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

RHEINBACH, GERMANY - Aug 25, 2014 - Global research and analytics firm Evalueserve announced today the acquisition of German business intelligence provider Beyond Data GmbH

Aug 21, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced collaborations with AstraZeneca, Sanofi, and Janssen Biotech, to participate in patient stratification for the development of new cancer drugs by offering a multi-gene panel that covers key cancer mutations.

Aug 21, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THE WOODLANDS, TX, UNITED STATES - Aug 21, 2014 - MolecularHealth announced today an important new component of its TreatmentMAP™ offering in the United States, called MolecularHealth™ RxAssistance

Aug 21, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCKVILLE, MD - Aug 21, 2014 -  Relief for Allergy Sufferers Finally in Sight: Immunomic Therapeutics Closes in on Treatment for Hay Fever in Japan, U

Aug 20, 2014, 06:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | After presenting an open source pipeline for analyzing cancer genomes at Cold Spring Harbor this May, Seven Bridges is seeking hospital and lab partners to test the system in a clinical setting.

Aug 20, 2014, 06:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | GeneDx, a commercial genetic diagnostics lab located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this week filed eleven petitions to invalidate patent claims held by Myriad Genetics, adding another new thread to the increasingly complicated web of litigation surrounding Myriad.

Aug 20, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - Aug 20, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced today that Prof

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

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Aug 19, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, released a comprehensive disease profile on Ebola Virus Disease that includes a detailed analysis of two new treatments in the pipeline and two experimental candidates approaching development

Aug 18, 2014, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has released an open source algorithm, called Scalpel, for finding insertions and deletions in next generation sequencing data sets, and published a paper in Nature Methods using this tool to identify mutations in children affected by autism.

Aug 18, 2014, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Jason Bloomberg speaks to pharma executives and industry observers who believe top drug companies could soon focus more of their efforts on creating electronic health platforms, collecting user data and to more precisely define disease risks and personalize prevention and treatment.

Aug 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LUND, SWEDEN - Aug 18, 2014 - Phase Holographic Imaging today announces a collaboration agreement with Northeastern University of Boston

Aug 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ESPOO, FINLAND - Aug 18, 2014 - BC Platforms has been qualified to receive Tekes funding for its R&D program for its large-scale clinical and genomic R&D solutions

Aug 15, 2014, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper posted this week to the preprint server bioRxiv describes MHAP, a new tool that can reportedly assemble whole genomes de novo from long-read sequencing data hundreds of times faster than previous workflows.

Aug 15, 2014, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Regulatory Focus | The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is piloting a program that would let companies track the progress of medical devices and diagnostic tests submitted for premarket approval through the agency's review process.

Aug 13, 2014, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Aug 12, 2014, 08:25 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Scientists at Tufts University have produced a three-dimensional model of the brain in which rat neurons can be grown for months at a time in the lab.

Aug 12, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

STAFFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM - Aug 12, 2014 - Qualoupe Lite, Bibby Scientific’s low cost, intuitive laboratory information management system (LIMS), is now available across an even wider selection of the company’s laboratory equipment

Aug 11, 2014, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Pistoia Alliance, an industry group that addresses non-competitive problems shared by stakeholders in drug development, today announced the launch of an expert community to streamline how pharma companies and their partners track the laws governing the use and distribution of chemical substances worldwide.

Aug 11, 2014, 08:50 AM by Michael Croft

Pharmalot | A large investor group has been circulating a document asking pharmaceutical companies to pledge certain measures to foster the takeup of biosimilars in the U.S., including the acknowledgement of safety data from Europe.

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

ST. LOUIS, MO - Aug 11, 2014 - Certara®, the leading global technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consultancy, announced today that its Muse molecular design workflow for the identification and optimization of lead drug candidates now has virtual synthetic chemistry capabilities