Sep 16, 2015, 11:21 AM by Michael Croft

Washington Post | Researchers say they've identified a set of genetic variants that may here is evidence that these genes may facilitate lifespan extension by increasing cellular maintenance and repair.

Sep 15, 2015, 13:17 PM by Michael Croft

The New York Times | Dr. Thomas R. Insel announced that he is stepping down after 13 years as director of the National Institute of Mental Health to join Google Life Sciences.

Sep 15, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and general manager of the Health and Life Sciences for the Data Center Group, shared his own precision medicine story at the inaugural Converged IT Summit* co-hosted by the BioTeam and Cambridge Healthtech Institute, setting the tone for a two-day look at trends from the trenches of IT and life sciences discovery.

Sep 14, 2015, 14:02 PM by Michael Croft

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, UNITED STATES - Sep 14, 2015 - DaVita Clinical Research® (DCR®), a specialty contract research organization with services spanning a broad spectrum of drug and device development, announced today its Biospecimen ResearchGrant Program (BioReG), a grant program to award clinical-trial-quality biospecimens and annotated de-identified data to academic medical centers involved in kidney research

Sep 14, 2015, 10:58 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES - Sep 14, 2015 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, announced it will be among the presenters at the 2nd Annual Society of Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics (SBI2) Meeting

Sep 14, 2015, 09:56 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Time to add one more recipient of crossover investor cash to the list of official IPO candidates. Cambridge, MA-based Dimension Therapeutics just filed for an IPO this morning to raise money to build gene therapies for rare diseases.

Sep 14, 2015, 05:37 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY, NY - Sep 14, 2015 - E-Prescribing is the system to broadcast information related to prescription among prescriber, dispenser, and pharmacy benefit manager electronically that allows a doctor and nurse to broadcast a new prescription electronically when any error in medication takes place at any stage in pharmacy operations

Sep 14, 2015, 05:34 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY, NY - Sep 14, 2015 - Computational biology refers to the development of techniques for the collection, manipulation, and use of biological data to make discoveries and predictions

Sep 10, 2015, 08:35 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Sep 10, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, and Paidion Research, Inc

Sep 9, 2015, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

Diagnostics World | In a large pilot initiative with little precedent, HudsonAlpha and its genetic testing spinoff Kailos plan to offer free or steeply discounted genetic screens for susceptibility to breast cancer to thousands of women in the area of Huntsville, Alabama, including women with no known risk factors for the disease.

Sep 8, 2015, 14:30 PM by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | National Institutes of Health grants to 10 research teams, including at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Geisinger Health System, and the Mayo Clinic, will explore ways to use genomic data in patient care through integration with electronic health records.

Sep 8, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Google this morning has announced the general availability of the Google Cloud Platform’s Preemptible Virtual Machines, and Cycle Computing has detailed its first preemptible VM project: a cancer gene mapping project with the Broad Institute.

Sep 4, 2015, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

GEN News | Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have measured the RNA expression of pre-implantation fertilized embryos to learn which genes are activated in the first days of human development.

Sep 3, 2015, 13:19 PM by Michael Croft

Duke | The School of Medicine has launched the new Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics.

Sep 3, 2015, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including new types of data for the Genome in a Bottle Consortium and prizes for rare disease research.

Sep 3, 2015, 09:36 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | The new Microsoft Azure GS-series virtual machines are made for demanding database-driven workloads.

Sep 2, 2015, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Collaborative Cancer Cloud, a collaborative effort of Intel, the Knight Cancer Center, and two additional partners, will be a secure, open source system for sending large queries between clinical data centers, making it possible to share data for research and patient care while minimizing the volume of data transferred and the associated patient privacy concerns.

Sep 1, 2015, 13:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Thermo Fisher Scientific, which owns the Ion Torrent line of next-generation sequencing instruments, announced today that two new sequencers are being added to its portfolio, with a special emphasis on targeted sequencing in areas like oncology, rare disease, and gene expression.

Aug 31, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | The startup company has raised $8 million in new capital to develop drugs based on a discovery program that searches for targets by measuring microRNA expression in cancer.

Aug 27, 2015, 14:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The FDA has contracted with DNAnexus to build an open web portal where researchers working on new genomic tests can evaluate their computational workflows, testing them on real and simulated DNA data and comparing them against industry standards.