Dec 16, 2015, 13:31 PM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Dec 16, 2015 -  Sinequa, a leader in real-time Big Data search and analytics, today announced that UCB has selected the Sinequa Big Data Search & Analytics Platform to speed vital information discovery of its clinical trial file share

Dec 15, 2015, 10:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, the FDA announced the availability of precisionFDA, a platform where developers can upload and access pipelines for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data, comparing results against best-in-class reference standards.

Dec 15, 2015, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 15, 2015 - Officials from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis and the University of Missouri (MU) announced today the joint hiring of Blake Meyers, Ph

Dec 14, 2015, 16:12 PM by Michael Croft

Scientific American Blog Network | Two specialists in the ethics and policy of biotechnology argue that personalized medicine is in danger of denying state-of-the-art care to the very data donors who make new discoveries possible.

Dec 11, 2015, 11:29 AM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | AstraZeneca, on the hunt for new drug targets and delivery mechanisms, is teaming up with the Swedish Wallenberg Centre for Protein Research to explore the universe of proteins secreted by human cells.

Dec 11, 2015, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

RALEIGH, NC - Dec 11, 2015 - When Scott Vu started working on a computer science research project as a teenager, he didn’t realize it would lead to his launching a company designed to help the biotechnology industry operate more efficiently

Dec 10, 2015, 12:07 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Flagship Ventures-funded Rubius Therapeutics wants to insert genes for therapeutic enzymes into blood-forming stem cells, then infuse the nucleus-free mature cells into patients to fight disease.

Dec 10, 2015, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina has made an investment in Desktop Genetics, a company that provides software for the design of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complexes.

Dec 10, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | sbv IMPROVER, an international scientific crowdsourcing initiative, has launched the Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge. The challenge, which is open to anyone working in computational science who is developing predictive modelling techniques, provides the unique opportunity for participants to vigorously and objectively test their methodologies. Working on blood gene expression data, participants are being challenged to derive a predictive model to distinguish current smokers from either non-smokers or former-smokers. Entries will be scored by an independent panel against a gold-standard dataset.

Dec 9, 2015, 15:40 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Silicon Mechanics has opened its 5th Annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG) program. Two institutions will be selected, and both will be awarded a complete high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The competition is open to all United States and Canadian qualified post-secondary institutions, university-affiliated research institutions, non-profit research institutions, and researchers at federal labs with university affiliations.

Dec 9, 2015, 14:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With its cheap, handheld MinION sequencers, Oxford Nanopore is looking to early adopters like Karen James to help them reach teachers and citizen scientists ready to bring DNA sequencing outside the research lab.

Dec 8, 2015, 17:15 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 8, 2015, 10:36 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Dec 8, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, and Diagnomics, a developer of innovative products and services for personalized medicine based on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology, today announced their achievement of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) validation for NGS based Pre-natal Testing using the Maverix Dx Platform

Dec 8, 2015, 09:10 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Google's parent company, Alphabet, has renamed its life sciences division Verily and given it the goal to "understand disease at the individual level."

Dec 8, 2015, 08:42 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 8, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the release of version 15 of its Simcyp® Population-based Simulator

Dec 7, 2015, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | Roche will invest as much as $500 million in a partnership with SQZ, based on a technology that physically manipulates immune cells to admit new antigens, with the aim of training these cells to fight a patient's own cancer.

Dec 7, 2015, 11:40 AM by Michael Croft

Wired | Biologists at MIT have engineered new genetic elements to insert in bacteria, making these microbes dependent on lab-supplied synthetic molecules to survive.

Dec 4, 2015, 17:13 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Geneticist Charles Danko turned to Twitter this week for help in convincing his IRB at Cornell that he should be allowed to let his study participants download their genetic information

Dec 4, 2015, 09:49 AM by Michael Croft

The New York Times | Scientists have shown that DNA molecules can be the basis for a long-term storage system potentially capable of holding all of the world's digital information in a tiny space.

Dec 3, 2015, 16:08 PM by Michael Croft

COLUMBIA, MD - Dec 3, 2015 - Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) has introduced ATHAP MALDI matrix kits to improve the detection of hydrophobic proteins or peptides containing transmembrane domains