Dec 6, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Herald Online | BIOBASE, in agreement the University of Southern California, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, will now distribute ANNOVAR, a tool for annotation of genomic variants, to commercial users as a standalone product or complement to Genome Trax.

Dec 6, 2012, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Pharmalot | The former head of psychopharmacology at Boehringer Ingelheim, Frank Sams-Dodd, talks about the reason for pharma's decreased productivity, and the ways drug discovery are done that contribute to the problem.

Dec 6, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 5, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 5, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Two years in, George Scangos is leading leads Biogen Idec's comeback story. He's cut costs and jobs and moved away from cancer research, but has invested in neuroscience and hemophilia.

Dec 5, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Boston Globe | Partners HealthCare System in Boston is launching a whole genome sequencing and interpretation service for patients at its nine hospitals across Eastern Massachusetts.

Dec 5, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 4, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | AMD has introduced low-power Opteron processors targeted for Cloud use to power Web transactions: the Opteron 4300 and 3300 chips.

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.