Oct 20, 2015, 08:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Several research groups have reported that the Hi-C technique, developed to study the 3D architecture of chromosomes, can be repurposed to assemble genomes de novo. Now, Dovetail Genomics has taken the next step with a service promising high-contiguity genomes with standard, short-read Illumina sequencers.

Oct 20, 2015, 08:19 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Oct 20, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that Japan’s new Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) has selected Certara’s Phoenix® WinNonlin® software for pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling and non-compartmental analysis of new drug candidates

Oct 19, 2015, 14:10 PM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Oct 19, 2015 - Today, SyMyco, a joint venture between Symbiotic Sciences based in New Delhi, India and Mycorrhizal Applications (MA), based in Grants Pass, OR, announced it is expanding its U

Oct 16, 2015, 10:49 AM by Michael Croft

The New York Times | Dr. Heck shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules that are now used to make drugs, electronics and other products.

Oct 15, 2015, 10:45 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Moving to the Cloud is changing more than just data location. It's changing everything about the skills IT workers need to do their jobs and what those jobs entail.

Oct 14, 2015, 16:45 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | With a drug discovery business, an FDA-cleared test, and a new valuation at over $1 billions, 23andMe is once again on the upswing, writes Matthew Herper.

Oct 14, 2015, 13:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The annual meeting of the ASHG convened last week in Baltimore, in the midst of a new Precision Medicine Initiative that aims to collect one million patients' genomes and medical records into a national cohort. As NIH Director Francis Collins spoke about the possibilities and social responsibilities of that project, ASHG President Neil Risch reflected on past and ongoing misuses of genetics, and a panel of science journalists considered how scientists can best engage the public, build trust, and help non-professionals wrangle with the real-world implications of new discoveries.

Oct 14, 2015, 09:39 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | An American woman claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging. Judge for yourself.

Oct 12, 2015, 09:35 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Oct 12, 2015 - An international consortium of 39 partner organizations will be funded by the European Commission to work on the integration of new concepts for regulatory chemical safety assessment

Oct 12, 2015, 05:07 AM by Michael Croft

BERLIN, GERMANY - Oct 12, 2015 - Dr. Anna Baran is Chief Medical Officer at KCR and in this strategic role she has developed a complex viewpoint on the challenges her position entails for a CROx

Oct 9, 2015, 14:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Companies including Illumina, Complete Genomics, Pacific Biosciences, Invitae, QIAGEN, and DNAnexus gathered this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore to show off their latest products and services.

Oct 9, 2015, 10:04 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon launched a handful of new services all aimed at getting companies onto its cloud platform Wednesday, including a new ruggedized box for shipping data to the cloud provider.

Oct 9, 2015, 09:41 AM by Michael Croft

The Atlantic | The country's genetic biobank is still in its earliest stages, but the government hopes to one day have enough donors to totally overhaul its health-care system.

Oct 8, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World In a live webinar today, GENALICE launched the Population Calling analysis module to their GENALICE MAP Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis Suite. In partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital, Amazon Web Services, and Intel, GENALICE processed the whole genomes of 800 patients from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), an Alzheimer’s disease cohort during the webinar.

Oct 7, 2015, 14:30 PM by Michael Croft

MIDDLETON, WI - Oct 7, 2015 - PFS Clinical, which offers turnkey administrative solutions that address the key pain points of establishing and running a clinical trial office, has been engaged by City of Hope to provide Coverage Analysis (CA) to ensure its clinical research trials remain compliant with complex Medicare billing regulations

Oct 7, 2015, 02:54 AM by Michael Croft

PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Oct 7, 2015 - Smart pills are ingestible medical devices consisting of elements such as sensors, cameras, patches and trackers that help in better diagnostics and monitoring

Oct 6, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews | GlaxoSmithKline and Epidemico won a 2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices award last year for ProjectCRAWL, an effort to survey social media to alert GSK to adverse events. Yesterday, GSK's director of pharmacovigilance gave an update on how the pharma is using Epidemico's data.

Oct 6, 2015, 03:32 AM by Michael Croft

HELSINKI, FINLAND - Oct 6, 2015 - BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions, today announced that the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus will use the company’s world-leading, comprehensive data management program to support  the launch of the university’s new personalized medicine initiative aiming at translating community genomics into individual well-being

Oct 5, 2015, 21:18 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM will acquire object-based storage vendor Cleversafe in a move to bolster its cloud business unit with more flexibility and simplified management options in the hybrid cloud, it announced on Monday.

Oct 2, 2015, 10:19 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | To truly change the world, Google's new holding company will need something that has eluded many previous industrial labs: an effective commercialization strategy.