Aug 5, 2015, 12:35 PM by 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.

Aug 4, 2015, 13:09 PM by 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

Aug 4, 2015, 11:35 AM by 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.

Aug 3, 2015, 08:30 AM by 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.

Jul 30, 2015, 15:00 PM by 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.

Jul 29, 2015, 09:25 AM by 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.

Jul 29, 2015, 00:00 AM by 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.

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 | 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, 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, 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