Oct 23, 2014, 14:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper published today in Science describes a new type of fluorescence microscope that is capable of taking images of living, three-dimensional systems over long periods of time without degrading cells or fluorescent molecules.

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

ST. LOUIS, MO - Oct 23, 2014 - Certara®, the leading global technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consultancy, today announced that it has received a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Generic Drugs grant (#1 U01 FD005225-01) to further develop and validate its Simcyp® Simulator’s mechanistic dermal absorption model, MechDermA

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

ST. LOUIS, MO - Oct 23, 2014 - Certara®, the leading global technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consultancy, today announced that it has received a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Generic Drugs grant (#1 U01 FD005225-01) to further develop and validate its Simcyp® Simulator’s mechanistic dermal absorption model, MechDermA

Oct 22, 2014, 08:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, a custom distributed computing system called HIVE takes a new approach to storing and analyzing huge sets of genomic and other biological data.

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

TORONTO, CANADA - Oct 22, 2014 - Voltage-gated sodium channels are a class of large integral membrane proteins, composed of a highly processed α subunit and one or several smaller β subunits

Oct 21, 2014, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Edico Genome, a San Diego-based company manufacturing application-specific integrated circuits for processing genomic data, this week announced the broad commercial launch of its flagship DRAGEN processor.

Oct 21, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Oct 21, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) providing clinical research services in both the commercial and federal market, has been awarded the renewal of their existing federal contract with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Oct 21, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES - Oct 21, 2014 - Seven Bridges Genomics, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a 5.8 million dollar contract as a part of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot Initiative

Oct 20, 2014, 14:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | NextCODE Health has launched a new genomic data sharing environment, in which collaborators can browse and analyze one another's whole genome datasets at single-base resolution, as well as make individual variants publicly visible for research on rare genetic disease.

Oct 20, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ESPOO, FINLAND - Oct 20, 2014 - A strategic co-operation agreement was signed between two bioinformatics companies to introduce a more efficient solution for the analysis of genetic causes of diseases

Oct 19, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

AUSTIN, TX - Oct 19, 2014 - Lab7 Systems, Inc., today introduced the Lab7 Enterprise Sequencing Platform (ESP), the industry's only comprehensive sample-to-answer data management software for next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) laboratories

Oct 17, 2014, 09:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has declared that its installation of BLAST in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace is "the easiest way to start an NCBI BLAST instance."

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

SHIRLEY, NY - Oct 17, 2014 - Relying on years of experience serving hundreds of clients across six continents, Creative Animodel recently launches custom TALENs services to be used for in vivo studies

Oct 16, 2014, 10:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Pacific Biosciences, maker of the RSII sequencing instrument, has launched a new reagent kit to boost both the throughput and read length of its sequencers.

Oct 15, 2014, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

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

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 15, 2014 - The team behind Clinical Conductor is proud to announce brand new enhancements to the industry-leading CTMS

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

ST. LOUIS, MO, US - Oct 15, 2014 - The University of Arizona and Phoenix Children's Hospital Join PierianDx Partner Network to Access Patient Genetic Marker Database   ST LOUIS (Oct

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

NEW YORK, NY - Oct 15, 2014 - Healthcare information technology (IT) is a vast field that involves the use of information technology for designing, creating, developing, using and maintaining information systems in the field of healthcare

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

, POLAND - Oct 14, 2014 - KCR Date Forecaster, first mobile application by KCR, European Contract Research Organization, provides patients with smart scheduling and automatic reminders for doctor’s appointments and medical examinations

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

NEW YORK, NY - Oct 14, 2014 - Recently, CD Genomics updated its technology platforms. Now it can offer its expertise in SNP and human microsatellite genotyping on a wide range of platforms for sequencing services, for instance, ABI 3730xl high throughput genetic analyzer, Roche 454 GS-FLX+ System, Illumina Hiseq 2000/2500, Miseq System, Ion Torrent PGM&Proton and PACBIO RS II