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Digitalising drug discovery

pharmaphorum

Dr Maria Chatzou Dunford, a bioinformatician by background, recognised the fundamental role technology could play in accelerating drug discovery through overcoming these challenges, and as a result founded AI -bioinformatics technology company Lifebit in 2017.

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San Diego zoo global biobanking advances wildlife conservation and human medicine worldwide

Scienmag

In a study that has unprecedented implications to advance both medicine and biodiversity conservation, researchers have sequenced 131 new placental mammal genomes, bringing the worldwide total to more than 250 In a study that has unprecedented implications to advance both medicine and biodiversity conservation, researchers have sequenced 131 new placental (..)