• Life Technologies Names First Group in Centers of Excellence Program

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Life Technologies has named its first Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Center of Excellence—an initiative to establish a global alliance comprised of leading centers capable of running the most-advanced, NGS-based oncology panels for clinical research.

    Sep 19, 2013

  • NIH Distributes $45 Million for Alzheimer's Research

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The National Institutes of Health distributed $45 million in new funding today to support innovative new studies of Alzheimer’s disease.

    Sep 18, 2013

  • Planning for Productivity

    Bio-IT World | Productivity doesn’t simply happen, especially in drug discovery. Forecasting and planning drug development can be a painstaking process, but carefully managing resources can lead to progress and savings. At the 11th annual Strategic Resource Management event, speakers from across the drug discovery landscape will share best practices on resource management, decision-making, forecasting, and more.

    Sep 18, 2013

  • FDA Center Chooses New Product Vigilance Software

    Bio-IT World News Brief | November Research Group’s PRIMO software platform has been selected as the new product vigilance software solution for the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

    Sep 17, 2013

  • Grants for Newborn Genomic Sequencing

    Healio | Four groups have been awarded $5 million grants under the Genomic Sequencing and Newborn Screening Disorders research program.

    Sep 17, 2013

  • DNAnexus Launches NGS Platform-as-a-Service

    Bio-IT World News Brief | DNAnexus has launched a specialized platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed to eliminate the common challenges and costs that enterprises face when building clinically compliant analysis pipelines for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data.  DNAnexus provides a configurable API-based platform that enables clinical testing labs to efficiently move their analysis pipelines into the cloud, using their own algorithms alongside industry-recognized tools and resources to create customized workflows in a secure and compliant environment.

    Sep 17, 2013

  • Complete Genomics Names SVP, General Counsel

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Complete Genomics has appointed Ethan Knowlden as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the company, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of BGI-Shenzhen.

    Sep 17, 2013

  • Needed: International DNA Identification Group

    NPR | Forensic scientists are calling for the creation of an international group to conduct DNA-identification on remains found after disasters or wars.

    Sep 16, 2013

  • tranSMART Foundation Releases v1.1

    Bio-IT World | The tranSMART Foundation today released tranSMART version 1.1. Originally developed as an internal project by Johnson & Johnson, this new version of the cloud-based data sharing solution eliminates the need for user organizations to purchase commercial software and integrates significant new contributions by the developer community over the past year into one new release.

    Sep 16, 2013

  • BGI Davis Opens

    Sacramento News 10 | The University of California, Davis is putting the finishing touches on BGI Davis--home for the university's collaboration with BGI. The lab will house 20 sequencers.

    Sep 13, 2013

  • Cubist Completes Purchase of Trius

    Bio-IT World Roundup | Cubist Pharmaceuticals has completed a $704 million acquisition of Trius Therapeutics.

    Sep 12, 2013

  • Evotec, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Launch ALS Partnership

    Bio-IT World | Evotec and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) launched a strategic partnership to identify compounds that prevent or slow the loss of motor neurons, which is characteristic of the human disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The collaboration is called CureMN (CureMotorNeuron).

    Sep 12, 2013

  • Data Storage Checklist

    Computerworld | Data storage is an ever present question and concern for many companies. Computerworld breaks out 14 points to consider as you build a data storage plan.

    Sep 11, 2013

  • Harvard, MIT Get NSF Grant for Artificial Intelligence Research

    Computerworld | Harvard and MIT have been awarded $25 million in NSF grant money to work on artificial intelligence. Researchers will study how the brain creates intelligence and how that process can be replicated in machines.

    Sep 11, 2013

  • Bayer, Broad Sign Oncogenomics Partnership

    Bio-IT World  | Bayer HealthCare and the Broad Institute have announced a strategic alliance in oncogenomics and drug discovery in order to jointly discover and develop therapeutic agents that selectively target cancer genome alterations over a period of five years.

    Sep 10, 2013

  • Chemistry Compendium

    Chemical & Engineering News | As part of its 90th Anniversary issue, Chemical & Engineering News highlighted nine areas of chemistry that had a profound effect on the planet including antibiotics, computational chemistry, and structural biology.

    Sep 10, 2013

  • Amicus, Biogen Sign Deal for Parkinson's Disease

    Xconomy | Amicus Therapeutics and Biogen Idec announced a deal today to discover, develop and commercialize small molecule drugs for Parkinson's Disease.

    Sep 10, 2013

  • Isis and Biogen Sign Six Year Collaboration

    Bloomberg Businessweek | Isis Pharmaceuticals signed a six-year agreement with Biogen Idec to develop new therapies to treat neurological disorders.

    Sep 9, 2013

  • Lasker Awards to Five Scientists, Bill and Melinda Gates

    New York Times | The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awards were announced today. Winners include three scientists who helped deaf people to hear, two for their work in neurotransmission, and Bill and Melinda Gates for their public service work.

    Sep 9, 2013

  • Right to Ignorance

    New Scientist | Do we have the right to ignorance? Opinions have been swirling around the disclosure aspect of genetic data, and an article in New Scientist argues that we have the right to choose ignorance.

    Sep 6, 2013