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

ST. LOUIS, MO, US - Oct 15, 2014 - The University of Arizona and Phoenix Children's Hospital Join PierianDx Partner Network to Access Patient Genetic Marker Database   ST LOUIS (Oct

Oct 14, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

, POLAND - Oct 14, 2014 - KCR Date Forecaster, first mobile application by KCR, European Contract Research Organization, provides patients with smart scheduling and automatic reminders for doctor’s appointments and medical examinations

Oct 14, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Oct 14, 2014 - Recently, CD Genomics updated its technology platforms. Now it can offer its expertise in SNP and human microsatellite genotyping on a wide range of platforms for sequencing services, for instance, ABI 3730xl high throughput genetic analyzer, Roche 454 GS-FLX+ System, Illumina Hiseq 2000/2500, Miseq System, Ion Torrent PGM&Proton and PACBIO RS II

Oct 13, 2014, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | Teri Heiland argues that advances in vaccine delivery and vector design are paving the way to safe and effective nucleic acid vaccines, which could be used against pathogens, allergies, autoimmune disease and in the growing field of cancer immunotherapy.

Oct 13, 2014, 11:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A new model of Alzheimer's disease, created at the Genetics and Aging Research Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital, is the first to recreate both the "plaques" and the "tangles" that the amyloid hypothesis predicts are central to the disease's symptoms.

Oct 10, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Pacific Standard | More reliable methods for detecting large copy number variants across the whole genome are helping to reveal the importance of these mutations in explaining neurological disorders.

Oct 10, 2014, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Roche, which has been retooling its next generation sequencing strategy since beginning the closure of 454 Life Sciences last October, has acquired a new sample preparation technology for an NGS pipeline.

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

BILLERICA, MA - Oct 10, 2014 - RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of John Luckey, Ph

Oct 9, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RADNOR, PA, UNITED STATES - Oct 9, 2014 - Cortendo AB [ticker: CORT on NOTC-A], a global biopharmaceutical company focused on orphan endocrine disorders, announced the appointment of Robert Lutz as Chief Business Officer

Oct 8, 2014, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The OneOmics Project, a partnership between Illumina and mass spectrometry provider AB SCIEX, has produced a network of apps in the BaseSpace cloud informatics environment to store and analyze mass spec and proteomics data, the first multi-omics functions in Illumina's flagship analytics project.

Oct 7, 2014, 08:35 AM by Michael Croft

Imperial College London News | The BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are well known for mutations that raise the risk of developing breast cancer, but their structure, and the mechanisms by which healthy copies of these proteins repair broken DNA strands, have been little understood.

Oct 7, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Oct 7, 2014 - Cambridge-based charity DNAdigest spins out social enterprise Nucleobase to develop Open Source platforms to support efficient data access and secure knowledge sharing for genomics research

Oct 6, 2014, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | Norwegian neuroscientists May-Britt and Edvard Moser today received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with former supervisor John O'Keefe, for their discovery of "grid cells" in the brain's entorhinal cortex.

Oct 3, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Today, the FDA officially issued a pair of draft guidance documents outlining its regulatory plans for laboratory developed tests.

Oct 3, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 3, 2014 - Clinical Conductor CTMS, the leading clinical trial management system, and OpenClinica, one of the world's most widely adopted electronic data capture (EDC) software platforms, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic partnership to deliver a seamless EDC-CTMS integration to drive productivity in clinical research

Oct 2, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including early-stage pharma startups supported by GSK and Avalon Ventures, and the Eaglecore cloud knowledge management platform.

Oct 1, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The U-BIOPRED Consortium, an international project searching for novel biomarkers to better define severe asthma cases, received a Bio-IT World Best Practices Award this spring for its far-reaching implementation of the tranSMART knowledge management platform.

Oct 1, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 1, 2014 - Clinical Conductor CTMS, the leading clinical trial management system, and OpenClinica, one of the world's most widely adopted electronic data capture (EDC) software platforms, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic partnership to deliver a seamless EDC-CTMS integration to drive productivity in clinical research

Oct 1, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Oct 1, 2014 - Databiology Inc., a global life sciences software and services company, announced today that the genetic variant knowledge-base and genome interpretation capabilities of Tute Genomics Inc

Sep 30, 2014, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, the NIH announced the recipients of its first round of grants tied to the nationwide BRAIN Initiative, totaling $46 million in funding for research meant to develop an integrated understanding of human brain function.