Apr 28, 2016, 10:18 AM by Michael Croft

Fortune | AbbVie will buy Stemcentrx, which has five drugs targeting "cancer stem cells" in early clinical trials, for up to $10.2 billion in cash and stock.

Apr 28, 2016, 10:16 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.

Apr 28, 2016, 08:14 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 28, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today launched an e-learning platform through Certara University to satisfy the increased need for education in the burgeoning field of biosimulation or model-based drug development

Apr 27, 2016, 16:43 PM by Michael Croft

MONTREAL, QC, CANADA - Apr 28, 2016 - Montrium, clinical trial technology specialists, and electronic content management software providers, today, announced the commercial release of the eTMF Navigator, an interactive intelligence dashboard integrated into eTMF Connect

Apr 27, 2016, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Apr 27, 2016 - BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Rapid advancements in technology are generating a mind-boggling amount of data: indeed, more data has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of the human race

Apr 27, 2016, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The latest news and product releases from around the industry, including Novogene's new U.S. sequencing center, and a bioinformatics solution for liquid biopsies from QIAGEN.

Apr 26, 2016, 12:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and Calico today announced a multi-year collaboration focused on applying mouse genetics to the study of aging.

Apr 26, 2016, 12:04 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | While early goals had the US achieving exascale computing by 2018, the new deadline is 2023.

Apr 26, 2016, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | SwiftStack today announced the latest version of its object storage software with new customer-driven capabilities that deliver scale and metadata search as well as plans for file native access and cloud synchronization. These new features are designed to further simplify and accelerate customer journeys from traditional file systems to more flexible, scalable cloud infrastructures.

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.