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.

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

WALTHAM, MA - Jun 2, 2015 - Trinity Pharma Solutions, a leader in cloud-based data and guided analytics solutions for the global life sciences industry, today announced the next generation of its cloud-enabled and mobile-ready data analytics platform

Jun 1, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jun 1, 2015, 12:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including a suite of new proteomics and lipidomics solutions from SCIEX, and new efforts at the Broad Institute to understand the mechanisms of cancer drug resistance.

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

Computerworld | Google may not have caught up to Amazon in the cloud market, but that's OK, according to a Google executive. The company is heading in a slightly different direction with cloud computing that involves helping customers analyze their data.

May 29, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

May 29, 2015, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Months after 10X Genomics came to market with a platform for reassembling 100-kilobase DNA fragments with an Illumina sequencer, Pacific Biosciences and RainDance Technologies have teamed up on their own barcoded long read solution that they say could outperform 10X on virtually every count.

May 29, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - May 29, 2015 - Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced it has achieved a new milestone of more than 400 employees

May 28, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

May 28, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC - May 28, 2015 - Rho Named a Best CRO with Life Sciences Award
from the Triangle Business Journal Chapel Hill, NC  ̶  May 27, 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 the company was recognized as one of the Best CROs by the Triangle Business Journal, a multimedia source for local business news, research and events in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill region of North Carolina, where Rho is headquartered

May 27, 2015, 12:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Biotech funding must be hot indeed when an 18-month-old immunotherapy company can pledge hundreds of millions to an 18-month-old genome editing company, but there's plenty of promise combining CAR T therapy with CRISPR technology — as rivals Novartis and Intellia Therapeutics made clear when they forged their own partnership this January.

May 27, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

May 21, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Boston Children’s Hospital is launching CLARITY Undiagnosed, a $25,000 competition to identify molecular diagnoses for five families with as-yet undiagnosed conditions. The Challenge kicks off in conjunction with a documentary film tracing the journeys of the patients and—possibly—the teams. Teams have until June 11 to register

May 21, 2015, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | As the Genome in a Bottle Consortium and the National Institute of Standards and Technology announce the first reference DNA samples as trusted standards for genomic sequencing, the FDA weighs a regulatory role for the new reference material.