• March New Products

    Mar 26, 2012, 06:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | New products in clinical trials, sequencing analysis, storage, chromatography and more from across the industry. 
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  • Another Look at the MinION

    Mar 26, 2012, 05:35 AM by Michael Croft
    Wired | Wired looks at Oxford Nanopore's USB sequencer, the MinION. It has the potential to be a game changer, but users are still waiting to see it in action.
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  • A Preview of Bio-IT World Expo 2012

    Mar 26, 2012, 00:35 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | On April 24-26, Bio-IT World will host its tenth anniversary conference in Boston, and anticipates the largest gathering to date, along with a record 125 companies exhibiting this year. More than 200 speakers will present in a total of 12 concurrent conference tracks, as well as 15 short courses, not to mention the 2012 Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards and the Best of Show exhibit prizes. Here are just a few of the potential highlights on this year’s program. 
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  • Growth at San Diego Supercomputing Center

    Mar 23, 2012, 05:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Lab Manager | The San Diego Supercomputer Center has been growing over the past three years, and has created a fully integrated "big data" environment.
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  • Personalized Medicine and Safety

    Mar 22, 2012, 02:30 AM by Michael Croft
    InformationWeek | Some of personalized medicine's most famous examples are of drug efficacy, but could genomics help with drug safety as well?
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  • GSK, Johnson & Johnson Invest in $200m Venture Fund

    Mar 22, 2012, 01:20 AM by Michael Croft
    NJ.com | GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson are forming a $200 million fund to invest in early-stage biotech companies. 
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  • Court Rejects Personalized Medicine Patents

    Mar 21, 2012, 03:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Chicago Tribune | The US Supreme Court rejected two Prometheus patents on a method for monitoring a patient's blood to determine drug dosing. Mayo Clinic brought the patent challenge. The Supreme Court ruled that adjusting dosage based on patient monitoring was a natural process and could not be patented.
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  • Roche Courts Illumina Shareholders Directly

    Mar 21, 2012, 02:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Reuters | Roche sent Illumina investors a direct letter yesterday urging them to accept the Roche bid, currently at $5.7 billion. Again Roche claimed the offer was "full and fair".
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  • Future Under Review for caBIG and NCI's Informatics Strategy

    Mar 20, 2012, 03:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | One year after the board of scientific advisors for the working group on caBIG called for a one-year moratorium on new projects, contracts, and subcontracts by caBIG, and a thorough audit of all aspects of the caBIG budget and expenditures, the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) at the National Cancer Institute has a new interim director and is building a new game plan. George A. Komatsoulis stressed to Bio-IT World that “caBIG is continuing to operate” and, “the NCI intends to remain engaged in a substantial way in the biomedical informatics space.” 
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  • Europe and/or Bust

    Mar 20, 2012, 01:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Even though Europe's financial system has been on charging downhill recently, several venture firms have invested heavily in European biotech in recent months.
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  • GNS Healthcare Aids Search for Fresh Leads on CHF Readmissions

    Mar 20, 2012, 00:10 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | Hypotheses culled from real-world outcomes data will be getting large-scale testing by Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The advanced analytics of GNS Healthcare are being applied to de-identified data from electronic health records (EHRs), pharmacy data, and administrative claims information to determine what factors contribute to adverse drug reactions and hospital readmissions in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), says David Bates, MD, director of the hospital’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice. 

     

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  • The Big Picture: Combining Genomics with Medicine

    Mar 19, 2012, 00:55 AM by Michael Croft
    LA Times | Michael Snyder, head of the genetics department at Stanford University, had taken personal genome sequencing one step further. With the help of a team of researchers, Snyder had his full genome sequenced and then compared those findings to frequent blood draws measuring proteins, RNA, and other chemicals in his body.
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  • Plans for the California Institute of Biomedical Research

    Mar 19, 2012, 00:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Last week Merck announced a $90m investment in the California Institute of Biomedical Research--Calibr--to be headed by Peter Schultz. Xconomy spoke with Schultz about the hiring process, plans for collaborations, and the Institute's relationship with Merck.
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  • After the Gravy Days: Opportunities for Biotech Growth

    Mar 19, 2012, 00:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes, Wall Street Journal | In an article on biotech funding on Friday, the Wall Street Journal did not mince words: "The gravy days are over," the authors said, comparing fundraising to the housing market for sellers: tough. Forbes contributor David Shaywitz looks at where the opportunities are for disruptive growth in this environment. 
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  • Computer Scientists' Solution to a Biologist’s Problem

    Mar 16, 2012, 03:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND—In 2004, a New Zealand biotech approached a group of computer scientists with a biology problem. Genesis Research was sequencing the poplar tree genome, and they had a problem they estimated it would take their in house cluster about three months to solve, recalls Graham Gaylard, Real Time Genomics’ founder. A team of computer scientists solved the problem in a few weeks. 
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  • A Personal Proteome Project

    Mar 16, 2012, 02:30 AM by Michael Croft
    Personal Proteomics | A proteomics bioinformatician launches his own Personal Proteome Project with proteome sequencing by Bioproximity. He is releasing three proteomics datasets on the Proteome Cluster on the Amazon Cloud.
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  • P4 Medicine Institute Adds Partner

    Mar 16, 2012, 02:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Leroy Hood's P4 Medicine Institute has announced an alliance with PeaceHealth, a nonprofit Catholic health system with locations in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. 
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  • GSK, Infosys Engage Consumers Digitally

    Mar 16, 2012, 01:35 AM by Michael Croft
    InPharm | GlaxoSmithKline has chosen Infosys and Fabric Worldwide to improve how GSK engages with consumers and health care professionals in digital media. 
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  • Merck Pledges $90m to California Institute for Biomedical Research

    Mar 16, 2012, 01:05 AM by Michael Croft
    U-T San Diego | Merck has pledged $90 million to the California Institute for Biomedical Research, a private, nonprofit center to be led by Peter Schultz and located in La Jolla.
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  • HHMI Announces New Competition For 30 Investigators

    Mar 15, 2012, 14:15 PM by Michael Croft
    HHMI News | The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will appoint up to 30 new biomedical researchers through a national open competition, the institute has announced, an investment worth some $200 million over the next five years.
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