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

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