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 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 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 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

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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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.