• Newest Top 500 Supercomputer List Released

    Computerworld | The Top 500 supercomputer list was released yesterday. Tianhe-2 in China still holds the top spot with Oak Ridge National Laboratories' Titan in the number 2 spot.

    Nov 19, 2013

  • The Short List: 2013's Biotech Startups

    Xconomy | Luke Timmerman calls this the "stingiest funding cycle for first-time biotech financings in almost two decades."

    Nov 18, 2013

  • Updates from Amazon Web Services

    Bio-IT World Roundup | Several new updates emerged from Amazon Web Services at the user conference last week including Kinesis and AppStream.

    Nov 18, 2013

  • UK Charity Launches Dementia Research Institute

    Bloomberg | Alzheimer's Research UK will fund a new drug discovery institute for dementia research.

    Nov 15, 2013

  • Sygnis Tackles Difficult DNA Amplification

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A new polymerase, PrimPol, joins previous Sygnis patent QualiPhi as the company establishes its niche in DNA amplification scenarios that the most commonly used polymerases have difficulty processing.

    Nov 15, 2013

  • NuMedii: From Off-Label to On-Target

    Wired | NuMedii has been hard at work finding alternative uses for existing drugs. Human trials have now commenced to use the antidepressant imipramine on small-cell lung cancer.

    Nov 14, 2013

  • Bacterial Toxins Suggest New Antibiotic Targets

    Molecular Cell | Michael Laub's lab at MIT is examining a bacterium's own toxin-antitoxin systems for clues to the development of novel antibiotics.

    Nov 14, 2013

  • AWS Tears Down Private Clouds

    Computerworld | At the Amazon Web Services Reinvent conference, Andy Jassy spared nothing in his assessment of private clouds, saying they offer "none of the benefits" of public cloud offerings.

    Nov 14, 2013

  • Eli and Edythe Broad Invest Another $100M in Broad Institute

    Bio-IT World News Brief | American philanthropists and entrepreneurs Eli and Edythe Broad are investing an additional $100 million into the Broad Institute to launch a new decade of transformative work to harness recent biomedical discoveries to benefit patients.

    Nov 14, 2013

  • Myriad Releases Three New Tests

    Bio-IT World | Myriad Genetics got their fare share of press this summer when the Supreme Court ruled that Myriad’s gene patents were invalid. But in the past three months, the company has released three diagnostic and prognostic tests. Patent or no patent, they’ve been busy.

    Nov 13, 2013

  • 'A Blunt and Reckless Tool'

    ScienceWorksForU.S. | A survey of American research universities, conducted by a trio of higher education organizations, attempts to quantify where cuts to scientific research due to the sequester are being directed.

    Nov 12, 2013

  • GSK Names Winners in Idea Competition

    Philadelphia Inquirer | GlaxoSmithKline's first "Discovery Fast Track" competition named winners last week from a pool of 134 applicants.

    Nov 12, 2013

  • November News Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News briefs from around the industry, including new life science partnerships from Thomson Reuters, personalized diabetes care software at the UNC School of Medicine and SAS, and

    Nov 12, 2013

  • Just How Significant is p=.05?

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that many irreproducible findings in the scientific literature may be the result of a too-lenient standard for establishing statistical significance.

    Nov 12, 2013

  • Illumina Names New President: Francis deSouza

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced that Francis deSouza will take on the role of President, reporting to CEO Jay Flatley. deSouza will lead Illumina's business units and the core functions responsible for envisioning, developing and producing the company’s products. He will join the team in December.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • Microfabrication Leveraged Toward Single-Cell Genomics

    Nature Biotechnology | Researchers at the Bioengineering Department of the University of California, San Diego, have made progress in bringing single-cell genome sequencing to a level of precision on par with multi-cell approaches.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • Advice on Computational Biology

    Nature Biotechnology | Nick Loman and Mick Watson give advice on becoming a computational biologist. Among their tips: set traps for your own scripts and other people's.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • Drug Development Over the Past 20 Years

    In the Pipeline | PLOSOne has posted a new paper tracking drug development over the past 20 years looking at patents and publications. The data shows--among other things--a peak in patents in 2008, and since then a decline.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • IBM to Beat Amazon at Cloud?

    Computerworld | IBM will beat Amazon Web Services, claims a Computerworld opinion piece. Amazon isn't, at heart, an IT services company.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • UC Santa Cruz Wins DREAM Breast Cancer Challenge

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A team of bioinformatics experts at UC Santa Cruz made the most accurate predictions in a competitive challenge to identify signaling networks in breast cancer cells. The results of the HPN-DREAM breast cancer network inference challenge were announced today in Toronto.

    Nov 8, 2013