Jun 30, 2015, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A large collaboration led by scientists at the Icahn Institute has combined PacBio sequencing and BioNano optical maps to produce the most contiguous human genome ever assembled without cloning steps, bringing a new degree of resolution to studies of complex structural variants.

Jun 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | It seemed only a matter of time. One of biotech's most aggressive deal makers, Celgene has struck a wide-ranging, billion-dollar partnership with Juno Therapeutics.

Jun 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PUNE, INDIA - Jun 30, 2015 - 2015 Global Healthcare IT Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Healthcare IT industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China)

Jun 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES - Jun 30, 2015 - Leading healthcare IT companies are relying on Internap Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a provider of high-performance Internet infrastructure services, to meet rigorous security requirements and ensure continuous availability

Jun 29, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The fourth annual Clinical Genome Conference wrapped up last week in San Francisco. It was a packed three days of short courses, presentations, and discussion that spilled over the time slots and into the evening. Thankfully, much of it ended up on Twitter.

Jun 26, 2015, 16:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A new event held this week in Boston, the Festival of Genomics, aimed to engage the public with this burgeoning science, while emphasizing to scientists the importance of data sharing and of integrating DNA data with meaningful health information in order to deliver on the promises of genomic medicine.

Jun 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, US - Jun 26, 2015 - Biogen Idec Inc. - Product Pipeline Review - 2014SummaryGlobal Markets Direct's, 'Biogen Idec Inc

Jun 25, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jun 25, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, US - Jun 25, 2015 - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - Product Pipeline Review - 2014SummaryGlobal Markets Direct's, 'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - Product Pipeline Review - 2014', provides an overview of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia's pharmaceutical research and development focus

Jun 25, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 25, 2015 - Aridhia partners with NHS, University of Glasgow and Philips Healthcare on unique brain injury study Aridhia Informatics today announced a two-year funded collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the University of Glasgow and Philips Healthcare

Jun 24, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

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

In the Pipeline | Here's a disturbing read for you: the author of this paper (Morten Oksvold, of Oslo University) sat down and did what none of us ever do. He chose three different journals in the oncology field, picked one hundred and twenty papers, at random, from their recent issues, and carefully looked every one of them over for duplications in the figures and data. On PubPeer, you can see what he found. Nearly a quarter of the papers had problems.

Jun 22, 2015, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft

Diagnostics World | Color Genomics is just one of several companies toying with a new model for selling low-priced DNA tests online, by enlisting physicians as intermediaries. If Color's business model becomes popular, it will have big implications for the way genomic testing reaches the broader public — and who sets the standards for this maturing technology.

Jun 19, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The cost-to-value equation for standardizing clinical data is broken. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars annually, and substantially delay products’ time to market, sending clinical data to contractors for preparation and integration before analysis. Why is the standardization process for clinical data still manual?

Jun 18, 2015, 08:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Emulate, a for-profit spinoff of Harvard's Wyss Institute, is announcing that a partnership with Johnson & Johnson has produced a new Thrombosis-on-Chip model for testing drug candidates and studying the biology of blood clotting, in a preview of the company's model for creating and disseminating next-generation organs-on-chips.

Jun 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | Supercharge your immune cells to defeat cancer? Juno Therapeutics believes its treatments can do exactly that.

Jun 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Google has been building its own software-defined data-center networks for 10 years because traditional gear can't handle the scale of its warehouse-sized computers.

Jun 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY - Jun 18, 2015 - Tags: bioanalysis, biological analysis, mass spectrometry From Janssen company:Biomarker is a part of all phases of drug development

Jun 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ALBUQUERQUE, NM, UNITED STATES - Jun 17, 2015 - Genedata and IntelliCyt today announced an alliance that brings together the market-leading strengths of each company to transform screening of suspension cells

Jun 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 17, 2015 - ARIDHIA'S DATA SCIENCE PLATFORM USED IN SIX MILLION EURO EU PROJECT Aridhia's data science platform AnalytiXagility has been chosen to underpin a €6 million oral healthcare innovation project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme and the funding win demonstrates huge confidence in Aridhia's data analytics capability