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There’s a new trend in the biotech startup world, and that’s the increasing presence of biotech startup incubators across the country. Many...

Computational drug discovery has reduced the time and money required for research and development while increasing the potential number of drug...

Last year, Scientist announced our winners for the Rare Disease Challenge, as part of our efforts to raise awareness for rare diseases. We know how...

We previously discussed how there are software methods to screen for potential drug leads and researchers have been able to increase their drug...

Previously, we discussed in part 1 of this series the growing significance of computational methods in drug discovery. Traditional drug discovery...

Traditional drug discovery is expensive, inefficient, and has huge barriers to entry. Big pharmaceutical companies continue to struggle to cope...

Three outstanding examples for fragment-based drug discovery A good example for the reliability of the fragment-based screening method is the...

Illumina recently announced the $1000 solution for the sequencing of the human genome in the form of its new instrument, the HiSeqX. This system...

This is Part 3 in a three-part series on Big Data in the pharma and biotech industries. (Check out Part 1 and Part 2). Big Data — the vast amount...

This is Part 2 in a three-part series on Big Data in the pharma and biotech industries. (Check out Part 1 and Part 3). Recent medical technology...