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CRISPR Hearing Puts University of California on the Defensive
STAT | The University of California has a steep hill to climb if it wants to overturn the 2014 decision awarding key CRISPR patents to the Broad Institute.
Dec 7, 2016
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AWS Wants To Dominate Beyond The Public Cloud With Lambda Updates
Computerworld | Two years ago, Amazon Web Services made a splash when it introduced Lambda. Now, the company has gone even further to bring that technology outside of its core data center regions.
Dec 6, 2016
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At Late-Night ASH Talk Juno Execs Look Beyond Stalled Rocket Trial
Xconomy | Juno Therapeutics is still mulling next steps for its lead product, an experimental cancer immunotherapy now stuck in limbo because five of 68 adult leukemia patients in its current study have died from severe brain swelling caused by the treatment.
Dec 6, 2016
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Groundbreaking Big Data Platform Can Improve The Quality Of Cancer Care
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | CancerLinQ helps to gain insights from the 97% of cancer patients not involved in clinical trials to help deliver better, more data-driven decision-making.
Dec 5, 2016
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Eurofins Genomics Creates Streamlined DNA Synthesizer
Louisville Business First | Eurofins Genomics recently moved its headquarters to Louisville. Here's what they've been up to since.
Dec 2, 2016
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TGen Joins City of Hope System
Bio-IT World News Brief Translational Genomics Research Institute—TGen—has formed an alliance with City of Hope, a world-renowned independent research and cancer and diabetes treatment center, to make precision medicine a reality for patients. City of Hope hopes to provide a significant clinical setting to advance scientific discoveries made by TGen.
Dec 2, 2016
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Why Scientists Are Sequencing Newborns Genomes
Forbes | Diagnosing hereditary disorders by sequencing the genomes of newborn babies.
Dec 2, 2016
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AWS Announces FPGA Instances For Its EC2 Cloud Computing Service
TechCrunch | Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced that it is launching a new instance type with field-programmable gate arrays. The promise of these arrays is that they are essentially chips that you can reprogram on the fly and tune them for your specific applications, making them faster than traditional CPU/GPU combinations.
Nov 30, 2016
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Illumina, Dell EMC, QIAGEN, and More: News from November 2016
Bio-IT World News Briefs| News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from Illumina, Dell EMC, QIAGEN, and more.
Nov 23, 2016
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An In Depth Look at the Father of Systems Biology
Bio-IT World Review | Luke Timmerman has produced a page-turner biography of biologist and biotech entrepreneur Leroy “Lee” Hood. Timmerman’s narrative provides valuable insights into the man, biology, and biotechnology.
Nov 23, 2016
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U.S. Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers
Computerworld | The U.S expects to be ready to seek vendor proposals to build two exascale supercomputers by 2019.
Nov 23, 2016
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AWS Is Cutting And Simplifying Its Storage Prices
Computerworld | Amazon Web Services made a series of price cuts on Tuesday and simplified what customers pay for its storage products.
Nov 23, 2016
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Intel and Broad Commit to Five-Year Genomic Data Engineering Partnership
Bio-IT World CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Thursday, Intel and the Broad Institute came together to announce a joint endeavor that aims to enable research organizations and their IT departments to keep up with exponentially increasing amounts of genomics data.
Nov 22, 2016
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Oracle Just Bought Dyn the Company That Brought Down the Internet
WIRED | An attack on internet infrastructure company Dyn last month cut off access to some of the world's biggest sites last month. Now Oracle is buying the company.
Nov 21, 2016
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DDN Survey Finds Private Cloud Growth, Mixed Flash Use Among HPC Users
Bio-IT World | Earlier this month, DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced the results of its annual High Performance Computing (HPC) Trends survey. The company queried 143 high performance compute end users responsible for high performance computing, networking and storage systems from financial services, government, higher education, life sciences, manufacturing, national labs, and oil and gas organizations.
Nov 21, 2016
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PM Signals £2bn A Year Science Funding Increase
BBC News | Prime Minister Theresa May announces an additional £2bn a year by 2020 for UK research and innovation. The promised money will be for emerging fields of research in which the UK excels, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and biotech.
Nov 21, 2016
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Microsoft Spends Big to Build a Computer Out of Science Fiction
The New York Times | The computer giant says it's ready to start planning a prototype quantum computer, a superpowerful device that relies on subatomic particles instead of transistors.
Nov 21, 2016
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Obama Advisers Say CRISPR Is A Bioterror Threat
MIT Technology Review | In a letter to the president, advisers say technologies like CRISPR represent a threat that hasn't been adequately considered.
Nov 18, 2016
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AWS roundup Hybrid deployments with Amazons cloud get a boost Computerworld
Computerworld | October was a big month for Amazon Web Services, which announced a key partnership with VMware, a new service for migrating VMs to the cloud, and more.
Nov 18, 2016
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Sequencing Sprint: Novogene Claims Highest Sequencing Capacity in China
Diagnostics World News | As precision medicine initiatives pop up across the globe, Beijing-based genome sequencing firm Novogene looks to capitalize on efforts to tailor treatments.
Nov 17, 2016