Dec 23, 2013, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

eScience News | Scripps researchers used a novel screening method to find a promising diabetes drug, and plan to expand the program to new disease areas.

Dec 20, 2013, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed the first method to measure the forces exerted by cells in living tissue – using decoy cells and some cunning computer imaging.

Dec 19, 2013, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Cell Press | A paper by a team of Canadian researchers suggests that scientific data rarely survives as long as twenty years after publication.

Dec 18, 2013, 13:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With $1.5 million in new venture financing, Curoverse is hoping to make the open source Arvados platform a serious commercial player in cloud-based bioinformatics.

Dec 18, 2013, 09:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Following his 2012 success sequencing the evasive fragile X locus, Dr. Paul Hagerman wants to make a full clinical diagnostic, and an affordable screening test, available for fragile X disorder. He thinks he’s close.

Dec 17, 2013, 14:40 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 17, 2013, 13:45 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 16, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | A new version of R to be released today will run with the Hadoop data processing platform.

Dec 13, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Lisbon welcomed attendees to the 2013 Clinical Genomics & Informatics event last week with blue skies, plenty of pasteis de nata, and excellent discourse in clinical exome sequencing, high-scale computing, RNA sequencing, and genome informatics.

Dec 12, 2013, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

MIT News | Using the recently-developed Crispr system, researchers for the first time can perform genome-wide empirical studies of human cells, knocking down every known gene one by one.

Dec 12, 2013, 08:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Appistry introduces a new tool to the Cancer Genome Analysis Suite, co-developed with the Broad Institute, which will mathematically filter out cross-contamination between tumor and normal samples.

Dec 12, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | AllSeq offers what it believes is a unique solution to the challenges in the age of commoditized sequencing. In a transparent way, the company matches researchers with sequencing centers, but also strives to be a knowledge base for all things sequencing. CSO Shawn Baker explains.

Dec 11, 2013, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 11, 2013, 08:40 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 10, 2013, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Business Wire | Foundation Medicine has released its second genetic cancer profiler for clinical use, this time targeting hematologic cancers and certain sarcomas.

Dec 9, 2013, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM is developing a software to let users switch between cloud services interchangeably. The software-- InterCloud Storage (ICStore)--is still in development, but customers are invited to test it.

Dec 9, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Business Standard | Strand Life Sciences and El Camino Hospital in San Francisco are joining to set up a center for genomics and personalized medicine.

Dec 9, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Researchers around the world are trying to improve on our laboratory cancer models to better reflect the variable genetic makeup of cancer. In Part 2, we look at the sorry state of cancer cell lines – and a team at Sloan-Kettering who want to improve it.

Dec 6, 2013, 09:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | After two contentious weeks of FDA pressure, the last personal genetic testing company to offer health information has at last caved to the regulatory agency's directives, suspending sale of the health-related reports associated with its Personal Genome Service kits.

Dec 5, 2013, 15:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Myriad Genetics has launched a new lawsuit over its ownership of genetic tests for BRCA mutations, this time against Laboratory Corporation of America.