Jan 6, 2014, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced a $1.06 billion sale of multiple business units to GE Healthcare, as a condition of regulatory approval for Thermo Fisher's acquisition of Life Technologies.

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

Bio-IT World |Informatics tools are essential to enabling life sciences research, and at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference next month in San Francisco, a host of leaders across the industry will share their best practices for making sense of the wealth.

Jan 3, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

The Verge | Legal journalist Matt Stroud reviews the DNA fingerprinting techniques commonly used in police investigations.

Jan 3, 2014, 09:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Looking to build on its early entry into the cloud-based genomic analysis market, DNAnexus today announced a large Series C funding round.

Jan 2, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Pharma reporter Matthew Herper offers letter grades to the 16 largest drug companies for their 2013 performance.

Dec 31, 2013, 14:05 PM by Michael Croft

NPR | A look back at three scientific giants who passed away this year recalls the long development of genetics and gene sequencing.

Dec 31, 2013, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

New York Times | A new generation of "neuromorphic processors," expected to reach commercial availability in 2014, use synapse-like connections to adapt their response to data inputs over time.

Dec 30, 2013, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

InformationWeek | As 2013 comes to an end, a top technology publication looks back at big data's big impact over the past year.

Dec 30, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirmed a 49% cut to CPT code 81211, which covers reimbursement for BRCA 1&2 gene tests. The change reflects an increase in the number of labs doing BRCA and is negative news for Myriad, analysts say.

Dec 27, 2013, 08:15 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 26, 2013, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Genome Reference Consortium has released its first complete update to the human reference genome in nearly half a decade.

Dec 24, 2013, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | GenoSpace has developed a pair of gateways to offer clinical data gathered by the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation to patients and researchers.

Dec 23, 2013, 13:50 PM by Michael Croft

Slate | A programmer weighs in on why coders prefer Courier.

Dec 23, 2013, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

eScience News | Scripps researchers used a novel screening method to find a promising diabetes drug, and plan to expand the program to new disease areas.

Dec 20, 2013, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed the first method to measure the forces exerted by cells in living tissue – using decoy cells and some cunning computer imaging.

Dec 19, 2013, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Cell Press | A paper by a team of Canadian researchers suggests that scientific data rarely survives as long as twenty years after publication.

Dec 18, 2013, 13:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With $1.5 million in new venture financing, Curoverse is hoping to make the open source Arvados platform a serious commercial player in cloud-based bioinformatics.

Dec 18, 2013, 09:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Following his 2012 success sequencing the evasive fragile X locus, Dr. Paul Hagerman wants to make a full clinical diagnostic, and an affordable screening test, available for fragile X disorder. He thinks he’s close.

Dec 17, 2013, 14:40 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 17, 2013, 13:45 PM by Michael Croft