• Six Companies Get DOE PathForward Grants For Exascale Computing

    Bio-IT World  The Department of Energy today announced a $258 million investment with the intention of delivering at least one exascale-capable computing system by 2021. AMD, Cray, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA received DOE grants to support R&D in three areas: hardware technology, software technology, and application development.

    Jun 15, 2017

  • Pacific Biosciences Of California Announces Pricing Of Public Offering Of Common Stock

    Bio-IT World Brief | Pacific Biosciences of California today announced that it has priced its previously announced underwritten public offering of 15,419,354 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $3.10 per share. The offering is expected to close on or about June 20, 2017 subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

    Jun 15, 2017

  • Up And Coming Scientist Gets Funding For CAR-T Startup CARMA Therapeutics

    BioSpace | Philadelphia-based CARMA Therapeutics announced it has closed an initial financing for an undisclosed amount. The round was co-led by AbbVie Ventures and HealthCap. Participants included Grazia Equity and IP Group.

    Jun 14, 2017

  • iSpecimen Launches Biospecimen Marketplace

    Bio-IT World | iSpecimen launched its marketplace today, an online shopping platform to connect life science researchers to healthcare organizations with human biospecimens.

    Jun 13, 2017

  • MyHeritage Launches New Comprehensive DNA Ethnicity Analysis

    Bio-IT World Brief | MyHeritage announced the launch of its new and improved Ethnicity Estimate. The new analysis, developed by the company’s science team, provides MyHeritage DNA customers with a percentage-based estimate of their ethnic origins covering 42 ethnic regions, many available only on MyHeritage, representing the most comprehensive report of its type available on the market.

    Jun 12, 2017

  • Gene Editing Companies Hit Back At Paper That Criticized CRISPR

    MIT Technology Review | Report that suggested CRISPR is too dangerous to use as a drug was wrong, say biotech companies.

    Jun 12, 2017

  • FAIR Hacking: Bio-IT World Hosts Its First Hackathon

    Bio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo featured its first Bio-IT Hackathon, a competition focusing on FAIR data, data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

    Jun 9, 2017

  • Text-Mining Tool Seeks Out Hidden Data

    Nature News & Comment | A tool called Wide-Open can search out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public, and it has already flagged hundreds of such instances in genetics research.

    Jun 8, 2017

  • Masters of Complexity: Edison Liu On The Future Of The Mouse Model

    Bio-IT World | Edison Liu, president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, is harnessing the JAX spirit to push the organization—and hopefully the field—toward a more mature understanding of complexity.

    Jun 8, 2017

  • A Retrospective Of The 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

    Bio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo took place recently in Boston. The exhibit floor and conference sessions featured discussions and product releases from The Jackson Laboratory, the Broad Institute, and more.

    Jun 7, 2017

  • Inova Translational Medicine Institute Deploys Cloudera

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Inova Translational Medicine Institute today announced that it has deployed Cloudera Enterprise to securely analyze massive collections of clinical and genomic data at unprecedented speeds and scale for faster innovations in translational medicine research.

    Jun 6, 2017

  • Tidbits From The Trenches: BioTeam Panelists Advocate Decentralization

    Bio-IT World | A panel representing BioTeam at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo discuss trends in the bio-IT space, analyze cultural issues, and offer advice for practitioners in the healthcare and life-sciences space.

    Jun 6, 2017

  • At Bio-IT World, CIOs Talk Technology, Talent, And Threats

    Bio-IT World | A panel of CIOs of healthcare and life-science organizations at the 15th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo discuss a range of topics from cybersecurity to the talent that might develop the IT realm.

    Jun 5, 2017

  • Rafael Irizarry Announced As 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner

    Bio-IT World | Rafael Irizarry, of Harvard University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, was recently chosen as the 2017 laureate of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences. In his lecture at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Irizarry spoke about his collaborative efforts in Open Source Software and Educational Resources.

    Jun 2, 2017

  • Sema4 Eric Schadt’s Genomics Startup Spins Out of Sinai to Raise Cash

    Xconomy | Eric Schadt has been incubating a genomic data project within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for more than five years. Today, the company, Sema4, formally launches with 300+ employees.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Offers Funding, Engineering Help To Human Cell Atlas

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced financial support for the Human Cell Atlas, which is using sequencing technology to redefine every cell in the body. Funding and engineering support from CZI will enable EMBL-EBI, the Broad Institute, and the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute (UCSC) to set up an open, cloud-based Data Coordination Platform to check, share, and analyze the vast amounts of diverse information generated.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Rommie Amaro on Curing Cancer at Exascale

    Bio-IT World | In her opening plenary keynote at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, Computing Cures: Discovery Through the Lens of a Computational Microscope, Rommie Amaro emphasized to attendees the direct correlation between advances in life-sciences IT and scientific discovery.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Genome editing Thats the way the CRISPR crumbles

    Nature Book Reviews | Nathaniel Comfort finds heroism but little nuance in Jennifer Doudna's account of her co-discovery.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, And More: News From May 2017

    Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, and more.

    May 31, 2017

  • CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations

    Phys.org | As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.

    May 30, 2017