Aug 23, 2016, 11:41 AM by Michael Croft

DOYLESTOWN, PA, US - Aug 23, 2016 - Bioclinica®, a provider of specialized technology-enabled services supporting clinical trials, today announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cinven, a leading international private equity firm

Aug 23, 2016, 11:34 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Aug 23, 2016 - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will grant a patent to MDI Biological Laboratory scientists Voot P

Aug 23, 2016, 07:54 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Aug 23, 2016 - Although the current practice of analysing defined gene panels for a specific disease has great utility, it is of limited benefit when a condition is not well defined

Aug 22, 2016, 13:30 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Ambitious bids to map the brain and cure cancer have not boosted overall research funding.

Aug 22, 2016, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Pfizer says it will purchase biotechnology upstart Medivation for $14 billion in cash. The main prize in the deal: Medivation's prostate cancer drug, Xtandi, which costs $120,000 a year.

Aug 19, 2016, 08:09 AM by Michael Croft

- Aug 19, 2016 - ZENITH Technologies is expanding its US presence by opening two new offices on the West Coast of the US to meet greater demand for its automation, process control and serialization technology support services

Aug 19, 2016, 05:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World “Something that the industry doesn’t really talk about is the cost of doing research,” says Amrit Chaudhuri, CEO of Mass Innovation Labs in Cambridge, Mass. Running a lab can cost hundreds of dollars per square foot, Chaudhuri says, but Mass Innovation Labs offers an alternative.

Aug 18, 2016, 14:44 PM by Michael Croft

STAT | The gloves are off in the legal fight over CRISPR genome editing patents, as the latest documents filed in the case make clear.

Aug 17, 2016, 14:05 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Catalogue of genetic information from some 60,000 people reveals unexpected surprises - and highlights the need to make genomic data publicly accessible to aid studies of rare diseases.

Aug 17, 2016, 11:36 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Aug 17, 2016 - NIH Grant Will Support Studies on Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral NeuropathyBAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it has received a grant of $456,500 over two years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the study of peripheral neuropathy

Aug 17, 2016, 09:53 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | The chances of Apple's using Intel's factories to have its iPhone and iPad chips made have just rocketed up.

Aug 17, 2016, 09:49 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, UNITED STATES - Aug 17, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s Conversations Series will be held on Thursday, August 25, 2016, at the Danforth Center, 975 N

Aug 17, 2016, 09:39 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Aug 17, 2016 - BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The Board of Trustees of the MDI Biological Laboratory has announced the appointment of Ned Cloonan of Greenwich, Conn

Aug 16, 2016, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Aug 16, 2016 - NewLeaf Symbiotics announced today that both the European and Japanese Patent Offices will grant patents on the company’s foundational production process

Aug 16, 2016, 09:34 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Technique that adds noise to genetic data would enable much faster access to large data sets.

Aug 16, 2016, 09:26 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Researchers describe a new way to use CRISPR editing to fix sickle cell disease, a debilitating genetic blood disorder.

Aug 16, 2016, 09:23 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | This startup sits at the intersection of electronics, optics, energy efficiency, and the Internet. Ayar Labs is working on how to make data centers perform better with less energy.

Aug 15, 2016, 08:24 AM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Aug 15, 2016 - Titian Software (www.titian.co.uk), has announced that deployment of its Mosaic sample management software has resulted in simplified workflows and boosted productivity at Esteve's Compound Management Unit in Barcelona, after replacing their previous system

Aug 11, 2016, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | The surge of activity in recent years around CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has also led to a flurry of modified CRISPR systems, or new systems entirely, which are starting to solve problems like delivering enzymes into cells, making specific changes to the DNA sequence, and editing RNA as well as DNA.

Aug 10, 2016, 13:28 PM by Michael Croft

BOSTON & LONDON - Aug 10, 2016 - IDBS and Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the commercialization arm of Cancer Research UK, have collaborated to streamline plate correction in high throughput screening (HTS)