Jul 25, 2016, 16:49 PM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | His startup is using data to unlock the connections between DNA and illness.

Jul 25, 2016, 03:14 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Jul 25, 2016 -  BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions today announces that it has signed a partnership with Codigo46, an emerging Mexican company, focused on building and managing the largest biobank in Latin-America in co-operation with Mexican health and research specialists to deliver clinical patient benefits and future personalised medicines through academic and commercial research

Jul 22, 2016, 10:38 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Gene-editing technique to treat lung cancer is due to be tested in people in August. Sichuan University's West China Hospital in Chengdu plans to inject lung cancer patients with cells modified using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique. The clinical trial received ethical approval from the hospital July 6.

Jul 21, 2016, 12:37 PM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jul 21, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced the appointment of Nathan Teuscher, PhD, to vice president of pharmacometric solutions

Jul 20, 2016, 14:35 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bioz, Inc. came out of stealth today with the introduction of a search engine for life science experimentation. The company, started by Stanford research scientist Karin Lachmi and serial entrepreneur Daniel Levitt, also announced $3 million in seed funding, led by 5AM Ventures.

Jul 20, 2016, 08:07 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jul 20, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that Mitsubishi Tanabe has joined its Simcyp Consortium and licensed its proprietary Simcyp® Population-based Simulator

Jul 20, 2016, 04:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World It's been a busy two years for Seven Bridges. In May 2014, Seven Bridges was introducing its open source cancer informatics pipeline: open source algorithms running on the proprietary Seven Bridges cloud infrastructure. Less than six months later, the company was awarded one of three National Cancer Institute Cloud Pilot contracts.

Jul 19, 2016, 10:02 AM by Michael Croft

MUNICH, GERMANY - Jul 19, 2016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization and Indivumed, GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany announced today a strategic partnership to offer a unique combination of tissue-based biomarker validation and assay development with Definiens Cognition Network Technology® for image analysis and data mining

Jul 19, 2016, 09:20 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jul 19, 2016 - NewLeaf Symbiotics, announced today the appointment of Dr. Janne Kerovuo as Vice President for Research and Discovery

Jul 18, 2016, 13:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge results have been announced from the fourth challenge launched by sbv IMPROVER, an international scientific crowdsourcing initiative.

Jul 15, 2016, 05:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Appistry launches managed services for clinical sequencing, incorporating GenomePilot, and covering the entire pipeline from when data comes off the sequencers to results analysis.

Jul 14, 2016, 09:47 AM by Michael Croft

STAT | The impact factor is a poor measure of a journal's quality, and academics say it should either be overhauled or done away with entirely.

Jul 13, 2016, 08:16 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Wellcome Open Research is meant to allow Wellcome grant recipients to publish their findings more quickly. The charity hopes other funders will follow a similar model. Management of the venture will be contracted to F1000Research.

Jul 12, 2016, 15:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product launches from around the Bio-IT landscape include a postdoctoral fellowship in genomics medicine in Alabama, a synthetic biology partnership, new Lustre storage, and the Broad's food allergy science institute.

Jul 12, 2016, 14:48 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Encouraging news is out today for the treatment of severe postpartum depression. Sage Therapeutics, a biotech company in Cambridge, Mass., reported that its experimental drug was able to relieve severe symptoms of postpartum depression for 70% of patients within a few days, and keep them in remission for a month.

Jul 12, 2016, 13:07 PM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jul 12, 2016 - Valent BioSciences Corporation (VBC) and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center today announced the finalization of a multi-year, Master Cooperation Agreement in the area of root science and the rhizosphere

Jul 11, 2016, 17:29 PM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, UNITED STATES - Jul 11, 2016 - With a growing world population and a changing climate, understanding how agriculturally important plants respond to drought is crucial

Jul 11, 2016, 13:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Intel may have missed out on a major government grant, but that hasn't stopped it from developing a collaborative cloud for genomicists and bioinformaticians that it wanted to build all along.

Jul 8, 2016, 08:47 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Britain's vote to exit the European Union will depress global IT spending, according to Gartner analyst John-David Lovelock.

Jul 8, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Three patients have died in a closely watched study of using genetically engineered white blood cells to treat adult leukemia patients, forcing the trial to be put on hold. The news is a blow for Juno Therapeutics, the biotechnology startup valued at $4.3 billion.