• White House Announces Data Security Policy Principles for Precision Medicine Initiative

    Bio-IT World  The White House announced the final Data Security Policy Principles and Framework (Security Framework) for the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) this afternoon. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Lisa O. Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, laid out a security framework for institutions who participate in the PMI and provides a risk management approach to achieving those principles. Federal PMI agencies have committed to integrate the framework throughout all PMI activities

    May 25, 2016

  • Reality check on reproducibility

    Nature News & Comment | A survey of Nature readers revealed a high level of concern about the problem of irreproducible results.

    May 25, 2016

  • WuXi NextCODE, Huawei Launch Precision Medicine Cloud for China

    Bio-IT World Brief | WuXi AppTec and Huawei launched the China Precision Medicine Cloud today. The two companies hope the platform will support the Chinese government’s Precision Medicine Initiative, and link researchers across China through a secure nationwide network.

    May 24, 2016

  • This Machine Spits Out Pills In A Whole New Way

    NPR.org | A refrigerator-sized machine could someday make lifesaving drugs on site when outbreaks occur or where medicine is in short supply, like on the battlefield.

    May 23, 2016

  • Review Twin Books on the Genome Far From Identical

    New York Times | Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee offers a soaring epic, while Dr. Steven Lipkin watches a revolution in genomics unfold in the clinic.

    May 19, 2016

  • Inside Vicarious the Secretive AI Startup Bringing Imagination to Computers

    MIT Technology Review | By reinventing the neural network, the company hopes to help computers make the leap from processing words and symbols to comprehending the real world.

    May 19, 2016

  • Top 3 Data Security Lessons from Bio-IT World Expo 2016

    Bio-IT World  On day one of Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this year, Bio-IT World asked Michael Dimitruk, Sales Director at Accunet Solutions (one of the conference's perennial exhibitors), what he thought would be the biggest takeaway from this year's conference. His answer was seven words long: "Secure data is better than cheap data."

    May 17, 2016

  • Dell, SAP Announce HANA appliance, IoT Collaboration with Cloudera

    Bio-IT World Brief | Dell and SAP announced a collaboration this morning to help customers optimize SAP solution environments running on clouds; deploy IoT enabled solutions; build on specialized healthcare applications; and streamline data migration and analytics with Dell’s world-class services.

    May 17, 2016

  • CRISPR News and Deals: Editas, Caribou

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Editas Medicine today announced a three-year, $5 million agreement with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics this morning, and Caribou Biosciences completed a $30 million Series B financing round.

    May 16, 2016

  • Scientists discuss building synthetic genome including human

    STAT | More than 130 scientists, officials, and others met to discuss the topic of creating a large synthetic genome - including, but not limited to, humans.

    May 13, 2016

  • Biomedical research and clinical practice move closer together

    Health IT Central | Dmitry Etin, of EMC's Strategic Pursuits Team, breaks down his trends and observations from the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo.

    May 13, 2016

  • Human-embryo editing now covered by stem-cell guidelines

    Nature News & Comment | Stem-cell scientists attempt to fend off the need for government regulation that could impede research.

    May 12, 2016

  • Jackson Lab Receives NIH Grant to Enhance Genetics Instruction in High Schools

    Bio-IT World Brief | The Jackson Laboratory has received a $1.2 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institutes of Health for Teaching the Genome Generation, The Jackson Laboratory’s teacher professional development program designed to enhance genetics instruction in high school classrooms.

    May 12, 2016

  • All in One Day by 2020

    Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | Ketan Paranjape general manager of the Health & Life Sciences Group, Intel Corporation, welcomed the crowds at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last month in Boston. Paranjape’s opening address was a call to action for the Bio-IT community: harness big data and technology to achieve new heights for precision medicine.

    May 11, 2016

  • The pressure to publish pushes down quality

    Nature News & Comment | Scientists must publish less, says Daniel Sarewitz, or good research will be swamped by the ever-increasing volume of poor work.

    May 11, 2016

  • 10X, BioNano Publishes De Novo Assembly

    Bio-IT World News Brief  Yesterday, 10x Genomics announced the publication of a study in Nature Methods highlighting the benefits of their GemCode Technology to generate high-quality assemblies of complex genomes with their proprietary Linked-Read approach. The article demonstrates a new strategy for performing rapid, accurate and cost-effective de novo genome assembly using 10x Genomics’ Linked-Reads in combination with technologies from BioNano.

    May 10, 2016

  • Across The Board Ideas To Narrow Biotechs Gender Gap

    Xconomy | The evidence is piling up. Companies with more women in charge are better businesses. So why are so many biotechs still led mainly by men?

    May 10, 2016

  • IBMs Watson is going to cybersecurity school

    Computerworld | The result will be a cloud service called Watson for Cyber Security that's designed to provide insights into emerging threats as well as recommendations on how to stop them.

    May 10, 2016

  • CRISPR Drug Maker Intellia Therapeutics Sells $108M In IPO Shares

    Xconomy | The latest biopharmaceutical company testing Wall Street's belief in the promise of gene modification has gone public. Intellia Therapeutics sold 6 million shares at $18 each to raise $108 million.

    May 6, 2016

  • Gene Therapy’s First Out-and-Out Cure Is Here

    MIT Technology Review | A genetic therapy for "bubble boy" disease completes a 27-year journey.

    May 6, 2016