Apr 23, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 23, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, describes four benefits of using a non-regional monitoring strategy for clinical trials versus a traditional regional model

Apr 22, 2014, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This morning, Los Altos-based startup BaseHealth emerged from stealth mode to announce the launch of Genophen, a preventive medicine platform that unites clinical and genetic data to help patients track and manage their risk of developing common chronic diseases.

Apr 22, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Talks between Pfizer and AstraZeneca fizzled, but the possibility foretells future big deals, analysts say.

Apr 22, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

REuters | Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline announced this morning that they two big pharma are trading over $20 billion worth of assets in an attempt to strengthen their best businesses

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Apr 22, 2014 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced it will showcase the integration of Full story

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Apr 22, 2014 - Linguamatics is today celebrating being named as a winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise - the UK's highest accolade for business success

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Apr 22, 2014 - Regulatory and Clinical Research Institute, Inc. (RCRI) announced that David France has joined RCRI in the role of Principal Advisor

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BETHESDA, MD - Apr 22, 2014 - BioDatomics™, a supplier of bioinformatics analysis software and services that improve genomic research productivity, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a capital investment from the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development's (MDBED) Maryland Venture Fund (MVF)

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

, UK - Apr 22, 2014 - Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline have agreed to exchange assets and combine their consumer healthcare units

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

Bio-IT World | Of sequencing bottlenecks, the most lamented is the analysis pipeline. Edico Genome is developing the DRAGEN Bio-IT Processor, the world’s first Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) bioinformatics ASIC to speed and smooth that process.

Apr 18, 2014, 08:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A large coalition of European and American researchers this week published a new gene expression study of trisomy 21, better known as Down's syndrome, using a novel cellular model of the disorder.

Apr 17, 2014, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Genetic diagnostics is a growing field with great promise for improving medical care—yet interpreting the results of tests is a painstaking process, and different labs can disagree on which variants contribute to disease. As open science advocates seek to collect together and curate our knowledge of disease-related genes, the reluctance of many clinical labs to share their data continues to hinder progress.

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

PHILADELPHIA, PA, US - Apr 17, 2014 -   The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, released its annual forecast of the leading drugs to watch in 2014, including three potential blockbuster treatments anticipated to attain more than $1 billion in sales through 2019, after entering the marketplace this year

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

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Apr 16, 2014 - Titian Software (www.titian.co.uk) has announced that it will preview Mosaic 6.0, the latest and most advanced version of its established sample management software, at BioIT World in Boston, MA (29 April – 1 May 2014), booth #353

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

, UK - Apr 16, 2014 - Qlucore and Nebion collaboration will benefit researchers
 
2014 will see Qlucore and Nebion AG working together to promote their two products Qlucore Omics Explorer and Genevestigator

Apr 15, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Novartis bows out of RNAi research, the second big pharma to do so.

Apr 15, 2014, 09:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this morning issued the first patent to cover CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, awarding the Broad Institute a patent for a version of the CRISPR-Cas9 system used to modify the DNA of mammalian cells.

Apr 15, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO - Apr 15, 2014 - Certara™, the leading technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consultancy, announced today that it has acquired specialty contract research organization (CRO) Synchrogenix Information Strategies Inc

Apr 14, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

U-T San Diego | San Diego-based Edico Genome is working on a chip-based system, the Dragen Wavefront Processor, to perform first-line analysis of genetic information in a fraction of the time required by the fastest current methods.

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

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 14, 2014 - NovoPath introduces a customizable web portal to its NovoPath anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS), helping customers efficiently comply with new legislation requiring labs to provide direct patient access to reports