Jun 15, 2016, 10:27 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Induced pluripotent stem cells were supposed to herald a medical revolution. But ten years after their discovery, they are transforming biological research instead.

Jun 15, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 15, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG™), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced an industry-transforming agreement with karmadata, the market leader in clinical trial database and decision support applications

Jun 13, 2016, 15:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Wellcome Genome Campus have together launched a video series and survey to explore public attitudes toward genetic data handling.

Jun 13, 2016, 12:14 PM by Michael Croft

KANSAS CITY, KS, UNITED STATES - Jun 13, 0016 - As part of Sekisui XenoTech’s commitment to furthering knowledge of hepatic diseases, the company has begun providing disease-diagnosed tissue samples and hepatocytes through its new Research BioBank

Jun 13, 2016, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jun 13, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced it is collaborating with Washington University in St

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

MIT Technology Review | Spark Therapeutics is turning gene-therapy experiments into real drugs.

Jun 13, 2016, 10:37 AM by Michael Croft

Fortune | Cycle Computing, which bootstrapped its high-performance computing cloud capabilities for 11 years, now has backing of WorldQuant Ventures.

Jun 10, 2016, 12:08 PM by Michael Croft

The Register | At the Stifel technology conference, analyst Aaron Rakers, had some fireside chats with senior execs from Brocade and QLogic, Pure and Nimble, Seagate and WDC.

Jun 10, 2016, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

Jun 10, 2016, 08:27 AM by Michael Croft

SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 6, 2016 - HPC, storage and data analytics integrator, OCF, continues to expand its operations, recruiting a number of new staff to meet the growing appetite and demand for HPC and data analytics solutions across universities, research institutes and commercial businesses in the UK

Jun 9, 2016, 16:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In a perspective article in the June 10 issue of Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6162), 31 authors from The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health challenged the genomics community to adopt a federated ecosystem for sharing genomic and clinical data.

Jun 8, 2016, 16:55 PM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 8, 2016 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is making the most of its presence at one of the industry's leading events by seeking out talent to fill a number of clinical research positions during the Drug Information Association (DIA) 2016 Annual Meeting, the largest global interdisciplinary event for disciplines involved in the discovery, development and life cycle management of health care products

Jun 8, 2016, 15:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Omicia today announced the completion of a $23 million Series B financing round. Several new investors participated in the round, including UPMC Enterprises, Roche Venture Fund, LDV Partners, Ping An Ventures, and a large genomics investor, as well as existing investors ARTIS Ventures, Acadia Woods Partners and Buchanan Investments.

Jun 8, 2016, 08:11 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 8, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Veterinary Medicine has extended its five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the company until 2020

Jun 7, 2016, 17:25 PM by Michael Croft

MUNICH, GERMANY - Jun 2, 0016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization, today announced a partnership agreement with MolecularMD to combine MolecularMD’s expertise in specialty diagnostic assays with Definiens’ quantitative tissue read-outs

Jun 7, 2016, 11:27 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, was recently honored as part of the clinical trial team for the LEAP Trial: Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy

Jun 7, 2016, 10:43 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 2016 - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the 2016 recipient of the Agricultural Greater Good Initiative grant

Jun 6, 2016, 12:54 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM will back efforts to create infrastructure and best practices for the R community, as well as promote use of the language.

Jun 6, 2016, 10:47 AM by Michael Croft

STAT | There are 17 biotech companies in the US that generate more than $500 million per year in revenue. And they're increasingly focused on buying innovative new products through mergers and acquisitions, rather than developing them in house.

Jun 3, 2016, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has awarded seven scientists a total of approximately $1.4 million in research grants to better understand why HIV persists in the body despite effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) and pursue novel pathways to a cure. This round of grants was supported in part by the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research (FAIR).