Next-Gen Genetic Sequencing Tool Acts Acts As "Google Search" for Drugs, Speeds Discovery and Disease Diagnostics
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Wake Forest University and NanoMedica, their biotechnology company partner, have received a $700,000 NIH grant to bring to market a new drug-discovery tool using next-generation genetic sequencing, like a "Google search" for new drugs. The technology, Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead, would be the first bead-based drug-discovery tool to use the latest genetic sequencing technologies, making drug and diagnostics discovery significantly more efficient.