and proteins, which were rather lackluster.
This Week in TechBio 2024/02/05
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The anouncements this week were mostly focused on AI for diagnostics and automation, as well as some news on new sequencing assays and new RNA therapeutics.
This Week in TechBio 2024/01/29
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Little bit of a “two for one” deal this week as I did not have time to correctly annotate all the news last week, so here comes the TechBio news of the past two weeks.
This Week in TechBio 2024/01/15
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The week started with the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, which is the big pharma conference where deals tend to be announced. Ther NVidia made quite a splash and showed its willingness to become a serious actor in the bio space, probably hoping to ride the wave of GPT and Generative AI to give them a head start.
This Week in TechBio 2024/01/07
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I have been following the field of the emerging techbio industry for a few years from a distance during my PhD, and have been a bit keener in my interest about it in the last few months. Realizing I was spending quite some time doing it each day, by actually going through the news coverage and annotating them, I decided to have other folks benefit from my new procrastination habit.