Jan 28, 2015, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The long courtroom fights are at long last coming to an end as Myriad Genetics has announced it will settle its complex web of suits and countersuits and end claims to ownership of certain genetic testing targets and methods.

Jan 28, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Cambridge, MA-based Exosome Diagnostics aims to raise $25 million, on top of the $27 million in Series B funding it raised last March. Exosome would use the cash to launch its first two products: a blood-based test for lung cancer, and a urine test for prostate cancer.

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

- Jan 27, 2015 - Potassium channels are attractive therapeutic targets for treatment of cardiovascular and cancer diseases which are the top two public-health problems for the aging population

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

Bloomberg | Google Inc., expanding its foray into medical research, will join multiple sclerosis drugmaker Biogen Idec Inc. to study environmental and biological contributors to the debilitating disease's progression.

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

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jan 27, 2015 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will highlight its continued success in drug development strategies and services during the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials (OCT) West Coast conference, being held February 3-4 in Burlingame, California

Jan 26, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jan 26, 2015, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Yumanity, a well-connected drug discovery startup, plans to play the long game in drug development by using yeast models in deep phenotypic screens to study neurological diseases based on protein misfolding.

Jan 26, 2015, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Appistry today launched Appistry CloudDx Translational, a “sister product” to the CloudDx platform launched last June, now renamed CloudDx Clinical.

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

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Jan 26, 2015 -  Global transformation and smart data are terms bandied about in the same breath the world over. With wide-ranging implications across sectors, industries such as banking, retail and services, to name only a few, are no strangers to this trend

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

- Jan 23, 2015 - IDBS has completely revitalized its ELN software for multidisciplinary research and development (R&D)

Jan 22, 2015, 12:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team based at the University of Toronto has published the first reported case of using the Oxford Nanopore MinION to sequence human DNA, in a study focused on three genes with known relevance to drug dosing.

Jan 22, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jan 21, 2015, 13:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today released its MiSeq FGx instrument, a version of the company's MiSeq next generation sequencer modified for forensic DNA testing, as well as ForenSeq chemistry and software kits.

Jan 21, 2015, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Commentators from around the science and healthcare world react to President Obama's announcement, in last night's State of the Union address, that his new budget will propose a Precision Medicine Initiative to support research into individualized therapies based on patients' unique genetic and molecular profiles.

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

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