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

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 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

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 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

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

SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES - Jul 14, 2015 - Rancho BioSciences, the Data Curation Company, today announced that they will work with BT to provide cloud-based data curation services to their joint customers

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

CNET | Two supercomputing centers of excellence revolve around making sure applications can take advantage of compute horsepower and gathering feedback from developers, engineers and scientists.

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

GeekWire | Lee Hood's new startup, Arivale, raised $36 million yesterday from Arch Venture Partners and Polaris Partners. The company's total funding is now at $40 million.

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

LENEXA, KS, UNITED STATES - Jul 14, 2015 - Contract Research Organization XenoTech, LLC, a division of Sekisui, announces the addition of in vitro toxicology to its global drug development service portfolio

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

Xconomy | The U.S. House of Representatives took a big step this morning toward major changes in the federal government's relationship to biomedical research, funding and regulation.

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

Xconomy | Biogen's top research and development executive Doug Williams is leaving the company this month to take the helm at a startup that doesn't yet have a name.

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

Xconomy | Juno Therapeutics has built remarkable momentum and is about to launch the first trial in humans of engineered T cells.

Jul 9, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

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

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 9, 2015 - Aridhia, the pioneering clinical and translational informatics company, today announced a revolutionary “mini-app” rapid development solution specifically for clinical applications

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

Washington Post | Scientists say genomics will end up being the biggest data hog, set to surpass astronomy, particle physics -- even YouTube.

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

Forbes | GlaxoSmithKline is investing $95 million in a nonprofit research center in Seattle called the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, focusing on the "dark matter" of the genome.

Jul 7, 2015, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Following on studies like ClinSeq and MedSeq, Mount Sinai School of Medicine's HealthSeq project is tracking patient responses to genome-wide testing, in an effort to extend these studies to a more diverse population and include non-health-related results like ancestry and physical trait information.

Jul 7, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Jul 7, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc. today announced that EDGC (the Eone-Diagnomics Genome Center), a joint venture between an affiliate of the Eone Life Science Institute and Diagnomics, signed a contract to be the initial diagnostic testing customer on the Maverix Dx Platform