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.

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

ReadWrite | It involves dissidents hacking ways around the Great Firewall.

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

Computerworld | There are degrees of commitment to the cloud, and more than one cloud model to consider.

Mar 30, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Mar 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, MA - Mar 30, 2015 - Kapa Biosystems, Inc. today announced the launch of the KAPA PROBE FORCE qPCR Kit, which contains an inhibitor-resistant DNA polymerase and master mix for improved direct target amplification and quantification of crude samples with real-time PCR

Mar 30, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Big buyout for an orphan drug company. Hyperion's two therapies treat urea cycle disorder, and earned the company $113.6 million in 2014.

Mar 27, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team of researchers led by Andy Kilianski of Maryland’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center has published a paper demonstrating the use of the MinION nanopore sequencer to accurately identify strains of bacteria and viruses.

Mar 27, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 27, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consulting company, today announced that the Toxicological Sciences article, entitled “Incorporating Population Variability and Susceptible Subpopulations into Dosimetry for High-throughput Toxicity Testing,” using its Simcyp® Simulator, has been selected by the Risk Assessment Specialty Section (RASS) of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) as its “Best Published Paper Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment

Mar 26, 2015, 09:05 AM by Michael Croft

Tech Crunch | This week marked Demo Day for budding companies incubated in Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, which began putting out feelers for biotech startups last year and is now moving with more confidence into the biomedical field.

Mar 25, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Emerald Therapeutics is opening its first Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL) production facility, ECL-1, in the biotech corridor of South San Francisco. The robotics life sciences laboratory was announced last year, though plans were already underway for a move to South San Francisco. Since then, the company built a new production facility from the ground up and installed over $3 million of scientific instrumentation.  

Mar 25, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Mar 24, 2015, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News | An independent committee reviewing the goals and practices of Europe's Human Brain Project (HBP) has substantially sided with critics of the effort, proposing major changes to the HBP's governance and to its central mission of creating a computer simulation of the human brain.

Mar 23, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Mar 23, 2015 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released the 2015 edition of its annual Drugs to Watch report

Mar 20, 2015, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Horizon Discovery, a Cambridge, UK-based research supply company with a focus on gene editing experiments, has launched a free online tool to design guide RNA for CRISPR experiments.

Mar 20, 2015, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | There is a renewed urgency to public conversations about the ethics of genome editing, thanks to the emergence of CRISPR, a gene engineering technology so effective and easy to use that scientists are racing to keep up with its potential applications.

Mar 20, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SHIRLEY, NY, UNITED STATES - Mar 20, 2015 - March 20, 2015-Creative BioMart, a leading supplier for reagents in the biotechnology field, today has added novel Albumin Fusion Protein Production Services to its protein expression services

Mar 20, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

- Mar 20, 2015 - Nowadays, a number of highly potent and pharmaceutically improved heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitors are undergoing clinical trials

Mar 19, 2015, 11:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Scientists in the growing field of pharmacogenetics believe that new DNA tests can protect patients from adverse drug responses and ineffective prescriptions. Yet it's been an uphill battle to convince payers, medical centers, and clinicians to embrace these tests in mainstream medicine.