Oct 18, 2016, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Veritas Genetics, which sells genome sequencing and genetic screening tests, has received a $30 million Series B round of funding to add more products, build out its digital tools for consumers, and ink partnerships with hospitals and researchers around the world.

Oct 18, 2016, 10:12 AM by Michael Croft

Microsoft Blog | In a blog post this morning, Microsoft announced that it has come up with a way to "significantly reduce the time it takes to do the major computational aspects of sequencing a genome." Microsoft is running the BWA aligner and GATK on the Azure cloud, and says it is 7x faster than previously.

Oct 18, 2016, 09:56 AM by Michael Croft

BIRMINGHAM, UK - Oct 19, 2016 - Designed specifically with researchers in mind, the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Cloud will augment an already rich set of IT services at the University of Birmingham and will be used by academics across all disciplines, from Medicine to Archaeology, and Physics to Theology

Oct 18, 2016, 06:24 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Oct 18, 2016 - “At Congenica we realise that there is huge value in being able to share data to see how others have interpreted the same gene variant,” says Dr Matthew Hurles, co-founder of Congenica, a world leader in genomic analysis and interpretation

Oct 17, 2016, 10:28 AM by Michael Croft

WIRED | Recent high-profile donations and initiatives highlight the private control of publicly funded biomedical research. The injection of private money into science is creating power alliances and disrupting the longstanding public research-funding model.

Oct 17, 2016, 10:08 AM by Michael Croft

The Motley Fool | On Oct. 10, Exelixis announced results from its phase 2 CABOSUN study of Cabometyx in patients with previously untreated advanced kidney cancer. This clinical trial was structured as a head-to-head comparison between Cabometyx and Pfizer's Sutent, and Cabometyx emerged as the clear winner.

Oct 17, 2016, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

NOTTINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM - Oct 17, 2016 - Nottingham, UK – Juniper Pharma Services (“the company”), a subsidiary of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Oct 17, 2016, 08:47 AM by Michael Croft

UPPSALA, SWEDEN - Oct 17, 2016 - Recipharm, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has announced a 5 million SEK investment into a new GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) compliant bioanalysis laboratory at its development facility in Uppsala, Sweden, in response to growing customer demand

Oct 14, 2016, 12:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Global Alliance for Genomics in Health (GA4GH) has selected Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), to steward its member organizations in producing solutions for sharing genomic and clinical data. Birney took to his blog to address the new position.

Oct 14, 2016, 09:35 AM by Michael Croft

Optibrium Introduces Database Query Interface for StarDrop Providing instant access to compound data to interpret, model and guide drug discovery decisions CAMBRIDGE, UK, 13 October 2016 – Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule drug

Oct 13, 2016, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Genetics research is not as diverse as one would hope. Present discussions on this issue have led to the launching of multiple initiatives, including those from Illumina and 23andMe this week, whose goal is to develop the data pool in Africa.

Oct 13, 2016, 10:01 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | The idea with IBM's new Cloud Object Storage service: If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so.

Oct 13, 2016, 08:15 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Oct 13, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Hospital in Beijing, China, and Keio University in Tokyo, Japan have become Phoenix® Centers of Excellence

Oct 13, 2016, 03:53 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 13, 2016 - Health Insurance Market: OverviewThe improving GDPs of several nations across the globe has favored the growth of the global health insurance market in recent years

Oct 12, 2016, 22:45 PM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY - Oct 13, 2016 - October 12, 2016 | Mike Copperfield, senior scientist in Creative Proteomics, gave an announcement about update of new services this morning, claiming three new updates services, including protein methylation, protein sequence analysis and protein phosphorylation

Oct 12, 2016, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

Fortune | IBM announced that it will let its American workers use the Watson supercomputer technology in 2017 to find appropriate cancer treatments.

Oct 12, 2016, 09:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief  PierianDx today announced the acquisition of Tute Genomics, a genomics software company based in Provo, UT, further increasing consolidation in the genomics space

Oct 12, 2016, 04:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | Labfolder and the Max Planck Society today announced a licensing agreement to provide up to 11,000 Max Planck scientists from all disciplines ranging from physics, chemistry, life sciences and humanities with labfolder’s laboratory data management digital platform.

Oct 11, 2016, 15:19 PM by Michael Croft

The Scientist | Ambry Genetics CEO Aaron Elliott discusses his team's recent analysis of 20,000 clinical next-generation sequencing panels.

Oct 10, 2016, 23:06 PM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Oct 11, 2016 -  For Immediate Release Rho Donates Nearly $43,000 to Local Public Schools through DonorsChoosex