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

BOSTON, MA - Apr 13, 2015 - Terascala, the industry leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) storage management software, today announced that its TeraOS software powers the Lustre®-based parallel storage appliance at the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) data center at San Diego State University (SDSU)

Apr 10, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Cypher Genomics released data last month showing that the company’s Mantis software provided “highly equivalent interpretations” to a panel of genetic counselors when evaluating whether 91 copy number variations (CNVs) detected in non-invasive prenatal testing were pathogenic.

Apr 9, 2015, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Open Humans network has launched as a social network to connect research participants with new scientific studies, backing projects like the Harvard Personal Genome Project and American Gut that allow members to own, share, and publicize their own data.

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

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 9, 2015 - Ed Addison, CEO of Cloud Pharmaceuticals, a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, is being featured as a speaker at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo taking place April 21-23, 2015 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston

Apr 8, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Apr 6, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | As part of the precision medicine initiative, President Obama proposed a $215 million investment intended to improve how we treat disease and foster health. What’s needed now is the infrastructure to turn data into discovery. This year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo (April 21-23, #BioIT15) will be three days of conversations in 12 tracks around those very challenges.

Apr 6, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | In the increasingly active genetic testing space, Natera is trying to lead the pack by harnessing its testing capabilities, thanks to a new $55.5 million funding round.

Apr 3, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from Quest Diagnostics, Personalis, QIAGEN, Qlucore, Berry Genomics, SCIEX, Ancestry, Linguamatics, and much more.

Apr 2, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced finalists in its 2015 Best Practices Award competition this morning. The 25 finalists will compete for seven awards chosen by a panel of expert judges. The winners will be announced during the keynote session at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo on April 22, in Boston.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.