• Changing the Terms of Antibiotic Discovery

    Nature Chemical Biology | Researchers from McMaster University are bypassing traditional drug discovery methods by targeting the processes through which bacteria synthesize and metabolize nutrients, hoping to find new antibiotic compounds that could destroy pathogens in vivo even though these drugs would not work in the ideal nutrient-rich conditions usually tested in the lab.

    Oct 14, 2013

  • Human Variome Project Expands in Southeast Asia

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Human Variome Project has launched a Southeast Asian node to facilitate the sharing of genetic variations in Southeast Asian populations.

    Oct 11, 2013

  • MolecularHealth Enters the American Cancer Genomics Market

    Bio-IT World | MolecularHealth, which just announced the management team for its North American Office, is preparing to launch a personalized, direct-to-consumer genomic service for cancer patients in the Unites States.

    Oct 10, 2013

  • One Simple Rule Could Regulate Structural Neuroplasticity

    PLOS Computational Biology | Researchers have proposed a simple homeostatic rule to explain the process by which new neural connections are established and damage to the brain is repaired.

    Oct 10, 2013

  • Genetic Witnesses to European Prehistory

    Science | A large study of ancient mitochondrial DNA is helping to reconstruct the migration patterns of Europeans during the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural lifestyles.

    Oct 10, 2013

  • Lilly Scientists Steal Trade Secrets

    Indianapolis Business Journal | Two Lilly scientists emailed details about nine experimental drug research programs to an individual employed by Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd., based in China.

    Oct 10, 2013

  • A New Round of Fundraising for Oxford Nanopore

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. today announced $64 million in new funds, raised from a multinational mix of current and new investors.

    Oct 9, 2013

  • Our Genomes Are Talking to Us - Are We Good Listeners?

    Bio-IT World | Two large-scale surveys, the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative and the Impact of Personal Genomics Study, have been peering into consumer responses to genomic test results. Now they're delivering insights into the mindsets and health behaviors of patients who seek out whole genome sequencing.

    Oct 8, 2013

  • September News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News briefs and product releases from around the industry, including BGI's American expansion, Virtify's streamlined process for submitting clinical trials, new software for measuring gene expression and hardware for live cell assays, and much more.

    Oct 8, 2013

  • Predicting the Future for Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing

    Bio-IT World | The field of non-invasive prenatal testing is rapidly advancing thanks to tests from groups like Natera, Berry Genomics, Verinata, recently acquired by Illumina, and others. Using cell-free DNA and circulating fetal cells, researchers are able to predict diseases more accurately than ever before.

    Oct 7, 2013

  • A Color Portrait of the Transcriptome in Thousands of Cells

    Nature Methods | A new technique is allowing researchers at the University of Zurich to visualize the quantity and location of transcript molecules inside thousands of functioning cells at once.

    Oct 7, 2013

  • New Big Data Solutions at Sanger Institute

    Bio-IT World | DataDirect Networks today announced an expanded partnership with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, to deploy more than 10 petabytes of high-performance storage.

    Oct 7, 2013

  • Updates on England's UK100K Project

    Genomes Unzipped | Genomics England Limited, the company built to manage the UK's plan to sequence 100,000 whole genomes over the next 3-5 years, held a town hall meeting yesterday to address some of the community's questions about the plan.

    Oct 4, 2013

  • Open Access Under Review

    Science | Science magazine writer John Bohannon takes on open access publishing with a spoof paper submitted to 304 open access, "peer-reviewed" journals.

    Oct 4, 2013

  • A Government Scientist Speaks About the Shutdown

    Wired | A government biomedical scientist was instructed not to speak to the media, but she shared her thoughts on the shutdown, her research, and what damage even a temporary halt in research can do.

    Oct 3, 2013

  • Gene Deletions May Be Implicated in Autism

    Bio-IT World | A team from the Seaver Autism Center at Mt. Sinai has released the results of a large genomic study of ASD individuals, leveraging new technology to find single-gene deletions within whole exome sequences.

    Oct 2, 2013

  • 23andMe's Old Patents

    Wired | In December 2008, 23andMe received a US patent on a system for helping prospective parents choose traits for their offspring including hair color and disease risk.

    Oct 3, 2013

  • New Search Tool for Gene Expression

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A new search tool, analagous to BLAST, is allowing researchers to dig deep through the Gene Expression Omnibus for experimental data.

    Oct 2, 2013

  • EMC Looks Toward Flash as Future of Storage

    Computerworld | Big data company EMC has shifted its investments heavily toward flash storage, with over half its R&D budget turned over to flash technology.

    Oct 1, 2013

  • Scripps Researchers Identify Key Protein in Insulin Pathway

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A team at the Scripps Research Institute is looking at a little-known protein called TMEM24 as a possible linchpin in the control of insulin levels - and therefore a promising target for diabetes research.

    Oct 1, 2013