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.

Feb 25, 2016, 08:17 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Feb 25, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the introduction of Phoenix® Technology Services

Feb 24, 2016, 14:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore Technologies, creator of the world's first and only nanopore sequencer, has found itself the target of a lawsuit by genomics giant Illumina, which does not make a nanopore sequencer but does license two patents related to a very specific iteration of the technology.

Feb 24, 2016, 09:29 AM by Michael Croft

MIAMI, FL - Feb 24, 2016 - OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK) announced today that GeneDx was invited to participate in the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2016, being held at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, California from March 6th - 11th, 2016, and will also be exhibiting at Booth 606

Feb 23, 2016, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Wolfgang Gentzsch of UberCloud argues that the expansion of software containers for life sciences applications is moving biology and medicine closer to a state of 'ubiquitous computing,' where compute infrastructure becomes all but invisible to most end users.

Feb 23, 2016, 12:39 PM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Parents of children with diabetes have led an egalitarian push for improved technology to monitor the condition, and to even develop cheaper insulin.

Feb 23, 2016, 09:34 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, N/A, SWITZERLAND - Feb 23, 2016 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO

Feb 22, 2016, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | DDN, creator of the WOS object storage platform for simplified data storage and access at multi-petabyte scale, has launched a new product for enterprise data governance as employees access files at home and through mobile devices.

Feb 19, 2016, 14:44 PM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 19, 2016 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will speak on post lock data flow at the 2016 SCOPE Summit, taking place on February 23-25 in Miami, Florida

Feb 19, 2016, 09:12 AM by Michael Croft

BAR HARBOR, ME - Feb 19, 2016 -  The Mount Desert Island (MDI) Biological Laboratory has announced that assistant professor Sandra Rieger, Ph

Feb 17, 2016, 14:50 PM by 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.

Feb 17, 2016, 13:46 PM by Michael Croft

BBC News | TED Fellow Keolu Fox has been describing his hopes to include indigenous groups in future genetic testing.

Feb 17, 2016, 10:00 AM by 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.

Feb 16, 2016, 09:00 AM by 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.

Feb 16, 2016, 06:41 AM by 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

Feb 15, 2016, 16:11 PM by 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.

Feb 15, 2016, 15:09 PM by 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