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

Reuters | Roche is staying out of the pharma merger and acquisition fray, the CEO said. "We're sticking to our previous strategy... [of] small acquisitions and partnerships."

Jul 18, 2014, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Pistoia Alliance received a Best Practices Award at this year's Bio-IT World Conference & Expo for its work on HELM, a project that establishes a standard notation for complex macromolecules that are too large to sketch out atomically, but too heterogeneous to express as chains of RNA or amino acids. The project will aid interoperability across the industry, as pharma companies increasingly rely on strange, hybrid biochemistry in creating new therapeutics.

Jul 18, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In a paper published yesterday in the open access journal eLife, George Church and colleagues discuss the potential for "gene drives" that alter the genomes of whole wild populations using CRISPR gene editing technology, and weigh the risks and public interests surrounding such initiatives.

Jul 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Jul 17, 2014 - Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, has entered an R&D agreement with MYOS Corporation (“MYOS” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: MYOS), an emerging biotherapeutics and bionutrition company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of products that improve muscle health and performance

Jul 16, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced its acquisition of Myraqa, a consulting firm specializing in the regulatory strategy surrounding in vitro diagnostics, particularly companion diagnostics.

Jul 16, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Jul 16, 2014 - The Clinical Conductor CTMS team is proud to announce yet another major advancement in CTMS technology

Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jul 16, 2014 - David Hall Joins Rho as Principal Investigator of BioinformaticsGenome informatics specialist played central role in business development activities resulting in award of more than $40M in federal contracts with bioinformatics and -omics focus Chapel Hill, NC  ̶  DATE  Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced that David Hall has joined its team as a principal investigator (PI) specializing in bioinformatics at its Research Triangle Park headquarters in North Carolina

Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BILLERICA, MA - Jul 16, 2014 - RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of Kathy Ordoñez to its Board of Directors

Jul 15, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM is gaining cloud ground with its SoftLayer product, Big Blue says, reporting 6,000 new customers in the last year and $1.2 billion invested in data centers.

Jul 15, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Transcriptic today launched the Transcriptic Platform, their own cloud-based programmable system for defining and executing experimental protocols. The company says the platform can create a 10-fold productivity advantage for researchers working on molecular and cell biology.

Jul 14, 2014, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), China's gene sequencing powerhouse, has released a set of reference genes for the human gut microbiome, in a catalogue that is substantially larger and covers a greater diversity of human populations than any previous resources.

Jul 14, 2014, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Technology Review | Illumina has been chosen as the "preferred partner" for the UK's 100,000 genomes project. Genomics England chose Illumina to do the sequencing, and said that fewer than five other companies bid for the job.

Jul 14, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THE WOODLANDS, TX, UNITED STATES - Jul 14, 2014 - MolecularHealth announced today the appointment of Gabriel Bien-Willner, M.D., Ph.D., as medical director of its CLIA-certified next-generation sequencing lab in The Woodlands, Texas

Jul 14, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Jul 14, 2014 - Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, announced today the expansion of its drug design and development program

Jul 11, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This Wednesday, American Gut, the crowdsourced project that has now sequenced gut microbiota samples from over 3,000 volunteers, released both a round of results and its own analytical pipeline.

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

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 11, 2014 - Leading sample management software provider, Titian Software (www.titian.co.uk), has announced that it will be introducing Mosaic Assay Requesting - a major new module that integrates fully with the highly regarded Mosaic sample management software suite

Jul 10, 2014, 14:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Today, the leadership of the Human Brain Project circulated a document responding to this Monday's open letter to the European Commission, in which neuroscientists aired concerns about the aims and decision-making processes behind the HBP.

Jul 10, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Amazon Web Services Cloud Summit kicked off with a keynote from Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer. Vogels announced CloudWatch Logs to monitor the system and application logs for trends and events over time, and highlighted the work of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research using a 2014 Bio-IT World Best of Show winner.

Jul 10, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

U-T San Diego | The rumored merger of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and the University of Southern California is off, the Scripps board of trustees said yesterday