Oct 7, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The field of non-invasive prenatal testing is rapidly advancing thanks to tests from groups like Natera, Berry Genomics, Verinata, recently acquired by Illumina, and others. Using cell-free DNA and circulating fetal cells, researchers are able to predict diseases more accurately than ever before.

Oct 7, 2013, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Methods | A new technique is allowing researchers at the University of Zurich to visualize the quantity and location of transcript molecules inside thousands of functioning cells at once.

Oct 7, 2013, 09:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | DataDirect Networks today announced an expanded partnership with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, to deploy more than 10 petabytes of high-performance storage.

Oct 4, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Genomes Unzipped | Genomics England Limited, the company built to manage the UK's plan to sequence 100,000 whole genomes over the next 3-5 years, held a town hall meeting yesterday to address some of the community's questions about the plan.

Oct 4, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Science | Science magazine writer John Bohannon takes on open access publishing with a spoof paper submitted to 304 open access, "peer-reviewed" journals.

Oct 3, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Wired | A government biomedical scientist was instructed not to speak to the media, but she shared her thoughts on the shutdown, her research, and what damage even a temporary halt in research can do.

Oct 3, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A team from the Seaver Autism Center at Mt. Sinai has released the results of a large genomic study of ASD individuals, leveraging new technology to find single-gene deletions within whole exome sequences.

Oct 3, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Wired | In December 2008, 23andMe received a US patent on a system for helping prospective parents choose traits for their offspring including hair color and disease risk.

Oct 2, 2013, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A new search tool, analagous to BLAST, is allowing researchers to dig deep through the Gene Expression Omnibus for experimental data.

Oct 1, 2013, 14:15 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Big data company EMC has shifted its investments heavily toward flash storage, with over half its R&D budget turned over to flash technology.

Oct 1, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team at the Scripps Research Institute is looking at a little-known protein called TMEM24 as a possible linchpin in the control of insulin levels - and therefore a promising target for diabetes research.

Oct 1, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Merck today released the news that it will be firing 8,500 workers across the company, in addition to 7,500 layoffs it had previously announced.

Sep 30, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The 5th annual Consumer Genetics Conference wrapped up last Friday in Boston, after three days of rich discussion, new ideas and products, and a bit of debate.

Sep 30, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Technology Review | With Foundation Medicine's successful IPO, the cancer genetics test that Steve Jobs hoped for will soon be available.

Sep 25, 2013, 20:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The National Institutes of Health just announced three grants totaling more than $25 million over four years to help three research groups develop authoritative information on the millions of genomic variants relevant to human disease and the hundreds that are expected to be useful for clinical practice.

Sep 25, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Personalized medicine offers tremendous potential for patients, but could impose huge development costs that might never be recovered by the manufacturers.

Sep 25, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Motley Fool | A Pacific Biosciences-Roche deal announced today has PacBio stock leaping. The deal gives Roche worldwide exclusive rights to in vitro diagnostics products based on PacBio's SMRT technology.

Sep 25, 2013, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

By Bio-IT World | The launch of Genohub, a company that helps link genomics researchers with sequencing providers, this past August marks a significant step forward in the Next Generation Sequencing industry.

Sep 24, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Sep 24, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Gigaom | RainDance Technologies has raised $35 million in debt financing from Capital Royalty Partners. The company raised $20 million in April.