Monday, November 14, 2016

From Synlogic & Wyss Institute on the East Coast to Autodesk & UCSF on the West: A Look at Synthetic Biology in the US

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The global synthetic biology market is supposed to reach $13.4 billion by 2019. A recent study from Transparency Market Research shows that...
Monday, November 7, 2016

At the Forefront of Cell Therapy in Boston: Oren Levy of Karp Lab

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Oren Levy from Karp Lab  gave an excellent talk called “MSCs on Steriods” last month at Biotech Week Boston. Oren's research focus is ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

The Softer Machine: How Robots Are Filling Important Gaps in Global Healthcare and Biotech R&D

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If you blink you will most likely miss some major design, invention or discovery in the robotics industry. The future is definitely here, an...
Monday, October 24, 2016

3D Bioprinting to Engineer Human Tissue: Wyss Institute's David Kolesky at Biotech Week Boston

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The medical 3D printing market is expected to reach $983.2 million by the year 2020 . What is the difference between medical and other 3D p...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

FDA/CMS: New Administration, New Challenges?

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photo credit: @KimTweetsDC For over 20 years we have been working hard on delivering you with first-hand insights into one of the mo...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Innovation Drives Biotech Week Boston

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Innovation is driving our first ever Biotech Week Boston , where the heart, technology, and business of science converge. We just announced ...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Focus on Women Innovators in Boston Biotech: Dr. Rosana Kapeller & Alison Silva

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Last month we blogged about five women to watch in Boston biotech and got an incredible response. In a country where less than five percent...
Monday, September 19, 2016

What President Clinton or President Trump Will Mean for Biotech and Pharma

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This past June, a STAT news article described the current presidential race as between a "policy wonk and a 'black box'" ...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Top 5 Ways to Innovate in Biotech

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Everyone likes to talk about innovation, but how can you stop simply talking about and start driving real innovation in biotech? We looked a...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

INFOGRAPHIC: The Convergence Transforming Medicine

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We at Biotech Week Boston are excited about a new era of biotech convergence that we're in right now. More and more labs are inviting wh...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

New Report: Convergence in Boston: How multidisciplinary R&D is driving bench-to-bedside breakthroughs

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The area in and around Boston, Massachusetts is as dense with world-renowned scientific experts as anywhere on earth. Here, in an area a lit...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

From bench to bedside: Stacy Springs and the BioMAN program connect theoretical concepts to real world application

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In 1978, there were just 30 patents granted for biopharmaceuticals. Now biologic drugs make up more than 28% of all pharmaceutical sales - ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

How the Broad Institute’s GTEx uses a multidisciplinary approach to translate research into medicine

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MIT’s new report “Convergence: The Future of Health” states: “Convergence comes as a result of the sharing of methods and ideas by chemists...

Broad Institute's GTEx program ending, says Director

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The GTEx Project has announced that “GTEx, in its current form, is nearing the end.” The GTEx Project was launched in 2010 to create a data...
Monday, August 29, 2016

MIT's BioMAN Announces Global Initiative

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MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation Program(BioMAN)  has announced a new global health initiative. BioMAN’s mission is to “develop ne...