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

IRVINE, CA - Mar 17, 2014 - Zymo Research Corporation, "The Epigenetics Company",  today announced the launch of the Pico Methyl-Seq™ Library Prep and RRHP™ 5-hmC Library Prep kits for Illumina NGS-based, whole-genome analysis of 5-methlycytosine (5-mC) and genome-wide analysis of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in DNA, respectively

Mar 14, 2014, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As biomarker-based gene panels gain acceptance as standard tools in the oncologist’s toolbox, GeneKey is going deeper, into the whole exome and transcriptome of its patients’ cancers.

Mar 14, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

The Economist | A new institute at Stanford is taking on the role of research watchdog.

Mar 13, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Galapagos NV signed a definitive agreement to sell the BioFocus and Argenta service division operations to Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) for almost $180 million (Euro 129 million) in upfront payments and another $7 million upon achievement of revenue targets.

Mar 13, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | N-of-One has launched Variant Interpreter, an app available on Illumina’s BaseSpace Apps, Illumina’s dedicated applications store and informatics community dedicated to advancing genomic analysis. 

Mar 12, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Mendelspod | Dietrich Hauffe, SVP, life sciences at QIAGEN, spoke with Mendelspod about QIAGEN's big vision, the clinical portion of their business, and more about GeneReader.

Mar 11, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BaseSpace, Illumina's informatics app store, is an experimental model for the analysis of genetic data. Bio-IT World asks Illumina's Jordan Stockton how the multi-developer platform will fit the needs of high-volume labs that need coherent, flexible workflows.

Mar 11, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | One of the Japanese team who published results in Nature in January claiming to have induced stem cells via an acid bath is calling for the paper's retraction.

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

HYDERABAD, INDIA - Mar 11, 2014 - Ocimum Biosolutions announces release of its new software product, Sciantis™, a lab process and data management platform for biologics labs

Mar 10, 2014, 17:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Jeff Bizzaro, Chairman of Bioinformatics.org, today announced that Helen M. Berman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Award winner. 

Mar 10, 2014, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

The Guardian | At the SXSW Festival in Austin yesterday, Anne Wojcicki acknowledged that the recent FDA action prohibiting her company from reporting health information to customers “has slowed up the number of people signing up” for the personal genotyping service.

Mar 10, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | A quick overview of using fetal circulating cells to test for trisomy 21 and trisomy 18, which accurately predicted trisomies in young, healthy pregnancies.

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

ATLANTA, GA - Mar 8, 2014 - Lena Biosciences announces the launch of its SeedEZ 3D cell culture products for tissue fingerprinting and drug testing in cancer research, ADME Tox screening, stem cell research, brain research and personalized medicine

Mar 7, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Eric Schadt discusses how supercomputing will change medicine: first in handling ever-increasing data sizes and second in building predictive models of disease.

Mar 7, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | Just days after the announcement of his new company, Human Longevity, Craig Venter sat down with Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute to discuss the future of genomic medicine.

Mar 6, 2014, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Nature News | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health was established to link genotypes with phenotypes to discover mechanisms of disease. The group just had their first official meeting.

Mar 5, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Broad Institute has released an updated version of GenePattern, the Institute’s open-source genome sequence analysis software with user-requested fixes and updates including a new user interface.

Mar 5, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes Asia | The Chinese government has banned domestic hospitals and other medical and health institutions from providing genetic tests to customers, specifically mentioning prenatal DNA tests, raising questions about the future of Chinese sequencing.

Mar 5, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA - Mar 5, 2014 - Terascala, the fast data company, today announced the availability of the latest version of their groundbreaking data movement solution, the Intelligent Storage Bridge (ISB)

Mar 4, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | J. Craig Venter today announced the launch of a new company, Human Longevity, Inc., that aims to promote healthy aging by building the world's largest and most wide-reaching genome sequencing center.