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

SAN MATEO, CA - Sep 30, 2014 - Maverix Biomics Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, today announced that Jim Bristow, M

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

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 30, 2014 -   WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is showcasing its 30-year history of success in drug development strategies and services, including risk-based monitoring (RBM) strategies, at the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials (OCT) New England Conference taking place October 7-8 in Boston, Massachusetts

Sep 29, 2014, 08:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Transcriptic, the programmable lab-for-hire, has moved to a new, 10,000-square foot location as it adds more instruments and "work cells" where experiments are conducted.

Sep 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Sep 29, 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 release of Biosimilars: A Global Perspective of a New Market – Opportunities, Threats and Critical Strategies 2014

Sep 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - Sep 29, 2014 -  Final results from a Phase 2 trial of binimetinib in patients with advanced NRAS mutant melanoma were presented today at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Meeting in Madrid, Spain

Sep 26, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a line of mice whose cells naturally express the Cas9 protein used in CRISPR gene editing, which can be used for virtually any gene knockdown experiment.

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

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Sep 26, 2014 - The Intellectual Property &  Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced its 2014 “Nobel-class” Citation Laureates  today

Sep 25, 2014, 13:35 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Just two days after launching a Kickstarter campaign to start the world's first brokerage service for personal whole genome sequencing, GeneHub has pulled the plug.

Sep 25, 2014, 09:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Francis de Souza, president of gene sequencing company Illumina, spoke at the EmTech conference in Cambridge this week about his company's pivot to clinical use, and a growing market for whole genome sequencing that he says will produce 228,000 whole human genomes in 2014 alone.

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

TORONTO, CANADA - Sep 25, 2014 - Chemical libraries for a long time have been a cornerstone in the search for new pharmaceutical compounds

Sep 24, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | San Francisco-based GeneHub has plans to become the first company selling whole genome sequences to all comers, and launched a Kickstarter campaign this week to raise the funds it needs to get started.

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.