Jan 21, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BILLERICA, MA - Jan 21, 2015 - ~~RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of Scott R

Jan 20, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jan 20, 2015, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | "I have my seatbelt and crash helmet on," a biotech CEO tells The New York Times in an investigation of soaring biotechnology stocks and drug approvals in the wake of last week's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

Jan 20, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

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

BOSTON, MA - Jan 20, 2015 - Terascala, the industry leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) storage management software, today announced that it had more than doubled—126% increase—its year-over-year OEM bookings and had a record year for its business in 2014

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

WOBURN, MA, UNITED STATES - Jan 20, 2015 - BridgeHead Software, a leader in healthcare data management, today announced the latest version of the BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Platform with the ability to manage unstructured content as well as key updates to the BridgeHead HealthStore™ Independent Clinical Archive (ICA)

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

STUTTGART AND HEIDELBERG, GERMANY - Jan 20, 2015 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced that Thieme, the renowned German medical publisher based in Stuttgart, has chosen TEMIS’s Luxid® Webstudio to help its teams manage their thesauri and terminologies

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

PRINCETON, NJ - Jan 20, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consulting company, today announced that it has appointed Gavin Nichols to the newly-created position of president of technology

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

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Jan 20, 2015 - Clinical Conductor, the industry’s most collaborative CTMS, was recently fitted with new features and functionality that provide users with even more capability to connect with other research technologies and further collaborate with research partners to ensure clinical research success

Jan 19, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LOS ANGELES, CA - Jan 19, 2015 - Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions (OTCQB: RSSS) company and top-rated document delivery supplier, has officially launched its Article Galaxy Widget, a time-saving tool that provides web browser access to scientific, technology and medical (STM) research articles indexed by more than 50 popular search sites and discovery databases, like Google Scholar, PubMed, ResearchGATE, Web of Science and Scopus, as well as numerous publisher websites

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

FELTON, CA, UNITED STATES - Jan 16, 2015 - The report firstly introduced Smart Fitness Devices basic information including Smart Fitness Devices definition, classification, application and Market chain overview; Smart Fitness Devices Market policy and plan, Smart Fitness Devices product specification, manufacturing process, cost structure etc

Jan 15, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | UC San Francisco announced this morning that it has recruited Atul Butte to lead the new Institute for Computational Health Sciences, an Institute the University says will serve at the cornerstone of its efforts to harness the power of big data for precision medicine. He's also been named executive director of clinical informatics for UC Health Sciences and Services.

Jan 15, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Reuters | Genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has signed a multi-year deal to sequence and analyze tens of thousands of genomes for Roche's Genentech unit in a deal aimed at identifying new drug targets.

Jan 15, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | On the television newsmagazine "60 Minutes" and in a cover story for Forbes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, the world's richest doctor, has promised that his new company, NantHealth, can dramatically improve care for cancer patients everywhere. "I'm incredibly encouraged to say that we are on the path," Soon-Shiong told 60 Minutes' Sanjay Gupta. [...]

Jan 14, 2015, 12:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | 10X Genomics made its public debut this week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, touting a platform that will complement Illumina's next-gen sequencers with a massively multiplexed system for reconstructing long-range genomic information.

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

Forbes | This week, much of the biotech investing world is in San Francisco for the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Old timers like me -- I've attended nearly every year since 1998 -- remember the infinitely more manageable Hambrecht & Quist conference, still quaintly known as H&Q.

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

Forbes | Moderna Therapeutics has snagged another $100m of financing, this time from Merck. A $50m cash up front payment for messenger RNA technology along with a $50m equity payment is a strong vote of confidence from the pharma in mRNA's future.

Jan 13, 2015, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In his address at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Illumina CEO Jay Flatley announced new high-throughput instruments, a refined regulatory strategy centered on the NextSeq mid-range sequencer, and progress in oncology and prenatal testing, as his company pivots to a more hands-on approach to clinical genomics.

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

STATE COLLEGE, PA, UNITED STATES - Jan 13, 2015 - . SoftGenetics announced the release of version 5.0 of its market leading software for the analysis of Sanger Sequencing

Jan 12, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft