Jan 27, 2016, 15:03 PM by Michael Croft

New York Times | A massive genomic study provides researchers with a strong case for a biological mechanism involved in the disorder, and helps explain why it often begins at a relatively young age.

Jan 27, 2016, 11:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Swiss drugs company Ferring Pharmaceuticals will fully fund the creation of a joint research center with the Karolinska Institutet of Sweden, to conduct human microbiome studies with an eye on new therapies.

Jan 26, 2016, 15:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina has purchased Conexio Genomics, an Australian company that was one of the first to develop products for using next-generation sequencing in matching tissue donors and recipients through HLA genotyping.

Jan 25, 2016, 16:14 PM by Michael Croft

Phenomena | A study using many parallel probes has revealed the spatial organization of different bacterial species in dental plaque. The strategy could be used to explore microbial ecology in all sorts of environments.

Jan 25, 2016, 13:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Members of McGill University’s Centre of Genomics and Policy have published a global survey of restrictions on modifying the human genome, concluding that many regulations are vague and that bans or limitations often relax over time.

Jan 22, 2016, 10:57 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | David Shaywitz weighs in on yesterday's editorial from NEJM calling data scientists "research parasites." He was glad, he says, for a major objection to finally be laid out. Now we can move past it.

Jan 21, 2016, 18:04 PM by Michael Croft

PROVO, UT, US - Jan 22, 2016 - Adaptive Computing, provider of award-winning workload and resource orchestration software, announces it has set a new record in High Throughput Computing (HTC) in collaboration with Supermicro, a leader in high-performance green computing solutions

Jan 21, 2016, 15:35 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | It's notable enough that close to half of the 25 "best jobs in America" named by recruiting site Glassdoor this week are tech-related, but even more striking is the fact that "data scientist" tops the list.

Jan 21, 2016, 15:15 PM by Michael Croft

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Jan 21, 2016 - Biodesy, Inc., a next-generation protein analysis company, today announced the global availability of its Biodesy™ Delta System for measuring conformational change

Jan 21, 2016, 15:12 PM by Michael Croft

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Jan 21, 2016 - Biodesy, Inc., a next-generation protein analysis company, today announced the closing of its $10 million Series B financing and its 20th commercial services agreement using its proprietary, first-in-class technology for measuring protein conformational change

Jan 21, 2016, 11:11 AM by Michael Croft

Phenomena | At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a group of almost 100 pharma companies and trade associations have released a bare bones outline of a plan to spur research into new antibiotics and encourage their responsible use.

Jan 20, 2016, 11:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | An ambitious new study from the Allen Institute for Brain Science illustrates how new methods for isolating and studying single cells, combined with massive RNA sequencing data, are changing the way neuroscientists think about the variety and organization of cells in the brain.

Jan 19, 2016, 10:37 AM by Michael Croft

FARGO, ND - Jan 20, 2016 - CSM, a leading clinical trial supply company, today announced that Brian Swites was promoted to Vice President of Operations and Bob Albanese was named Senior Vice President of Strategic Development

Jan 19, 2016, 09:59 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jan 19, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg , Ph.D., member and principal investigator was selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science  (AAAS) to serve as chair-elect for the Biological Sciences Section beginning in late February this year

Jan 19, 2016, 05:43 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 19, 2016 - Aridhia has today announced that it is among 36 organisations behind a ground-breaking Innovative Medicines Initiative research programme that aims to build a platform for efficient testing of innovative treatments for the prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia

Jan 18, 2016, 11:08 AM by Michael Croft

ProPublica | David Epstein tells the story of how a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered, through years of dogged research, that she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic athlete.

Jan 18, 2016, 10:42 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 18, 2016 - Congenica, a world leading developer of genome analysis technologies, places the highest importance on data security and information governance and is therefore pleased to announce that it has successfully achieved two major milestones: ISO 27001 accreditation and compliance with the NHS Information Governance Toolkit (IGT)

Jan 18, 2016, 10:06 AM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UK - Jan 18, 2016 - Titian (www.titian.co.uk) is launching Mosaic SampleBank™ to offer the benefits of sample management best practice, gained from collaborating with big pharma companies, in a format that is cost-effective and rapid for other institutions to deploy

Jan 18, 2016, 06:01 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 18, 2016 - Morphogen-IX, a new Cambridge-based biotech company, has gained seed funding to develop a new treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) that directly targets the major pathway implicated in human genetic studies

Jan 14, 2016, 14:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | With funding from the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, four new Centers for Common Disease Genomics could receive up to $260 million over four years.