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.

Mar 6, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | WALTHAM, Mass.—The chief architects of a fledgling coalition of IT firms, consultancies and biopharma representatives declared their first meeting last week a promising success.

Mar 6, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Pathogens: Genes and Genomes | Oxford Nanopore was a conspicuous no-show on the program at the recent AGBT conference, in stark contrast to CTO Clive Brown’s blockbuster presentation 12 months earlier. But blogger Nick Loman snagged a bar-room chat with the reclusive Brown last month and reveals the major reason why the company has been so quiet lately: a complete redesign of the custom sensor microchip (ASIC) underlying the nanopore array.

Mar 5, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bioinformatics.org has released the five finalists for the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences. Voting is open until Sunday, March 10.

Mar 5, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Nancy J. Kelley, the founding executive director of the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and the person most responsible for conceiving and bringing the ambitious institute to fruition, is stepping down from her leadership role.

Mar 5, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon Web Services is developing a set of system analysis tools and making them available for free for a month. The AWS Trusted Advisor service is now in beta.

Mar 4, 2013, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | HP is striving to build ARM servers with Texas Instruments chips. HP's Project Moonshot hopes to deliver low-power servers with either Intel or ARM processors.

Mar 4, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

FT Magazine | On the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, a treasury of archives is to be placed online by the Wellcome Library including Crick's pencil drawing of the double helix, photos of the researchers at work, letters between Crick and Maurice Wilkins, and an early draft of the Nature paper.

Mar 4, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Techonomy | A new startup out of Stanford is using data-mining techniques to predict whether or not IVF will succeed. Univfy compares personal health information with large data sets of previous IVF data to predict a woman's likely response.

Mar 4, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Federal cost cutting measures should look no farther than the FDA, argues an op ed in Bloomberg. First on the chopping block: Phase 3 clinical trials.

Mar 1, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

HPC Wire | 2012 was a big year for Cycle Computing and utility supercomputing. Jason Stowe of Cycle says that 2012 was a turning point for the industry.

Feb 28, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Spectrum | A personal genome exploration, Eliza Strickland goes to Ion Torrent's headquarters for a look inside Jonathan Rothberg's newest machine--the Ion Proton System--and her own genome.

Feb 28, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

News Brief | A research team at Weill Cornell Medical College has solved the 3D crystal structure of a member protein in one of the most important classes of human proteins—the G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The results were published yesterday in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

Feb 27, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

The Atlantic | Watson is reading your medical records--or at least some case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The IBM supercomputer is learning to make diagnoses and recommend treatments.