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Feb 19, 2016, 09:12 AM
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Michael Croft
BAR HARBOR, ME - Feb 19, 2016 - The Mount Desert Island (MDI) Biological Laboratory has announced that assistant professor Sandra Rieger, Ph
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Feb 17, 2016, 14:50 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World Brief | More than eight months after its Kickstarter launch, N of Everyone is pushing ahead with its social reader product. Today Reader lists more than 3.5 million papers available for reading, comment, search, and discussion and has 700 registered users.
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Feb 17, 2016, 13:46 PM
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Michael Croft
BBC News | TED Fellow Keolu Fox has been describing his hopes to include indigenous groups in future genetic testing.
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Feb 17, 2016, 10:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Bioinformatics.org has announced the nominees for the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award. Voting is open now to Bioinformatics.org members. The winner will be announced at the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo.
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Feb 16, 2016, 09:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | This morning, Seven Bridges Genomics announced the opening of its Cancer Genomics Cloud, an online platform for accessing and analyzing public data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. The National Cancer Institute commissioned the platform as a way to make TCGA data easier to query and more available to small labs with limited compute resources.
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Feb 16, 2016, 06:41 AM
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Michael Croft
STIRLING, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 16, 2016 - Stirling, UK – STERILE manufacturing specialist Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services has unveiled a significant surge in demand for its services from US-based biotechnology firms just a year after it expanded its presence into this territory
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Feb 15, 2016, 16:11 PM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | Amazon Web Services has agreed to buy Nice, an Italian vendor of high-performance computing software and services, to extend its as-a-service offering.
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Feb 15, 2016, 15:09 PM
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Michael Croft
CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES - Feb 9, 2016 - Gen9 today announced it has developed a novel multiplex DNA assembly approach which scales the manufacture of synthetic DNA by nearly two orders of magnitude
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Feb 15, 2016, 11:14 AM
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Michael Croft
Bloomberg | "The most you can lose is all your money," says Bill Maris, the founder of Google Ventures who is making big investments in the riskier, more highly regulated fields of health other Silicon Valley investors have avoided.
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Feb 15, 2016, 05:04 AM
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Michael Croft
NOTTINGHAM, UK - Feb 15, 2016 - Nottingham, UK – Juniper Pharma Services, a subsidiary of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNP), will work with CrystecPharma on a major multi-partner project as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI) to help create a new platform to accelerate drug development in the future
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Feb 12, 2016, 12:45 PM
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Michael Croft
STOCKHOLM, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 12, 2016 - RECIPHARM, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has taken the decision to lead the market in coding and serialisation to actively help pharmaceutical companies prepare for the implementation of new regulations
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Feb 11, 2016, 15:09 PM
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Michael Croft
Nature News | Toxicologists at Johns Hopkins have charted the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals to help predict the toxicity of untested substances.
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Feb 11, 2016, 14:05 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | 10X Genomics, whose GemCode platform allows for much better structural variant resolution and haplotype phasing during short-read sequencing experiments, has released a new system, Chromium, that builds on the efficiency of GemCode and can label RNA molecules from individual cells.
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Feb 11, 2016, 11:57 AM
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Michael Croft
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 11, 2016 - Cenduit Launches New Professional Services Division to Provide Seamless User ExperienceDivision provides total solution for smoother, more efficient trialsResearch Triangle Park, NC - February 11, 2016 -Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced the launch of its new Professional Services Division
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Feb 10, 2016, 15:05 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World Brief | VeriStor is integrating SwiftStack’s object storage into its enterprise cloud services portfolio, the companies announced this week.
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Feb 10, 2016, 13:50 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | This morning, AbbVie announced a partnership with Synlogic of Cambridge, Mass., to target inflammatory bowel disease with a strain of genetically engineered microbes that can sense and respond to symptoms as they occur.
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Feb 10, 2016, 10:05 AM
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Michael Croft
Forbes | The drug industry is pouring billions into R&D against Alzheimer's disease. Yet many people in the business will tell you not nearly enough is known about the underlying biology.
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Feb 10, 2016, 09:31 AM
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Michael Croft
BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Feb 10, 2016 - Infinata today announced two of its products, BioPharm Clinical and SiteSurvey, will be participating at the annual SCOPE Summit for Clinical Ops Executives
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Feb 9, 2016, 16:31 PM
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Michael Croft
SALISBURY COVE, ME - Feb 9, 2016 - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that Vicki Losick, Ph.D., has joined the faculty as assistant professor
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Feb 9, 2016, 10:20 AM
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Michael Croft
The Verge | Sure Genomics, a startup based in Utah, launched a whole genome testing service today, but its plan to report a host of important health results is really testing the FDA.
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