• The Intersection of Genetics and Economics

    Nature News | A paper slated to appear in the American Economic Review claims that a country's genetic diversity can predict the success of its economy. Critics worry that the paper is making claims that the inverse is also true.

    Oct 10, 2012

  • Science Prizes as Awards or Incentives

    The Guardian | With the announcement of the Nobel Prize in physics, The Guardian looks at the pros and cons of scientific awards as rewards or as incentives.

    Oct 9, 2012

  • The Prosecution RESTs

    Bio-IT World | Inside the Box Guest Column | Life Technologies has recently delivered version 3.0 of the Torrent Suite software, which includes updates to the RESTful API. Finally, in an industry chronically plagued with data integrity problems, a simple, modern API is available. 

    Oct 8, 2012

  • Health IT Company Claims 47 Second Genome Analysis

    eWeek | Health IT company NantHealth has introduced a supercomputing platform that it says can reduce the time required to analyze genomic data of a cancer patient from eight weeks to 47 seconds.

    Oct 8, 2012

  • University Medical Center Invests $100 Million in IT from IBM, Oracle

    eWeek | The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has announced a five-year, $100 million investment in data warehousing and analytic tools incorporating IT infrastructure from dbMotion, IBM, Informatica, and Oracle.

    Oct 8, 2012

  • Grad Programs Launch for Data Wrangling

    Computerworld | Graduate schools are recognizing the need for big-data degrees, and several have launched Master's programs in science or business analytics designed to train students to manage and process massive datasets.

    Oct 8, 2012

  • TGEN Focuses on Childhood Rare Disorders

    AZ Central | The Translational Genomics Research Institute is launching the TGen Center for Rare Childhood Disorders to use sequencing technology to identify rare diseases.

    Oct 5, 2012

  • Large Genome Study to Delineate Breast Cancers

    Singularity HUB | A collaborative study investigated the genomes 825 breast cancer patients at different stages of disease.

    Oct 5, 2012

  • EMC Names New CTO

    Computerworld | EMC has named a new Chief Technology Officer. John Roese will play a key role in shaping EMC's big data and cloud strategy.

    Oct 5, 2012

  • Report from the Consumer Genetics Conference

    Reason.com | Ronald Bailey reports from the 4th Annual Consumer Genetics Conference. Among the highlights: GenePeeks, the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, the New York Genome Center, Life Technologies, Complete Genomics,GnuBio, and much more.

    Oct 5, 2012

  • At ICG, BGI Leads Call for Genomics Collaboration

    Bio-IT World | PHILADELPHIA—BGI is leading a widespread call in the genomics research community for collaborations to extract medically useful information. At the inaugural International Conference on Genomics in the Americas (ICGA)*, held last week, BGI and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) cohosted an exciting event with a host of dynamic presentations.

    Oct 5, 2012

  • GnuBio Announces $10 Million in Additional Funding

    Yahoo Finance | GnuBio has secured $10 million in additional funding. The company plans to use the money to commercialize its desktop DNA sequencing platform and hire additional staff in product development, molecular biology, informatics and software engineering.

    Oct 4, 2012

  • News Briefs: Ingenuity, Life Tech, Janssen, Evotec

    Bio-IT World | October news briefs in the life sciences from Ingenuity, Life Tech, Janssen, Evotec, and more.

    Oct 4, 2012

  • Harvard’s George Church Enters Genomics X PRIZE Competition

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—At the Consumer Genetics Conference (CGC)* yesterday, Harvard Medical School professor George Church announced that his group will be entering the Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Express Scripts.

    Oct 4, 2012

  • LA Billionaire Works to Speed Personalized Medicine

    LA Times | Patrick Soon-Shiong, former UCLA surgeon and drug-company exec, has reached an agreement with Blue Shield of California to create a "continuous learning center" to work on spreading personalized medicine and best practices to more health care providers.

    Oct 3, 2012

  • Muscular Dystrophy Drug Repairs Gene, Helps Patients Regain Strength

    Businessweek | Sarepta Therapeutics announced ground breaking clinical trial results today, when their drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy helped patients walk nearly 300 feet farther than patients on placebo, and restored a key protein lacking in some patients.

    Oct 3, 2012

  • Whole Genome Sequencing Provides Fast, Accurate Diagnoses in the NICU

    Bio-IT World | Using two new algorithms and Illumina’s newest sequencer, doctors at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, have used whole genome sequencing to rapidly diagnose genetic diseases in acutely ill newborns. The results were published today in Science Translational Medicine.

    Oct 3, 2012

  • How Data Centers Deal with Big Data

    eWeek | Big data can mean big traffic jams and throughput is increasingly becoming a concern for data centers. According to a recent survey, the biggest bottleneck is network I/O.

    Oct 3, 2012

  • Renaming the Cloud

    ReadWriteWeb | The Cloud may need to reinvent itself. A recent national survey by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix, showed that most Americans don't connect the term "cloud" with computer networks.

    Oct 3, 2012

  • Drug Discovery as Investment

    In the Pipeline | Derek Lowe looks at Andrew Lo's new funding model for biotech. Lo proposes raising $30 billion for oncology drug discovery as an investment.

    Oct 2, 2012