Jul 28, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BostonGlobe.com | Cambridge biotechnology giant Biogen Inc. may have to make a bold move to reassure investors -- buying back shares or snapping up a smaller company -- or it could become a takeover target itself, some analysts warned Monday.

Jul 28, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Going forward, Amazon will position Aurora as its default database service, a high-performance alternative to MySQL.

Jul 27, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Human Longevity's vision is grand: sequence 100,000 human genomes a year and "change the way medicine is practiced by helping to shift to a more preventive, genomic-based medicine model.” Yaron Turpaz, HLI’s Chief Information Officer, talks about the first year’s progress and the kind of knowledgebase HLI is building.   

Jul 24, 2015, 08:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Members of MIT's Synthetic Biology Center have successfully reengineered the genome of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron to take on new functions inside the gut of a mouse in response to changes in the mouse's diet — the first example of implementing these "genetic circuits" in a bacterium that is highly abundant in the human microbiome.

Jul 24, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Jun Wang is leaving his post as chief executive of the Chinese genomics powerhouse BGI, to pursue research in artificial intelligence.

Jul 23, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has mandated that all life sciences organizations in Europe and those selling products in Europe demonstrate compliance with the Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) standards by July 1, 2016. It’s now imperative for IT and business groups to begin formulating a strategy to not just comply with IDMP, but to embrace it as an impetus for change within the organization. 

Jul 23, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | If you missed the lightening round that is Chris Dagdigian’s annual Trends from the Trenches talk at Bio-IT World this year, you’ll have another opportunity to catch up at BioTeam’s first Converged IT Summit in San Francisco this September 9-10. I’m sure Dags will have plenty new to say in his keynote presentation, and he’s not the only one. The Summit agenda features two solid days of leaders who are deploying scientific computing infrastructure for life sciences and healthcare.

Jul 23, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Google on Thursday had its sights fixed firmly on Amazon as it launched its new, low-cost Nearline cloud storage service out of beta and into general availability.

Jul 22, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jul 22, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Washington Post | A painful chapter in his life motivates a researcher to bring deep learning to genomics.

Jul 21, 2015, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Oxford Nanopore Technologies announced today that it has raised an additional $109 million in funding for product development and to ramp up manufacturing, coinciding with open applications to join an early access program for the company's first high-throughput instrument.

Jul 21, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | AncestryDNA and Google’s Calico today announced an effort to investigate human heredity of lifespan. The two will analyze and investigate the role of genetics and its influences in families experiencing unusual longevity using Ancestry’s proprietary databases, tools and algorithms. Calico will then focus its efforts to develop and commercialize any potential therapeutics that emerge from the analysis. 

Jul 20, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Jul 20, 2015 - Creative Bioarray, an innovative biotechnology company who supplies research-use cells, cell culture medium and reagents, FISH probes, tissue array, microorganisms, equipments and related services, etc, has announced its Whole Chromosome Painting Probes to bio-research community

Jul 16, 2015, 11:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | After receiving FDA clearance for a single carrier screening test this February, 23andMe has promised to release a new health product to its customers later this year. But regulations are sure to change the types of genetic tests available on the direct-to-consumer market — and lead some to look for alternative ways to expand public access to useful genomic information.

Jul 15, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Matthew Herper talks to Elizabeth Holmes and the organizations partnering with her company Theranos, to check out the evidence for her claims to radically reduce the price and burden of blood tests.

Jul 15, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

HARDERWIJK, NETHERLANDS - Jul 15, 2015 - Today, molecular genetics Ag Biotech company KeyGene and biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE, jointly mark the significant mutual benefits of their first two years of partnerships, running GENALICE MAP in full production as their preferred tool for primary Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis

Jul 15, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LUND, SWEDEN - Jul 15, 2015 - ~~Qlucore announces 3 year license from Europe's largest biopharmaceutical company
Software to help Actelion visualize and analyze "big data"
Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has announced a three year license contract with Actelion, one of Europe's leading biopharmaceutical companies

Jul 15, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHORLEY, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 15, 2015 - Synexus continues to expand across Eastern Europe with three new Dedicated Research Centres in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, bringing the total to nine centres in Eastern Europe and a total network of 25 across Europe and Africa

Jul 14, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced five Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) grants to teams of researchers with projects that will open new and innovative avenues of research in Alzheimer’s disease. The projects are funded at a total of $7 million over three years.

Jul 14, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Jul 14, 2015 - The latest iteration of Clinical Conductor CTMScontinues the proven strategy of providing research organizations with the most in-depth features and functionality available, further distancing the application from others in the industry, which fail to provide the tools necessary for truly complete clinical research management