Feb 11, 2016, 14:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | 10X Genomics, whose GemCode platform allows for much better structural variant resolution and haplotype phasing during short-read sequencing experiments, has released a new system, Chromium, that builds on the efficiency of GemCode and can label RNA molecules from individual cells.

Feb 11, 2016, 11:57 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 11, 2016 - Cenduit Launches New Professional Services Division to Provide Seamless User ExperienceDivision provides total solution for smoother, more efficient trialsResearch Triangle Park, NC - February 11, 2016 -Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced the launch of its new Professional Services Division

Feb 10, 2016, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | VeriStor is integrating SwiftStack’s object storage into its enterprise cloud services portfolio, the companies announced this week.

Feb 10, 2016, 13:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This morning, AbbVie announced a partnership with Synlogic of Cambridge, Mass., to target inflammatory bowel disease with a strain of genetically engineered microbes that can sense and respond to symptoms as they occur.

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

Forbes | The drug industry is pouring billions into R&D against Alzheimer's disease. Yet many people in the business will tell you not nearly enough is known about the underlying biology.

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.