Bio-IT World | Kenna Mills-Shaw believes that precision oncology is neither an illusion nor a panacea. But while there have been some dramatic wins for specific, molecularly-defined tumors, scaling precision oncology will require a highly integrated decision support platform.

Bio-IT World | Nature Research announced yesterday that its flagship publication, Nature, will join others in the family in publishing peer review correspondence.

Bio-IT World | In 2012, Michael Snyder created an integrative personal omics profile, an analysis that combines genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and autoantibody profiles from a single individual. Today, Snyder is incorporating data from smart watches, continuous glucose monitoring, and other wearables to track people’s health and find early signs of disease.

Bio-IT World | Orbital Transports is positioning itself as the purveyor of the services and supplies needed in an emerging space-based economy. The immediate goal is an online marketplace for everything one might need to execute a small satellite mission, including life science companies looking to do disease modeling and conduct pharmaceutical and regenerative medicine research.

Bio-IT World | What’s in a name? When it comes to ingredients found in medicine, quite a lot of important detail. That’s why NIH’s NCATS (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) has been working to marshal a definitive resource for medicinal ingredients.

Bio-IT World January featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including the Jackson Laboratory, Benchling, Genomenon, and more.