• 23andMe President Andy Page Steps Down

    Business Insider | Andy Page is stepping down as president at 23andme and will remain on the company's board, according to a letter sent to employees. The news comes only a few weeks after it was reported that the company won't be pursuing next-generation sequencing.

    Nov 17, 2016

  • Stem Cell Transplant Startup With Harvard Tech Magenta Therapeutics Gets $48.5M

    Forbes | Adult stem cell transplants can be very effective against certain leukemias and lymphomas. You get whacked with high-dose chemo or radiation to hopefully kill the cancer cells. Then you get blood-forming adult stem cells, usually donated from a family member.

    Nov 16, 2016

  • A Conversation with Rommie Amaro

    ACS Central Science | Rommie Amaro--professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo plenary speaker--talks about how molecular dynamics simulations can lead to new drugs.

    Nov 15, 2016

  • CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested In A Person For The First Time

    Nature News & Comment | A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 technique. The move by Chinese scientists could spark a biomedical duel between China and the United States.

    Nov 15, 2016

  • Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Adopts DNAnexus on Azure

    Bio-IT World The Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine (SCGPM) has adopted the DNAnexus Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud for its genomic analysis, data management, and collaborative research solutions.  The SCGPM, which supports researchers across nearly 80 laboratories, brought the two technologies together after working with both DNAnexus and Microsoft independently.

    Nov 15, 2016

  • American Heart Association, AWS Launch Heart Disease Cloud Marketplace

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The American Heart Association (AHA) announced a milestone in its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS): the launch of a global, secure cloud-based data marketplace for cardiovascular diseases. The AHA Precision Medicine Platform will include an array of curated datasets, that are centrally stored, easily searched and accessible, and managed on the AWS cloud

    Nov 14, 2016

  • IBM Is Using Tiny Tubes to Grow the Chips of the Future

    WIRED | Carbon nanotube are too tiny to carve. So IBM is using chemistry to grow chips like crystals.

    Nov 14, 2016

  • Hurdles Lie Ahead For Korea's Biotechnology Push

    The Korea Herald | Faced with the continued slowdown of its manufacturing sector, South Korea is eyeing new growth in the field of biotechnology, a promising industry expected for a sharp growth in the years ahead.

    Nov 14, 2016

  • Why Thousands Of Veterans Are Donating Their DNA To Science

    STAT | Veterans are donating their blood to the VA as part of one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken to understand our DNA.

    Nov 11, 2016

  • Illumina, Mayo Work to Ensure Interoperability in BaseSpace Suite

    Bio-IT World | Mayo Clinic and Illumina announced plans yesterday to work together on several Illumina software offerings including BaseSpace Clarity LIMS, BaseSpace Sequence Hub, and BaseSpace Variant Interpreter.

    Nov 11, 2016

  • Allen Institute for AI Eyes the Future of Scientific Search

    WIRED | A new search engine called Semantic Scholar helps academics deal with the increasingly enormous volume of academic research.

    Nov 11, 2016

  • Susan Molineaux Uses Unique Skillset To Guide Calithera Biosciences

    San Francisco Business Times | Susan Molineaux is the CEO of Calithera Biosciences, and provides insight into her unique approach to managing her South San Francisco tumor-treating drug company.

    Nov 11, 2016

  • Illumina, Mayo Announce NGS Technology Partnership

    Bio-IT World Brief | Mayo Clinic and Illumina are working together on next-generation sequencing technology with the intent to accelerate Mayo’s delivery of genetic and genomic expertise.

    Nov 10, 2016

  • Cycle Computing Debuts The Newest Version Of Its CycleCloud

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Cycle Computing today announced the general availability of the newest version of its flagship offering CycleCloud. 

    Nov 9, 2016

  • Titan Supercomputer Tests New Deep Learning Methods For Cancer Research

    ZDNet | Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory experimented with deep learning techniques to automate how information is extracted and from cancer pathology reports.

    Nov 9, 2016

  • Researchers Present A Case for Global Research Data Sharing

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Baylor professors recently published a paper in PLOS Biology examining evidence of public resistance towards sharing genomic and other health data across national borders. The authors also lay out the case for global data sharing.

    Nov 8, 2016

  • Understanding Africas Diverse Gene Pool Can Help Fight Lifestyle Diseases

    The Conversation | Cracking genetic responses to the changing environment in Africa would open a new frontier in the drive against rising non-communicable diseases on the continent.

    Nov 7, 2016

  • Supercomputing the p53 Protein as a Promising Anticancer Therapy

    Texas Advanced Computing Center | Computational biophysicist Rommie Amaro is using the Stampede supercomputer at TACC to model the largest atomic level system of the tumor suppression protein p53 to date - over 1.5 million atoms. The simulations identify new "pockets" to reactivate p53 which would be a tremendous boost for future anti-cancer drug discovery.

    Nov 4, 2016

  • Tackling the Organizational Challenges Slowing Biotech

    Bio-IT World  “How do you change the way scientists operate in a fundamental way to win them over?” Matthew Trunnell, CIO at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, asked the crowd at the Converged IT Summit* last week in San Diego during his opening keynote. While there were plenty of the talks wading into the weeds of how to build and structure data centers, much of the conversation at the Summit tackled the more amorphous problems plaguing bio-IT today: building a community that shares data and incentivizes collaboration.

    Nov 4, 2016

  • Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center Awarded NCI Grant to Create Genomic Data Center

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center  were recently awarded a federal grant from the National Cancer Institute to support a joint cancer genomics data center for the research and clinical interpretation of tumors. The grant will provide funding of $490,000 per year over the next five years.

    Nov 3, 2016