Dec 24, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

More Intelligent Life | One woman's search for family history led her to 23andMe first, and the reindeer next.

Dec 22, 2014, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore has created the world's first functional nanopore sequencer, the pocketsize MinION. As early access users start to share their experiences with the instrument, a picture is emerging of a world where DNA data could be gathered anywhere, anytime — and by almost anyone.

Dec 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WIRED | It's been a roller-coaster year for science. It started with what looked like a remarkable breakthrough in stem cell science, which was soon followed by a stunning announcement by cosmologists: the first detection of gravitational waves, direct evidence for a popular theory of how the universe began. But as the year draws to a close, the first of these discoveries has been thoroughly discredited, and the second appears to be on the ropes.

Dec 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Dec 22, 2014 - Synopsis
Canadean's "Biocurv Medical Instruments, Inc.: Consumer Packaged Goods - Company Profile & SWOT Report" contains in depth information and data about the company and its operations

Dec 19, 2014, 17:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bina Technologies announced this morning that it has been acquired by Roche. Financial details were not disclosed. The Roche acquisition is, “the best outcome that could have happened for our company,” co-founder and CEO Narges Bani Asadi told Bio-IT World today.

Dec 19, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Fitting a two-meter strand of DNA into a nucleus a few microns long is no simple thing. The genome isn’t wadded up and stuffed into every cell in the body, it’s folded meticulously. A five-year effort to look at the genome inside cells suggests that these folds may play crucial roles in function.

Dec 19, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NIH Director's Blog | At the time that we completed a draft of the 3 billion letters of the human genome about a decade ago, it would have cost about $100 million to sequence a second human genome. Today, thanks to advances in DNA sequencing technology, it will soon be possible to sequence your genome or mine for  $1,000…

Dec 19, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CALIFORNIA, CA, UNITED KINGDOM - Dec 19, 2014 - The report firstly introduced   Electroencephalography Monitors  basic information including   Electroencephalography Monitors  definition, classification, application and Market chain overview;   Electroencephalography Monitors  Market policy and plan,   Electroencephalography Monitors  product specification, manufacturing process, cost structure etc

Dec 18, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | Scientists are starting to open their DNA databases online, creating a network that could pave the way for gene analysis at a new scale.

Dec 17, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Boston Globe | Big pharma is expanding its reach in the Boston area, picking up small to mid-sized biotechs for billions of dollars. Last week Merck announced plans to buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5 billion.

Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY - Dec 17, 2014 - Recently Creative Diagnostics, a world leader in providing innovative diagnostic components and critical assay reagents, announced the launch of immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in situ hybridization (ISH) laboratory services for diagnostic and research purposes

Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Business Weekly | A new genomics powerhouse, 14M Genomics, spun out of the world famous Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, has been launched in the Cambridge UK technology cluster with a £12.5 million financing.

Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Dec 17, 2014 - KCR, a European Contract Research Organization (CRO), has recently acquired the whole portfolio of clinical projects from the Ukrainian CRO, AXIS Group Ltd

Dec 16, 2014, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Quanterix today announced the opening of a Simoa Accelerator in Lexington, Mass., where scientists and can rent access to the company's high-throughput Simoa instruments for protein analysis.

Dec 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Dec 16, 2014 - The global market for apheresis equipment is expected to reach USD 2,885.6 million by 2020, growing at an estimated CAGR of 11

Dec 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Dec 16, 2014 - The CIS market for insulin and insulin products is expected to reach USD 3,008.5 million by 2020 growing at a CAGR of 15

Dec 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES - Dec 16, 2014 - Next-generation antibody based therapeutics refers to the use of new and improved therapeutic antibody to create innovative medicines for the treatment of various diseases

Dec 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES - Dec 16, 2014 - The global cell cultures market is growing at a significant rate due to rise in the healthcare expenditure increase in biopharmaceutical production

Dec 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Dec 16, 2014 - Global autoimmune disease diagnostics market is expected to reach USD 14.17 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc