• Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Kicks Off in Boston

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo kicks off today in downtown Boston, and a host of companies have made news and announcements already. Here’s a roundup of news and notes we’ve seen so far.

    Apr 5, 2016

  • Sunquest Information Systems Acquires GeneInsight

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Sunquest Information Systems Inc. today announced the acquisition of GeneInsight Inc., an IT company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests, and was honored in 2013 at the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards with the Editors’ Choice Award.

    Apr 4, 2016

  • Invitae Expands Genetic Testing Menu as Cheap, Inclusive Tests Are on the Rise

    Bio-IT World | Invitae—which began life in 2012 promising an “all-in-one” genetic test but has since become a piecemeal provider of gene panels—has launched a new series of pediatric tests, focusing on rare, high-impact variants.

    Apr 1, 2016

  • April Fools Day online prank round-up (2016)

    Computerworld | If it's April 1, it's the day the Internet is rife with pranks. Here are some of the best we've found.

    Apr 1, 2016

  • March News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | The latest announcements and product launches from around the industry, including funding for new projects at 10X Genomics and Emulate, and the opening of a canine genotyping service.

    Mar 31, 2016

  • Why Nestlé has been acting a lot like a drug company

    STAT | The Nestlé Health Science subsidiary is pouring money into companies targeting conditions like gut infections, muscle loss, and Alzheimer's disease.

    Mar 30, 2016

  • #BioIT16: Book Signings on Computational Biology in Drug Discovery and Cybersecurity

    Bio-IT World | Among the events scheduled for the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, there will be two book signings in the exhibit hall: William Loging will speak and sign Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Drug Discovery and Development and Mansur Hasib will speak and sign Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization. Mary Chitty, Library Director & Taxonomist for Cambridge Healthtech Institute, takes a brief look at the two works.

    Mar 30, 2016

  • 2016 Bio-IT World Best of Show People's Choice Award Contenders

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is pleased to announce the 2016 Best of Show competition with the Bio-IT World People’s Choice award.

    Mar 29, 2016

  • How Veritas Genetics Plans to Make Its $999 Whole Genome Stick

    Bio-IT World | The myGenome service from Veritas Genetics, a $999 screen that includes a whole genome sequence and reports on an expansive number of health conditions, is running up against both the financial and regulatory limits of what genetic testing can offer today.

    Mar 28, 2016

  • AI Hits the Mainstream

    MIT Technology Review | More industries are looking for ways to use artificial intelligence. What will that mean for the technology's future?

    Mar 28, 2016

  • The Quest to Make Synthetic Cells Shows How Little We Know About Life

    The Atlantic | Scientists have created a bacterium with a minimal, life-sustaining genome, but they don't know what a third of its genes do.

    Mar 25, 2016

  • Paul Allen Announces Funding for Research at the Frontiers of Bioengineering and Systems Biology

    Bio-IT World | Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and a lavish philanthropist in the life sciences, has made a $100 million commitment to a new scientific grant program, the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group.

    Mar 24, 2016

  • Google's New Stackdriver Service Can Manage Applications Across Multiple Clouds

    Computerworld | Google is aiming to help companies manage their applications running across public and private clouds with a new product and a set of partnerships announced at its cloud user conference.

    Mar 24, 2016

  • Runs in the Family

    The New Yorker | Siddartha Mukherjee, who has a family history of schizophrenia, untangles recent discoveries about the genetic and functional basis of the disease.

    Mar 23, 2016

  • Google's Greene Hastens Cloud Expansion in Race With Amazon

    Bloomberg | Google's new cloud chief Diane Greene had unsettling news for employees at an internal sales meeting this month in Las Vegas: They weren't taking corporate customers seriously enough and needed to sell harder, be hungrier and less complacent.

    Mar 22, 2016

  • No More Peanuts: Merck Pays $20M for Harvard Cancer Drug

    Forbes | Harvard just got $20 million in cash from Merck. Surely, some industry haters will spit out their coffee over that headline. To those in academia who see their endeavor as that of purely noble truth-seekers and educators, striking a lucrative deal with pharma is tantamount to doing business with Tony Soprano.

    Mar 22, 2016

  • Verseon Corp – A New Twist on In Silico Drug Design

    Bio-IT World | For the past decade, a few companies have been pursuing the application of quantum mechanics to the modeling of ligand/receptor interactions. San-Francisco-based Verseon Corporation may have a platform in physics-based computational drug design that could change the economics and the hit quality of drug discovery.

    Mar 17, 2016

  • Startups Begin to Emerge From NYU’s “Virtual” Biotech Factory

    Xconomy | The gap between basic biomedical research and drug development is often called the "valley of death," where promising projects are stymied by a lack of funding. But NYU Langone Medical Center seems poised to bear fruit.

    Mar 17, 2016

  • Apple said to move part of cloud business from AWS to Google

    Computerworld | Apple has moved some of its iCloud business from Amazon Web Services to Google's cloud service, in what is seen as a bid by the iPhone maker to diversify its suppliers.

    Mar 17, 2016

  • Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

    New York Times | Molecular biologists and neuroscientists are tweeting with the hashtag #ASAPbio in protest of a system that keeps research from being shared with the public, typically for more than six months.

    Mar 16, 2016