Dec 10, 2015, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina has made an investment in Desktop Genetics, a company that provides software for the design of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complexes.

Dec 10, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | sbv IMPROVER, an international scientific crowdsourcing initiative, has launched the Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge. The challenge, which is open to anyone working in computational science who is developing predictive modelling techniques, provides the unique opportunity for participants to vigorously and objectively test their methodologies. Working on blood gene expression data, participants are being challenged to derive a predictive model to distinguish current smokers from either non-smokers or former-smokers. Entries will be scored by an independent panel against a gold-standard dataset.

Dec 9, 2015, 15:40 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Silicon Mechanics has opened its 5th Annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG) program. Two institutions will be selected, and both will be awarded a complete high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The competition is open to all United States and Canadian qualified post-secondary institutions, university-affiliated research institutions, non-profit research institutions, and researchers at federal labs with university affiliations.

Dec 9, 2015, 14:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With its cheap, handheld MinION sequencers, Oxford Nanopore is looking to early adopters like Karen James to help them reach teachers and citizen scientists ready to bring DNA sequencing outside the research lab.

Dec 8, 2015, 17:15 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 8, 2015, 10:36 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Dec 8, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, and Diagnomics, a developer of innovative products and services for personalized medicine based on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology, today announced their achievement of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) validation for NGS based Pre-natal Testing using the Maverix Dx Platform

Dec 8, 2015, 09:10 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Google's parent company, Alphabet, has renamed its life sciences division Verily and given it the goal to "understand disease at the individual level."

Dec 8, 2015, 08:42 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 8, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the release of version 15 of its Simcyp® Population-based Simulator

Dec 7, 2015, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | Roche will invest as much as $500 million in a partnership with SQZ, based on a technology that physically manipulates immune cells to admit new antigens, with the aim of training these cells to fight a patient's own cancer.

Dec 7, 2015, 11:40 AM by Michael Croft

Wired | Biologists at MIT have engineered new genetic elements to insert in bacteria, making these microbes dependent on lab-supplied synthetic molecules to survive.

Dec 4, 2015, 17:13 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Geneticist Charles Danko turned to Twitter this week for help in convincing his IRB at Cornell that he should be allowed to let his study participants download their genetic information

Dec 4, 2015, 09:49 AM by Michael Croft

The New York Times | Scientists have shown that DNA molecules can be the basis for a long-term storage system potentially capable of holding all of the world's digital information in a tiny space.

Dec 3, 2015, 16:08 PM by Michael Croft

COLUMBIA, MD - Dec 3, 2015 - Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) has introduced ATHAP MALDI matrix kits to improve the detection of hydrophobic proteins or peptides containing transmembrane domains

Dec 3, 2015, 15:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product launches from around the industry, including CRISPR experiments in the cloud lab, and a machine learning venture for searching the scientific literature.

Dec 3, 2015, 10:58 AM by Michael Croft

The OpenHelix Blog | This week's question is a biggie. And there's no answer yet. But that is the topic of the National Academies big event this week, International Summit on Human Gene Editing.

Dec 3, 2015, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Scientists working at Feng Zhang's lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used insights about Cas9's structure and domains of DNA interaction to produce a mutant molecule, just as capable of cutting chosen DNA sequences, but with lower risk of making off-target cuts in distant areas of the genome.

Dec 3, 2015, 07:28 AM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Dec 4, 2015 - Touch Surgery Officially The Largest Worldwide Community Of Surgeons Practicing Surgery Virtually Digital Surgical Simulator Touch Surgery collaborates with Experts Surgeons at International Institutions (Stanford, Harvard Yale, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Imperial College London,& Others) to Create Surgical Simulations

Dec 1, 2015, 14:54 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Hewlett Packard Enterprise outlined new details about its hybrid cloud partnership with Microsoft in an announcement Tuesday, saying it will provide a new hardware product that integrates with the Azure cloud platform and build its software to take advantage of Microsoft's offerings.

Dec 1, 2015, 12:01 PM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 1, 2015 - A long-term project aimed at improving photosynthesis in rice is entering its third stage, marking another step on the road to significantly increased crop yields that will help meet the food needs of billions of people across the developing world

Dec 1, 2015, 10:58 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 1, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that it has acquired XenologiQ, a UK-based quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) consultancy