Sep 24, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEEDHAM, MA - Sep 24, 2014 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute Announces the Acquisition of OpenHelixProvider of online and onsite bioinformatics training to join Cambridge Healthtech Institute as division of Bio-IT World Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) announced the purchase of Washington-based OpenHelix, the provider of online and onsite training on some of the most popular and powerful open-access bioinformatics resources on the web

Sep 24, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - Sep 24, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced today that this year’s European User Group Meeting (EUGM) held at Down Hall Country House Hotel, Hertfordshire was the largest and most successful to date

Sep 23, 2014, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As the FDA extends its oversight to tests designed and performed in a single laboratory, diagnostic companies are celebrating a more even playing field. But hospital and academic labs worry that the high price tag of FDA review will stifle their in-house tests without protecting patients.

Sep 23, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Sep 23, 2014 - Mumbai, India - September 15, 2014 - Various technological advancements and innovations have led to an increase in the extraction of shale oil from oil reserves in the US

Sep 22, 2014, 12:55 PM by Michael Croft

Fierce Biotech | Fierce Biotech has unveiled its hotly-anticipated Fierce 15, an annual list of biotech companies showing special promise in delivering transformative new therapies.

Sep 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BILLERICA, MA - Sep 22, 2014 -  RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of Frederick (Fritz) L

Sep 19, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 19, 2014 - For Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, partnering is an integral part of its business strategy

Sep 18, 2014, 08:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | As personalized medicine opens up new possibilities in cancer immunotherapy, quantified image analysis is a promising route to discovering biomarkers that can meaningfully stratify patients for treatment.

Sep 17, 2014, 09:30 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | Oxford Nanopore, and the early access users of its MinION nanopore sequencer, share details about the device's accuracy, read length, applications, and a forthcoming high throughput instrument.

Sep 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 17, 2014 - The In Silico Drug Discovery Conference today announced speakers and presentation topics that will be featured at the conference, which takes place at North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Hamner Conference Center on December 3 and 4, 2014

Sep 15, 2014, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Genentech combed through its trove of thousands of cell lines to create a definitive phenotypic and genetic profile of each, making it possible to trace back preclinical experiments and share results company-wide. The project won the company its second straight Bio-IT World Best Practices Award for finding new efficiencies in its preclinical pipeline.

Sep 15, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Sep 15, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the 150th anniversary of the Zoological Record, the oldest continuous bibliographic database in life sciences and the leading and most comprehensive source for biodiversity, systematics and zoological information

Sep 12, 2014, 06:50 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | While the human microbiome has been mined as a source of novel therapies for years — through probiotics or fecal transplantation — a team at UC San Francisco is now exploring whether more traditional drugs could be found in the arsenals of our commensal bacteria.

Sep 11, 2014, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The old Roche 454 facility in Branford, Connecticut, will soon be returning to genomic science, as the Icahn Institute at Mount Sinai prepares to set up its second sequencing facility on grounds abandoned by Roche in its shutdown of 454 Life Sciences.

Sep 11, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - Sep 11, 2014 - Array BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted small molecule drugs to treat patients with cancer, today announced the appointment of Victor Sandor, M

Sep 10, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THOUSAND OAKS, CA - Sep 10, 2014 - Software engineers at Ceres, Inc. announced today that they are looking for life science specialists in various fields to test a cloud service edition of the company’s Persephone genome visualization application

Sep 9, 2014, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft

BostInno | Sangeeta Bhatia, director of MIT's Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies, today received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize awarded to mid-career inventors "who have developed a patented product or process of significant value to society."

Sep 9, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bioscience Technology | The pond-dwelling protist Oxytricha Trifallax, already known for the genomic oddity of having roughly 16,000 chromosomes, has revealed an even more remarkable quirk in its native DNA.

Sep 8, 2014, 14:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Gene sequencing company Illumina has joined with four major cancer centers to found the Actionable Genome Consortium, an organization dedicated to publicizing standards for cancer genetics.

Sep 8, 2014, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Coinciding with the completion of an early phase of the NIH-funded Roadmap Epigenomics Project, a team at Washington University in St. Louis has created a genome browser with added capabilities to deal with epigenetic data.