Jul 1, 2014, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Outsourcing options in biotech have been growing. CROs and other labs offer a wide range of services. But what if you aren’t interested in a partner as much as simply automated experiments? Don’t outsource experiments to another lab; let the robots do them!

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

NEW YORK, NY - Jul 1, 2014 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced the launch of Luxid® 7, the seventh generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment platform

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

WARSAW, POLAND - Jul 1, 2014 - Principal Investigators® (www.principalinvestigators.com), the world’s first place for clinical trial & patient referral offers, announced the global availability of its online platform designed specifically to connect Medical Doctors with Pharma and R&D companies involved in clinical studies

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

CRUMLIN, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 1, 2014 - The TGA (Australia) has cleared a test developed by Randox Laboratories which allows assessment of the risk of patients developing Type 2 diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

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

CRUMLIN, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 1, 2014 - A new Randox External Quality Assurance (EQA) programme monitoring Ammonia and Ethanol will be available on RIQAS from September 2014

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

REDWOOD SHORES, CA, UNITED STATES - Jul 1, 2014 - Model N, Inc. (NYSE: MODN), the leading revenue management provider to the life sciences and technology industries, today announced the expansion of the Model N Regulatory Update Program - a program that every Model N Government Compliance customer is automatically enrolled in at no extra charge

Jun 30, 2014, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | In a comment on FDA's blog on Thursday, Jeffrey Shuren, Director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, again restated the Agency's concern with 23andMe's direct-to-consumers genomic tests. The issue, 
"at the heart of our five-year effort to work with the firm 23andMe," he says, is accuracy.

Jun 30, 2014, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The human reference genome has served geneticists well since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003. But with new sequencing technologies and a unique cell line, a team attached to the Genome Reference Consortium is tinkering with a new "platinum genome" based on a single haploid sample, a reference that could better represent structural variants and the range of human haplotypes.

Jun 30, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Jun 30, 2014 - Warsaw – 30 June 2014 – KCR, European Contract Research Organization, announces today that its International Conference on Harmonization Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP) Investigator Site Personnel Training has been recognized by TransCelerate BioPharma Inc

Jun 27, 2014, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft

Jun 26, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA - Jun 26, 2014 -
Boston Children's Hospital will host its second annual pediatric innovation summit October 30-31, 2014 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston

Jun 25, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Jun 25, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Jun 25, 2014 - Synthetic Biology Market is Expected to Reach $38.7 Billion, Globally, by 2020 - Allied Market ResearchAccording to a new report by Allied Market Research, titled "Global Synthetic Biology Market (Products, Technologies, Applications and Geography) - Global  Opportunity Analysis and Forecast - 2013  - 2020", the global synthetic biology market is forecast to reach $38

Jun 24, 2014, 07:27 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Jun 23, 2014 - NextCODE helps ANZAC Research Institute bring whole-genome sequencing into clinical care. ANZAC Research Institute uses NextCODE's diagnostics and discovery solutions to mine entire genomes for novel mutations in X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome

Jun 24, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In another look at the Hi-C process for sorting out disparate bits of DNA, Jonathan Eisen’s lab at UC Davis tweaks the Markov Cluster Algorithm to take on metagenomics. The results need further attention, but could be extremely useful for joining plasmids and chromosomes from the same species.

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

, UK - Jun 24, 2014 - Packaging Coordinators Inc. (PCI) is pleased to welcome Robbie Stewart to its European business development team

Jun 23, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The ANZAC Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, has used NextCODE Health's Clinical Sequence Analyzer and Sequence Miner tools to ID novel sequence variants behind X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome (CMTX).

Jun 20, 2014, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Today, 23andMe's new chief legal and regulatory officer, Kathy Hibbs, announced that the company has submitted a 510(k) to the FDA, seeking approval to tell customers whether they carry mutations for the rare disease Bloom syndrome. The move signals a cooperative, incremental approach to restoring the 23andMe health reports that the FDA shut down last November.

Jun 19, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At the annual Pacific Biosciences user group meeting in Baltimore, geneticists and bioinformaticians gathered this week to discuss how long-read sequencing is opening up previously intractable problems. Rapid de novo assembly of whole genomes was a major topic of conversation, while users unveiled new computational tools that greatly speed up long-read assemblies, and PacBio announced plans for updated chemistry and high-throughput HLA typing.

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

SAN DIEGO, CA, US - Jun 19, 2014 - At the Drug Information Association’s (DIA) 50th Annual Meeting, Veeva Systems released the results of the Veeva 2014 Paperless TMF Survey: An Industry Benchmark, the largest TMF survey to date