Feb 15, 2016, 16:11 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon Web Services has agreed to buy Nice, an Italian vendor of high-performance computing software and services, to extend its as-a-service offering.

Feb 15, 2016, 15:09 PM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES - Feb 9, 2016 - Gen9 today announced it has developed a novel multiplex DNA assembly approach which scales the manufacture of synthetic DNA by nearly two orders of magnitude

Feb 15, 2016, 11:14 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | "The most you can lose is all your money," says Bill Maris, the founder of Google Ventures who is making big investments in the riskier, more highly regulated fields of health other Silicon Valley investors have avoided.

Feb 15, 2016, 05:04 AM by Michael Croft

NOTTINGHAM, UK - Feb 15, 2016 - Nottingham, UK – Juniper Pharma Services, a subsidiary of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNP), will work with CrystecPharma on a major multi-partner project as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI) to help create a new platform to accelerate drug development in the future

Feb 12, 2016, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft

STOCKHOLM, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 12, 2016 - RECIPHARM, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has taken the decision to lead the market in coding and serialisation to actively help pharmaceutical companies prepare for the implementation of new regulations

Feb 11, 2016, 15:09 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News | Toxicologists at Johns Hopkins have charted the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals to help predict the toxicity of untested substances.

Feb 11, 2016, 14:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | 10X Genomics, whose GemCode platform allows for much better structural variant resolution and haplotype phasing during short-read sequencing experiments, has released a new system, Chromium, that builds on the efficiency of GemCode and can label RNA molecules from individual cells.

Feb 11, 2016, 11:57 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 11, 2016 - Cenduit Launches New Professional Services Division to Provide Seamless User ExperienceDivision provides total solution for smoother, more efficient trialsResearch Triangle Park, NC - February 11, 2016 -Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced the launch of its new Professional Services Division

Feb 10, 2016, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | VeriStor is integrating SwiftStack’s object storage into its enterprise cloud services portfolio, the companies announced this week.

Feb 10, 2016, 13:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This morning, AbbVie announced a partnership with Synlogic of Cambridge, Mass., to target inflammatory bowel disease with a strain of genetically engineered microbes that can sense and respond to symptoms as they occur.

Feb 10, 2016, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | The drug industry is pouring billions into R&D against Alzheimer's disease. Yet many people in the business will tell you not nearly enough is known about the underlying biology.

Feb 10, 2016, 09:31 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Feb 10, 2016 - Infinata today announced two of its products, BioPharm Clinical and SiteSurvey, will be participating at the annual SCOPE Summit for Clinical Ops Executives

Feb 9, 2016, 16:31 PM by Michael Croft

SALISBURY COVE, ME - Feb 9, 2016 - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that Vicki Losick, Ph.D., has joined the faculty as assistant professor

Feb 9, 2016, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

The Verge | Sure Genomics, a startup based in Utah, launched a whole genome testing service today, but its plan to report a host of important health results is really testing the FDA.

Feb 8, 2016, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft

Slate | Larger and larger genetic studies are finding smaller and smaller effect sizes. What does this mean for drug development, clinical practice, and our view of mental illness?

Feb 8, 2016, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Scientists at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have invented a "multiplexed editing regulatory assay" (MERA) to test large swathes of the genome in parallel for regulatory elements that can turn gene activity on and off over the course of a cell's development.

Feb 5, 2016, 06:22 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 5, 2016 - Dr David Sibbald OBE, co-founder and Chairman of Edinburgh informatics company, Aridhia, was awarded an ‘Outstanding Contribution Award’ at the Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Awards held at the National Museum of Scotland last night

Feb 4, 2016, 06:01 AM by Michael Croft

BERLIN, GERMANY - Feb 4, 2016 - The KCR Date Forecaster, a mobile application developed by Contract Research Organization (CRO) KCR, has been made available for Android

Feb 3, 2016, 16:10 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | A Cambridge startup is trying to remove extraneous variables from experiments with a "smart lab" that can better control for simple factors like temperature and humidity.

Feb 3, 2016, 14:18 PM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Feb 3, 2016 - Dmitri A. Nusinow, Ph.D., assistant member at the Danforth Plant Science Center and researchers in his lab studying plants’ circadian clock have discovered a gene that allows plants to remember daylight during the long nights of winter, helping them tailor their growth appropriately to the seasons