Sep 24, 2015, 09:31 AM by Michael Croft

HARDERWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS - Sep 24, 2015 - Today, GENALICE announced the global launch date of Population Calling, a new analysis module and part of their GENALICE MAP Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis Suite

Sep 24, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Fortune | IBM plans to open a new San Francisco office next year dedicated to growing its Watson supercomputing business. The location will give IBM direct access to the Bay Area startups.

Sep 23, 2015, 14:50 PM by Michael Croft

San Diego Union-Tribune | Craig Venter's latest company, Human Longevity, Inc., has announced a partnership with health insurer Discovery Ltd. of the U.K. and South Africa to offer patients whole exome sequencing for $250, a service Venter hopes to extend to the U.S.

Sep 21, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | The Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney was one of the first three groups to sign up for Illumina’s HiSeq X Ten sequencing platform in 2014, a system that produced up to 5TB of data per day. To enable round the clock computing with as little down time as possible, the Institute opted for the Panasas PanFS parallel file system.

Sep 18, 2015, 12:21 PM by Michael Croft

NPR.org | After Chinese scientists announced in April that they had edited the genes in human embryos, many researchers said it shouldn't be done. Scientists in London say they want to do it for research only.

Sep 18, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Two weeks before Edico was ready to go public, Shawn Levy of HudsonAlpha was happily telling us of his expereince with Edico's DRAGEN card, a bio-IT processor that claims to massively accelerate secondary analysis algorithms while simultaneously improving accuracy. Levy calls it--in a word--amazing.

Sep 17, 2015, 17:32 PM by Michael Croft

MALVERN, PA - Sep 17, 2015 - CSM is pleased to announce that it will hold a Grand Opening and Ribbon-Cutting ceremony for its newly constructed facility at 300 Technology Drive in the Great Valley Corporate Center of Malvern, Pennsylvania on Thursday, October 15th from 1 p

Sep 16, 2015, 11:21 AM by Michael Croft

Washington Post | Researchers say they've identified a set of genetic variants that may here is evidence that these genes may facilitate lifespan extension by increasing cellular maintenance and repair.

Sep 15, 2015, 13:17 PM by Michael Croft

The New York Times | Dr. Thomas R. Insel announced that he is stepping down after 13 years as director of the National Institute of Mental Health to join Google Life Sciences.

Sep 15, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and general manager of the Health and Life Sciences for the Data Center Group, shared his own precision medicine story at the inaugural Converged IT Summit* co-hosted by the BioTeam and Cambridge Healthtech Institute, setting the tone for a two-day look at trends from the trenches of IT and life sciences discovery.

Sep 14, 2015, 14:02 PM by Michael Croft

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, UNITED STATES - Sep 14, 2015 - DaVita Clinical Research® (DCR®), a specialty contract research organization with services spanning a broad spectrum of drug and device development, announced today its Biospecimen ResearchGrant Program (BioReG), a grant program to award clinical-trial-quality biospecimens and annotated de-identified data to academic medical centers involved in kidney research

Sep 14, 2015, 10:58 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES - Sep 14, 2015 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, announced it will be among the presenters at the 2nd Annual Society of Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics (SBI2) Meeting

Sep 14, 2015, 09:56 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Time to add one more recipient of crossover investor cash to the list of official IPO candidates. Cambridge, MA-based Dimension Therapeutics just filed for an IPO this morning to raise money to build gene therapies for rare diseases.

Sep 14, 2015, 05:37 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY, NY - Sep 14, 2015 - E-Prescribing is the system to broadcast information related to prescription among prescriber, dispenser, and pharmacy benefit manager electronically that allows a doctor and nurse to broadcast a new prescription electronically when any error in medication takes place at any stage in pharmacy operations

Sep 14, 2015, 05:34 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY, NY - Sep 14, 2015 - Computational biology refers to the development of techniques for the collection, manipulation, and use of biological data to make discoveries and predictions

Sep 10, 2015, 08:35 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Sep 10, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, and Paidion Research, Inc

Sep 9, 2015, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

Diagnostics World | In a large pilot initiative with little precedent, HudsonAlpha and its genetic testing spinoff Kailos plan to offer free or steeply discounted genetic screens for susceptibility to breast cancer to thousands of women in the area of Huntsville, Alabama, including women with no known risk factors for the disease.

Sep 8, 2015, 14:30 PM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | National Institutes of Health grants to 10 research teams, including at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Geisinger Health System, and the Mayo Clinic, will explore ways to use genomic data in patient care through integration with electronic health records.

Sep 8, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Google this morning has announced the general availability of the Google Cloud Platform’s Preemptible Virtual Machines, and Cycle Computing has detailed its first preemptible VM project: a cancer gene mapping project with the Broad Institute.

Sep 4, 2015, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

GEN News | Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have measured the RNA expression of pre-implantation fertilized embryos to learn which genes are activated in the first days of human development.