Apr 8, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | A March 26 Nature comment is getting press today. Steve Perrin, chief scientific officer at the ALS Therapy Development Institute in Cambridge, Mass., is frustrated with the mouse models driving ALS research.

Apr 8, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 8, 2014 - Rho Shares Lessons Learned in Rescuing Clinical TrialsRescue trial experts discuss red flags, tips for selecting an effective CRO As a first-class provider of clinical trial rescue services, Triangle-based contract research organization (CRO), Rho, is often called upon to resolve issues when clinical research studies do not go as planned

Apr 7, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Technology Review | Data presented at the American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) event over the weekend heralded the revival of cancer immunotherapy.

Apr 7, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Computerworld released its 2014 Salary Survey for tech workers today. Compared with last year, salaries inched up slowly, but with more employees seeing increases.

Apr 7, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Apr 7, 2014 - Terascala, the fast data company, today announced record OEM sales for the first quarter of 2014 and sequential increases in total sales for the last four quarters

Apr 7, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MUNICH, GERMANY - Apr 7, 2014 - Definiens, the global leader in image analysis for digital pathology and diagnostics, announced today that it has signed an agreement with INSERM Transfert to sponsor the worldwide consortium for the validation of the Immunoscore, a new approach to cancer therapy that has been called "transformational

Apr 4, 2014, 12:40 PM by Michael Croft

Huffington Post | A practicing bioinformatician makes the case for genomic research organizations to make their data public.

Apr 4, 2014, 08:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The new LiveDesign platform, released this week, allows computational and medicinal chemists to cooperate in the cloud, drawing new compounds and running predictive models on them during live sessions.

Apr 3, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Appistry, which has managed the commercial releases of the Broad Institute's Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) since 2012, has released the GATK 3 for commercial use.

Apr 2, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Cornell Chronicle | Cornell University has established a new Center for Reproductive Genomics (CRG) with the help of a five-year, $10 million grant from NIH.

Apr 2, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, 23andMe announced the appointment of industry veteran Kathy Hibbs as chief legal and regulatory officer, filling a role that has been vacant for nearly a year.

Apr 2, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | A Japanese scientific committee yesterday found that the lead author of the acid-induced stem cell paper published in Nature is guilty of scientific misconduct.

Apr 2, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 2, 2014 - The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) released a new draft  guidance   on analgesic indications, specifically focusing on clinical drug development and trial design issues

Apr 2, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY - Apr 2, 2014 - The new Clinical Conductor CTMS is here, and with it comes a revolution in clinical trial collaboration

Apr 1, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | ACMG changes their recommendations on incidental findings in genomic testing, recommending that patients be given the option to opt out before testing occurs.

Apr 1, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, US - Apr 1, 2014 - PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2014 – The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, unveiled the nominations for the Allicense 2014 Breakthrough Awards for Deal of the Year, honoring the top global deal in each of two categories: ‘Biopharmaceutical Licensing’ and ‘Mergers and Acquisitions’ (M&A), as identified by Thomson Reuters Recap, the premier analysis tool for biopharmaceutical business deal making

Apr 1, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, N.Y. – April 1, 2014 – Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, won the Patient Engagement App Challenge (large organization category) at the 23rd Annual Partnerships in Clinical Trials Conference with a unique mobile app.

Apr 1, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCKVILLE, MD, UNITED STATES - Apr 1, 2014 - Strand Genomics, Inc. (Strand) today announced its recent unveiling of a full suite of technology solutions

Mar 31, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

ReadWrite | Cloudera just raised $900 million in its IPO, and is partnering with Intel. Intel dumped its own home-grown Hadoop distribution for Cloudera's version.

Mar 28, 2014, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times Blog | In the wake of a Science article criticizing the track record of Google Flu Trends, Steve Lohr speaks to both the article's authors and Google's engineers to understand what went wrong.