Apr 26, 2016, 11:01 AM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | In the largest ever gift to the University of California, San Francisco, the Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford Weill have donated $185 million to establish the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

Apr 25, 2016, 19:17 PM by Michael Croft

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES - Apr 22, 2016 - Strategic Directions International, Inc. announced the publication of Laboratory Informatics 2016: A Survey of LIMS, ELN/LES and SDMS End-Users

Apr 21, 2016, 13:38 PM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Apr 21, 2016 - Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory are identifying the basic mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological disease affecting millions of people worldwide

Apr 21, 2016, 10:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Illumina’s new, cloud-based BaseSpace Informatics Suite allows a lab with no genomic computing infrastructure of its own to track genetic tests through the laboratory, find genetic variants in human DNA, interpret the clinical importance of DNA test results, and create reports for physicians to consult when making treatment decisions.

Apr 20, 2016, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads: The cloud provider announced Tuesday that it's launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that are powered by traditional, spinning disk hard drives.

Apr 20, 2016, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Scientists are super-excited about the way cheap, fast DNA sequencing technology is making it possible to gather vivid, detailed information about the microbiome. These are the trillions of bugs in our guts, and on our skin, that humans have co-existed with since the beginning. Drug companies, until fairly recently, haven't been [...]

Apr 20, 2016, 11:02 AM by Michael Croft

Techonomy | A new bill introduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mike Enzi adds important privacy protections for genetic data. But real protection will be tough.

Apr 20, 2016, 10:27 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Apr 20, 2016 - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it has received a grant to support a new course on aging that will draw internationally renowned scientists to Bar Harbor, Maine, to examine fundamental questions about our ability to repair and regenerate tissue as we age

Apr 20, 2016, 09:20 AM by Michael Croft

BERLIN, GERMANY - Apr 20, 2016 -  Post-authorization safety studies (PASS) are becoming an integral part of the medicines development

Apr 19, 2016, 09:38 AM by Michael Croft

Illumina | The Illumina MiniSeq System, unveiled earlier this year, is the company's smallest and simplest next-generation sequencing (NGS) system to date. The Scientific Challenge Program was launched to highlight the range of applications that can be performed using Illumina's most affordable sequencer. After receiving more than 1,100 grant submissions from around the world, winners were announced from the University of Florida, North Carolina State University, and National University of Ireland, Galway.

Apr 19, 2016, 09:29 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | While smartphone apps are cool and add convenience to our lives, the real impact of digital technology lies in front of us, when second order technologies are applied to completely new problems.

Apr 15, 2016, 11:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At the 15th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, speakers introduced projects like the latest update to GATK from the Broad Institute; the ISB Cancer Genomics Cloud for shared analysis of TCGA data; the Resilience Project at Mount Sinai; and the NCI Genomic Data Commons for harmonization of DNA data from disparate sources.

Apr 15, 2016, 09:54 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Apr 15, 2016 - Today leadership, scientists and supporters of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center dedicate the new William H

Apr 14, 2016, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Benjamin Langmead, an assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, was presented with the fifteenth Benjamin Franklin Award from Bioinformatics.org at the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo for his development of open source and cloud-based bioinformatics software.

Apr 14, 2016, 02:14 AM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY - Apr 13, 2016 - April, 14th, 2016, Creative Proteomics, a leading supplier in drug development services, carried out their products mainly related to the biomarker quantification

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

Bio-IT World | In the closing plenary session of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, keynote speakers Yaron Turpaz of Human Longevity, Inc., Catherine Brownstein of Boston Children's Hospital, and Bill Evans of IBM Watson Health addressed the sticky question of how big data-driven healthcare can make the leap from high-priced luxury to standard practice.

Apr 12, 2016, 13:35 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The National Institutes of Health have named Eric Dishman, previously of Intel, as Director of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program.  Dishman will lead NIH’s effort to build the PMI landmark longitudinal research study of one million or more U.S. volunteers to expand our ability to improve health and treat disease through precision medicine.

Apr 12, 2016, 12:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Making the case for industry-led standards and more open and transparent data sharing at the opening plenary session at last week’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., Director at Partners HealthCare Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and medical director at the Broad Institute Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, discussed the growing needs for improved clarity and consistency of genetic data for clinical and research purposes.

Apr 12, 2016, 12:11 PM by Michael Croft

KANSAS CITY, KS, UNITED STATES - Apr 12, 2016 - Sekisui XenoTech now offers Geneknown™ pooled human hepatocytes as part of its catalog of cell and tissue-based products

Apr 12, 2016, 10:38 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Apr 12, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is hiring a number of clinical research positions and will be looking to meet potential applicants in the field at the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) during the group’s 2016 Global Conference, being held April 16-19 in Atlanta, Georgia