• DNA Tests and Sometimes Surprising Results

    The New York Times | Think you know your racial background? A communications studies project involving ancestry DNA testing has led to interesting conversations on identity.

    Apr 24, 2017

  • Hannes Smarason On The Future Of The Platform For WuXi NextCODE

    Diagnostics World | Hannes Smarason, WuXi NextCode's new CEO, is looking to enable the use of the WuXi NextCode platform across a multitude of applications. The goal is to create a Contract Genomics Organization, an underlying platform for genomic data that brings together everything needed to empower healthcare.

    Apr 24, 2017

  • Biogen Says Its Back and Ready for ‘Highly Active’ Dealmaking

    Bloomberg | Biogen Inc. is ready to make some deals. "We're moving, and we're back in terms of augmenting the pipeline," research and development head Michael Ehlers said Friday in an interview. An agreement last week to pay Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. $300 million upfront for an experimental Alzheimer's drug is "hopefully just the beginning of a set of very rigorous but highly active deals."

    Apr 24, 2017

  • The Go-To Gene Sequencing Machine With Very Strange Results

    WIRED | An update to Illumina's gene sequencing technology could have contaminated the results of recent high-sensitivity data produced on the machines.

    Apr 21, 2017

  • Geisinger Accused Of Coercing Patients To Participate In Genetic Research

    PennLive.com | The Geisinger Health System has been accused by two of its former doctors of coercing patients to participate in genetic research. The accusation was made in a wrongful termination suit filed this week.

    Apr 20, 2017

  • Google Offshoot Starts A 10000-Person Study To Plumb Human Biology

    Forbes | Verily, formerly known as Google Life Sciences, is launching a long-awaited study whose methods may offer a realistic blueprint for how tech could change medicine. But it's also an emblem of how long that transformation will take.

    Apr 20, 2017

  • Building BioTeam’s Texas Sandbox

    Bio-IT World | In 2015, Ari Berman, BioTeam’s Vice President and General Manager of Consulting Services decided that the consultancy needed a better spot for non-digital products. BioTeam launched its Convergence Lab, datacenter space hosted by the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas, dedicated to BioTeam. Now with a maturing business model, the Convergence Lab is beginning to play host to some of BioTeam's best ideas. 

    Apr 19, 2017

  • Cancer Drugmaker G1 Therapeutics Makes IPO Pitch To Wall Street

    Xconomy | Research Triangle Park, NC-based G1 has filed for an initial public offering that could raise up to $115 million. G1 has yet to work out the number of shares it will offer and at what price.

    Apr 18, 2017

  • Bio-IT World Announces Finalists For Best Practices Awards

    Bio-IT World | The finalists for the 2017 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition have been announced. This year, 23 projects from 36 different groups were chosen for the final round of competition.

    Apr 13, 2017

  • NantOmics Acquires Genos

    Bio-IT World Brief  NantOmics today announced its acquisition of Genos, a consumer genomics startup that launched its services last year.

    Apr 13, 2017

  • Building And Supporting Mobile Apps In The Cloud

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World Expo Commentary  Mobile application development is a term used to denote the act or process by which application software is developed for mobile devices and it is growing steadily and at a rapid pace. With the increase in the usage of cloud technology, mobile development is the need of the hour. Most of the major products now have mobile modules attached and sometimes even provided as incentive to increase their sales. Mobile development has also brought changes to project management methodology in organizations. Cohesiveness and synergy between various teams is now more visible than ever.

    Apr 13, 2017

  • CRISPR Cousin SHERLOCK May Be Able To Track Down Diseases, Scientists Say

    STAT | Scientists have found a way to use CRISPR to develop quick, easy, cheap, and precise diagnostic tests, including in the field during a disease outbreak.

    Apr 13, 2017

  • Berkeley Lab Supercomputer Breaks New Ground In Quantum Computing Simulation

    TOP500 | Cori, the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world, has been used to model a 45-qubit circuit, which, by all accounts, is the largest simulation of a quantum computer ever achieved. The virtual circuit is just a handful of qubits short of a quantum computing system that would be more powerful than any conventional computer currently devised.

    Apr 13, 2017

  • The Human Vaccines Project, Vanderbilt, And Illumina Collaborate To Decode The Human Immunome

    Bio-IT World Brief | The Human Vaccines Project and Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced this week that they joined forces with Illumina to decipher the human immunome, the genetic underpinnings of the immune system.

    Apr 12, 2017

  • Top U.S. Scientists Advise On Ways To Foster Research Integrity

    NPR.org | The National Academy of Sciences has toughened up its guidelines to call cutting corners, dubious statistics and not fully sharing research methods "detrimental" to science.

    Apr 11, 2017

  • ATUM Launches Cell-Line Development Service


    Bio-IT World Brief     | ATUM has announced an expansion of its services to include cell line development, which has been enabled by the company’s proprietary Leap-In Transposase genome engineering tools.

    Apr 10, 2017

  • Kevin Davies Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellow

    Bio-IT World Brief | Congratulations are in order for Bio-IT World's founding editor, Kevin Davies. Kevin was just named a 2017 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

    Apr 7, 2017

  • tranSMART Foundation, i2b2 Foundation Merge

    Bio-IT World The tranSMART Foundation and the i2b2 Foundation are merging into a single foundation to advance the field of precision medicine. These organizations provide open-source software and databases representing more than 100 million patient lives to thousands of physicians and scientists worldwide.

    Apr 6, 2017

  • From Black Hole To Data Big Bang: Open Patent Chemistry Pips 20 Million Structures

    Bio-IT World | While companies have always been aware of the crucial importance of patent disclosures in the context of intellectual property (IP), appreciation of their value as a data source is slowly increasing in the academic biomedical sector, particularly for medicinal chemistry as applied to drug discovery.

    Apr 6, 2017

  • Chinese Researchers Publish Comparisons Of BGISEQ-500, HiSeq2500

    Bio-IT World Brief | Researchers from China’s National Institutes for Food and Drug Control have published reference data of the BGISEQ-500 sequencing platform compared to Illumina’s HiSeq2500 platform.

    Apr 5, 2017