May 15, 2014, 08:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At this April's Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, representatives from the Broad Institute and Novartis presented new tools for bioassays and drug development.

May 15, 2014, 08:10 AM by Michael Croft

Nature | The NIH yesterday announced new policies to correct a tendency to study male cells and animals in preclinical research, including a requirement that applicants for NIH grants disclose the balance of male and female models used in their studies.

May 14, 2014, 13:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Ayasdi, an informatics company whose topological analysis platform searches for unpredictable patterns in large datasets, is expanding its footprint in the life sciences with new products and partnerships.

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

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - May 14, 2014 - Array BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY) today announced presentations on its MEK inhibitors, binimetinib (MEK162) (co-developing with Novartis) and selumetinib (licensed to AstraZeneca) at the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, which will be held May 30 – June 3, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois

May 13, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Boston Globe | The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced layoffs of 27 employees involved in contract work for the NIH-funded Molecular Library Probe Center Network.

May 13, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - May 13, 2014 - Array BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY) continues recruitment for its ongoing Phase 3 clinical study in patients with low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC)

May 12, 2014, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Helen Berman, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research at Rutgers University, was honored with the Benjamin Franklin Award at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo for her work building the Protein Data Bank.

May 12, 2014, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | After weeks of rejected offers to acquire AstraZeneca, and public skepticism over the outcome of such a deal, Pfizer this morning released a series of videos promoting the potential merger as a boon to science.

May 12, 2014, 07:55 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Today, IBM released a commercial version of the "Elastic Storage" memory architecture it has used internally for its Watson supercomputing program.

May 12, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BISHOPS STORTFORD, UK - May 12, 2014 - Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the academic, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, reported today that its premium data analysis and visualisation software, Vortex, is being used by university research groups in Thailand to further their scientific research in diverse fields

May 9, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, "genome hacker" Yaniv Erlich, and public data advocate Isaac Kohane joined each other onstage on the last day of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to discuss the perils and the promise of publicly available genetic data.

May 9, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 9, 2014 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is showcasing its 30-year history of success in drug development strategies and services at the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials (OCT) East Coast conference May 13-14 in Philadelphia

May 8, 2014, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, DNA Electronics announced a significant expansion of its internal R&D, doubling its product development staff from 30 to 60 scientists. The company also brought on Steve Allen to serve as COO.

May 8, 2014, 09:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper by a team of researchers from the Scripps Institute, published yesterday in Nature, describes the first stable, self-replicating organism whose DNA contains bases other than the well-known A, G, C and T.

May 8, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA - May 8, 2014 - The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, honored Amplimmune, Inc

May 7, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Stephen Friend, the president of Sage Bionetworks, gave the keynote presentation at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Wednesday morning on enhancing communication within the biomedical research community. Friend’s communication concerns span every level of research, from creating protein pathway models, to analyzing patient data. 

May 5, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The fifth annual Genomes Environments Traits (GET) Conference convened in Cambridge last week, uniting dozens of individuals who have undergone whole genome sequencing to discuss where their data is leading researchers.

May 2, 2014, 11:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Best of Show awards presented at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo this week recognized significant advances in life sciences IT. New products from Ayasdi, GenoSpace, and Cycle Computing took home the top prizes at this year's competition.

May 1, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the winners of its tenth annual Best Practices Awards competition yesterday morning in a plenary session at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.

Apr 30, 2014, 05:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo started yesterday evening with a fantastic opening keynote address from John Quackenbush, CEO of GenoSpace and professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a welcoming reception on a packed Expo Hall floor. Over 2,800 life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals will join us this week for three days of programming across 13 tracks. Here’s a brief summary of some of the news and announcements made thus far.