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As a scientist focused on tangible data and results, it’s easy to be sceptical about the impact of legislative acts: the path from Congress to the lab is long and winding. Despite the subtle change and lack of immediate impact on patients, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 is anything but inconsequential. I think, in truth, that it may be the spark needed to ignite the next era of animal-free drug…

Everyone knows someone with cancer, so this question may be confusing, but: Does anyone have cancer anymore? What I mean is: At first, there was cancer. Now, there is chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia; primary colorectal lymphomas and gastrointestinal stromal tumors; and six subgroups of triple-negative breast cancer. We’ve outgrown the blanket term “cancer,” and it’s making a positive difference in how we treat and overcome disease. In…

I had my first migraine in middle school. Over a decade later, I was prescribed a cocktail of drugs—my saving grace. I could finally take hold of my life, and I no longer held on to an ever-present worry that my migraines could steal days of my time and derail what I was working toward. I had an ideal experience: Diagnosis was possible, treatment was possible, and my response was…

Please welcome the newest member of the Pepper Bio team, Sam Roth! Sam joins us from a role at Fulcrum Therapeutics, where he focused on developing computational methods for analyzing NGS data with the aim of target discovery in rare genetic disease. Sam’s first day at Pepper as a Senior Computational Biologist was just over a week ago. You can learn more about why Sam joined our team, as well…

Reposted from Neil Versel, Editor at GenomeWeb CHICAGO – While multiomics seems to be a top biotech buzzword these days, drug discovery and bioinformatics startup Pepper Bio is trying to make a name for itself in the field of transomics. To that end, the Boston-based startup is leveraging support from Merck and other entities as part of an accelerator program to try and hone its strategy for applications such as…

By Jon Hu, CEO and Cofounder of Pepper Bio In the last decade, the tech industry has coined the phrase “software is eating the world.” In this decade, it’s going to be biotech that eats the world. Biotechnology, specifically, bioplatforms, are one of the main innovations changing our generation. Exhibit A: Moderna’s mRNA technology platform, which created the COVID-19 vaccine at an unprecedented rate, has changed how we perceive and interact…