• Novogene Doubles Its Fleet Of PacBio Sequencers

    Bio-IT World Brief | Yesterday Pacific Biosciences announced that Novogene had agreed to purchase 10 Sequel Systems, giving the DNA sequencing service provider the capacity to run up to 20 Sequel Systems at a time.

    Aug 3, 2017

  • CRISPR Fixes Disease Gene In Viable Human Embryos

    Bio-IT World Brief | An international team of researchers has used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing to correct a disease-causing mutation in dozens of viable human embryos.

    Aug 2, 2017

  • Edico Genome Announces Contracts With NHGRI, NCI

    Bio-IT World Brief | Edico Genome today announced it has signed contracts with the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Cancer Institute for the use of its DRAGEN Bio-IT platform.

    Aug 2, 2017

  • Bright Computing Supports Fayetteville State University In AI Research

    Bio-IT World Brief | Bright Computing announced it has supplied its Bright Cluster Manager solution to Fayetteville State University for use in ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.

    Aug 2, 2017

  • Bioinformatics vs Computational Biology

    Diamond Age Data Science | The world of quantitative biology is large, diffuse and sometimes overwhelming. It's hard sometimes to even figure out what someone means when they say "bioinformatics". This can make it hard to figure out what part of the field someone works in.

    Aug 1, 2017

  • PerkinElmer, Thermo Scientific, Bioz, And More: News From July 2017

    Bio-IT World Brief | July featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including PerkinElmer, Thermo Scientific, Bioz, and more.

    Jul 31, 2017

  • DataCamp Nabs $4M For Data Science Courses, Moves To NY

    Xconomy | DataCamp, which recently raised $4 million from investors, is in the process of moving out of its Boston-area office and relocating to a recently opened headquarters in New York.

    Jul 28, 2017

  • Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Donate $10M to Advance Health Using Big Data

    UC San Francisco | Atul Butte, who is helping to guide UCSF into a new era of computational science and medicine, has been named the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at UCSF.

    Jul 28, 2017

  • Takeda And Schrödinger Team Up For Drug Discovery

    Asian Scientist Magazine | To leverage each other's strengths and accelerate the drug discovery process, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has teamed up with Schrödinger Incorporated. The multi-target research collaboration is directed at treating diseases that are aligned with Takeda's core therapeutic areas of interest.

    Jul 27, 2017

  • Pharma Companies Reshape Focus In R&D

    Bio-IT World Brief | Rare diseases have found themselves on the chopping block after a spate of pharma reorganizations.

    Jul 27, 2017

  • First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.

    MIT Technology Review | Researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently improve the DNA of human embryos.

    Jul 27, 2017

  • Merck’s Cyberattack And Biopharma’s Rising Interest In Cybersecurity

    Bio-IT World | Cybersecurity has hardly been biopharma’s main focus, but it demands attention given the volume of collaborations, the varying levels of security each partner maintains, the widespread use of personal devices to access a sponsor’s system, and the importance of protecting a company’s most precious intellectual property—its data.

    Jul 26, 2017

  • Dont run biomedical science as a business

    Nature News & Comment | Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.

    Jul 25, 2017

  • Helix Launches First Online Consumer Marketplace For DNA-Powered Products

    Bio-IT World Brief | Helix today launched the first online marketplace for DNA-powered products that offer insights on ancestry, entertainment, family, fitness, health, and nutrition. Helix’s inaugural marketplace partners include Admera Health, Azumio, DNAFit, Dot One, EverlyWell, Exploragen, Genome Medical, Insitome, Lose It!, National Geographic, Sema4, Titanovo, and Vinome.

    Jul 24, 2017

  • US Defence Agencies Grapple With Gene Drives

    Nature News & Comment | National security community examines the risks and benefits of technology to quickly spread genetic modifications.

    Jul 21, 2017

  • Supercomputer Maker Cray Cutting 14% Of workforce, 190 Jobs, Seeking To Save $25M Per Year

    GeekWire | Seattle supercomputer maker Cray plans to cut 190 jobs, representing about 14% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring plan meant to cut costs.

    Jul 20, 2017

  • Certified Public Accountants Launch Framework For Cybersecurity Audits

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Cybercriminals are stealing healthcare data by targeting vendors and third parties, both of which often have weaker security in place. In May 2017, The American Institute of CPAs released their Cybersecurity Attestation Framework. Also known as Service Organization Control for cybersecurity, this framework builds on top of the long-established Trust Services Principles reporting.

    Jul 20, 2017

  • Novogene And Pacific Biosciences To Develop And Co-Market Applications Based On Sequel Platform

    Bio-IT World Brief | Novogene and Pacific Biosciences of California have agreed to jointly develop and promote novel applications based on the PacBio Sequel System. New applications developed under this agreement are expected to focus on basic and translational research in the field of precision medicine, including methods for sample processing, workflow automation, algorithm development, and database construction.

    Jul 18, 2017

  • Big Pharma Buys Into Crowdsourcing For Drug Discovery

    WIRED | The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.

    Jul 17, 2017

  • Illumina Announces Nuerodegeneration Panel

    Bio-IT World News Brief  Illumina has announced the TruSeq Neurodegeneration Panel, which targets 118 genes selected with input from a group of 16 leading neurodegenerative researchers and includes broad coverage of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and other neurodegenerative disorders.

    Jul 14, 2017