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

SAN MATEO, CA - Jul 7, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading provider of analytic solutions for high throughput sequencing genomic data, today announced market availability of the Maverix Dx Platform

Jul 6, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 6, 2015 - Vicon, the motion capture (mocap) technology specialist for the entertainment, engineering and life sciences industries, today announced the launch of its intelligent new flagship camera platform, Vicon Vantage

Jul 2, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | The BabySeq project in Boston has begun collecting data to quantify the risks and benefits of DNA sequencing at birth.

Jul 1, 2015, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including landmarks on the second anniversary of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, and the commercial launch of 10X Genomics' GemCode platform.

Jul 1, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

VALENCIA, SPAIN - Jul 1, 2015 - BioBam and Biomatters are very happy to announce the release of an integrated plugin on the Geneious platform for molecular biologists to comprehensively functionally annotate and interpret novel sequences

Jul 1, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CANADA, USA - Jul 1, 2015 - WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Healthcare Decision Support and IBM Watson Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019

Jul 1, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PISCATAWAY, NJ, UNITED STATES - Jul 1, 2015 - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) celebrates 50 years of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) with a Scientific Symposium and the launch of new software in the CSD-System suite

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

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 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 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

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 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 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.