Apr 27, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the 2015 winners of the Best of Show Awards Program last Wednesday to a packed audience at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The awards program recognizes the best of the innovative product solutions for the life sciences industry on display at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston.

Apr 27, 2015, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo and more. WuXi NextCODE moves to the DNAnexus cloud, Apple makes its ResearchKit development platform open source, and Seven Bridges Genomics integrates with Station X.

Apr 27, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Apr 27, 2015 - PORTLAND, Ore., April 27, 2015—Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESIO), an innovator of laser-based manufacturing solutions for the micromachining industry, today announced the NWRimage™ system that gives researchers a powerful new tool for investigating elemental binding and transport within cells

Apr 23, 2015, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Chris Sander, chair of the Computational Biology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, delivered a keynote address this week at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.

Apr 22, 2015, 14:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, Bioinformatics.org President Jeff Bizzaro presented the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences to Owen White, who leads the bioinformatics department at the University of Maryland Institute of Genome Sciences and manages the Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project.

Apr 22, 2015, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World held an awards ceremony this morning at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, announcing seven winners in its eleventh annual Best Practices Awards competition.

Apr 21, 2015, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BGI has announced a cloud-based genome analysis service, BGI Online, which will provide an online computational environment to process genetic data, competing with established providers like DNAnexus and Seven Bridges Genomics.

Apr 21, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LENEXA, KS - Apr 21, 2015 - Contract Research Organization XenoTech, LLC, a division of Sekisui, has announced plans to relocate into a new 41,500 ft2 facility

Apr 21, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY, U.S. - Apr 21, 2015 - Creative Diagnostics, Inc. is happy to announce the product launch of a new Human TSH ELISA Kit. The TSH Human ELISA kit is an in vitro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay used for the quantitative measurement of Human TSH in serum, plasma and cell culture supernatants

Apr 20, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Apr 20, 2015 - SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA - Maverix Biomics, Inc. is demonstrating its growing industry leadership in the analysis of high throughput sequencing genomic data with several notable presentations at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to be held April 21 - 23 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts

Apr 17, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Apr 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | It's been a transition year for Atlas Venture. Last October, the Cambridge, MA-based firm announced its tech and biotech teams would part ways and raise their own funds.

Apr 16, 2015, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Harvard Magazine | Harvard Medical School has appointed Isaac Kohane, co-director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and director of an informatics program at Boston Children's Hospital, to be the first chair of a newly-created department of biomedical informatics.

Apr 16, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With the countdown on to the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, we are thrilled to announce the first Bio-IT World People’s Choice award as part of the Best of Show program. The Best of Show Awards offers exhibitors at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo an opportunity to showcase their new products. This year, for the first time, we are opening up the program to public voting as well. 

Apr 16, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY - Apr 16, 2015 - Creative Biogene, a leading manufacturer and provider of genomics and proteomics products and services for academic and governmental research institutes, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, today announced the launch of newly updated plasmid DNA production service for genetic & biotech research

Apr 15, 2015, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

SFGate | Hot on the heels of President Obama's proposal for a nationwide Precision Medicine Initiative, California Governor Jerry Brown has committed $3 million to a California Initiative for Advancing Precision Medicine.

Apr 14, 2015, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Curoverse, a Boston-based company supporting the open source Arvados project, is opening a public beta of its service, inviting new users to test a platform built from the ground up to store and manage large volumes of complex biomedical data.

Apr 14, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 14, 2015 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, recently announced that Laura Helms Reece, Rho's co-chief executive officer, was recognized as a top businesswoman by the Triangle Business Journal, a multimedia source for local business news, research and events in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill region of North Carolina, where Rho is headquartered

Apr 14, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY - Apr 14, 2015 - The team behind Clinical Conductor CTMS recently debuted new functionality that allows healthcare organizations to better manage adaptive and dynamic clinical research that is becoming more relevant in the industry every year

Apr 14, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Apr 14, 2015 - A collaboration agreement where Cloudlynx provides cloud services for the BC Platforms software solutions was announced today at the Swiss Biotech Day 2015 in Basel