Founded in 2008, Ginkgo Bioworks’ stock jumped almost 25% on August 29, hitting $2.22, after unveiling a five-year partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership centers around the development of novel AI tools for biology and biosecurity. In particular, Ginkgo hopes to further its mission to make biology easier to engineer in the AI era. Opting…
Amazon Web Services is powering medtech innovation: Its chief medical officer explains
It doesn’t get any bigger than Amazon in the world of cloud computing. The Amazon Web Services cloud computing business at Seattle-based Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is the largest player in the industry, with control of about a third of the market and a significant lead over cloud competitors Microsoft and Google. Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, the…
How a Google AI program for protein folding could speed drug discovery
A Google-owned lab has accurately predicted protein structures, potentially paving the way toward advances in drug discovery. London-based DeepMind lab has developed a deep-learning program known as AlphaFold that bested roughly 100 efforts to predict protein structures in a contest known as Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP). Such proteins are found within the cells…