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For Nobel Prize winner David Baker, it’s back to the lab as protein pioneer helps launch more startups

GeekWire

This accelerates the discovery of proteins that can perform specific tasks, such as breaking down plastics, developing new medicines, or improving industrial processes, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in synthetic biology. AstraZeneca paid $1.1 The “secret ingredient” to getting groundbreaking research out in the world?

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Healthcare Technology is paramount for the healthcare industry, including the medical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. There is always a demand for knowledgeable IT pros who can help organizations design, develop, implement, and maintain software products and services.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more

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Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo).

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Tech Moves: Sea.citi adds board members; another Microsoft vet joins Magic Leap; and more

GeekWire

“Her expertise of harmonizing hardware and software development in partnership with enterprise customers, and their engineering teams, will be a key component in our next phase of growth,” Johnson said of Trewin in a statement. Adaptive Biotechnologies’ fourth quarter revenue was up 25% from a year ago.

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Biosensor startup Monod lands $6M and spins out of Univ. of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design

GeekWire

Cyrus Biotechnology, for instance, recently raised $18 million and has more than 90 drug company partnerships, A-Alpha Bio has raised $20 million , and Icosavax went public this year with a $180 million raise to advance its vaccines for COVID-19 and other conditions. Seattle is peppered with IPD startups.

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5 recommendations for successfully implementing distributed innovation and shared value

Trends in the Living Networks

Their joint work on a process for cloning genes in microorganisms resulted in three patents that formed the foundation of the nascent biotechnology industry. Companies are now trying to implement similar approaches in their commercial research and development, and coming across the same challenges as open source.

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How AI is changing the way scientists make drugs, biosensors, enzymes and more

GeekWire

But the potential market is vast, Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon told GeekWire. DeepMind’s AlphaFold tool and similar software developed by the IPD won the “ Breakthrough of the Year ” award from Science magazine in 2021. Proteins have the ability to fold into shapes that can precisely target biological molecules.

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