• IP Deals Shed Light on Editas Medicine’s Strategy for CRISPR Gene Therapies

    Bio-IT World | Editas Medicine, a Cambridge company tackling therapies based on CRISPR gene editing, announced three intellectual property licensing deals with major research institutions this week, gaining exclusive access to key CRISPR-related technologies.

    Dec 2, 2014

  • Hackers Target Pharma, Health Care Companies

    New York Times | A hacking ring nicknamed Fin4 has been targeting pharma and healthcare companies by hacking into email accounts.

    Dec 2, 2014

  • Nature Makes Full Text Papers Available Via ReadCube

    Nature News | Nature Publishing Group announced this morning that all of its research papers will now be free to read via ReadCube, a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed, or downloaded

    Dec 2, 2014

  • What Pharma Recruiters Are Looking for in Asia

    in-PharmaTechnologist | Singaporean companies are looking for scientists, while China and India need execs - but don't count on moving to Japan, says jobs expert Doris Chin.

    Dec 2, 2014

  • Holiday Reading for a CRISPR Autumn Day

    Bio-IT World | This year has seen the rapid rise of CRISPR gene editing, for which the biotech industry has every reason to be thankful. Intellia Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass., is the third CRISPR company to spring up in the last twelve months, joining Editas Medicine also in Cambridge, and CRISPR Therapeutics, which operates out of Basel and London. Here is a selection of our coverage on this remarkably adaptable gene engineering system.

    Nov 26, 2014

  • Misidentified Cell Line List from NCBI

    NCBI News | NCBI's BioSample database now includes a curated list of over 400 known misidentified and contaminated cell lines.

    Nov 26, 2014

  • Searching for Common Ground in Autism Genetics

    Wired | Researchers including Evan Eichler and David Ledbetter are looking at groups of people with autism and searching for common underlying genetics.

    Nov 25, 2014

  • OK Go to Issue Album on DNA

    The New Yorker | Alt-rock band OK Go, a Grammy-winning group best known for its elaborate Youtube music videos, is enlisting the help of UCLA synthetic biologist Sri Kosuri to encode its latest album, "Hungry Ghosts," on a DNA molecule.

    Nov 24, 2014

  • American Biotech Start-Ups Head To China For Capital Partners

    Forbes | Several US biotechs are finding their funding needs met by venture firms from China.

    Nov 24, 2014

  • BioNano Closes Big Funding Round on Back of Key Irys Sales

    Bio-IT World News Brief | BioNano Genomics, a company headquartered in San Diego whose Irys instrument maps large structural variation in DNA samples, has announced a $53 million Series C financing round, to be invested in international expansion.

    Nov 21, 2014

  • NCBI Breaks Its Annotation Record

    NCBI | NCBI's Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline has completed the annotation of more than 100 organisms so far in 2014. 81 of the annotations thus far have been first annotations.

    Nov 21, 2014

  • Illumina and bioMérieux to Pinpoint Pathogens with Next Gen Sequencing

    Bio-IT World News Brief | BioMérieux, a French-headquartered biotech specializing in diagnostics and microbe detection, has announced a partnership with sequencing giant Illumina to create next generation sequencing tests for tracking pathogens during local outbreaks.

    Nov 19, 2014

  • Splash of Cold Water for Clinical Genomics at Cold Spring Harbor Personal Genomes Meeting

    Bio-IT World | At last week's Personal Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a debate over the evidence bar for using genetic tests threw into relief some of the stubborn questions around personal genomes' clinical utility.

    Nov 19, 2014

  • Coming by 2023 an exascale supercomputer in the U.S.

    Computerworld | The U.S. has set 2023 as the target date for producing the next great leap in supercomputing, if its plans aren't thwarted by two presidential and four Congressional elections between now and then.

    Nov 19, 2014

  • Shire to Move US HQ and 500 Jobs to Greater Boston

    Pharmalot | Shire is shifting U.S. headquarters, 500 jobs and some of its most important operations from suburban Philadelphia to the greater Boston area.

    Nov 19, 2014

  • How Much Does it Cost to Develop a Drug

    Pharmalot | Later today, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development will release a report that will take yet another stab at determining the true cost of developing a medicine. In the meantime, Ed Silverman is running a poll.

    Nov 18, 2014

  • Top500 Supercomputer Listing With Minimal Changes

    Computerworld | The latest Top500 list is out, but only one new system made it into the top ten. The Chinese Tiahne-2 has kept its number on position for the fourth time, even though it has not changed its computing power.

    Nov 17, 2014

  • Vytorin, LDL-Targeting Drugs Work

    Bio-IT World Roundup | The results of the IMPROVE-IT trial were announced today, a seven-year study looking at whether Merck's Vytorin and Zetia pills actually prevent heart attack. The answer: yes. At least some.

    Nov 17, 2014

  • National Labs Buying Next-Gen IBM Supercomputer

    Nature | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced today their plans to upgrade to a next-generation IBM supercomputer that will run at 150 petaflops.

    Nov 14, 2014

  • Google Increases Award in 'Nobel' Prize of Computing

    Mashable | Google has raised the stakes in the A.M. Turing Award, offering $1 million. The annual awards recognize "major contributions of lasting importance to computing," and until now have included a cash prize of $250,000.

    Nov 14, 2014