Mar 9, 2015, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft

Ars Technica | The Digital Brain Library — whose physical collection of donated brains is currently housed at a laboratory in UC San Diego — aims to provide online access to virtual images of at least 1,000 unique human brains photographed at single-micron resolution.

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

New York Times | Jeffrey Hammerbacher, who started Facebook's data science team, now uses his skills to improve medical treatments, a switch inspired by his own health crisis.

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

ROCKVILLE, MD, MD - Mar 9, 2015 - Rockville, MD, USA - March 9th, 2015 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced that its solution Luxid® has been chosen by  France's UNICANCER, the Federation of French Cancer Centers (CLCCs), as the semantic module for its ConSoRe (Continuum Soin-Recherche) project driven by SWORD Consulting and Services

Mar 6, 2015, 12:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | The FDA announced today that Novartis' white blood cell-stimulating drug Zarxio, a biosimilar version of Amgen's Neupogen, has received approval for use in all indications already covered by Neupogen.

Mar 5, 2015, 13:15 PM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Carl Zimmer visits a pair of genetics labs as he digs into the ongoing arguments over whether our genome's vast tracts of noncoding DNA are mostly "junk."

Mar 5, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is investing $52 million in CureVac, a German company involved in making vaccines. It is the largest ever investment by the foundation in a company, reflecting a new strategy of not just giving grants but supporting and having a stake in businesses.

Mar 4, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ALBANY, NY, UNITED STATES - Mar 4, 2015 - According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research “Electronic Health Records (EHR) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020,” the global EHR market was valued at USD 15

Mar 3, 2015, 14:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Pacific Biosciences, the gold sponsor of this year's Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in Florida, hosted a workshop at the event that showed off the growing pipeline of tools for de novo diploid assembly, and ways in which routine use of this information could improve the practice of genomics.

Mar 3, 2015, 09:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including guidance from the Association for Molecular Pathology on direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the winner of the Swimming with the Sharks Competition at the Molecular Medicine Tri Conference.

Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Mar 3, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, today announced that it will provide $50,000 in analytic support to the Rare Genomics Institute (RGI) competition, BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries), an annual rare disease science challenge

Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCKVILLE, MD - Mar 3, 2015 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced that it was named by KMWorld Magazine to its prestigious list of “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management”

Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 3, 2015 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will provide valuable insight and important considerations for adopting the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidance, "Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format - Standardized Study Data," through a free webinar

Mar 2, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MILPITAS, CA, UNITED STATES - Mar 2, 2015 - Amplidata, the leader in object-based software defined storage, today announced that UConn Health has purchased and installed a storage system based on Amplidata's Himalaya object-based, software-defined storage software

Feb 27, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Feb 26, 2015, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | GCAT, the Genome Comparison & Analytic Testing platform for benchmarking the performance of basic informatics tools, now has a formal home in the scientific literature with the publication of a paper in Nature Communications.

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, MA - Feb 26, 2015 -
Kapa Biosystems, Inc. today announced the launch of the latest library preparation products for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) DNA and RNA analysis

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 26, 2015 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, is part of a groundbreaking National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study on peanut allergy

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

HARDERWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS - Feb 26, 2015 - Today, biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE announced that they have added a cloud solution via Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its on-premise solution, the GENALICE VAULT

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THOUSAND OAKS - Feb 26, 2015 - Ceres, Inc. today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork. In attaining Gold Level membership, Ceres has been recognized by Oracle for its commitment to establish Oracle-related knowledge in delivering Ceres’ Persephone genome visualization software and for uniquely addressing the challenges of joint customers

Feb 25, 2015, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | On the first day of the annual Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in Marco Island, Florida, 10X Genomics has unveiled its GemCode Platform for recovering long-range information from genomes sequenced on Illumina short-read instruments.