Dec 9, 2013, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM is developing a software to let users switch between cloud services interchangeably. The software-- InterCloud Storage (ICStore)--is still in development, but customers are invited to test it.

Dec 9, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Business Standard | Strand Life Sciences and El Camino Hospital in San Francisco are joining to set up a center for genomics and personalized medicine.

Dec 9, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Researchers around the world are trying to improve on our laboratory cancer models to better reflect the variable genetic makeup of cancer. In Part 2, we look at the sorry state of cancer cell lines – and a team at Sloan-Kettering who want to improve it.

Dec 6, 2013, 09:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | After two contentious weeks of FDA pressure, the last personal genetic testing company to offer health information has at last caved to the regulatory agency's directives, suspending sale of the health-related reports associated with its Personal Genome Service kits.

Dec 5, 2013, 15:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Myriad Genetics has launched a new lawsuit over its ownership of genetic tests for BRCA mutations, this time against Laboratory Corporation of America.

Dec 5, 2013, 13:45 PM by Michael Croft

National Academies | Human gene transfer has become so routine in clinical trials that it should no longer merit additional NIH oversight, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

Dec 5, 2013, 11:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Researchers around the world are trying to improve on our laboratory cancer models to better reflect the variable genetic makeup of cancer. In Part 2, we look at the Mount Sinai Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics, where every patient enrolled gets their own line of personalized fruit flies - complete with their unique cancer genes.

Dec 4, 2013, 08:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Researchers around the world are trying to improve on our laboratory cancer models to better reflect the variable genetic makeup of cancer. In Part 1, we look at a Dutch team building a bank of living, miniature organ systems grown from real patients' tumors.

Dec 3, 2013, 13:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | In the wake of the FDA action halting 23andMe's marketing, a class suit has emerged claiming at least $5 million in damages on behalf of the company's customers.

Dec 3, 2013, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This year marks the first real-time use of the flu forecast model developed by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, which correctly predicted the seasonal influenza peak in 70% of the 108 cities for which forecasts were made.

Dec 3, 2013, 08:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Claritas Genomics has "a very clear vision to be… the world’s leading provider of next-generation pediatric diagnostics,” according to CEO Patrice Milos. Ten months after splitting off from Boston Children's Hospital, the company is ready to embrace that ambition.

Dec 1, 2013, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEEDHAM, MA - Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Insight Pharma Reports announces Digital PCR Technology Report: An Insight to Vendors, Costs & the End User Community.

Nov 27, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | FDA’s letter to 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki set off a storm of responses ranging from outrage at FDA to disgust with 23andMe. We look at what the letter actually called for, and a survey of the responses in the community.

Nov 27, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Ingenuity Systems is preparing for the release of a new platform for performing variant analysis in the clinic: a core component of the QIAGEN GeneReader pipeline. Yet like CLC bio, Ingenuity continues to tread an independent path under its new corporate owner.

Nov 27, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Rumors that the formal structure of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University will shortly be dismantled have now been confirmed.

Nov 27, 2013, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Duke Check | The Duke Genome Institute may be in peril after a ten-year review, as insiders suggest the Institute will be dismantled and its members relegated to separate departments of the university.

Nov 26, 2013, 11:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Moore and Sloan Foundations are providing a $40 million grant to build university spaces for data science.

Nov 25, 2013, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Using the well-studied enzyme lysozyme as a proof-of-concept, researchers at Stanford's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have demonstrated that X-ray laser technology can generate 3D models of unknown proteins without any prior knowledge of their structure.

Nov 25, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki on Friday, demanding that the company "immediately discontinue marketing the [Personal Genome Service]."

Nov 25, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Oxford Nanopore this morning invited registration for the MinION Access Programme (MAP). Registration will remain open through the holiday period, the company said. In early 2014, at least two days notice will be given of closure of the registration period. Preference will not be given to early applicants.