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

Technology Review | FindZebra bests Google at the rare disease hunt. The new search engine is dedicated to identifying rare diseases using an index of databases including the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database and more.

Mar 18, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | One of the most surprising parts of Atul Butte’s lab website is his open-access calendar. At the bottom of his profile page, Butte, Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University and a keynote speaker for the Bio-IT World Expo on April 10, lists his daily commitments, instructions for making an appointment, and his assistant’s phone number. The message is subtle, but clear: personal data cannot stay personal for long if Big Data will succeed in medicine.

Mar 18, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | AstraZeneca announced that it will cut 1,600 jobs in an overhaul of the company's research and development efforts. The cuts will hopefully save the company $1.4 billion.

Mar 15, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

GEN | BGI has successfully completed its tender offer for all outstanding shares of Complete Genomics, the Chinese firm said today.

Mar 15, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

UCSF | University of California San Francisco is launching a four-year, $2.4 million project to analyze how physicians and patients in the general population, as well as those given whole genome sequencing results in a clinical trial, evaluate the benefits and risks of genetic information.

Mar 15, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

News Brief | A judge in Tacoma, Washington, has ordered Illumina to pay $96 million in damages to Syntrix Biosystems for infringing upon its bead array patent.

Mar 15, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

NGS Leaders |It’s been over 15 years since Gattaca took genetics to the big screen and pushed the boundaries of the public’s imagination. But where is genomic science reflected in Hollywood today? Author and director Brett Bonowicz hopes to answer that with ThePerfect46, a film that explores where genetics and social networks overlap.

Mar 14, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Washington Post | Apparent suicide and potential scandal are two unsavory elements surrounding a disputed article published by a noted Johns Hopkins research group in Nature six months ago.

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

Bio-IT World | Steven Salzberg, computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University, is the winner of the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award, presented annually by the Bioinformatics Organization. He spoke to Kevin Davies about the highlights of his lab’s research over the past 15 years and his philosophy on open-source and open access.

Mar 13, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Guardian | 23andMe founder, Anne Wojcicki, talks genomics and why everyone should get on board.

Mar 13, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | Yesteday afternoon GSK announced that it was closing its Sirtris Pharmaceuticals offices in Cambridge, Mass. Close on the heels of the announcement, rumors swirled about other GSK reorganizations.

Mar 13, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Nabsys has closed a $20 million Series D financing to support the commercial launch of the company’s positional sequencing system. The company previewed its pre-beta instrument at AGBT last month, giving early users the chance to see the technology at work.

Mar 13, 2013, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Video | Jack Szostak, Nobel laureate, will be keynoting CHI’s Drug Discovery Chemistry conference in San Diego in April. In this video sneak peak, he and Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies discuss the role of academics in R&D, the exciting world of macrocyclic peptides, and his plan to one-up evolution.

Mar 12, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Science 2.0 | HeLa cells, the immortal cell line commonly used for biologic research, have been sequenced, and the findings reveal vast differences between HeLa cells and normal human cells including number and structure of chromosomes.

Mar 12, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature | BIOFAB  is open for business, dealing in DNA parts--sequence sections that biologists can fit together to engineer cells.

Mar 12, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon Web Services has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js. Now Node.js developers can run and scale their applications automatically in Elastic Beanstalk.

Mar 12, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Guest Commentary | The UberCloud CompBio Experiment explores the end-to-end process of accessing and using remote computing resources as a service, and learning how to resolve the many roadblocks. The experiment launches its third round on April 1, and the call is open now for participants.

Mar 11, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Not Exactly Rocket Science | When Lilly Grossman was one-and-a-half her parents might have thought the sleepness nights of babyhood were behind them. But Lilly starting suffering from muscle tremors at night that got progressively worse. For the last 13 years, Lilly has woken 20 to 30 times a night, shaking violently.

Mar 8, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

In the Pipeline | There's lots of talk about the biopharma investment in China and India, but it's less clear what part of the investment is actual R&D.

Mar 7, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This April welcomes the return of the Bio-IT World Expo in Boston (April 9-11, 2013). Over the course of three days, researchers from academia and industry will discuss themes of big data, cloud computing, trends in IT infrastructure, omics technologies, high-performance computing, data analytics and precision medicine, from the research realm to the clinical arena.