Jun 16, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jun 16, 2015, 08:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Nature Methods has published a paper by researchers at the University of Birmingham and University of Toronto, demonstrating a complete de novo assembly of an E. coli genome using only data from an Oxford Nanopore MinION Sequencer.

Jun 16, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Trunnell leaves the Broad to serve as the chief information officer as the biomedical institution moves into an era of deep genomic sequencing.

Jun 16, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

mobihealthnews | PatientsLikeMe has announced a research partnership with the FDA: The agency will assess the platform's feasibility as a way to generate adverse event reports, which the FDA uses to regulate drugs after their release into the market.

Jun 11, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES - Jun 11, 2015 - Agena Bioscience today expanded its European distributors through new relationships with KAWA.SKA in Poland and BioGen-Analytica in Russia

Jun 10, 2015, 13:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A supplementary document to a recent Nature Biotechnology article on the use of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in the human germline offers complete Q&A's with over 20 experts in the field, taking on pressing questions about how and whether this technology can be regulated.

Jun 10, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Heidi Rehm has been involved in ClinGen since its inception and recently published a report on the project in the New England Journal of Medicine. Rehm’s experience with ClinGen will make hers an important voice as the infrastructure needs for a Precision Medicine Initiative are better defined.

Jun 9, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Jun 9, 2015 - London, UK & Boston, USA. June 9th 2015:  Digital Science announced today the appointment of Daniel Hook, currently Director of Research Metrics at Digital Science, as its new Managing Director

Jun 8, 2015, 17:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BGI, the Shenzhen-based global genomics corporation, has revealed its first DNA sequencing instrument for worldwide markets, Revolocity: an ultra-high-throughput, fully automated system based on technology developed by BGI's subsidiary Complete Genomics.

Jun 8, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | David Mittelman and his colleagues at N of Everyone today launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund Reader, a mobile and social reading platform to promote conversation and collaboration within science. 

Jun 8, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Jun 8, 2015 - BOC Sciences-recently a new synthetic molecule was introduced by an authoritative research center in America

Jun 5, 2015, 13:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The human body is host to an astonishing array of viruses, but efforts to study this secretive population have hit technological limitations. At Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, a new blood test is letting researchers look at patients' whole histories of viral infection, using their antibodies as a permanent record.

Jun 5, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Jun 5, 2015 - For Immediate Release Rho Chairman and Co-Founder Ronald W. Helms Inducted as a FellowOf the Society for Clinical Trials Chapel Hill, NC  ̶  June 4, 2015  ̶  Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, recently announced that its Chairman and Co-founder Ronald W

Jun 5, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 5, 2015 - Motion capture technology specialist Vicon has announced growing momentum in the life sciences sector with several recent customer wins

Jun 4, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | The immuno-oncology field is moving fast these days, but the tough-to-treat blood cancer multiple myeloma has not been one of its early targets.

Jun 4, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY, UNITED STATES - Jun 4, 2015 - Market Research Reports Search Engine (MRRSE) has announced the addition of the ' Frontier Pharma: Parkinsons Disease - Identifying and Commercializing First-in-Class Innovation' report by Market Research Reports Search Engine to its rapidly growing market research report database

Jun 4, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | Moderna Therapeutics has big ambitions and a bankroll to match. How a fledgling start-up became one of the most highly valued private drug firms ever.

Jun 3, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jun 3, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Jun 3, 2015 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, recently honored Genentech Partnering and Seragon, and Regeneron and Avalanche with the Allicense 2015 Breakthrough Award for Deals of the Year

Jun 2, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BaseHealth, an Illumina-associated company using genomic data to provide patients with personalized health recommendations, is shifting to a more behind-the-scenes model, releasing an open API to integrate its own analysis engine into third-party apps and health platforms.