Jul 10, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Juno Therapeutics has built remarkable momentum and is about to launch the first trial in humans of engineered T cells.

Jul 9, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jul 9, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 9, 2015 - Aridhia, the pioneering clinical and translational informatics company, today announced a revolutionary “mini-app” rapid development solution specifically for clinical applications

Jul 8, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Washington Post | Scientists say genomics will end up being the biggest data hog, set to surpass astronomy, particle physics -- even YouTube.

Jul 8, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | GlaxoSmithKline is investing $95 million in a nonprofit research center in Seattle called the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, focusing on the "dark matter" of the genome.

Jul 7, 2015, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Following on studies like ClinSeq and MedSeq, Mount Sinai School of Medicine's HealthSeq project is tracking patient responses to genome-wide testing, in an effort to extend these studies to a more diverse population and include non-health-related results like ancestry and physical trait information.

Jul 7, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Jul 7, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc. today announced that EDGC (the Eone-Diagnomics Genome Center), a joint venture between an affiliate of the Eone Life Science Institute and Diagnomics, signed a contract to be the initial diagnostic testing customer on the Maverix Dx Platform

Jul 7, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Jul 7, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading provider of analytic solutions for high throughput sequencing genomic data, today announced market availability of the Maverix Dx Platform

Jul 6, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 6, 2015 - Vicon, the motion capture (mocap) technology specialist for the entertainment, engineering and life sciences industries, today announced the launch of its intelligent new flagship camera platform, Vicon Vantage

Jul 2, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | The BabySeq project in Boston has begun collecting data to quantify the risks and benefits of DNA sequencing at birth.

Jul 1, 2015, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including landmarks on the second anniversary of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, and the commercial launch of 10X Genomics' GemCode platform.

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

PISCATAWAY, NJ, UNITED STATES - Jul 1, 2015 - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) celebrates 50 years of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) with a Scientific Symposium and the launch of new software in the CSD-System suite

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

VALENCIA, SPAIN - Jul 1, 2015 - BioBam and Biomatters are very happy to announce the release of an integrated plugin on the Geneious platform for molecular biologists to comprehensively functionally annotate and interpret novel sequences

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

CANADA, USA - Jul 1, 2015 - WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Healthcare Decision Support and IBM Watson Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019

Jun 30, 2015, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A large collaboration led by scientists at the Icahn Institute has combined PacBio sequencing and BioNano optical maps to produce the most contiguous human genome ever assembled without cloning steps, bringing a new degree of resolution to studies of complex structural variants.

Jun 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PUNE, INDIA - Jun 30, 2015 - 2015 Global Healthcare IT Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Healthcare IT industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China)

Jun 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES - Jun 30, 2015 - Leading healthcare IT companies are relying on Internap Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a provider of high-performance Internet infrastructure services, to meet rigorous security requirements and ensure continuous availability

Jun 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | It seemed only a matter of time. One of biotech's most aggressive deal makers, Celgene has struck a wide-ranging, billion-dollar partnership with Juno Therapeutics.

Jun 29, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The fourth annual Clinical Genome Conference wrapped up last week in San Francisco. It was a packed three days of short courses, presentations, and discussion that spilled over the time slots and into the evening. Thankfully, much of it ended up on Twitter.

Jun 26, 2015, 16:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A new event held this week in Boston, the Festival of Genomics, aimed to engage the public with this burgeoning science, while emphasizing to scientists the importance of data sharing and of integrating DNA data with meaningful health information in order to deliver on the promises of genomic medicine.