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Sophia Genetics launches AI tool to find COVID-19 ‘unknowns’

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Swiss medical data specialist Sophia Genetics has launched a platform that will sift through data generated at more than 1,000 hospitals around the world to try to work out how the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve in the coming months and years. Combined, they use machine learning to discover abnormalities predictive of disease evolution.

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Open science, genomics, and the quiet revolution in our approach to pharma

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Evan Floden , CEO of Seqera Labs examines how data sharing platforms are impacting cancer and genomics research. Increasingly, major collaborative life sciences projects, like the Human Genome Project or Human Cell Atlas, are driving advancements and organisations – both public and private – are taking note.

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Top 10 Fastest Growing Biotech Companies in 2023

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These companies were identified through The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2023 list by the Financial Times. In 2023, Moderna is poised to achieve sales figures ranging from $6 billion to $8 billion, contingent on the prevailing COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US. vaccine, mRNA-1273.815.

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The new frontiers of pharmaceutical innovation – according to investors ?

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Pharma companies and world health stand to benefit from new technologies, but it’s a tough time to be an investor – and an even tougher one for firms seeking investment. The mRNA technology that enabled the largest and fastest vaccine rollout in history is the tip of the innovation iceberg.

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What to expect from drug discovery and development in 2023

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Research into HIV blossomed throughout 2022, with ViiV Healthcare’s combination therapy for HIV-1 gaining approval in Japan; and research moving forward towards a one-time treatment for HIV as well as a vaccine. According to research from Deloitte 1 , the average ROI in R&D for global pharma companies fell to just 1.2%

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WHO Honors the Legacy and Contribution of Henrietta Lacks

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The cell line, called HeLa, laid the foundation for many groundbreaking discoveries, including vaccines for the human papilloma virus (HPV) and polio; drugs for HIV and cancers; gene mapping; IVF treatment; and more recently, for crucial COVID-19 research. Fittingly, it was also used to develop the vaccine against cervical cancer.

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A history of AstraZeneca

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But although it was dubbed a “dangerous game”, some companies came out on top… On 6th April 1999, two companies with similar science-based cultures and a shared vision of the pharmaceutical industry came together to form what’s now considered as one of the top ten pharma companies in the world: AstraZeneca.