Category: Montana Bioscience Enterprises in the News

TIME has revealed its annual list of the Best Inventions, which features 200 extraordinary innovations changing our lives. GRAIL’s Galleri® test was one of the 200 innovations. The Galleri test is a multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test that can detect a shared cancer signal across more than 50 types of cancer through a simple blood draw.

Central Montana has produced a star in the field of chemistry. Erin Baker, the daughter of Alan and Stephanie Shammel of Hilger and now a Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, has won several awards for her contributions to the field this year. 

For a fourth straight year, Montana State University recorded an all-time high for research expenditures, which support scientific discovery, rural outreach and a variety of scholastic pursuits, as well as providing hands-on opportunities for students to engage in science and creative activities that build skills for careers after they earn their degrees

In Montana we rally and circle the wagons when a member of our community is suffering, with everyone lending a hand. Our own Senator Jon Tester has demonstrated this truly Montana trait by working to advance policy changes that must occur to alter the course of cancer detection and treatment.

Solo-Dex has announced an exclusive Product Distribution Agreement for Solo-Dex Fascile® suite of products with CH Trading Group LLC, an international import, export and trading company. The Agreement focuses on the MENA regional markets and extends the availability of Solo-Dex Fascile products beyond the U.S., Europe and Brazil to dozens of countries, including those that are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the African Union and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

The “MR” designation means that patients no longer need to interrupt their pain management to obtain MR imaging. In addition, patients no longer need to undergo repeat placement of a nerve block catheter following an MRI imaging. Solo-Dex green “MR” designation will improve patient satisfaction, reduce costs and drive efficiency in a hospital and in the ambulatory surgical center.

Fifty-eight high school graduates from across Montana have been selected for their effort and potential as the seventh class of Montana State University’s Hilleman Scholars Program, which is named after Maurice Hilleman, one of the state’s most influential, but least known, native sons.

Manually converting FASTQs to VCFs, importing these into VarSeq, and building projects from scratch is adequate when you have only a handful of cases per week. But as you start ramping up production, the key to your lab’s success quickly becomes how quickly and efficiently you can get to the reporting of your analysis. This blog will explain how you can automate the VCF and VarSeq Project generation process that requires only a few commands. This will expedite your path to analysis as the newly created project will be ready to import rare variants quickly into VSClinical.

Tonix Pharmaceuticals has received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support development of TNX-1300 a recombinant enzyme that efficiently degrades and metabolizes cocaine. In 2021, more than 24,900 individuals in the U.S. died from drug overdose deaths involving cocaine^.

Endosymbionts are little critters that actually live inside the cells of other organisms. A University of Montana researcher recently earned a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study these organisms – especially how they interact with their hosts and the environment – which could help improve health for a huge swath of the world’s population.