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

SHIRLEY, NY - Apr 16, 2015 - Creative Biogene, a leading manufacturer and provider of genomics and proteomics products and services for academic and governmental research institutes, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, today announced the launch of newly updated plasmid DNA production service for genetic & biotech research

Apr 15, 2015, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

SFGate | Hot on the heels of President Obama's proposal for a nationwide Precision Medicine Initiative, California Governor Jerry Brown has committed $3 million to a California Initiative for Advancing Precision Medicine.

Apr 14, 2015, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Curoverse, a Boston-based company supporting the open source Arvados project, is opening a public beta of its service, inviting new users to test a platform built from the ground up to store and manage large volumes of complex biomedical data.

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

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Apr 14, 2015 - A collaboration agreement where Cloudlynx provides cloud services for the BC Platforms software solutions was announced today at the Swiss Biotech Day 2015 in Basel

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

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 14, 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 Laura Helms Reece, Rho's co-chief executive officer, was recognized as a top businesswoman 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

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

ROCHESTER, NY - Apr 14, 2015 - The team behind Clinical Conductor CTMS recently debuted new functionality that allows healthcare organizations to better manage adaptive and dynamic clinical research that is becoming more relevant in the industry every year

Apr 13, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Apr 13, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Experts in health care and information technology agree on the future's biggest opportunity: the creation of a new computational model that will link together all of the massive computers that now hold medical information. The question remains: who will build it, and how? IBM is today staking its claim to be [...]

Apr 13, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA - Apr 13, 2015 - Terascala, the industry leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) storage management software, today announced that its TeraOS software powers the Lustre®-based parallel storage appliance at the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) data center at San Diego State University (SDSU)

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

Bio-IT World | Cypher Genomics released data last month showing that the company’s Mantis software provided “highly equivalent interpretations” to a panel of genetic counselors when evaluating whether 91 copy number variations (CNVs) detected in non-invasive prenatal testing were pathogenic.

Apr 9, 2015, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Open Humans network has launched as a social network to connect research participants with new scientific studies, backing projects like the Harvard Personal Genome Project and American Gut that allow members to own, share, and publicize their own data.

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

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 9, 2015 - Ed Addison, CEO of Cloud Pharmaceuticals, a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, is being featured as a speaker at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo taking place April 21-23, 2015 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston

Apr 8, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Apr 6, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | As part of the precision medicine initiative, President Obama proposed a $215 million investment intended to improve how we treat disease and foster health. What’s needed now is the infrastructure to turn data into discovery. This year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo (April 21-23, #BioIT15) will be three days of conversations in 12 tracks around those very challenges.

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

Xconomy | In the increasingly active genetic testing space, Natera is trying to lead the pack by harnessing its testing capabilities, thanks to a new $55.5 million funding round.

Apr 3, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from Quest Diagnostics, Personalis, QIAGEN, Qlucore, Berry Genomics, SCIEX, Ancestry, Linguamatics, and much more.

Apr 2, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced finalists in its 2015 Best Practices Award competition this morning. The 25 finalists will compete for seven awards chosen by a panel of expert judges. The winners will be announced during the keynote session at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo on April 22, in Boston.

Apr 1, 2015, 14:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A paper published in today's issue of Nature demonstrates that exploring the natural diversity of CRISPR systems could lead the way to new therapeutic tools, as scientists at the Broad Institute successfully edit the genomes of mice using an AAV vector and a new Cas9 molecule derived from Staphylococcus aureus.

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

ROSTOCK, GERMANY - Apr 1, 2015 - CENTOGENE AG (“CENTOGENE”) announces the launch of the world’s largest genetic mutation database for rare diseases, CentoMD®

Mar 31, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This morning, LifeMap Solutions announced the launch of COPD Navigator, a mobile health app for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in a pilot program conducted with Mount Sinai's Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology.