Oct 8, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World In a live webinar today, GENALICE launched the Population Calling analysis module to their GENALICE MAP Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis Suite. In partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital, Amazon Web Services, and Intel, GENALICE processed the whole genomes of 800 patients from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), an Alzheimer’s disease cohort during the webinar.

Oct 7, 2015, 14:30 PM by Michael Croft

MIDDLETON, WI - Oct 7, 2015 - PFS Clinical, which offers turnkey administrative solutions that address the key pain points of establishing and running a clinical trial office, has been engaged by City of Hope to provide Coverage Analysis (CA) to ensure its clinical research trials remain compliant with complex Medicare billing regulations

Oct 7, 2015, 02:54 AM by Michael Croft

PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Oct 7, 2015 - Smart pills are ingestible medical devices consisting of elements such as sensors, cameras, patches and trackers that help in better diagnostics and monitoring

Oct 6, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews | GlaxoSmithKline and Epidemico won a 2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices award last year for ProjectCRAWL, an effort to survey social media to alert GSK to adverse events. Yesterday, GSK's director of pharmacovigilance gave an update on how the pharma is using Epidemico's data.

Oct 6, 2015, 03:32 AM by Michael Croft

HELSINKI, FINLAND - Oct 6, 2015 - BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions, today announced that the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus will use the company’s world-leading, comprehensive data management program to support  the launch of the university’s new personalized medicine initiative aiming at translating community genomics into individual well-being

Oct 5, 2015, 21:18 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM will acquire object-based storage vendor Cleversafe in a move to bolster its cloud business unit with more flexibility and simplified management options in the hybrid cloud, it announced on Monday.

Oct 2, 2015, 10:19 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | To truly change the world, Google's new holding company will need something that has eluded many previous industrial labs: an effective commercialization strategy.

Oct 1, 2015, 17:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Pacific Biosciences has released a new genome sequencing instrument, the Sequel — providing the first-in-class whole genome assemblies of its predecessor the RS II, but much faster and at half the cost. But the company's underlying problems, pitching high quality in a price-sensitive market, are not much changed.

Oct 1, 2015, 09:08 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Neon Therapeutics hopes to harness the body's immune system against the genetic fingerprints of tumors, creating a new kind of cancer vaccine.

Oct 1, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 1, 2015 - Pharma Anti-Counterfeiting & Brand Safety World Summit 2015"Combating the rising threat of drug counterfeit to enable safety"      01st & 02nd Oct 2015, The Kensington Close Hotel, London, United KingdomContact : lucy

Sep 30, 2015, 13:35 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including results from a study on Apple's ResearchKit, and population-scale genome analytics from GENALICE.

Sep 30, 2015, 11:41 AM by Michael Croft

The Atlantic | Evolution has sculpted the human genome to cope with Earth's toughest climates, inadvertently pointing geneticists towards medically important genes.

Sep 30, 2015, 11:18 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Sep 30, 2015 - Tom Weaver, CEO of Cambridge-based Congenica is delighted that its technology is reaching patients and says; “One of the aims of Genomics England is to enable NHS patients to gain early benefit from advances in genomics and through participation in the 100,000 Genomes Project we have been able to accelerate development of our Sapientia™ diagnostic platform

Sep 29, 2015, 21:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Stephen Kingsmore and his colleagues at the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, announced 26-hour diagnostic whole genome sequencing in a paper published today in Genomic Medicine, an improvement over the 50-hour whole genome sequencing the group published in 2012. The paper is published just one day after Kingsmore took his new post as President and CEO of the Rady Pediatric Genomics and Systems Medicine Institute at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.

Sep 29, 2015, 10:42 AM by Michael Croft

The Street | Anger over a price hike at Turing Pharmaceuticals and a Congressional letter to Valeant have dealt a blow to biotech stocks that many observers already fretted were sharply overvalued.

Sep 29, 2015, 08:37 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE UK, UK - Sep 29, 2015 - Life Sciences Minister George Freeman MP today announced at the GREAT Healthcare Week at the Milan Expo, that Congenica, a world leading developer of genome-based discovery and diagnostic technologies, has been awarded £300,000 by Innovate UK as part of its ‘Finding value in complex data’ competition

Sep 28, 2015, 09:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Emerald Cloud Labs' robotics facility for programmable scientific experiments is up and running in South San Francisco, as Bio-IT World editor Allison Proffitt reports from inside the lab.

Sep 25, 2015, 15:15 PM by Michael Croft

Diagnostics World | This Thursday, the FDA sent a letter to Pathway Genomics warning the company that a newly introduced test, a liquid biopsy to find early-stage cancer in apparently healthy people, has not been clinically validated and could be harmful to public health. The letter not only calls attention to the shaky evidence for this test's accuracy, but also asserts the FDA's authority over a whole category of tests in a regulatory gray area.

Sep 25, 2015, 11:06 AM by Michael Croft

Omics! Omics! Blog | Nabsys and its all-electronic single molecule physical mapping approach closed its doors a little over a week ago.

Sep 24, 2015, 16:37 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Tamr's enterprise metadata catalog can help companies create an inventory of their data sources, including metadata about who owns the source.