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.

Oct 7, 2013, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Methods | A new technique is allowing researchers at the University of Zurich to visualize the quantity and location of transcript molecules inside thousands of functioning cells at once.

Oct 7, 2013, 09:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | DataDirect Networks today announced an expanded partnership with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, to deploy more than 10 petabytes of high-performance storage.

Oct 4, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Genomes Unzipped | Genomics England Limited, the company built to manage the UK's plan to sequence 100,000 whole genomes over the next 3-5 years, held a town hall meeting yesterday to address some of the community's questions about the plan.

Oct 4, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Science | Science magazine writer John Bohannon takes on open access publishing with a spoof paper submitted to 304 open access, "peer-reviewed" journals.

Oct 3, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Wired | A government biomedical scientist was instructed not to speak to the media, but she shared her thoughts on the shutdown, her research, and what damage even a temporary halt in research can do.

Oct 3, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A team from the Seaver Autism Center at Mt. Sinai has released the results of a large genomic study of ASD individuals, leveraging new technology to find single-gene deletions within whole exome sequences.

Oct 3, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Wired | In December 2008, 23andMe received a US patent on a system for helping prospective parents choose traits for their offspring including hair color and disease risk.