Apr 20, 2016, 11:02 AM by Michael Croft

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, 10:27 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Apr 20, 2016 - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it has received a grant to support a new course on aging that will draw internationally renowned scientists to Bar Harbor, Maine, to examine fundamental questions about our ability to repair and regenerate tissue as we age

Apr 20, 2016, 09:20 AM by Michael Croft

BERLIN, GERMANY - Apr 20, 2016 -  Post-authorization safety studies (PASS) are becoming an integral part of the medicines development

Apr 19, 2016, 09:38 AM by Michael Croft

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, 09:29 AM by Michael Croft

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 15, 2016, 11:15 AM by Michael Croft

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, 09:54 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Apr 15, 2016 - Today leadership, scientists and supporters of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center dedicate the new William H

Apr 14, 2016, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

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, 02:14 AM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY - Apr 13, 2016 - April, 14th, 2016, Creative Proteomics, a leading supplier in drug development services, carried out their products mainly related to the biomarker quantification

Apr 13, 2016, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

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 12, 2016, 13:35 PM by Michael Croft

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, 12:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Making the case for industry-led standards and more open and transparent data sharing at the opening plenary session at last week’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., Director at Partners HealthCare Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and medical director at the Broad Institute Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, discussed the growing needs for improved clarity and consistency of genetic data for clinical and research purposes.

Apr 12, 2016, 12:11 PM by Michael Croft

KANSAS CITY, KS, UNITED STATES - Apr 12, 2016 - Sekisui XenoTech now offers Geneknown™ pooled human hepatocytes as part of its catalog of cell and tissue-based products

Apr 12, 2016, 10:38 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Apr 12, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is hiring a number of clinical research positions and will be looking to meet potential applicants in the field at the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) during the group’s 2016 Global Conference, being held April 16-19 in Atlanta, Georgia

Apr 12, 2016, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The first paper connected to the Resilience Project, an effort by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to find healthy individuals carrying mutations that seemingly ought to cause severe illnesses, was published yesterday in Nature Biotechnology.

Apr 12, 2016, 08:12 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 12, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today launched the Simcyp In Vitro (Data) Analysis (SIVA) Toolkit 2

Apr 8, 2016, 12:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—This week’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston was a packed three days of rich content, industry news, and product announcements. We highlighted some of the early event announcements on the first day. Here is some of the news from the second half of this week.

Apr 7, 2016, 06:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—A panel of expert judges and the Bio-IT community chose to honor six new products yesterday evening at the Bio-IT World Best of Show competition. A record-breaking 46 new products in IT and the life sciences were considered this year from the 190 Bio-IT World exhibiting companies.

Apr 6, 2016, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Bio-IT World announced the winners of the 2016 Best Practices Awards this morning at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Entries from AstraZeneca, DNAnexus, Amgen, Human Longevity, and XOMA were honored.

Apr 6, 2016, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Silicon Mechanics announced the recipients of its fifth annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG) at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo today. The University of New Orleans and the University of California, Merced were each awarded a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with the latest high-performance processing and GPU technologies valued at over $100,000 for use in demonstrated research purposes going forward.