Mom and Pop Sequencing Shop: How Sequencing is Becoming more Affordable
By Eduardo Longoria Since the turn of the 21st century the price of sequencing a single human genome has dropped from the 2.7 billion dollars […]
Putting the Bio in Canadian Biomanufacturing
By Eduardo Longoria “One of the things to remember is Canada no longer has any domestic production capacity for vaccines. We used to have it […]
Ginkgo Receives $1.1B from the US Government to Fight Pandemics
By Eduardo Longoria Boston-based Ginkgo Bioworks has received a $1.1 billion investment from the US government’s International Development Finance Corp (DFC) for COVID-19 testing and […]
Genomics Companies Form an Alliance with Microsoft for DNA Data Storage
By Eduardo Longoria On November 12th, California-based Twist Biosciences, Illumina, Microsoft, and Western Digital announced the launching of a joint effort with 11 other companies to advance the field of DNA data […]
New Cas9 Alternatives Give Mammoth Biosciences an Edge Over Other CRISPR companies
By Eduardo Longoria Genome editing is the process by which researchers make targeted changes to an organism’s DNA. While there are various technologies for genome editing, the […]
Dewpoint Snags Successful Series B to Target Lesser Known Cellular Compartments
By Eduardo Longoria On September 29th, Dewpoint Therapeutics, the biomolecular condensates company, announced raising US$ 77 million in a Series B round led by ARCH Venture Partners. The round […]
PODCAST – Inovação com Ciência | O cenário inovador das biotechs.
este episódio conversamos com a Isis Eich sobre principais desafios, oportunidades e também um pouco mais sobre o cenário científico. A Isis é Bacharel em […]
Genomicweek Fiocruz 2020. Genoma Humano, Ancestralidade e Privacidade de Dados Biológicos by Isis Eich.
Genomicweek Fiocruz 2020. Genoma Humano, ancestralidade e privacidade de dados biológicos. Isis Eich Isis Eich Co-founder Portunus Biotech UnlockedConselheira Chefe de Ciência – Portunus US, […]
Water Treatment by Floating Islands: Old School Tech to Solve a New Problem.
Developed by indigenous people of what is now Mexico; the chinampa consists of the creation of an artificial island out of lake mud that is […]
¿A quién le interesan los tratamientos para la COVID-19?
Una efeméride bastante citada durante estos tiempos fue aquella del anuncio de Jonas Salk en un programa de radio sobre el éxito de la vacuna contra […]
Genome sequencing in the times of COVID-19
Scientists around the world are racing against time to find a cure or at least an effective treatment for COVID-19 and there are huge amounts […]
Startup internacional voltada a produtos biotecnológicos se instala no Biopark
A Portunus, nova startup instalada no Biopark, traz para a Região Oeste iniciativas de pesquisa voltadas à biotecnologia. Atuando a partir do conceito de “One […]
Carta de agradecimentos e Retrospectiva do “Cores do Brasil”
Primeiro projeto de sequenciamento de ancestralidade brasileira com foco em privacidade dos dados gênicos Estamos chegando ao final de 2019 e nós, da Portunus, somos […]
Spotlight: How Does the Human Gut Microbiota Affect Immune Cell Dynamics?
By Eduardo Longoria An article published recently in the journal Nature reported findings on how the gut microbiota influences the development and maintenance of the mammalian immune […]