• 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

  • Big Data Meets Big Compute: Cycle Challenge Winner Logs a “Compute Century” on Amazon Cloud

    Bio-IT World | The winner of the Big Science Challenge, a contest convened last year by Cycle Computing to provide $10,000 in cloud computing resources for groundbreaking biomedical research, has successfully completed the first phase of its project while logging more than 115 compute years on the Amazon Cloud. 

    Oct 2, 2012

  • Oracle Announces AWS Competitor

    Computerworld | In an OpenWorld talk on Sunday, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduced a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering and listed Amazon Web Services as its primary competitor.

    Oct 1, 2012

  • Consumer Genetics Thoughts and Data

    Reason.com | Just in time for next week's big Consumer Genetics Conference in Boston, Ronald Bailey talks about the wonders of consumer genetics.

    Sep 28, 2012

  • Pay-As-You-Go Papers

    The Scientist | A pilot program is allowing University of Utah readers to "check out" Nature papers from the library for as little as $3 with the help of Readcube reference management software. Compared to purchasing reprints for $35, the program represents significant savings for researchers.

    Sep 28, 2012

  • The People’s Parrot: the First Community-Sponsored Genome

    Bio-IT World  | Researchers in Puerto Rico have taken the concept of public funding for genome research to a new level. Paid for with money raised from art and fashion shows and private donations, scientists and students at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez have sequenced the genome of the critically endangered Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata)—and maybe introduced a new model for genome research.  

    Sep 27, 2012

  • ChemAxon Opens East Coast Offices

    Sacramento Bee | ChemAxon has opened new East coast headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Sep 27, 2012

  • Knome Launches knoSYS 100 Genome Supercomputer to Enhance Interpretation

    Bio-IT World | Knome, the informatics company co-founded by George Church that bills itself as the “human genome interpretation” company, is launching a dedicated “genome supercomputer” designed to sit next to a next-gen sequencer and enhance the interpretation of genome sequences using Knome's proprietary software.  

    Sep 27, 2012

  • Biofuels: Technology vs. the Market

    Fast Company | Making their biofuel is a lot like making beer, says Eduardo Loosli, the plant manager at Amyris's Brazilian headquarters. But instead of yeast producing alcohol from sugar, the Amyris genetically modified yeast produce farnesene.

    Sep 26, 2012

  • Too Sexy for Your Data?

    Harvard Business Review | What's the sexiest job in the 21st century? Harvard Business Review says it's data scientist. With all the messy datasets available to us now, sorting through and processing that information is an opportunity for creativity, ingenuity,and some very sexy computing.

    Sep 26, 2012

  • What the Complete-BGI Merger Really Means

    Xconomy | As the dust settles on the BGI-Complete Genomics announcements, we can start to consider what the merger means for the industry and genomics-driven medicine.

    Sep 26, 2012

  • HHMI Names 13 Biomed Research Scholars

    HHMI | The Howard Hughes Medical Center has chosen 13 basic researchers as recipients of its Senior International Research Scholar (SIRS) awards. Each research scholar will receive a grant of $100,000 per year over five years.

    Sep 26, 2012

  • BGI and Gates Foundation Collaborate

    Bio-IT World | BGI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to begin immediate collaboration on global health and agricultural development.

    Sep 25, 2012

  • Data Centers and the Real Infrastructure Behind the Cloud

    Bio-IT World Roundup | There's been much discussion this week of data centers and the virtual cloud's actual impact on the environment.

    Sep 25, 2012

  • Phase II Flub for Peregrine

    Cancer Grace | A week after releasing favorable Phase II results for the novel vascular-targeting immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer, bavituximab, study sponsor Peregrine Pharmaceuticals has announced "major discrepancies" in the trial.

    Sep 24, 2012