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Insight by: Debbie Lin Calling all biohackers. Your apple watch will soon be able to non-invasively track glucose continuously.  Dubbed E5, Apple hit a major milestone recently in their moonshot project to develop a non-invasive glucose monitor.  Current wearable glucose monitors detect glucose levels through the...

Insight by: Debbie Lin As we round out 2022 and look back at the many incredible scientific breakthroughs of the year, witness, these 2022 advancements, to name only a few: 1. A giant Icelandic fan sucking 4000 metic tons of carbon dioxide out of the sky 2. We...

Insight by: Jon Warner Digital technologies of many kinds are opening new opportunities for life sciences companies to add value in using them for faster and better research, more efficient clinical development, commercialization, and more effective clinician and patient engagement in clinical trials and beyond. These...

Insight by: Dave Whelan It's the hap-happiest season of all With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings When friends come to call It's the hap-happiest season of all If you turned on the radio or Spotify over the past few weeks, you probably heard Andy Williams celebrating the holidays...

Insight by: Dave Whelan Those lines from “Tomorrow Never Knows,” taken from Revolver, are over 50 years old. They were adapted by The Beatles from The Psychedelic Experience, co-written by Timothy Leary nearly 60 years ago. Leary and his co-writers, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and Ralph...

Insight by: Dave Whelan Over the past few months, I’ve spent a fair amount of time writing about the growing intersection of biology and technology. Over the next few months, I expect that I will continue to spend time writing about the growing intersection of biology...

Insight by: Debbie Lin As genomic sequencing becomes prevalent in our lives. Each individual’s genetic response to disease and our environment, will be uploaded to The Cloud not just once but perhaps in multiple copy iterations as snapshot copies of our genome are analyzed to understand...

Insight by: Mamatha Shekar Everything about shopping changed for me with the advancement of online shopping. As a busy working mom while also managing my kids' sporting lives, I couldn’t squeeze in shopping during regular store hours. The advent of online shopping changed me from a...

Insight by: Douglas P. Clark One fundamental challenge in drug discovery is the identification of molecules that bind to target proteins and produce a physiological change in the entire organism. The underlying nature of that molecular interaction remained elusive until fifty years ago, when the Nobel...