• Jennifer Doudna a Pioneer Who Helped Simplify Genome Editing

    May 11, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    New York Times | The biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, helped make a monumental discovery: a relatively simple way to alter any organism's DNA. But she is stuck in a patent fight over it.
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  • Looking Forward to the Clinical Genome Conference

    May 7, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | CHI’s Clinical Genome Conference (TCGC) always offers a packed schedule of talks at the cutting edge of medical genomics. With a program once again pushing the envelope of where genomics and medicine will take us in the coming year, we aren’t expecting much down time over the three event days, though we always work in at least one trip out of San Francisco’s Japantown for Burmese tea leaf salad. Here’s what else we are looking forward to on the TCGC menu.
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  • PacBio, RainDance to Co-Develop De Novo Whole Genome Assembly Product

    May 6, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Briefs | Pacific Biosciences and RainDance Technologies yesterday announced a co-development and co-marketing agreement to commercialize novel solutions for de novo whole genome assembly.
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  • Apple Pursues DNA Data

    May 6, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    MIT Technology Review | Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their DNA tested, many of them for the first time, according to people familiar with the plans. The apps are based on ResearchKit.
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  • IBM Announces Watson Genomic Analytics; Collaborations with 14 Cancer Centers

    May 5, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | IBM Watson made a series of announcements today at World of Watson, a symposium IBM is hosting in New York. In opening remarks, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty highlighted Watson Genomic Analytics; introduced collaborations with 14 leading cancer centers to use the solution to scale precision oncology; and announced a partnership with Epic to integrate Watson into EHR systems.
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  • iSpecimen® Technology Consolidates the Procurement Process for Human Biospecimens

    May 5, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    LEXINGTON, MA, UNITED STATES - May 5, 2015 - iSpecimen, a trusted source of customized human biospecimen collections, today released its latest technology that connects biomedical researchers to high quality, annotated human biospecimens that would otherwise be discarded by hospitals and labs after clinical testing is complete
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  • Phil Bourne: Open Data Evangelist on NIH Data Plan

    May 4, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Before we get ahead of ourselves, Philip Bourne, Associate Director of Data Science at NIH, emphasized that in the 6D framework of patient-centered health, we are still mired in “deception”—step two—and haven’t yet reached disruption. Democratization is still far on the horizon.
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  • Leading Gravimetric-based Pharmacy Medication Workflow Solution, BD Cato™, Now Available with Visual Documentation Hardware (VDH) Camera

    May 1, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ - May 1, 2015 - Franklin Lakes, NJ (April 30, 2015) - BD Medical, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that its BD Cato™ Medication Workflow software product is now available with an optional, camera-based, visual documentation hardware
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  • Amazon Buys ClusterK

    Apr 30, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Yesterday, Amazon acquired ClusterK, a start up Bio-IT World covered in February for between $20 and $50 million, Venture Beat reported.
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  • WuXi NextCODE, DNAnexus Launch End-to-End Sequencing in China and Beyond

    Apr 30, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Last week during the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, WuXi NextCODE and DNAnexus announced a strategic alliance to accelerate genomics worldwide.
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  • Industry Experts on Designing Research Platforms to Serve Patient Participants

    Apr 29, 2015, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | A keynote panel at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, featuring representatives from PatientsLikeMe, the Empowered Genome Community, and the Open Medicine Institute, addressed ways to make research meaningful for the patient participants who want to share their data and experiences with science.
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  • Illumina Pursues a $20B Market

    Apr 29, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | Illumina, one of the most important companies in biomedicine, is still barely known to the public. But scientists, diagnostics makers, physicians, and Wall Street look at the company with a mix of fear and awe. Just as Intel became the company that sparked so much of the computer revolution, Illumina is driving the genomics revolution.
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  • New Projects for Pistoia

    Apr 28, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Contributed Report | ZURICH--Early arrivals at the Pistoia Alliance Annual European Conference were able to enjoy the local festival of Sächsilüüte whereby a snowman (the Böögg, literally translated as the bogeyman) is packed with fireworks and placed atop a lit bonfire. The less time it takes for its head to explode, the better the summer will be. Although not usually so spectacularly explosive, the life sciences industry is certainly feeling the heat at present as technology develops rapidly and commercial pressures increase. The goal is to avoid a similar fate to that of the unfortunate Böögg.  
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  • Bio-IT World Recognizes 2015 Best of Show Winners

    Apr 27, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the 2015 winners of the Best of Show Awards Program last Wednesday to a packed audience at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The awards program recognizes the best of the innovative product solutions for the life sciences industry on display at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston.
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  • April News From the Bio-IT World Conference and Around the Industry

    Apr 27, 2015, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo and more. WuXi NextCODE moves to the DNAnexus cloud, Apple makes its ResearchKit development platform open source, and Seven Bridges Genomics integrates with Station X.
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  • New ESI Instrument First to Support Sub-Cellular Elemental Imaging

    Apr 27, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Apr 27, 2015 - PORTLAND, Ore., April 27, 2015—Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESIO), an innovator of laser-based manufacturing solutions for the micromachining industry, today announced the NWRimage™ system that gives researchers a powerful new tool for investigating elemental binding and transport within cells
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  • Chris Sander at Bio-IT World

    Apr 23, 2015, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Chris Sander, chair of the Computational Biology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, delivered a keynote address this week at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.
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  • Owen White Receives 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award at Bio-IT World Conference

    Apr 22, 2015, 14:20 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | At the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, Bioinformatics.org President Jeff Bizzaro presented the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences to Owen White, who leads the bioinformatics department at the University of Maryland Institute of Genome Sciences and manages the Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project.
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  • 2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards Winners Announced

    Apr 22, 2015, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World held an awards ceremony this morning at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, announcing seven winners in its eleventh annual Best Practices Awards competition.
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  • BGI, China's Global Genomics Powerhouse, Enters Cloud Analysis Market

    Apr 21, 2015, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BGI has announced a cloud-based genome analysis service, BGI Online, which will provide an online computational environment to process genetic data, competing with established providers like DNAnexus and Seven Bridges Genomics.
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