Artificial intelligence (AI) is a lot more sophisticated today than it was just a few years ago. Its impacts are felt outside of technology applications such as computing, malware, and natural language processing. For example, Google’s AI (called DeepMind) recently solved one of biology’s greatest problems: It determined a protein’s three-dimensional shape from its amino acid sequence. Now, AI is making a foray into drug development processes. Drug development is a risky, expensive, time-consuming, yet often lucrative venture. The costs…
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eBook: Diagnostics — Developing Rapid and Accessible Testing Solutions
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought myriad economic disruptions, social complications, and public-health calamities to the world. They have understandably overshadowed the silver lining of boosting biomedical science and technology in the realms of infectious disease, oncology, and more. But alongside the much-publicized commercial debut of novel vaccine technologies have come promising advances in medical diagnostics. In this eBook, BPI’s senior technical editor brings together perspectives from industry, academia, and expert organizations to highlight some of the latest diagnostic methods and…
Flurry of biopharma cyber-attacks driven by COVID
Non-profit organization BIO-ISAC has called for drugmakers to review their cybersecurity after disclosing an attack targeting a biomanufacturing facility earlier this year. BIO-ISAC, an organization launched in August to provide early-warning and education of digital biosecurity threats, announced an undisclosed biomanufacturer was involved in an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack named Tardigrade in Spring 2021. “Through the subsequent investigation, a malware loader was identified that demonstrated a high degree of autonomy as well as metamorphic capabilities. In October 2021, further…