Jul 11, 2016, 13:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Intel may have missed out on a major government grant, but that hasn't stopped it from developing a collaborative cloud for genomicists and bioinformaticians that it wanted to build all along.

Jul 8, 2016, 08:47 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Britain's vote to exit the European Union will depress global IT spending, according to Gartner analyst John-David Lovelock.

Jul 8, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Three patients have died in a closely watched study of using genetically engineered white blood cells to treat adult leukemia patients, forcing the trial to be put on hold. The news is a blow for Juno Therapeutics, the biotechnology startup valued at $4.3 billion.

Jul 8, 2016, 07:37 AM by Michael Croft

OAKLAND, CA, UNITED STATES - Jul 8, 2016 - Riffyn, Inc. announces an investment by Siemens Venture Capital to accelerate the launch of its cloud-based research process design software

Jul 7, 2016, 11:05 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | After a few weeks of hype around the Obama administration's efforts to speed cancer research, officials tonight announced plans to kickstart efforts around the president's Precision Medicine Initiative.

Jul 7, 2016, 10:07 AM by Michael Croft

Fortune | Johnson & Johnson turned off its last mainframe and plans to move 85% of its software to the cloud. Is it mainstream or an outlier?

Jul 7, 2016, 07:34 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - Jul 7, 2016 - Recipharm, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has appointed Ann Flodin as General Manager of its wholly owned new subsidiary Recipharm Laboratories Inc

Jul 6, 2016, 13:02 PM by Michael Croft

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, 09:43 AM by Michael Croft

PITTSBURGH, PA - Jul 6, 2016 - SAVE JON, a non-profit research accelerator that applies engineering approaches to medicine, today announced that it is relaunching as Curable

Jul 6, 2016, 05:45 AM by Michael Croft

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, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Jul 5, 2016 - Recipharm, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has announced an €18 million investment to expand its blow fill seal (BFS) capacity at its site in Kaysersberg, FranceThe investment will see the introduction of a new blow fill seal high speed filling and packaging line, bringing the total number of lines from seven to eight to meet growing demand for the service

Jul 5, 2016, 09:52 AM by Michael Croft

- Jul 5, 2016 - A global life science technology firm, with headquarters in Ireland, has appointed Carlos Machado as serialization director to lead the company’s sales, operations, implementation and post project support services in the US

Jul 1, 2016, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

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.

Jun 29, 2016, 16:10 PM by Michael Croft

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, 14:45 PM by Michael Croft

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, 07:11 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. - Jun 29, 2016 - sciNote is an Open Source Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), that helps scientists to store and manage their research data in very intuitive and easy way

Jun 28, 2016, 15:07 PM by Michael Croft

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, 13:12 PM by Michael Croft

Today, at the Drug Information Association’s (DIA) Annual Meeting, Veeva Systems (NYSE VEEV) reported the latest findings of the industry’s largest, annual global survey of trial master file (TMF) owners, the Veeva 2016 Paperless TMF Survey. The new research study

Jun 28, 2016, 08:58 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Jun 28, 2016 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Evotec, one of the world’s leading contract research organizations, has selected Genedata Screener® as a data management platform solution for its drug discovery projects

Jun 28, 2016, 06:40 AM by Michael Croft

WOBURN, MA - Jun 28, 2016 - HighRes Biosolutions and Titian Software have worked closely to enable linkage of Titian’s market leading Mosaic™ sample management software with HighRes’ Cellario™ automation system control software