Strategic Insights: Economic Development

Southern Emergence
Why entrepreneurial Huntsville, Alabama, will be the next biotech hotbed.
By Laura Huckabee-Jennings

Ireland's Biotech Boom
How the Emerald Isle has made and maintained its name in the life sciences.
By Samara McCarthy

Business + Strategy

• Microsoft Forges BioIT Alliance 
  STRATEGY - Cross-industry alliance aims to "fulfill the promise of personalized medicine."
• Putting the IT in Clinical Trials 
  DRUG DEVELOPMENT - CHA report details reinvention of clinical trials.
• Value of Hosted Clinical Data Environments 
  COMMENTARY - A look at CDMS, comparing shared and dedicated client solutions.
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  NOTHING VENTURED - The highs, lows, and depths of the life sciences VC landscape.
  By Michael A. Greeley
• RFID in R&D: Biospecimen Tracking
  INSIGHTS | OUTLOOK - RFID is emerging as a valuable asset within R&D.
  By Eric Newmark
• News Blast

Science + Technology

• Genome Advances Front and Center
  GENOMICS - AGBT Meeting: "Amazing race" has begun to produce more sequence for less money.
• Breast Cancer Protein Library Opens
  PROTEOMICS - First public protein library for any human disease.
• NitroMed Ties Gene Biomarkers to Bidil Benefit
  PHARMACOGENOMICS - NitroMed's heart drug response varies by patient's genotype.
• High-Content Cell-Based Imaging
  FULLY EQUIPPED - High-content analysis tools are increasingly important in drug discovery.
  By Robert M. Frederickson
• News Blast
• New Products

IT + Informatics

• Is caBIG Ready to Bloom?
  INFORMATICS - NCI's initiative has delivered 70 collaboration products, but most researchers don't know it.
• Debating Clinical Registries and Databases
  CLINICAL TRIALS - Public registries and databases have room to improve.
• Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory Goes Live
• Easing In to Ease of Use
  INSIDE THE BOX - Why can't today's bioinformatics research tools be as simple to operate as the iPod? 
  By William Van Etten
• News Blast
• New Products

In Every Issue

• A Healthy Combination
  PRESIDENT'S LETTER - The president of Cambridge Healthtech Institute on the acquisition of Bio-IT World.
  By Phillips Kuhl

• A New Beginning
  FIRST BASE - Bio-IT World joins Cambridge Healthtech Institute.
  By Kevin Davies 

• Lobbying for Critical Path Funding
  THE RUSSELL TRANSCRIPT - The FDA's CP initiative needs cold hard cash and dedicated personnel.
  By John Russell