• CRISPR Patent Judges Deny Subpoena For Harvard's George Church

    STAT | The judges hearing a patent dispute over the discovery of CRISPR genome-editing technology denied a request to subpoena Harvard biologist George Church.

    Sep 16, 2016

  • What Makes A Fish Tick? Sequencing The Genome Of The Ocean Sunfish

    Bio-IT World | Researchers at A*STAR, Singapore, and China National Genebank have successfully sequenced the genome of the ocean sunfish. This is a key step in answering questions about what goes into making this mysterious fish so unique.

    Sep 15, 2016

  • Big Plans At The Broad

    Bio-IT World News | Broad Institute’s Bill Mayo is setting lofty goals for the future of the research institute. He’s got big plans for connecting to the Broadies off-sight, machine learning in clinical trials, and upgrading on-sight storage. He’s thoroughly enjoying all of it.

    Sep 14, 2016

  • New Relay Therapeutics Aims Supercomputers, $57M At Protein Motion

    Xconomy | A group of scientists and entrepreneurs believe that computers and various biotechnologies can determine how proteins, instead of folding into a permanent shape, shimmy from one shape to another, and how those back-and-forth states can be exploited to treat disease. They've formed a startup called Relay Therapeutics to test the concept and make drugs for cancer and other diseases.

    Sep 14, 2016

  • Inside Moderna Therapeutics Biotech's Most Secretive Startup

    STAT | Moderna's caustic work environment has driven away top talent. There are signs the secretive startup has hit roadblocks with its most ambitious projects.

    Sep 13, 2016

  • Lasker Awards Given for Work in Physiology Virology and Science Education

    The New York Times | This year's honors speak to the additive nature of scientific research, with prizes recognizing people who built on the findings of others.

    Sep 13, 2016

  • Moonshot Initiative Shows Promise As Advisory Panel Releases Recommendations

    Bio-IT World News Science reporter Ledford discusses advisory panel's list of recommendations in congruence with the US Cancer Moonshot Initiative.

    Sep 12, 2016

  • Gene Editing Startup CRISPR Therapeutics Plots IPO

    Boston Business Journal | The question remains whether CRISPR can do much better on the stock market than the other two publicly-traded gene editing companies, both of which are based in Cambridge and held IPOs earlier this year.

    Sep 12, 2016

  • George Church May Be Called To Testify In CRISPR Fight

    STAT | The University of California believes the visionary bioengineer will undermine key assertions made by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

    Sep 8, 2016

  • Genentech To Get Multi-Million Tax Refund

    San Mateo Daily Journal | Biotech company Genetech will receive a multi-million dollar refund on its tax bill, alleging it was assessed too much for machines and equipment; San Mateo County appeals decision.

    Sep 8, 2016

  • Moderna Closes $474M Equity Financing

    Bio-IT World Brief | Moderna Therapeutics announced today that it has raised $474 million. The company currently has $1.4 billion in cash on its balance sheet and the potential for over $230 million of additional available funds from grants.

    Sep 7, 2016

  • First DNA Sequencing In Space A Success

    Bio-IT World News | NASA has released a statement saying that the first DNA sequencing in space has occurred on the International Space Station.

    Sep 7, 2016

  • Mylan Rebuffs Rumors CEO Will Step Down

    BioSpace  Mylan denies rumors that CEO will step down after controversy regarding EpiPen Auto-Injector.

    Sep 6, 2016

  • tranSMART Foundation Launches Online Marketplace

    Bio-IT World  The tranSMART Foundation has launched a free marketplace of service vendors for the tranSMART platform. The marketplace was developed by tranSMART as a way to localize the vast world of data research and the vendors who offer services within that field.

    Sep 2, 2016

  • Biogen’s Plaque-Busting Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Promise

    MIT Technology Review | An antibody that clears up brain-destroying plaques may settle the cause of Alzheimer's once and for all.

    Aug 31, 2016

  • How DNA Could Store All the World’s Data

    Nature News & Comment | Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.

    Aug 31, 2016

  • Novartis Dissolves CAR-T Unit Cutting 120 Positions

    Forbes | Novartis is shutting down the business unit it created to develop white blood cells that can attack certain types of cancer, but continuing to develop such projects known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, or CAR-Ts.

    Aug 31, 2016

  • Say hello to Dell Technologies on Sept. 7

    Computerworld | Dell will complete its acquisition of EMC on Sept. 7, ending nearly a year of approvals and decades of history for the two companies that will combine to become Dell Technologies.

    Aug 30, 2016

  • Excel Auto-Correct Creates Problems With Genomics Research

    PCMAG | An Excel auto-correct feature changes gene names to dates. An Australian group dug through 7,500 Excel files published in 18 journals. About 20% of the files had errors.

    Aug 30, 2016

  • tranSMART, IDBS, JAX and more: News from August 2016

    Bio-IT World News Briefs | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from tranSMART, JAX, Internet2, IDBS, Synthego, and more.

    Aug 30, 2016