Oct 18, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Watson, the IBM supercomputer best known for its successful stint as a Jeopardy contestant, has a new gig as a clinical advisor at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Oct 18, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Guest Commentary | In today’s doctor’s office, when a physician diagnoses a patient, a number of tests are consulted and the best possible course of treatment is prescribed. Unfortunately there is often limited data that allows the doctor to tailor and customize treatment specifically to a patient's biology and lifestyle. But there are five ways technology will change that over the next decade, bringing personalized medicine to fruition.

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

Bio-IT World News Brief | Good Start Genetics presented additional data on their GoodStart Select carrier screening test. GoodStart reports that 8.4% of carriers of genetic diseases detected with the Good Start tests would have been missed using other available technologies.

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

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is taking on Europe this December under a new name: Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe. For our fifth year in Europe, we’re digging specifically into clinical genomics and the informatics that underlie progress. Our sequencing track will cover both clinical exome sequencing and RNA sequencing, and on the informatics side of the house, we’ll look at high-scale computing and genomic informatics. The program is rich with standout speakers. Here are just a few of the presentations we’ve flagged.

Oct 16, 2013, 15:40 PM by Michael Croft

Neuron | A team of researchers seeking to pinpoint the genetic cause of a rare disorder of brain growth have implicated deficiencies of the amino acid asparagine in the disease phenotype.

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

Bio-IT World News Brief | OpenHelix today launched a suite of over 100 online bioinformatics and genomics tutorials that introduce researchers, teachers, and students to biomedical resources that are freely available on the web.

Oct 16, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | The Apache Software Foundation has released Hadoop 2. The most notable new component is YARN--yet another resource negotiator--which Apache refers to as MapReduce version 2.

Oct 16, 2013, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This month, Roche began the process of closing its wholly-owned subsidiary 454 Life Sciences, a once-dominant player in next-generation sequencing.

Oct 16, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

FastCompany | In another 23andMe profile, an author submits a sample from her adopted daughter and gets some of the most challenging results.

Oct 15, 2013, 07:45 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Communications | Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School believe it may be possible to stop tumor cells from proliferating by teaching them how to age again.

Oct 14, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Chemical Biology | Researchers from McMaster University are bypassing traditional drug discovery methods by targeting the processes through which bacteria synthesize and metabolize nutrients, hoping to find new antibiotic compounds that could destroy pathogens in vivo even though these drugs would not work in the ideal nutrient-rich conditions usually tested in the lab.

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

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Human Variome Project has launched a Southeast Asian node to facilitate the sharing of genetic variations in Southeast Asian populations.

Oct 11, 2013, 08:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | MolecularHealth, which just announced the management team for its North American Office, is preparing to launch a personalized, direct-to-consumer genomic service for cancer patients in the Unites States.

Oct 10, 2013, 17:10 PM by Michael Croft

PLOS Computational Biology | Researchers have proposed a simple homeostatic rule to explain the process by which new neural connections are established and damage to the brain is repaired.

Oct 10, 2013, 14:15 PM by Michael Croft

Science | A large study of ancient mitochondrial DNA is helping to reconstruct the migration patterns of Europeans during the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural lifestyles.

Oct 10, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Indianapolis Business Journal | Two Lilly scientists emailed details about nine experimental drug research programs to an individual employed by Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd., based in China.

Oct 9, 2013, 13:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. today announced $64 million in new funds, raised from a multinational mix of current and new investors.

Oct 8, 2013, 15:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Two large-scale surveys, the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative and the Impact of Personal Genomics Study, have been peering into consumer responses to genomic test results. Now they're delivering insights into the mindsets and health behaviors of patients who seek out whole genome sequencing.

Oct 8, 2013, 08:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News briefs and product releases from around the industry, including BGI's American expansion, Virtify's streamlined process for submitting clinical trials, new software for measuring gene expression and hardware for live cell assays, and much more.

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.