Jun 6, 2016, 12:54 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM will back efforts to create infrastructure and best practices for the R community, as well as promote use of the language.

Jun 6, 2016, 10:47 AM by Michael Croft

STAT | There are 17 biotech companies in the US that generate more than $500 million per year in revenue. And they're increasingly focused on buying innovative new products through mergers and acquisitions, rather than developing them in house.

Jun 3, 2016, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has awarded seven scientists a total of approximately $1.4 million in research grants to better understand why HIV persists in the body despite effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) and pursue novel pathways to a cure. This round of grants was supported in part by the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research (FAIR).

Jun 3, 2016, 13:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Robert Califf announced the winners of the first precisionFDA community challenge last month. Awards for the Consistency Challenge were given to Rafael Aldana and his team from Sentieon for Best Performance and Highest Reproducibility, and to Deepak Grover from Sanofi-Genzyme for Highest Accuracy.

Jun 3, 2016, 13:08 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Cutting tool could be used to study RNA's role in disease.

Jun 3, 2016, 10:08 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | It will help reduce the research backlog. Although the current supercomputer has run seven million jobs representing the work of some 10,000 researchers, the Texas center still fields five times as many requests for time on the system as it can deliver.

Jun 2, 2016, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

STAT | Last year, annual global spending on cancer treatments and drugs used for supportive care hit $107 billion, up 11.5 percent from 2014.

Jun 2, 2016, 14:52 PM by Michael Croft

Fortune | The Novartis CEO is betting China will play a key role in discovering life-changing drugs. The firm opened an R&D facility in Shanghai.

Jun 2, 2016, 08:18 AM by Michael Croft

BETHESDA, MD - Jun 2, 2016 - The International Biomedical Research Alliance, a non-profit organization which provides programming and funding support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, today announced that Harold Varmus, MD, is joining the Alliance’s board of directors

Jun 1, 2016, 12:40 PM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES - Jun 1, 2016 - Eye care is very important segment in the healthcare Industry. Eye related problems are very common when compared to other body problems

May 31, 2016, 16:51 PM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 31, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, recently announced that the company was named the 2016 Best CRO by Triangle Business Journal,  a multimedia source for local business news, research and events in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill region of North Carolina, where Rho is headquartered

May 31, 2016, 11:56 AM by Michael Croft

, CA, SAN DIEGO - May 31, 2016 - In today’s laboratories the amount of collaborations and information to keep track of seem to be rapidly growing for both academic and industrial scientists

May 31, 2016, 04:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and products from 10x Genomics, DirectData Networks, BT, The Genome Analysis Centre, Veeva and more.

May 27, 2016, 14:36 PM by Michael Croft

DURHAM, NC, UNITED STATES - May 27, 0016 - Cenduit's Upgraded Patient Reminders Tool Enhances Patient Compliance and EngagementUpgraded tool improves sponsor-patient communication with two-way messaging dashboardResearch Triangle Park, NC - May 25, 2016 -Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced the launch of its upgraded Patient RemindersTM tool

May 27, 2016, 05:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Book Review | Merging bioinformatics, computational biology, and technology are clearly important parts of the drug discovery equation. But in his new book, William Loging argues that IT is not a silver bullet, and user-centric design must be a key component.

May 26, 2016, 16:16 PM by Michael Croft

The Atlantic | The popular gene-editing technique can deliver a step-by-step account of how a single-cell embryo becomes a trillion-cell animal.

May 26, 2016, 06:39 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - May 26, 2016 - A Scottish clinical and translational informatics company has announced it is part of a consortium selected to deliver a digital research environment based on its AnalytiXagility informatics platform to one of the Netherland’s most prestigious university medical centres, with the aim of facilitating biomedical research on an unprecedented scale

May 26, 2016, 04:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | London Calling, Oxford Nanopore’s user group conference, began this morning in London. The user community looks to the London Calling event for news and announcements from Oxford, and each attendee will receive the new MinION Mk 1B at the event.

May 25, 2016, 16:05 PM by Michael Croft

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, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft

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