• Genomic Data and Drug Development EMA Offers New Draft Guidance

    RAPS | The European Medicines Agency has released a new draft guidance to provide industry with more insight on how to identify and understand genomic factors that influence drug responses.

    May 2, 2016

  • The Struggle With Image Glut

    Nature News & Comment | Experiments that generate millions of images have forced scientists to find new ways to store and share terabytes of experimental data.

    May 2, 2016

  • Three Pharma Data Challenges and How to Overcome Them

    Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | There’s no lack of ideas about what is needed to make advancements in life sciences research and improving patient care: real-time research, humanizing big data, enhancing customer values and motivation, and that’s just for starters. It was evident that these data struggles were on the minds of attendees at the recent Bio-IT World 2016 Conference in Boston.

    Apr 29, 2016

  • AbbVie Buying Cancer Drug Startup Stemcentrx

    Fortune | AbbVie will buy Stemcentrx, which has five drugs targeting "cancer stem cells" in early clinical trials, for up to $10.2 billion in cash and stock.

    Apr 28, 2016

  • Emmanuelle Charpentier, the Quiet Revolutionary

    Nature News | The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.

    Apr 28, 2016

  • April News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | The latest news and product releases from around the industry, including Novogene's new U.S. sequencing center, and a bioinformatics solution for liquid biopsies from QIAGEN.

    Apr 27, 2016

  • JAX and Calico Apply Mouse Genetics to Aging

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and Calico today announced a multi-year collaboration focused on applying mouse genetics to the study of aging.

    Apr 26, 2016

  • U.S. efforts to build next-gen supercomputer take shape

    Computerworld | While early goals had the US achieving exascale computing by 2018, the new deadline is 2023.

    Apr 26, 2016

  • SwiftStack Announces 4.0 Delivering Scale and Metadata Search

    Bio-IT World  | SwiftStack today announced the latest version of its object storage software with new customer-driven capabilities that deliver scale and metadata search as well as plans for file native access and cloud synchronization. These new features are designed to further simplify and accelerate customer journeys from traditional file systems to more flexible, scalable cloud infrastructures.

    Apr 26, 2016

  • UC San Francisco Gains $185 Million for Neuroscience Research

    FierceBiotech | In the largest ever gift to the University of California, San Francisco, the Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford Weill have donated $185 million to establish the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

    Apr 26, 2016

  • Illumina Opens BaseSpace Suite as End-to-End Solution for Genetic Testing Labs

    Bio-IT World | Illumina’s new, cloud-based BaseSpace Informatics Suite allows a lab with no genomic computing infrastructure of its own to track genetic tests through the laboratory, find genetic variants in human DNA, interpret the clinical importance of DNA test results, and create reports for physicians to consult when making treatment decisions.

    Apr 21, 2016

  • Pfizer, Roche Embrace the Microbiome, Leading $43M Bet on Second Genome

    Forbes | Scientists are super-excited about the way cheap, fast DNA sequencing technology is making it possible to gather vivid, detailed information about the microbiome. These are the trillions of bugs in our guts, and on our skin, that humans have co-existed with since the beginning. Drug companies, until fairly recently, haven't been [...]

    Apr 20, 2016

  • AWS Powers New Big Data Services with Giant Hard Disks

    Computerworld | Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads: The cloud provider announced Tuesday that it's launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that are powered by traditional, spinning disk hard drives.

    Apr 20, 2016

  • Senators Seek to Legislate DNA Privacy, But Is It Really Possible?

    Techonomy | A new bill introduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mike Enzi adds important privacy protections for genetic data. But real protection will be tough.

    Apr 20, 2016

  • Illumina Announces Winners of MiniSeq Scientific Challenge

    Illumina | The Illumina MiniSeq System, unveiled earlier this year, is the company's smallest and simplest next-generation sequencing (NGS) system to date. The Scientific Challenge Program was launched to highlight the range of applications that can be performed using Illumina's most affordable sequencer. After receiving more than 1,100 grant submissions from around the world, winners were announced from the University of Florida, North Carolina State University, and National University of Ireland, Galway.

    Apr 19, 2016

  • The 3 Big Technologies To Watch Over The Next Decade: Genomics Nanotechnology and Robotics

    Forbes | While smartphone apps are cool and add convenience to our lives, the real impact of digital technology lies in front of us, when second order technologies are applied to completely new problems.

    Apr 19, 2016

  • Odds and Ends from the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo

    Bio-IT World | At the 15th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, speakers introduced projects like the latest update to GATK from the Broad Institute; the ISB Cancer Genomics Cloud for shared analysis of TCGA data; the Resilience Project at Mount Sinai; and the NCI Genomic Data Commons for harmonization of DNA data from disparate sources.

    Apr 15, 2016

  • Benjamin Langmead Named Fifteenth Annual Benjamin Franklin Award

    Bio-IT World | Benjamin Langmead, an assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, was presented with the fifteenth Benjamin Franklin Award from Bioinformatics.org at the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo for his development of open source and cloud-based bioinformatics software.

    Apr 14, 2016

  • From Boutique Clinics to the Community Hospital: Precision Medicine at the Bio-IT World Conference

    Bio-IT World | In the closing plenary session of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, keynote speakers Yaron Turpaz of Human Longevity, Inc., Catherine Brownstein of Boston Children's Hospital, and Bill Evans of IBM Watson Health addressed the sticky question of how big data-driven healthcare can make the leap from high-priced luxury to standard practice.

    Apr 13, 2016

  • Eric Dishman Named Director of Precision Medicine Cohort Program

    Bio-IT World | The National Institutes of Health have named Eric Dishman, previously of Intel, as Director of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program.  Dishman will lead NIH’s effort to build the PMI landmark longitudinal research study of one million or more U.S. volunteers to expand our ability to improve health and treat disease through precision medicine.

    Apr 12, 2016