Time for our annual employer database update*, when we review the nearly 10,000 organizations in the Biotech-Careers.org database to determine who is still active, who has rebranded, who was acquired, and who has disappeared. We also update (or remove) links to employers’ career and internship pages based on what we ...
Cross posted at InnovATEBIO.org At long last, Biotechopoly™: Antibody Edition is available from The Game Crafter. We are using a print-on-demand format to make the game available for the cost of materials and printing. Plan ahead. It will take about three weeks for the game to be printed and shipped. You may have seen ...
Since 2010 over 250,000 research papers have been published on non-coding RNA (ncRNA) [1]. Of relevance to biotechnology, nearly 90,000 of those papers discuss ncRNA and disease, and 70,000 discuss using ncRNA as therapeutic agents (drugs) or being drug targets. The following sections introduce the drivers for ncRNA ...
Biotechnology is an area ripe for entrepreneurs. New start up companies are forming all the time in biotech driven by boundless energy and exciting ideas. In this series, we'll be highlighting interesting start-up companies and show you some of the interesting projects that start up companies are taking on. Articles 1 ...
According to a recent labor market analysis report [1], universities, research institutes, and many companies are competing for a limited pool of technicians who can produce cell and gene therapy products. Cell therapy products include immunotherapies, cancer vaccines, and other types of both autologous (self cells ...
Every photo you take, every file you make, every pixel you create, every sound you fake, every video you shake, I’ll be storing you. Hard drives, cloud drives, DVDs, and magnetic tape – all of these are used to store digital data but the amount of data being stored is growing rapidly and that storage space is running ...
Laboratory Information Management Systems, also known as LIMS, are now being employed across the globe for the management of biobanks and other testing facilities. Since their introduction, the systems have been used to support and streamline laboratory operations, from specimen collection to distribution and even ...
Guest article contributed by Dr. Terri Quenzer, MiraCosta College. Time is running out. We need to stop global warming from heating the earth’s temperature by another 1.5 °C before it’s too late. We must do this no later than 2050, preferably sooner, and we’re already late to the party. Race Against the Clock (RATC) is ...
"It's all about saving Aunt Millie" – Bob Swanson Co-Founder of Genentech. Jim DeKloe wrote this post as a guest author a few years ago. Jim is one of the most inspirational educators I know and he's the sort of person that reminds you why educating students about biotechnology careers is important. His moving story ...
In Nov 2021, I attended the “Broadening Data Science Education for the Future Biomanufacturing Workforce” virtual meeting [1]. The goal of the event was to discuss the unique challenges associated with educating and training future biomanufacturing employees in the areas of data science, artificial intelligence (AI) ...
The Bay Area Biotechnology Education Consortium (BABEC) has developed some wonderful materials for teaching about biotechnology careers and using the Biotech-Careers.org website. 1. View the Career Explorations slide deck 2. View the Career Explorations student guide BABEC recommends having students explore careers and ...
Many entry-level biotech job descriptions include lab experience or an internship as a requirement. But until you've gotten your first internship or part-time lab job, meeting this requirement seems almost impossible. You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience without a job. What do you do? Don ...
What kinds of skills do entry level employees need in the new fields of regenerative medicine and regenerative medicine biomanufacturing? InnovATE BIO team members Russ Read and Thomas Tubon, and InnovATEBIO program leader Sengyong Lee, tackled this question in a new article with co-authors Gary Green, and Joshual ...
Cyberbiosecurity is a field that aims to identify and mitigate security risks fostered by the digitization of biology and biotechnology automation. Cybersecurity is getting a lot of attention at the moment as the consequences of the Colonial pipeline hack ripple through Eastern gas stations. Biotechnology, is not ...
What are core labs? Core labs, also known as core facilities, shared resource facilities, or shared research facilities, are found in most Universities, public / private / government research institutes, and companies. They provide the infrastructure for modern research by making it possible for investigators to access ...
There are almost as many ways to explore biotechnology careers as there are careers to explore. This page highlights examples from a career exploration course at City College of San Francisco and from Digital World Biology.
Both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines rely on large networks of suppliers and manufacturers for successfully producing, tracking, and distributing doses. This story follows the production path and careers for the people and companies working to protect us from COVID-19.
Biotech companies use a variety of cell types when it comes to manufacturing proteins and other chemicals. Yeast were the first microbes to be employed for manufacturing desirable products. In the 1940's, industrial microbiologists started using bacteria like Streptomyces as factories to make antibiotics . Later , when ...
Graduates of Great Bay Community College are working in the research labs where vaccines for COVID-19 are being developed, on the front lines where people are getting tested for the disease and in hospitals and clinics, where the therapeutics are being administered. The involvement of Great Bay alumni in every stage of ...
To celebrate recent progress in COVID-19 vaccine development, we [Biotech-Careers.org] are updating the "employers that work on COVID-19" article that we posted last April. This post also summarizes some of our 2020 progress.* In early March we began tagging companies, in the Biotech-Careers.org database, that are ...
