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Aug 18, 2015, 17:29 PM
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Michael Croft
MIDDLETON, WI, UNITED STATES - Aug 18, 2015 - PFS Clinical, which offers turnkey administration solutions that address the key pain points of establishing and running a clinical trial office, has been engaged by the Boston Medical Center (BMC) Clinical Trial Office to provide Medicare Coverage Analysis (CA) of its clinical research trials
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Aug 18, 2015, 09:00 AM
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Michael Croft
New York Times | Helix--a new genomics analytics venture--is to launch today with $100 million in funding from Illumina, Warburg Pincus, and Sutter Hill Ventures. Illumina's Jay Flatley will serve as chairman.
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Aug 17, 2015, 13:25 PM
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Michael Croft
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Aug 17, 2015 - Veracyte, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCYT), a molecular diagnostics company pioneering the field of molecular cytology, today announced the appointment of Neil M
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Aug 17, 2015, 11:35 AM
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Michael Croft
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - Aug 17, 2015 - Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, today announced the appointment of two C-level executives to its management team
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Aug 14, 2015, 12:15 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Deep-seated concerns about privacy and security, combined with a tangled variety of data structures and perverse incentives to hoard genomic data, have hindered the ability and willingness of research groups to share DNA data with one another for more open and collaborative science. As a flagship effort of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, the Beacon Project is toying with a single, simple query that is forming the basis for more exchange of data across institutional borders.
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Aug 14, 2015, 10:31 AM
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Michael Croft
WSJ |The fallout from the massive explosion in Tianjin has reached one of China's supercomputers. The National Supercomputing Center has shut down the Tianhe-1A after the building it was housed in was damaged.
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Aug 11, 2015, 11:20 AM
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Michael Croft
Forbes | In the past, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have been pretty clear that they view the company's efforts in healthcare as a sideline. "Generally, health is just so heavily regulated," Brin said at a Khosla ventures fireside chat in 2014. "It's just a painful business to be in. It's [...]
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Aug 10, 2015, 16:18 PM
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Michael Croft
PRINCETON, NJ - Aug 10, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that Iain Gardner, Ph
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Aug 10, 2015, 15:15 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | CRISPR therapy company Editas has more than doubled its financing with a $120 million funding round announced this morning, led by the newly-formed investment fund bng0.
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Aug 10, 2015, 11:00 AM
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Michael Croft
FierceBiotech | Illumina has struck a deal to acquire laboratory information management system provider GenoLogics, already a partner creating dedicated LIMS for Illumina's high-throughput sequencers.
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Aug 7, 2015, 10:55 AM
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Michael Croft
Nature News | As the National Cancer Institute prepares to distribute its second round of five-year grants to Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers, Nature News speaks to scientists who feel a program designed to reinvigorate cancer research with fundamental physical discoveries is missing the mark.
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Aug 6, 2015, 11:50 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | In 2004, the International Glossina Genome Initiative set out to sequence the genome of the tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans, Africa's most unique public health threat. Though the project took over a decade to complete, its legacy is a model for building local capacity for cutting-edge science in African institutions.
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Aug 6, 2015, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Diagnostics based on next-generation sequencing have forced the FDA to bend some of its standards for proving the analytical and clinical value of new medical tests before they come to market — and a new online platform built with DNAnexus, called precisionFDA, will now formalize and refine some of the new approaches the agency has taken to deal with computational pipelines in genomics.
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Aug 5, 2015, 12:35 PM
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Michael Croft
Xconomy | Illumina has announced the second class of its accelerator program, with applications in infectious disease diagnostics, sequencing of urine samples, and even wine making.
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Aug 4, 2015, 13:09 PM
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Michael Croft
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Aug 4, 2015 - Since the classical studies of Jacob and Monod in the early 1960s, it has been evident that genome sequences contain not only blueprints for genes and the proteins that they encode, but also the instructions for a coordinated regulatory program that governs when, where and to what extent these genes and proteins are expressed
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Aug 4, 2015, 11:35 AM
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Michael Croft
FierceBiotech | Shire, the Dublin-headquartered pharma company increasingly reliant on its rare disease portfolio, is making an aggressive move to acquire the newly spun-off biotech company Baxalta.
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Aug 3, 2015, 08:30 AM
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Michael Croft
Nature News | Genome wide association studies, coupled with experiments in the lab, suggest that the small percentage of human DNA contributed by other hominid species like Neanderthals and Denisovans may have large phenotypic effects.
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Jul 30, 2015, 15:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World Brief | Yesterday President Obama has signed an executive order creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative. The Initiative aims to bring together several government agencies including the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation to pursue exascale computing.
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Jul 29, 2015, 09:25 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including Deep Genomins' DNA binding analytics and White House announcements about the Precision Medicine Initiative.
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Jul 29, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Nature News & Comment | Visionary leader of
China's BGI tells Nature why he is stepping down to build a
health-monitoring system based on a million genomes.
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