• IBM to open San Francisco office dedicated to Watson supercomputing

    Fortune | IBM plans to open a new San Francisco office next year dedicated to growing its Watson supercomputing business. The location will give IBM direct access to the Bay Area startups.

    Sep 24, 2015

  • Venter's HLI Opens Genome Sequencing Service

    San Diego Union-Tribune | Craig Venter's latest company, Human Longevity, Inc., has announced a partnership with health insurer Discovery Ltd. of the U.K. and South Africa to offer patients whole exome sequencing for $250, a service Venter hopes to extend to the U.S.

    Sep 23, 2015

  • Garvan Institute Uses Panasas System for X Ten

    Bio-IT World  | The Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney was one of the first three groups to sign up for Illumina’s HiSeq X Ten sequencing platform in 2014, a system that produced up to 5TB of data per day. To enable round the clock computing with as little down time as possible, the Institute opted for the Panasas PanFS parallel file system.

    Sep 21, 2015

  • British Scientists Seek Permission To Edit DNA In Human Embryos

    NPR.org | After Chinese scientists announced in April that they had edited the genes in human embryos, many researchers said it shouldn't be done. Scientists in London say they want to do it for research only.

    Sep 18, 2015

  • Under the Hood with Edico’s DRAGEN Card at HudsonAlpha

    Bio-IT World | Two weeks before Edico was ready to go public, Shawn Levy of HudsonAlpha was happily telling us of his expereince with Edico's DRAGEN card, a bio-IT processor that claims to massively accelerate secondary analysis algorithms while simultaneously improving accuracy. Levy calls it--in a word--amazing.

    Sep 18, 2015

  • Long-lived Smokers: A ‘Biologically Distinct’ Group with Extraordinary Gene Variants

    Washington Post | Researchers say they've identified a set of genetic variants that may here is evidence that these genes may facilitate lifespan extension by increasing cellular maintenance and repair.

    Sep 16, 2015

  • Head of Mental Health Institute Leaving for Google Life Sciences

    The New York Times | Dr. Thomas R. Insel announced that he is stepping down after 13 years as director of the National Institute of Mental Health to join Google Life Sciences.

    Sep 15, 2015

  • Imprecision Medicine: Eric Dishman Kicked Off the Converged IT Summit

    Bio-IT World Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and general manager of the Health and Life Sciences for the Data Center Group, shared his own precision medicine story at the inaugural Converged IT Summit* co-hosted by the BioTeam and Cambridge Healthtech Institute, setting the tone for a two-day look at trends from the trenches of IT and life sciences discovery.

    Sep 15, 2015

  • Gene Therapy Startup Dimension Tx Takes Crossover Cash to IPO Queue

    Xconomy | Time to add one more recipient of crossover investor cash to the list of official IPO candidates. Cambridge, MA-based Dimension Therapeutics just filed for an IPO this morning to raise money to build gene therapies for rare diseases.

    Sep 14, 2015

  • HudsonAlpha, Kailos Genetics, and a Plan for Population-Wide BRCA Screening

    Diagnostics World | In a large pilot initiative with little precedent, HudsonAlpha and its genetic testing spinoff Kailos plan to offer free or steeply discounted genetic screens for susceptibility to breast cancer to thousands of women in the area of Huntsville, Alabama, including women with no known risk factors for the disease.

    Sep 9, 2015

  • NIH Commits $49M to Fusion of Genomic Data and EHRs

    FierceBiotech | National Institutes of Health grants to 10 research teams, including at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Geisinger Health System, and the Mayo Clinic, will explore ways to use genomic data in patient care through integration with electronic health records.

    Sep 8, 2015

  • Google Launches Preemptible Virtual Machines, Cycle-Broad Case Study

    Bio-IT World | Google this morning has announced the general availability of the Google Cloud Platform’s Preemptible Virtual Machines, and Cycle Computing has detailed its first preemptible VM project: a cancer gene mapping project with the Broad Institute.

    Sep 7, 2015

  • Human Embryo's First Genetic Stirrings Felt

    GEN News | Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have measured the RNA expression of pre-implantation fertilized embryos to learn which genes are activated in the first days of human development.

    Sep 4, 2015

  • Duke School of Medicine announces new Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics

    Duke | The School of Medicine has launched the new Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics.

    Sep 3, 2015

  • August News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including new types of data for the Genome in a Bottle Consortium and prizes for rare disease research.

    Sep 3, 2015

  • Microsoft bulks up Azure virtual machines

    Computerworld | The new Microsoft Azure GS-series virtual machines are made for demanding database-driven workloads.

    Sep 3, 2015

  • Intel Joins Up with Cancer Centers to Build Secure Networks for Patient Data Sharing

    Bio-IT World | The Collaborative Cancer Cloud, a collaborative effort of Intel, the Knight Cancer Center, and two additional partners, will be a secure, open source system for sending large queries between clinical data centers, making it possible to share data for research and patient care while minimizing the volume of data transferred and the associated patient privacy concerns.

    Sep 2, 2015

  • Thermo Fisher Clarifies Its Vision for Sequencing with Release of Ion S5 Instruments

    Bio-IT World | Thermo Fisher Scientific, which owns the Ion Torrent line of next-generation sequencing instruments, announced today that two new sequencers are being added to its portfolio, with a special emphasis on targeted sequencing in areas like oncology, rare disease, and gene expression.

    Sep 1, 2015

  • Rgenix Scores Rare Multimillion Dollar Funding Round for New York Biotech Scene

    Xconomy | The startup company has raised $8 million in new capital to develop drugs based on a discovery program that searches for targets by measuring microRNA expression in cancer.

    Aug 31, 2015

  • PrecisionFDA to Test Accuracy of Genomic Analysis Tools

    Bio-IT World | The FDA has contracted with DNAnexus to build an open web portal where researchers working on new genomic tests can evaluate their computational workflows, testing them on real and simulated DNA data and comparing them against industry standards.

    Aug 27, 2015