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

New York Times | Sarepta Therapeutics has developed a drug that may be helping muscular dystrophy by skipping exons.

Sep 24, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | It's been clear that SAP's HANA was intended to go after Oracle customers, but Oracle is not surrendering.

Sep 20, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Hans Petersen, the CEO of a now-defunct San Diego biotech shot and wounded two business associates yesterday.

Sep 20, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | Google announced Calico yesterday, its new venture that is taking on aging. The story predictably solicited comment from around the Web.

Sep 19, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Opiniomics | Mick Watson knows we need some caution, but he's ready to get moving. On his blog today, he challenged the community to give up the hypothetical examples and start sequencing.

Sep 19, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Life Technologies has named its first Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Center of Excellence—an initiative to establish a global alliance comprised of leading centers capable of running the most-advanced, NGS-based oncology panels for clinical research.

Sep 18, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The National Institutes of Health distributed $45 million in new funding today to support innovative new studies of Alzheimer’s disease.

Sep 18, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Productivity doesn’t simply happen, especially in drug discovery. Forecasting and planning drug development can be a painstaking process, but carefully managing resources can lead to progress and savings. At the 11th annual Strategic Resource Management event, speakers from across the drug discovery landscape will share best practices on resource management, decision-making, forecasting, and more.

Sep 17, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | November Research Group’s PRIMO software platform has been selected as the new product vigilance software solution for the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

Sep 17, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | DNAnexus has launched a specialized platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed to eliminate the common challenges and costs that enterprises face when building clinically compliant analysis pipelines for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data.  DNAnexus provides a configurable API-based platform that enables clinical testing labs to efficiently move their analysis pipelines into the cloud, using their own algorithms alongside industry-recognized tools and resources to create customized workflows in a secure and compliant environment.

Sep 17, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Healio | Four groups have been awarded $5 million grants under the Genomic Sequencing and Newborn Screening Disorders research program.

Sep 17, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Complete Genomics has appointed Ethan Knowlden as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the company, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of BGI-Shenzhen.

Sep 16, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

NPR | Forensic scientists are calling for the creation of an international group to conduct DNA-identification on remains found after disasters or wars.

Sep 16, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The tranSMART Foundation today released tranSMART version 1.1. Originally developed as an internal project by Johnson & Johnson, this new version of the cloud-based data sharing solution eliminates the need for user organizations to purchase commercial software and integrates significant new contributions by the developer community over the past year into one new release.

Sep 13, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Sacramento News 10 | The University of California, Davis is putting the finishing touches on BGI Davis--home for the university's collaboration with BGI. The lab will house 20 sequencers.

Sep 12, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | Cubist Pharmaceuticals has completed a $704 million acquisition of Trius Therapeutics.

Sep 12, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Evotec and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) launched a strategic partnership to identify compounds that prevent or slow the loss of motor neurons, which is characteristic of the human disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The collaboration is called CureMN (CureMotorNeuron).

Sep 12, 2013, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Data storage is an ever present question and concern for many companies. Computerworld breaks out 14 points to consider as you build a data storage plan.

Sep 11, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Harvard and MIT have been awarded $25 million in NSF grant money to work on artificial intelligence. Researchers will study how the brain creates intelligence and how that process can be replicated in machines.

Sep 10, 2013, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | Bayer HealthCare and the Broad Institute have announced a strategic alliance in oncogenomics and drug discovery in order to jointly discover and develop therapeutic agents that selectively target cancer genome alterations over a period of five years.