As the relationship between the food system and both environmental and human health continues to draw more and more attention from consumers, businesses and governments, the need for better fat products…

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it’s just how much can be accomplished from home. Remote work, online shopping and more have transformed the day-to day reality of modern life,…

Metabolic health is total body health — the combination of ideal levels of blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference, without using medications. Our recent Deep…

Research over the past few decades on aging and longevity has come to the surprising revelation that aging is a disease in and of itself, upstream of many of the most…

The healthcare industry is in the midst of a fundamental shift in not only how and where it provides services to patients, but how it bills for that care. A large…

Optimal nutrition is a complex subject. With countless fad diets and an unending stream of contradictory studies, it can be difficult to wade through the noise to find the true innovations….

In no other industry are democratization and cost reduction more needed than in healthcare. With technology advancing and costs dropping, consumers are more empowered than ever before to take control of…

We discuss the future of nutrition research and the technologies, research institutions and companies that are paving the way to help us understand the gaps in our nutritional knowledge.

Wearable devices enable us to collect data to monitor our health at home. Exciting advances in technology increase the information we can access to make health decisions. In next week’s Deep…

While food and nutrition play key roles in our health, medical foods go a step further. Medical foods are formulated to manage nutritional deficiencies that affect disease progression and are prescribed…

Diagnosing, detecting and monitoring disease is one of the highly lauded potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare. The potential of these technologies to reduce time…

In 2019, over 600,000 people died from cancer in the United States alone. One of the primary drivers behind high mortality rates in cancer is late diagnosis. For this reason, there…

The inflammatory response is critical to our survival, helping us heal from injury and defend against disease. Chronic inflammation, however, has implications in a number of widespread and devastating diseases, including…

Longitudinal health data track the same patient at different points in time. For physicians, longitudinal data can offer a complete medical history of a patient, which allows for better health decisions…

In a healthy person, the immune system fights off viruses and bacteria. However, autoimmune diseases result in the body using its own immune defenses against itself, the body it was designed…

Testing patients for cancer has typically involved a tissue biopsy – collecting the cells in question for closer examination. However, these tests can be invasive, risky, costly, and painful. Liquid biopsies,…

Often, when discussing how to improve the food system, we discuss how to improve the quantity and access to healthy and sustainable nutrition, usually through a lens of yield improvement, and…

Research shows that chronic inflammation may be the common factor in many diseases. iSelect invests at the convergence of food and health and is interested in nutrition’s role in inflammation. We…

Everything in life is connected. The work we put in is equal to the value we get out of those efforts. The time we spend preparing for something is proportional to…

Antibiotics, one of the major medical discoveries of the 20th Century, have enabled humans to treat a wide array of bacterial infections that once caused significant death and suffering. For this…

iSelect invests at the intersection of food and health. Perhaps no other disease indication fits this description better than diabetes. Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes affect 30 million people in…

Nutrition plays a key role in health and wellbeing. The role of nutrition, which can modify the genetic base, is crucial to the Human life cycle. It’s a science that deals…

Nutrition plays a key role in health and wellbeing. The role of nutrition, which can modify the genetic base, is crucial to the Human life cycle. It’s a science that deals…

In the last century, we greatly expanded the notion of what it means to be human. Remarkable innovations in both science and technology brought us to the moon, laid the foundation…

In the last century, we greatly expanded the notion of what it means to be human. Remarkable innovations in both science and technology brought us to the moon, laid the foundation…

The advancements in artificial intelligence today are continuously widespread in their use, and the costly and time-consuming drug development process is no exception. From the process of discovering new compounds, to…

Until recently, gene editing was extremely expensive and took several months, even years. However, with the discovery of CRISPR/Cas-9, costs have shrunk by 99% and tests can be run in days/weeks….

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) presents many challenges at the individual, family and health system levels. From the therapeutics perspective, AD presents the highest failure rate for drug development of any disease indication…

Traumatic Brain Injury is arguably one of the most complex disorders in the human body. Recent advances in 3D imaging technologies and blood-based biomarker identification have proven to be significant advances…

As we age, our cells enter a state called senescence. These harmful cells do not support the cells of which they are a part, and as we grow older, their accumulation…

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) presents many challenges at the individual, family, and health system levels. One way in which the burdens caused by this disease could be mitigated would be the development…

Whether it is to provide public services or stimulate the economy, various grant-making agencies within the U.S. Federal Government help propel innovation driven by science and technology. The U.S. Department of…

Therapeutics targeting ways to influence the human microbiome to either treat or prevent disease has been of substantially growing interest in the past decade, and as of late, with a lot…

Exploring the recent advances in medical technology to drive a multi-omics approach to Precision Diagnostics. Multi-omic approaches, or Panomics, utilize massive datasets to view the biological interactions within the entire complex…

Exploring the recent advances in medical technology to drive a multi-omics approach to Precision Medicine in the field of Oncology. Multi-omic approaches, or Panomics, utilize massive datasets to view the biological…

Protein is one of the basic building-blocks of life, something that just about every living thing on Earth needs to survive. But not all proteins are created equally. Until recently, animal…

New cancer diagnoses are expected to rise by 70% in the next two decades. Early detection of cancer greatly reduces survival rates. Current standards of care are either highly invasive/highly accurate…

This deep dive presentation covers lighting and the emerging knowledge base around its impact on the health, growth and behavior of humans, plants and animals, a topic of increasing interest to iSelect.

Young people aren’t just using 23andMe to find out who their ancestors are, they’re digging deeper to find the “right” set of vitamins, drugs, probiotics, food, etc so that they can be…

Gene therapy is changing the future of how we fundamentally deal with disease treatment for inheritable diseases and many others. During this deep dive, we discuss the new technologies that are…

Exploring trends and opportunities in the longevity research arena, including senescence, parabiosis, autophagy, and others.

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole…