Jan 14, 2014, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | According to Illumina CEO Jay Flatley, the thousand dollar genome is finally here, with the new HiSeq X system already in production and ready to ship this March. The sequencer will be capable of delivering five whole human genomes a day at a cost of just under $1000 apiece.

Jan 14, 2014, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | By partnering with Geisinger Health Systems in Pennsylvania, pharmaceutical developer Regeneron will get access to detailed electronic health records on the 100,000 volunteers it plans to sequence over the next five years.

Jan 13, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Luke Timmerman has a good roundup of the buzz and trends at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference: deals, takeovers, and new target areas in biotech.

Jan 13, 2014, 08:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In the wake of another record-setting year at PLOS, Bio-IT World looks behind the curtain at the metadata that helps us search through the world’s largest open access collection of scientific research.

Jan 10, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | John Reynders has left big pharma to take charge of informatics at Moderna. His goal there is heady: creating a fully cloud-based biotech.

Jan 10, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

ReadWrite | IBM hoped that Watson's its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer would be netting the company $1 billion by 2018. Yet over the last three years, the machine only brought in $100 million total.

Jan 9, 2014, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Insight Genetics has received a new $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), their sixth contract from NCI for companion diagnostics development.

Jan 9, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that scales in a "near-linear" fashion and could help computers tackle larger, tougher problems much more efficiently.

Jan 8, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jan 8, 2014, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A Johns Hopkins team bred female mice to carry genes for two different fluorescent proteins, one on each X chromosome, resulting in entrancing color images that show patterns of X-inactivation across the body.

Jan 7, 2014, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

GCN | The NCI plans to host the Cancer Genome Atlas in the cloud--all 2.5 petabytes of it. NCI plans to award three contracts to build "cancer clouds" for the project.

Jan 7, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Hartford Business | By the end of the year, the Jackson Laboratory's new facility will be completed and Charles Lee will lead the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.

Jan 6, 2014, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced a $1.06 billion sale of multiple business units to GE Healthcare, as a condition of regulatory approval for Thermo Fisher's acquisition of Life Technologies.

Jan 3, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World |Informatics tools are essential to enabling life sciences research, and at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference next month in San Francisco, a host of leaders across the industry will share their best practices for making sense of the wealth.

Jan 3, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

The Verge | Legal journalist Matt Stroud reviews the DNA fingerprinting techniques commonly used in police investigations.

Jan 3, 2014, 09:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Looking to build on its early entry into the cloud-based genomic analysis market, DNAnexus today announced a large Series C funding round.

Jan 2, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Pharma reporter Matthew Herper offers letter grades to the 16 largest drug companies for their 2013 performance.

Dec 31, 2013, 14:05 PM by Michael Croft

NPR | A look back at three scientific giants who passed away this year recalls the long development of genetics and gene sequencing.

Dec 31, 2013, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

New York Times | A new generation of "neuromorphic processors," expected to reach commercial availability in 2014, use synapse-like connections to adapt their response to data inputs over time.

Dec 30, 2013, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

InformationWeek | As 2013 comes to an end, a top technology publication looks back at big data's big impact over the past year.