May 29, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

ChemistryWorld | The Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG, not to be confused with BGI) and a Chinese partner company have launched a sequencing machine capable of longer read lengths than Illumina, 1/3 cheaper to manufacture, and 1/5 cheaper to operate.

May 29, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nashville Business Journal | NextGxDx is doubling its office space, after raising $2.9 million earlier this year. The Nashville, Tenn.-based company intends to serve as a one-stop-shop for doctors and hospitals to order genetic tests for their patients.

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

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 29, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced its participation at the 2014 Annual Pharmaceutical Industry SAS Users Group (PharmaSUG) Conference June 1-4 in San Diego

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

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - May 29, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, will host the scientific community at Dotmatics Days in the biotech hubs of Boston and San Francisco

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

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - May 29, 2014 - RCRI Appoints Christine Lys as West Coast Senior Business Development AdvisorBefore joining RCRI, Christine Lys, M

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

THE WOODLANDS, TX, UNITED STATES - May 29, 2014 - Today, MolecularHealth announced Waun Ki Hong, M.D., as the newest member of its advisory board. Dr. Hong is one of the nation’s leading experts on head, neck and lung cancers, recently honored by ASCO’s “Oncology Luminaries” series

May 28, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Twist Bioscience yesterday announced a $26 million Series B funding round, as well as a $5 million DARPA contract, to continue development of a high-throughput DNA synthesis device.

May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - May 28, 2014 - Array BioPharma (Nasdaq: ARRY) announced today a collaboration agreement with Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) for the discovery and development of inhibitors targeting a novel kinase for the treatment of autoimmune disorders

May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 28, 2014 - Rho to Use Clinical Trial Oversight Summitas Platform to Share Best Practices in Clinical MonitoringClinical trial thought leaders share insight on risk-based monitoring, monitoring with EDC, and the importance of strong relationships between sites and CROs WHAT:          Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced its participation at the 5th Annual Clinical Oversight Summit in Boston as a sponsor

May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA - May 28, 2014 - The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in providing intelligent information to businesses and professionals, today announced the release of Overcoming Clinical Challenges in BRIC Markets, a report exploring the benefits and challenges of conducting clinical trials in the pharmaceutical markets of the BRIC nations: Brazil, Russia, India and China

May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

TORONTO, КАНАДА - May 28, 2014 -  The key goal during drug design process is to limit the number of compounds among large number of available ligands for experimental testing

May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LINCOLN, NE - May 28, 2014 - TELCOR Inc announced today it has achieved the prestigious Microsoft Partner status through Microsoft Corp

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

TORONTO, CANADA - May 26, 2014 - OTAVA specializes in synthesis and distribution of quality chemical building blocks. You could request custom synthesis of chemical compounds of your interest, for this purpose just send single or multiple structures as attached files by filling the form at the OTAVA’s web-site (http://www

May 22, 2014, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

San Francisco Business Times | An ex-Ion Torrent scientist has a $35 million investment to prove his new sequencer is faster and cheaper than anything else.

May 22, 2014, 07:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Presenters at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology showed off new applications for the CRISPR system of gene editing, and projects that have re-coded bacterial genomes on a massive scale.

May 22, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | GenePeeks has opened its in silico nursery, formally launching the Matchright screening service for families who are planning to use a sperm donor to conceive.

May 21, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Mayo Clinic and N-of-One, have signed an agreement under which N-of-One will provide Mayo Clinic with clinical interpretation information to aid in highly complex molecular diagnostics.

May 21, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | QIAGEN is adding content from BIOBASE including HGMD, the human gene mutation database, to its bioinformatics offerings. HGMD and other BIOBASE solutions will provide the foundation for Ingenuity Clinical, QIAGEN's forthcoming clinical NGS decision-support solution.

May 21, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At the Prenatal Molecular Diagnostics Europe conference last week in Lisbon conversations ranged from the current landscape in prenatal diagnostics to the future vision of the technology and the regulatory environment that will enable it.

May 20, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft