A Silent Killer Among the leading causes of death in developed countries are various forms of heart failure. It can be anything from sudden and unexpected...
The Genomic And Multi-omic Revolution The first human genome decoding started in 1990 and was first achieved in 2003. It also cost a staggering $3B. Fast...
Cancer – The Last Great Illness Modern medicine has mostly cured most of history's greatest killers, infectious diseases: smallpox, tuberculosis, tetanus, etc. But another category of...
The Old Therapeutic Method Until recently, most of the pharmaceutical industry has been focused on finding new chemical molecules that could be used as drugs. The...
A Crippling And Painful Disease Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a blood disease caused by a genetic mutation. This mutation creates abnormal hemoglobin, the oxygen protein...
A New Blockbuster The pharmaceutical industry rarely finds a new “blockbuster” class of drugs. For example, statins, used to control cholesterol levels, represented a market larger...
Digital Revolution In Healthcare Healthcare is an activity driven by medical expertise, hospitals, drugs, clinical trials, and insurance companies. But it is also a very “data-heavy”...
CRISPR Beyond Genetic Diseases When CRISPR-Cas9 was first found and subsequently earned its discoverers a Nobel Price in 2020, the obvious first application of this technology...
The Birthplace Of Medical Revolution While biotechnology (BioTech) is a very large field, its largest impact is in medicine. For a long time, medicine has mostly...
Pharmaceutical Innovation At The Core Of Healthcare The pharmaceutical industry has been built on the back of scientific innovation. The first innovators a century ago have turned...
The CRISPR Revolution Hundreds and even thousands of diseases have a root cause in genetics. Many of these are, to this day, untreatable or poorly treated....
A New Digital Health Revolution The decreasing cost and omnipresence of IT technologies have made them an integral part of our healthcare system, including digital patient...
The Neglected Half Of The Population Medicine has for very long been a male-dominated science and profession. This has led to women's health issues being somewhat...
Insuring Health It is easy to focus on the technology when covering health and biotech. Gene editing, full organs grown in a lab, and GMOs all...
Why Do CMOs Exist? CMOs play an important role in the world of pharmaceuticals. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most complex on Earth, maybe...
