Drug Discovery

IBM CEO Survey Shows Hunger for Change in Life Sciences

6/26/2008

Bio-IT World | “Change” is not merely a common refrain on the presidential election campaign trail. It’s also what dozens of life science CEOs are hankering for, according to preliminary findings from the latest IBM CEO survey. Michael Svinte, IBM’s VP Global Innovation and Information-Based Medicine, shared some of those findings with Bio-IT World at a briefing during the Drug Industry Association conference (DIA) this week in Boston.

NIH Laptop Theft: How Safe Is Your Data?

3/26/2008

Bio-IT World | A laptop stolen from the NIH included seven years’ worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses, and details of the patients' heart scans.

Applied Biosystems and the $60,000 Human Genome

3/13/2008

Bio-IT World | Just weeks after Illumina announced it had cracked the $100,000 threshold for sequencing a human genome, Applied Biosystems has sequenced a complete human genome sample using its new SOLiD next-generation sequencing platform, reportedly for less than $60,000.

Helicos' Kristen Stoops on Next-Generation Data Management

3/12/2008

Bio-IT World | Interview with Kristen Stoops, Helicos' director of bioinformatics, who is building a federation of IT vendors to identify best practices that will help users manage torrents of data.

Grand Challenges Program Seeks Proposals for Global Health Breakthroughs

3/10/2008

Bio-IT World | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has issued a call for proposals for its Grand Challenges in Global Health program.

MIT Launches Interdisciplinary Cancer Center

3/7/2008

Bio-IT World | The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology opened today in Cambridge, and will replace the previous MIT Center for Cancer Research.

Helicos Ships First Instrument to Expression Analysis

3/5/2008

Bio-IT World | Helicos BioSciences announced today that it has shipped the first ever single-molecule sequencing instrument – the HeliScope – to Expression Analysis, a contract genomic services company.

Flawed Embryos Seen as Source for Stem Cells

2/28/2008

Alzheimer's Research Target May Be a Dead End

1/28/2008

Scientists Advance in Effort to Create Synthetic Organism

1/25/2008

SeqWright Launches GPS Personal Genomics Service

2/28/2008

Jan. 24, 2008 | SeqWright is joining the already crowded field of consumer genomics companies by launching a new service to the public it calls GPS – Genomics Profiling Service. Similar to recent or imminent offerings from 23andMe , DeCODE Genetics , and Navigenics , SeqWright will offer SNP (single nuc

What’s Ailing Personalized Medicine?

1/24/2008

How Supercomputers Enhance Our Understanding of Genes

1/24/2008

Project to Map 1000 People's DNA

1/22/2008

Lupus-Linked Genes Doubled by Research into Causes, Treatment

1/22/2008