Jun 2, 2016, 14:52 PM by Michael Croft

Fortune | The Novartis CEO is betting China will play a key role in discovering life-changing drugs. The firm opened an R&D facility in Shanghai.

Jun 2, 2016, 08:18 AM by Michael Croft

BETHESDA, MD - Jun 2, 2016 - The International Biomedical Research Alliance, a non-profit organization which provides programming and funding support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, today announced that Harold Varmus, MD, is joining the Alliance’s board of directors

Jun 1, 2016, 12:40 PM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES - Jun 1, 2016 - Eye care is very important segment in the healthcare Industry. Eye related problems are very common when compared to other body problems

May 31, 2016, 16:51 PM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 31, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, recently announced that the company was named the 2016 Best CRO by Triangle Business Journal,  a multimedia source for local business news, research and events in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill region of North Carolina, where Rho is headquartered

May 31, 2016, 11:56 AM by Michael Croft

, CA, SAN DIEGO - May 31, 2016 - In today’s laboratories the amount of collaborations and information to keep track of seem to be rapidly growing for both academic and industrial scientists

May 31, 2016, 04:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and products from 10x Genomics, DirectData Networks, BT, The Genome Analysis Centre, Veeva and more.

May 27, 2016, 14:36 PM by Michael Croft

DURHAM, NC, UNITED STATES - May 27, 0016 - Cenduit's Upgraded Patient Reminders Tool Enhances Patient Compliance and EngagementUpgraded tool improves sponsor-patient communication with two-way messaging dashboardResearch Triangle Park, NC - May 25, 2016 -Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced the launch of its upgraded Patient RemindersTM tool

May 27, 2016, 05:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Book Review | Merging bioinformatics, computational biology, and technology are clearly important parts of the drug discovery equation. But in his new book, William Loging argues that IT is not a silver bullet, and user-centric design must be a key component.

May 26, 2016, 16:16 PM by Michael Croft

The Atlantic | The popular gene-editing technique can deliver a step-by-step account of how a single-cell embryo becomes a trillion-cell animal.

May 26, 2016, 06:39 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - May 26, 2016 - A Scottish clinical and translational informatics company has announced it is part of a consortium selected to deliver a digital research environment based on its AnalytiXagility informatics platform to one of the Netherland’s most prestigious university medical centres, with the aim of facilitating biomedical research on an unprecedented scale

May 26, 2016, 04:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | London Calling, Oxford Nanopore’s user group conference, began this morning in London. The user community looks to the London Calling event for news and announcements from Oxford, and each attendee will receive the new MinION Mk 1B at the event.

May 25, 2016, 16:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  The White House announced the final Data Security Policy Principles and Framework (Security Framework) for the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) this afternoon. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Lisa O. Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, laid out a security framework for institutions who participate in the PMI and provides a risk management approach to achieving those principles. Federal PMI agencies have committed to integrate the framework throughout all PMI activities

May 25, 2016, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | A survey of Nature readers revealed a high level of concern about the problem of irreproducible results.

May 25, 2016, 08:14 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - May 25, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, in partnership with The University of Manchester, successfully organized the first-ever Health Care Summit on Model-based Precision Dosing on May 19-20 in the UK

May 24, 2016, 15:47 PM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 24, 0016 - Rho Donates $28,000 to the March of Dimes Chapel Hill-based company hosts a variety of employee events to help raise funds for charity Chapel Hill, NC ̶ May 24, 2016 ̶ Rho, a Chapel Hill-based full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a complete range of product development services, announced today that it has donated $28,000 to the March of Dimes

May 24, 2016, 13:40 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | WuXi AppTec and Huawei launched the China Precision Medicine Cloud today. The two companies hope the platform will support the Chinese government’s Precision Medicine Initiative, and link researchers across China through a secure nationwide network.

May 24, 2016, 10:53 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON & LONDON, NY - May 19, 2016 -

• Leading CRO's use of E-WorkBook 10 could see Frontage boost efficiency by 40%
• Frontage enforce quality, compliance and traceability within the bioanalytical lab

 Boston, US & London, UK, May 19, 2016 - Frontage Laboratories, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) with labs in the United States and China, has selected IDBS E-WorkBook 10 to be deployed across its laboratory facilities

May 23, 2016, 16:43 PM by Michael Croft

NPR.org | A refrigerator-sized machine could someday make lifesaving drugs on site when outbreaks occur or where medicine is in short supply, like on the battlefield.

May 19, 2016, 16:01 PM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee offers a soaring epic, while Dr. Steven Lipkin watches a revolution in genomics unfold in the clinic.

May 19, 2016, 09:12 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | By reinventing the neural network, the company hopes to help computers make the leap from processing words and symbols to comprehending the real world.