Mar 7, 2016, 17:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | Changes at Illumina this week. Today Jay Flatley, current Chairman and CEO, announced he will assume the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors on July 5, 2016. Francis deSouza, currently President, will be appointed President and Chief Executive Officer on the same date and will continue to serve on the Illumina Board of Directors. Scott Khan, Illumina’s Vice President Commercial, Enterprise Informatics, has said he plans to retire from Illumina in early March as well.

Mar 7, 2016, 12:44 PM by Michael Croft

SAN CARLOS, CA, UNITED STATES - Mar 7, 2016 - NuGEN Technologies, Inc. today announced the launch of the "Sharing Experiences and Applications in Sciences" (SEAS) Institute, the company's platform for supporting and spotlighting the work of innovative scientists

Mar 7, 2016, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME, USA - Mar 7, 2016 - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced new discoveries about the mechanisms underlying the regeneration of heart tissue by Assistant Professor Voot P

Mar 4, 2016, 15:19 PM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 4, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, is part of a newly published clinical trial that found that children who consumed peanut-containing foods regularly from infancy to age five and then avoided peanut for one year did not become allergic to peanut

Mar 4, 2016, 10:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The first challenge hosted in the FDA's cloud-based precisionFDA platform will score different computational pipelines' ability to accurately call variants from raw DNA sequence data, in a public competition meant to shed light on some of the most essential tools in genomics.

Mar 4, 2016, 05:39 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Mar 4, 2016 - When Congenica heard how an Iowa woman with a severe muscle wasting disease had not only diagnosed the genetic basis of her condition, but also realised it was linked it to a muscle-bound phenotype exhibited by Canadian Olympic hurdler Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, the company was inspired and wanted to see if they could help

Mar 3, 2016, 20:02 PM by Michael Croft

BANGOR, ME, UNITED STATES - Mar 4, 2016 - Husson University announced today that it is launching six new programs in science, technology and management designed to prepare students for career success in current and emerging fields

Mar 3, 2016, 14:40 PM by Michael Croft

OAKLAND, CA - Mar 3, 2016 - Omicia, the leading provider of clinical genome interpretation software and services, announced that Matt Tindall has been appointed CEO and a member of the company’s Board of Directors, effective March 1st, 2016

Mar 3, 2016, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg.com | Alaska's economic eminence stems from the discovery of oil on the North Slope in the 1960s. But its more recent crown as a biotech sugar daddy started in March 2013 with a chance meeting on a flight from Boston to Seattle.

Mar 2, 2016, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Mar 2, 2016 -

• UCL's new 'GRACE' machine to benefit researchers from across the University
• Large scale parallel computing returns to the University
• Designed and integrated by OCF
• Linpack benchmark conducted by OCF delivered 181x

Mar 2, 2016, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Precision for Medicine will formally launch its immuno-analytics platform solution this month, the latest addition to its PATH suite of tools for contending with big 'omics data even when working with small sample sizes.

Mar 2, 2016, 03:46 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Mar 2, 2016 - BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions, today announced that it will collaborate with Microsoft to use the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and services to provide integrated genomic data management solutions in healthcare

Mar 1, 2016, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO - Mar 1, 2016 - Maverix Biomics, a leading Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis software company, today made available a free 30-day trial of the Maverix WAVES™ RNA-Seq Gene Expression Analysis solution

Mar 1, 2016, 10:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including the introduction of Arvados to Microsoft Azure, and an online solution for metagenomics through One Codex.

Feb 29, 2016, 15:11 PM by Michael Croft

PROVO, UT, US - Feb 29, 2016 - Adaptive Computing, provider of award-winning workload and resource orchestration software, announces it has integrated Remote Visualization with Moab’s workload submission portal, Viewpoint, in order to improve ease-of-use and increase user productivity

Feb 29, 2016, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft

The Atlantic | The bizarre Mimivirus has become even more perplexing, as scientists uncover a genetic element called MIMIVRE, highly analogous to CRISPR, that it uses to fight off smaller viruses.

Feb 29, 2016, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | NanoString Technologies, a Seattle company with a small but comfortable niche in automated genetic analysis, is preparing to make the leap into DNA and RNA sequencing, with a highly novel process it calls Hyb and Seq.

Feb 29, 2016, 05:19 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Feb 29, 2016 - 2,200 babies will be born in the UK on 29th February, of which 30 will die of a rare disease before they are five years old*

Feb 25, 2016, 14:05 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | At a White House meeting on the President's Precision Medicine Initiative, open data, shared with patients and between centers, is the centerpiece of a national plan.

Feb 25, 2016, 10:21 AM by Michael Croft

Reuters | The National Institutes of Health on Thursday named Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, as advisor to Nashville's Vanderbilt University in a pilot program to launch the Precision Medicine Initiative outlined by President Barack Obama last year.