At the recent BioHealth Capital Region Forum, just before a panel on quantum technology, host Rich Bendis asked the audience who was not familiar with IonQ. I was one of a handful of people who raised a hand. The last time I looked into quantum computing as a field was
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At Bio-IT World 2026, a Genentech scientist showed 4,000 lines of R code with no handwritten lines, and the bottleneck moved to verification.
Neural connectomics is a tantalizing omic layer The opening statement at a Bio-IT World 2026 plenary session was bold: “Frontier AI has consumed all the text on the internet. It’s running out of biological ground truth. The most consequential missing dataset is the wiring diagram of the brain,
At Bio-IT World 2026 (Boston MA) the presenter Dan Rozelle from Rancho Biosciences gave a talk titled “Agents in the Loop: High Fidelity Omics Data requires Subject Matter Expertise”. Now this is the kind of talk that is catnip to me: I look forward to a talk about “omics
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A field note from Dr. Jeremy Jenkins's BioIT World 2026 plenary on where AI and drug discovery actually stand today. Not the hyped version, not a future projection. The current state of AI implementation, from inside Novartis.