Aug 11, 2015, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Aug 10, 2015, 16:18 PM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Aug 10, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that Iain Gardner, Ph

Aug 10, 2015, 15:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | CRISPR therapy company Editas has more than doubled its financing with a $120 million funding round announced this morning, led by the newly-formed investment fund bng0.

Aug 10, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | Illumina has struck a deal to acquire laboratory information management system provider GenoLogics, already a partner creating dedicated LIMS for Illumina's high-throughput sequencers.

Aug 7, 2015, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | As the National Cancer Institute prepares to distribute its second round of five-year grants to Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers, Nature News speaks to scientists who feel a program designed to reinvigorate cancer research with fundamental physical discoveries is missing the mark.

Aug 6, 2015, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In 2004, the International Glossina Genome Initiative set out to sequence the genome of the tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans, Africa's most unique public health threat. Though the project took over a decade to complete, its legacy is a model for building local capacity for cutting-edge science in African institutions.

Aug 6, 2015, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Diagnostics based on next-generation sequencing have forced the FDA to bend some of its standards for proving the analytical and clinical value of new medical tests before they come to market — and a new online platform built with DNAnexus, called precisionFDA, will now formalize and refine some of the new approaches the agency has taken to deal with computational pipelines in genomics.

Aug 5, 2015, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Illumina has announced the second class of its accelerator program, with applications in infectious disease diagnostics, sequencing of urine samples, and even wine making.

Aug 4, 2015, 13:09 PM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Aug 4, 2015 - Since the classical studies of Jacob and Monod in the early 1960s, it has been evident that genome sequences contain not only blueprints for genes and the proteins that they encode, but also the instructions for a coordinated regulatory program that governs when, where and to what extent these genes and proteins are expressed

Aug 4, 2015, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | Shire, the Dublin-headquartered pharma company increasingly reliant on its rare disease portfolio, is making an aggressive move to acquire the newly spun-off biotech company Baxalta.

Aug 3, 2015, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | Genome wide association studies, coupled with experiments in the lab, suggest that the small percentage of human DNA contributed by other hominid species like Neanderthals and Denisovans may have large phenotypic effects.

Jul 30, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | Yesterday President Obama has signed an executive order creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative. The Initiative aims to bring together several government agencies including the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation to pursue exascale computing.

Jul 29, 2015, 09:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including Deep Genomins' DNA binding analytics and White House announcements about the Precision Medicine Initiative.

Jul 29, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Visionary leader of China's BGI tells Nature why he is stepping down to build a health-monitoring system based on a million genomes.

Jul 28, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BostonGlobe.com | Cambridge biotechnology giant Biogen Inc. may have to make a bold move to reassure investors -- buying back shares or snapping up a smaller company -- or it could become a takeover target itself, some analysts warned Monday.

Jul 28, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Going forward, Amazon will position Aurora as its default database service, a high-performance alternative to MySQL.

Jul 27, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Human Longevity's vision is grand: sequence 100,000 human genomes a year and "change the way medicine is practiced by helping to shift to a more preventive, genomic-based medicine model.” Yaron Turpaz, HLI’s Chief Information Officer, talks about the first year’s progress and the kind of knowledgebase HLI is building.   

Jul 24, 2015, 08:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Members of MIT's Synthetic Biology Center have successfully reengineered the genome of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron to take on new functions inside the gut of a mouse in response to changes in the mouse's diet — the first example of implementing these "genetic circuits" in a bacterium that is highly abundant in the human microbiome.

Jul 24, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Jun Wang is leaving his post as chief executive of the Chinese genomics powerhouse BGI, to pursue research in artificial intelligence.

Jul 23, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | If you missed the lightening round that is Chris Dagdigian’s annual Trends from the Trenches talk at Bio-IT World this year, you’ll have another opportunity to catch up at BioTeam’s first Converged IT Summit in San Francisco this September 9-10. I’m sure Dags will have plenty new to say in his keynote presentation, and he’s not the only one. The Summit agenda features two solid days of leaders who are deploying scientific computing infrastructure for life sciences and healthcare.