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.

May 18, 2016, 17:52 PM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES - May 19, 2016 - Digital radiography systems are highly used for the instant digital imaging for various purposes such as dental x ray etc

May 18, 2016, 15:33 PM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - May 18, 0016 - Wound healing is not a one-size-fits-all process. MDI Biological Laboratory Assistant Professor, Vicki P

May 18, 2016, 10:04 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - May 18, 2016 - MOgene LC, a comprehensive genomics service provider located at Bio Research & Development Growth (BRDG) Park, announced today they were presented, The Most Innovative Business Award from the City of Creve Coeur Economic Development Committee (EDC)

May 18, 2016, 05:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  On day one of Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this year, Bio-IT World asked Michael Dimitruk, Sales Director at Accunet Solutions (one of the conference's perennial exhibitors), what he thought would be the biggest takeaway from this year's conference. His answer was seven words long: "Secure data is better than cheap data."

May 17, 2016, 11:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | Dell and SAP announced a collaboration this morning to help customers optimize SAP solution environments running on clouds; deploy IoT enabled solutions; build on specialized healthcare applications; and streamline data migration and analytics with Dell’s world-class services.

May 16, 2016, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Editas Medicine today announced a three-year, $5 million agreement with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics this morning, and Caribou Biosciences completed a $30 million Series B financing round.

May 16, 2016, 09:58 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - May 13, 0016 - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced the appointment of Stephen D. Krasinski, Ph.D., as vice president for administration

May 16, 2016, 09:46 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - May 16, 2016 - NewLeaf Symbiotics, a non-GMO agricultural biologicals company, announced today the appointment to its team of two key new members

May 13, 2016, 14:06 PM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - May 13, 0016 - Science professionals, doctoral and postdoctoral students from across the country will gather May 20 through 27 at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, for an intensive one-week course in Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy

May 13, 2016, 12:13 PM by Michael Croft

STAT | More than 130 scientists, officials, and others met to discuss the topic of creating a large synthetic genome - including, but not limited to, humans.