• Out of Many, One: Genohub’s One-Stop-Shop for NGS Services

    By Bio-IT World | The launch of Genohub, a company that helps link genomics researchers with sequencing providers, this past August marks a significant step forward in the Next Generation Sequencing industry.

    Sep 25, 2013

  • Agilent to Divide Into Two Companies

    SpectroscopyNOW | Agilent Technologies is preparing to divide in two, with its electronic measurement business forming a separate company.

    Sep 24, 2013

  • RainDance Raises Another $35m

    Gigaom | RainDance Technologies has raised $35 million in debt financing from Capital Royalty Partners. The company raised $20 million in April.

    Sep 24, 2013

  • Skipping Exons: New Gene Therapy

    New York Times | Sarepta Therapeutics has developed a drug that may be helping muscular dystrophy by skipping exons.

    Sep 24, 2013

  • Oracle Strikes Back at HANA

    Computerworld | It's been clear that SAP's HANA was intended to go after Oracle customers, but Oracle is not surrendering.

    Sep 24, 2013

  • Biotech Exec Shoots Two

    Xconomy | Hans Petersen, the CEO of a now-defunct San Diego biotech shot and wounded two business associates yesterday.

    Sep 20, 2013

  • Google on Aging

    Bio-IT World Roundup | Google announced Calico yesterday, its new venture that is taking on aging. The story predictably solicited comment from around the Web.

    Sep 20, 2013

  • Calling for Action

    Opiniomics | Mick Watson knows we need some caution, but he's ready to get moving. On his blog today, he challenged the community to give up the hypothetical examples and start sequencing.

    Sep 19, 2013

  • 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