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Trump Administration Proposes Big Cuts In Medical Research Shots - Health News
NPR.org | The National Institutes of Health, which funds research in treatments and cures, could lose 20 percent of its budget under the administration's proposal. More money would go for addiction treatment.
Mar 16, 2017
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Allergan And Editas Medicine Enter Into R&D Alliance
Bio-IT World Brief | Allergan and Editas Medicine have announced that they have entered into a strategic research and development alliance under which Allergan will receive exclusive access and the option to license up to five of Editas Medicine’s genome-editing ocular programs.
Mar 15, 2017
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Oxford Nanopore Announces New Sequencing System, Certification Program
Bio-IT World Brief | Oxford Nanopore announced the launch of the GridION X5 today, a new system that can drive up to five MinION Flow Cells and process all the data produced within a single benchtop device.
Mar 15, 2017
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GWAS Study Identifies Variant In African Populations Tied To Obesity
Bio-IT World Brief | An international team of researchers has conducted the first study of its kind to look at the genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African Americans.
Mar 14, 2017
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Qatar Genome Programme Launches Research Consortium
Bio-IT World Brief | More than 90 genomics researchers gathered recently for the launch of the Qatar Genome Programme’s research consortium (QGPRC). The consortium is the latest step in QGP’s precision medicine implementation efforts.
Mar 13, 2017
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Possible Cures. Mystery Deaths. Daunting Costs. Can CAR-T Be Tamed?
Xconomy | This seems to be a watershed year for CAR-T therapy. The field's first-ever regulatory approval is looking like a strong possibility. However, the supercharged T cells remain an enigma.
Mar 13, 2017
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Disabling Data Analysis Paralysis
Bio-IT World | As the sheer complexity of the microbiome threatens to slow scientific progress, researchers tackle data dilemmas by harnessing the power of free and open source analysis tools.
Mar 9, 2017
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JAX Receives Federal Grant To Improve CRISPR-Cas9
Bio-IT World Brief | A two-year grant totaling $455,000 from the National Institutes of Health to The Jackson Laboratory will support research to improve the accuracy and efficiency of genome editing for research, drug testing, and future therapeutic delivery.
Mar 7, 2017
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Integrated Future: GeneInsight’s New Home At Sunquest
Bio-IT World | Sunquest acquired GeneInsight last April. Since then, GeneInsight has been fitting in well with its role as a data workflow pipeline for the laboratory information systems company.
Mar 6, 2017
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This Speck Of DNA Contains A Movie, A Computer Virus, And An Amazon Gift Card
The Atlantic | In the famous double-helices of life's fundamental molecule, researchers from the New York Genome Center and Columbia University have encoded, along with a computer operating system, a photo, a scientific paper, a computer virus, an Amazon gift card, and a classic silent film.
Mar 3, 2017
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Catching Up On Oxford Nanopore News More Better Meth & Huge
Omics! Omics! Blog | Keith Robison looks at the latest news from Oxford Nanopore: a MinKNOW upgrade that doubles performance; a new basecaller; and long reads.
Mar 2, 2017
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Intel Will Change Its Approach To PC Chip Upgrades
Computerworld | Intel is changing its view on how it upgrades chips. Rather than tying chip upgrades directly to the manufacturing process involved, Intel will look at delivering a sustained set of performance upgrades with each new chip architecture.
Mar 1, 2017
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BGI Welcomes Leroy Hood To Scientific Advisory Board
Bio-IT World Brief | BGI announced that Leroy Hood has joined the company’s Scientific Advisory Board.
Feb 28, 2017
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tranSMART Foundation, DNAe, Genos, And More: News From February 2017
Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from tranSMART Foundation, DNAe, Genos, and more.
Feb 27, 2017
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Raw Materials: iSpecimen Marketplace Platform Makes It Easy To Find Biospecimens
Bio-IT World | iSpecimen is building a user-facing search platform to let researchers do their own searching and ordering of samples, focusing on ease of use.
Feb 23, 2017
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Harvard’s Verdine Aims To Retire Become Full-Time FogPharma CEO
Xconomy | Harvard University chemical biologist Greg Verdine is planning to retire, aiming to maintain a "ferocious independence" as a full-time biotech CEO.
Feb 23, 2017
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Beyond CRISPR Cuts: Five Complements To Cas9
Bio-IT World | With the dominance of CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology dominating headlines and genomics laboratories, gene therapy researchers are seeking new discoveries in gene-editing as relevant and useful alternatives to CRISPR.
Feb 22, 2017
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Cambridge Research Biochemicals Launches Second Catalogue To The Life Science Community
Bio-IT World Brief | Cambridge Research Biochemicals today announced the release of its new DISCOVERY Antibodies catalogue.
Feb 21, 2017
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China Biotech Makes Big Data A Weapon In Its War On Cancer
China Daily | China has made the precision medicine field a focus of its 13th Five-Year Plan, and its companies have been embarking on ambitious efforts to collect a trove of genetic and health data, researching how to identify cancer markers in blood, and launching consumer technologies that aim to tap potentially lifesaving information.
Feb 20, 2017
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The New Offensive on Alzheimer’s Disease Stop it Before it Starts
Newsweek | No medicine has been able to slow the progression of the disease, so researchers are taking an aggressive new approach.
Feb 17, 2017