Dec 14, 2016, 09:35 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Chronic kidney disease affects more than 10 percent of U.S. adults, and the risk of developing the condition increases with age. New biotech Goldfinch Bio wants to turn genetic research into new therapies.

Dec 14, 2016, 09:23 AM by Michael Croft

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Dec 14, 2016 - Recipharm, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has appointed Anders Högdin and Aaron Small to lead the growth of its pharmaceutical development services business in the US and Europe

Dec 13, 2016, 18:19 PM by Michael Croft

PALO ALTO, CA - Dec 13, 2016 -  Bioz, Inc., developers of the world’s first search engine for life science experimentation, today highlighted six predictions for how the biotechnology industry will make strides in 2017 to advance health and drug discovery

Dec 13, 2016, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Oxford Nanopore Technologies yesterday announced $126 million in new funding through a private placement of ordinary shares. The investment round was led by new investor GT Healthcare, a pan-Asian fund with special reach in China, and existing investor Woodford Investment Management on behalf of its clients. Clive Brown, Oxford Nanopore's CTO, also released the "Cliveome" yesterday, his own self-sequenced genome.

Dec 13, 2016, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Dec 13, 2016 - Kerafast Inc., developers of an industry-leading online platform to facilitate accessibility to unique bioresearch materials from laboratories across the globe, is celebrating its five-year anniversary this December

Dec 13, 2016, 09:47 AM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As genomics continues to grow and evolve, the need to find a balance between scientific progress and patient protection is as great as ever.

Dec 12, 2016, 10:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The age of CRISPR has heralded in new lines of business based on cutting-edge, gene-editing technologies. Here are a few of the highlights of CRISPR's impact on the industry.

Dec 12, 2016, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft

Top500 | The US Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has changed its timeline for getting the first post-petascale system into the field. The new goal is to get an initial exascale system deployed sometime in 2021, with acceptance nine months after that. That shrinks the schedule significantly and puts the country back on a more competitive trajectory with regard to China and Japan.

Dec 12, 2016, 04:53 AM by Michael Croft

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY, UNITED STATES - Dec 12, 2016 - BOC Sciences launched inhibitors in accordance with Research areas. At present, there are three domains covered-cancer Immunotherapy, hsp90, alzheimer's disease

Dec 9, 2016, 17:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | DNAnexus announced today that it has performed uniform reanalysis and mutation calling on the world’s largest pan-cancer dataset, encompassing 10,487 patients across 33 cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The mutation data has undergone additional quality control and filtering and is available as an open access dataset for download at the NCI Genomic Data Commons and on Synapse. The pipelines used are also fully available to researchers who wish to reproduce this TCGA mutation discovery via DNAnexus or a GitHub repository.

Dec 9, 2016, 16:13 PM by Michael Croft

STAT | The director of the NIH said Friday that it would be a "privilege" to remain in that post if asked to stay by President-elect Donald Trump.

Dec 8, 2016, 11:11 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | On December 8, Elsevier launched the CiteScore Index, a new way to assess the quality of academic journals. Elsevier's CiteScore uses a larger database - and provides different results than the Journal Impact Factor.

Dec 8, 2016, 06:49 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY,, NY, UNITED STATES - Dec 8, 2016 - Ancillary hospital location includes those support locations other than board, room, medical and nursing services that are offered to the patients during their course of care

Dec 8, 2016, 02:35 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY,, NY, UNITED STATES - Dec 8, 2016 - Radioactive agents are the nucleus of an unstable atom which emits radiations such as alpha, beta, gamma and X-rays and loses its energy

Dec 8, 2016, 01:54 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Dec 8, 2016 - United States Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) Valve Industry 2016 Market Research Report analysed the current state in the definitions, classifications, applications and industry chain structure

Dec 7, 2016, 17:48 PM by Michael Croft

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - Dec 8, 2016 - A whitepaper released today by bioinformatics technology company Biomatters examines the critical role big data will play in enabling scientists to discover life saving biologic drugs of the future

Dec 7, 2016, 13:33 PM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | Attorneys in a dispute over CRISPR gene-editing make their case to patent judges.

Dec 7, 2016, 10:42 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | As peak oil fears fade, water has emerged as the next resource crisis. The solution comes from drug development biotechnologies honed by the pharmaceutical industry.

Dec 7, 2016, 10:27 AM by Michael Croft

STAT | The University of California has a steep hill to climb if it wants to overturn the 2014 decision awarding key CRISPR patents to the Broad Institute.

Dec 7, 2016, 05:22 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Dec 7, 2016 - The emergence of new therapies that treat the causes of cystic fibrosis is creating an imperative for more accurate variant analysis