Feb 10, 2016, 09:31 AM by 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

Feb 9, 2016, 16:31 PM by 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

Feb 9, 2016, 10:20 AM by 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.

Feb 8, 2016, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft

Slate | Larger and larger genetic studies are finding smaller and smaller effect sizes. What does this mean for drug development, clinical practice, and our view of mental illness?

Feb 8, 2016, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Scientists at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have invented a "multiplexed editing regulatory assay" (MERA) to test large swathes of the genome in parallel for regulatory elements that can turn gene activity on and off over the course of a cell's development.

Feb 5, 2016, 06:22 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 5, 2016 - Dr David Sibbald OBE, co-founder and Chairman of Edinburgh informatics company, Aridhia, was awarded an ‘Outstanding Contribution Award’ at the Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Awards held at the National Museum of Scotland last night

Feb 4, 2016, 06:01 AM by Michael Croft

BERLIN, GERMANY - Feb 4, 2016 - The KCR Date Forecaster, a mobile application developed by Contract Research Organization (CRO) KCR, has been made available for Android

Feb 3, 2016, 16:10 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | A Cambridge startup is trying to remove extraneous variables from experiments with a "smart lab" that can better control for simple factors like temperature and humidity.

Feb 3, 2016, 14:18 PM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Feb 3, 2016 - Dmitri A. Nusinow, Ph.D., assistant member at the Danforth Plant Science Center and researchers in his lab studying plants’ circadian clock have discovered a gene that allows plants to remember daylight during the long nights of winter, helping them tailor their growth appropriately to the seasons

Feb 3, 2016, 12:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The results of a months-long effort to sequence virus samples in the middle of the largest Ebola outbreak in history, using the handheld MinION DNA sequencer and a miniature mobile lab, have been published in Nature.

Feb 3, 2016, 08:19 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Feb 3, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that it has appointed Andrzej Kierzek, PhD, as head of systems modeling in its Simcyp® Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) Group

Feb 3, 2016, 05:49 AM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES - Feb 3, 2016 - Wilmington, Delaware – February 03, 2016, CloudLIMS proudly announces that it is the bronze winner in the Most Customer Friendly Company of the Year category at the 5th Annual Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts

Feb 2, 2016, 15:44 PM by Michael Croft

ST PAUL, MN - Feb 2, 2016 - Labware services expansion delivers more to Computype customers worldwide
 
Building on the popularity of its long established READY Labware pre-labeled labware services to the North American and Western European markets, Computype has recently expanded the offering in terms of technology, capability, and geography

Feb 1, 2016, 14:34 PM by Michael Croft

San Diego Union-Tribune | J. Craig Venter's company Human Longevity, Inc. has purchased LifebankUSA, a biobank that preserves stem cells from cord blood and placental tissue, growing an enterprise that will soon begin sequencing infants' genomes as a service.

Feb 1, 2016, 13:06 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News | A team at Francis Crick Institute has been permitted to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology in embryos for early-development research, but the work is still many steps away from genome-edited human beings.

Feb 1, 2016, 12:16 PM by Michael Croft

NOTTINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 1, 2016 - Nottingham, UK – Juniper Pharma Services (“the company”), a subsidiary of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Jan 29, 2016, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including a high-throughput protein conformation analyzer, and updates to the cloud-based genome analysis services of both DNAnexus and Seven Bridges.

Jan 29, 2016, 06:48 AM by Michael Croft

SUNDERLAND, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 29, 2016 - ONYX Scientific is set to increase the size of its UK-based site by over 30pc following the best performance in the company’s 15 year history

Jan 28, 2016, 10:19 AM by Michael Croft

STAT | Harlan Krumholz, of the Yale Open Data Access project, speaks about a new proposal by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

Jan 28, 2016, 09:56 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Jan 26, 2016 -  Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, announced today that ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO