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

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, 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, 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.

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.