• Pfizer Might Buy Bind Therapeutics From Bankruptcy for $20M

    Xconomy | Bind Therapeutics and its treatment for treatment for non-small cell lung cancer may soon be owned by one-time partner Pfizer. Bind, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May asked the court to approve a bid from Pfizer on July 1.

    Jul 6, 2016

  • Owning Your Data: The Genos Model

    Bio-IT World | Consumer genomics startup, Genos, is expanding its beta program and inviting Bio-IT World readers to sequence their whole exome at CLIA-certified 75x coverage for $399.

    Jul 5, 2016

  • Building Amgen’s RWD Platform

    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Amgen built a Real World Data platform to provide an enterprise-wide capability to better access and analyze available claims, electronic health records (EHRs), and cohort data, and address questions across the clinical and health IT development lifecycle.

    Jul 1, 2016

  • PrecisionFDA Announces Truth Challenge Winners

    Bio-IT World  PrecisionFDA announced the results of its Truth Challenge today. Entries from Verily Life Sciences, Kinghorn Center for Clinical Genomics, and Sanofi-Genzyme won top recognition. In addition to the winners, DNAnexus, Roche, Real Time Genomics, Sentieon, Qunitiles, Macrogen, the Broad Institute, and others participated.

    Jun 29, 2016

  • New Investments, Projects Spur Moonshot Program Forward

    Bio-IT World The Cancer Moonshot Summit today served as a platform for many announcements from both the public and private sectors on ways to advance the Moonshot’s goals.

    Jun 29, 2016

  • Pfizer plans $350M China biotech plant

    USA TODAY | U.S. drug-making giant Pfizer plans to invest roughly $350 to develop a biotechnology center in China, increasing the company's footprint in the world's second-largest pharmaceutical market, the firm said Monday.

    Jun 28, 2016

  • Democratizing Data in Canada

    Bio-IT World | Molecular You (MYCo) has a vision to decipher a wide variety of individual patient data to promote health, detect disease in its earliest stages, and provide insights on therapeutic efficacy and timing. To manage a broad range of data, MYCo has enlisted a data warehouse solution built on Hadoop.

    Jun 24, 2016

  • Bio-IT World’s Editors’ Choice Award: XAbTracker and SeqAgent

    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Award | Each year, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo welcomes innovators from around the world who come to share their best practices, and glean insight from others. This year, XOMA’s applications XAbTracker and SeqAgent stood out for doing just that. Their team targeted a bottleneck in the antibody discovery process and developed two software programs specifically designed to improve data analysis with both speed and efficiency.

    Jun 23, 2016

  • AWS and Azure clouds gain security OK from feds

    Computerworld | Three vendors, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, have won a key U.S. government authorization that will allow federal agencies to put highly sensitive data on the cloud-computing services.

    Jun 23, 2016

  • Intel SAP other tech companies pledge to get more inclusive in hiring

    Computerworld | Intel, SAP, Lyft, Spotify and VMware are among more than 30 Silicon Valley companies to sign a pledge that they would take action to make their technology workforce "fully representative of the American people, as soon as possible."

    Jun 23, 2016

  • Buy-in from the top is key to cloud transitions AWS exec says

    Computerworld | As the head of Amazon Web Services, Andy Jassy has seen a lot of big organizations start using the public cloud. The biggest indicator of success for a cloud transition is simple, he says: Has the business' senior staff bought into it?

    Jun 22, 2016

  • Federal Oversight Group Has Complaints But Says Yes To CRISPR Trial

    Xconomy | Despite worries about conflict of interest, a National Institutes of Health committee that oversees the use of gene therapy and other cutting edge biomedical technologies voted today to let researchers move ahead with the CRISPR-Cas9 clinical trial.

    Jun 21, 2016

  • Illumina's Flatley speaks of genomic future

    The San Diego Union-Tribune | Illumina's Flatley speaks of genomic future. Longtime CEO stepping down to become chairman, looks for near-universal use of genome sequencing.

    Jun 21, 2016

  • Nvidias new Pascal GPU to supercharge deep learning

    Computerworld | Some of the world's fastest computers use Nvidia's graphics processor for computer vision and complex calculations, and a new GPU will supercharge these applications.

    Jun 20, 2016

  • Building Human Longevity’s Exhaustive Knowledgebase

    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Despite advances in genomics in the past decade, there are still large portions of the genome that scientists and physicians don’t know how to interpret. Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) wants to fill in those gaps.

    Jun 17, 2016

  • China claims exascale by 2020 three years before U.S.

    Computerworld | China's Tianhe-3 exascale system is set to go live in 2020, three years ahead of the US roadmap. But raw power aside, what might matter most in next-gen systems is how efficiently apps run.

    Jun 17, 2016

  • Rgenix Closes $33 Million Series B Round

    Bio-IT World Rgenix, a cancer therapeutics company developing first-in-class drugs targeting novel cancer pathways, announced a $33 million Series B financing led by Novo A/S and Sofinnova Partners, with participation from existing investors including Partnership Fund for New York City, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Conegliano Ventures LP. The financing will support clinical development of Rgenix’s lead drug candidates, RGX-104 and RGX-202, as well as further development of its therapeutics pipeline.

    Jun 15, 2016

  • NCI Launches GDC

    Bio-IT World The National Cancer Institute's new Genomic Data Commons platform aims to make genomic data publicly available in support of the “moonshot” to cure cancer.

    Jun 15, 2016

  • How iPS cells changed the world

    Nature News & Comment | Induced pluripotent stem cells were supposed to herald a medical revolution. But ten years after their discovery, they are transforming biological research instead.

    Jun 15, 2016

  • Survey Launch on Public Attitudes Toward Genomic Data Sharing

    Bio-IT World  | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Wellcome Genome Campus have together launched a video series and survey to explore public attitudes toward genetic data handling.

    Jun 13, 2016