Jul 7, 2014, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This morning, the European Commission received an open letter signed by 154 European neuroscientists, expressing concern over the direction of the Human Brain Project that was launched last year.

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

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Jul 7, 2014 - NextCODE Health, which puts whole-genome analysis in the hands of clinicians and researchers worldwide, today announced the start of a partnership with the Academic Centre on Rare Diseases (ACoRD) at University College Dublin

Jul 3, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

South China Morning Post | The China Food & Drug Administration approved two sequencers from BGI--the BGISEQ-1000 and BGISEQ-100--and a diagnostic kit for prenatal testing of "high risk" pregnancies.

Jul 3, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

NBC News | Yesterday the National Institutes of Health launched the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, a four-year, $43 million program focused on the rarest of diseases, many afflicting fewer than 50 people worldwide.

Jul 3, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Guest Commentary | The global pharmaceutical industry faces challenges that require it to look beyond the status quo and develop a fresh transformative vision for the future. Many pharmas are now looking to consolidate vendors as they embark on restructuring and cost reduction efforts.

Jul 1, 2014, 07:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Euretos is certainly not the first company to recognize the problems researchers have processing and keeping up to date with the latest research. While there’s ever more data pouring from researchers’ lab instruments, there’s also an ongoing flow to manage from journals and other publications. Euretos has launched a cloud platform called BRAIN: the Bio Relations and Intelligence Network, that allows researchers to mine and connect data from public and private published sources in new ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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