Dec 4, 2012, 04:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Thanks to a distributed computing platform of NVIDIA GPUs, bioinformaticians at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and UPF (Pompeu Fabra University) have used molecular simulation to explain a specific step in the maturation of HIV. The results were published in the most recent issue of PNAS.  

Dec 3, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Science Codex | Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have identified mutations in two related genes involved in neuroblastoma. The work was published yesterday in Nature Genetics.

Dec 3, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

BBC | Flash memory is fast, but it's long been known to have reliability issues after about 10,000 read/write cycles. Researchers in Taiwan have now shown that a 800C jolt of heat can "heal" the memory, making it good for up to 100 million cycles.

Dec 3, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In the not-so-distant future, the pharmaceutical industry will need to move away from serendipity and its “blockbuster” drug development approach to become a service-based business specializing in patient-specific therapeutics delivering desired outcomes at the desired price. Clinical trials, of necessity, will be re-engineered to reflect real-world circumstances and turn adaptive study programs into a competitive advantage. Practicing clinicians will be dissuaded from using high-cost medicines and more actively participate in modeling and simulation exercises to help get better products to patients sooner.

Nov 30, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Receiving the 2012 Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award from the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), Randy Scott reflected on his success as the founder and former CEO of Genomic Health, but also looked ahead to new opportunities with his latest venture, InVitae Corporation.  

Nov 30, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

HHMI | The Trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have elected Professor Erin K. O’Shea, Ph.D., now a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Harvard University, as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer.

Nov 30, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

eWeek | Amazon Web Services launched a cloud data warehouse earlier in the week. Redshift is a petabyte-scale data warehouse service that provides a fast and powerful solution that increases the speed of query performance.

Nov 30, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Skeptical Outsider | You know scientists are getting desperate when National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers publicly boast that their approach is not limited to the realm of rational behavior. Heck, as long as funding is infinite, why not keep going back to re-drill the same dry holes hoping dumb luck will produce a gusher? 

Nov 29, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Stanford Daily | Stanford University is launching the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics. The Center will reportedly specialize in the analysis of big data with a smaller emphasis on lab work.

Nov 29, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nov 29, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | An analyst with Numis Securities in London has reiterated a $2-billion valuation for Oxford Nanopore, even before the sequencing company has commercially launched, based on its assessment of the medical market and an evaluation of one of the British sequencing company’s major investors, the publicly traded IP Group. 

Nov 28, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Rockefeller University physician scientist Robert Darnell, son of Lasker Award winner James Darnell, is the newly appointed scientific director of the New York Genome Center (NYGC). Darnell gives his first in-depth interview to Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies on his reasons for taking the job and his initial goals for the high-profile center.

Nov 27, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

GEN | Getting the big data is the easy part, making sense of it is the challenge for life sciences. Guy Cavet, vice president of life sciences at Kaggle, a platform for data science competitions, argues for not just big data, but smarter use of rich data.

Nov 27, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | The fight for Complete Genomics is not over. BGI and Illumina have both submitted letters arguing that their offer is a better fit to the Complete Genomics board.

Nov 27, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Where are the biotech startups for 2012? Xconomy finds them few and far between. Listing "exciting" startups as those with a big idea and at least $5 million in their pockets, Luke Timmerman comes up with only 28.

Nov 27, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Guardian | Liverpool University has launched a free app for doctors that records what symptoms their patient has and the treatment they provided. Collect enough of these together, from around the world, and you get real-time global disease surveillance.

Nov 26, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

The Telegraph | Novartis has arranged a crisis meeting for British stakeholders in London today in a bid to "streamline Britain’s 'haphazard' approach to medical research and development (R&D)."

Nov 26, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Datanami | Panasas believes high performance network attached storage (NAS) can offer some rather appealing features for the MapReduce world.

Nov 26, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

HHMI | The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is expanding its focus--into film. HHMI today announced the launch of Tangled Bank Studios, a film and media production company for science documentaries.

Nov 21, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | Adaptive clinical trials might be globally embraced if the current preoccupation with fixed trial designs was viewed as an “engineering problem” requiring a lot of talk and teamwork between adaptive design experts, said Michael Krams, MD, vice president & head of the neurology franchise at Johnson & Johnson (J&J).