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Bayer Report Asia Pacific Growth
Mar 25, 2011, 03:30 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | SINGAPORE—Earlier this week, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals reported 5.8% sales growth for Asia Pacific, compared to global growth of 0.9%. Company representatives listed a strong pipeline, double-digit growth in several emerging Asian markets, and a secure patent situation as foundations for the company’s position.
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Ending Diagnostic Odysseys the Wisconsin Way
Mar 24, 2011, 06:25 AM by Michael CroftNGS Leaders | For the past several years, the Medical College of Wisconsin's Howie Jacob has been telling everyone that genomic sequencing will reach the clinic by about 2014. It turns out he was a little late. As Kevin Davies explains on NGS Leaders, Jacob and colleagues are blazing a trail for applying whole-genome sequencing for seriously ill patients with undiagnosed disorders.Full story -
Funding the Future of Biotech
Mar 24, 2011, 05:35 AM by Michael CroftXconomy | In a two part Xconomy article, Stewart Lyman details how pharma and biotech, along with the federal government, fund most biomedical research in the US, but there are other sources of capital that can drive drug discovery and development.Full story -
EMC Announces Data Hero Awards
Mar 23, 2011, 03:10 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | EMC Corporation has announced the Data Hero Awards 2011, a far-reaching program to honor those individuals and organizations exploring innovative uses of Big Data technologies and techniques. These often-unsung Data Heroes are at the forefront of pioneering solutions that have a profound impact on the way individuals, organizations, entire industries and societies live and work.Full story -
Quest Buys Celera for $657 million
Mar 21, 2011, 00:05 AM by Michael CroftReuters | Quest Diagnostics said on Friday it will pay $8/share for Celera, a $657 million bid. The gene sequencing company founded by Craig Venter, has a promising genetic testing pipeline in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurological disorders.Full story -
Putting Medical Records Data Through its Paces
Mar 17, 2011, 01:15 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | The Partnership to Advance Clinical electronic Research or PACeR was created to “convene the users and the collectors of the data to understand how we can safely reuse electronic medical record data to facilitate clinical research,” explains David Krusch, chief medical information officer at the University of Rochester Medical Center and chair of the PACeR leadership committee.
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Pore Science: Oxford and the 15-Minute Genome?
Mar 16, 2011, 01:10 AM by Michael CroftThe Economist | The Economist looks at Oxford Nanorpore's nanopore sequencing. “So the current state of the art spends between five and ten days just preparing the DNA,” said Gordon Sanghera, CEO at Oxford Nanopore.Full story -
UC Davis’ Jonathan Eisen Wins 2011 Benjamin Franklin Award
Mar 15, 2011, 14:15 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary geneticist and professor in the Genome Center at University of California, Davis, has been named the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for 2011 by the Bioinformatics Organization.Full story -
FDA Panel Recommends Physican Input for Genetic Tests
Mar 15, 2011, 01:00 AM by Michael CroftMedpage Today | At the FDA's Molecular and Clinical Genetics Advisory Panel last week, the panel again recommended that certain at-home genetic tests not be used without the involvement of a physician or genetic specialist.Full story -
IBM Announces Cloud Computing Center in Singapore
Mar 11, 2011, 03:00 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | SINGAPORE—Earlier this week, IBM announced a $38m investment n a new IBM Asia Pacifica Cloud Computing Data Centre in Singapore scheduled to launch in April. The new facility will extend IBM's globally-integrated cloud delivery network with centers in Germany, Canada and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific: China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.Full story -
deCODE Identifies Heart Rhythm Disorder SNP
Mar 11, 2011, 00:00 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | Earlier this week, scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from Iceland, The Netherlands, Denmark, the US and Illumina, report the discovery of a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associated with high risk of sick sinus syndrome (SSS). The study was published on March 6 in the online edition of Nature Genetics.Full story -
On the Edge of the Patent Cliff
Mar 7, 2011, 06:25 AM by Michael CroftFull storyNew York Times | Pfizer's patent on Lipitor expires in November, representing a $10 billion/year revenue stream for the drug maker.
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EMD Serono Opens New Research Hub in Boston
Mar 3, 2011, 05:35 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Following in the footsteps of Novartis, Merck and other big pharma companies that have decided to headquarter their research operations in the Boston area, EMD Serono recently opened a new research facility in the Boston suburb of Billerica.
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NCBI Closes Sequence Read Archive, Pepidome Respository
Mar 1, 2011, 06:35 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | NCBI has announced that it will discontinue its Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and Trace Archive repositories for high-throughput sequence data and the Pepidome Repository, citing budgetary constraints.
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Nic Volker May Be Leading Edge of New Wave of Genetic Medicine
Feb 28, 2011, 09:55 AM by Michael CroftMilwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | The case of Nic Volker, a young undiagnosed patient in Wisconsin who was treated after exome sequencing revealed a specific genetic lesion, may be the leading edge of a wave moving across medicine, as doctors at the Medical College and Children's Hospital have half-a-dozen new cases moving through an evaulation process.Full story -
Better Business, Better Compliance Through Defensible Data Disposal
Feb 25, 2011, 01:30 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Expert Commentary | Pharmaceutical companies are drowning in data, but few organizations know what to do about it. That’s about to change. A new information governance strategy that supports “defensible data disposal” can help companies reduce the amount of data they retain. By doing so, they can utilize research data more efficiently, improve compliance processes, reduce legal and business risk, and save money.
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Microsoft Mobile Health App Challenge
Feb 24, 2011, 03:00 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Microsoft is extending a mobile challenge to the health and life sciences marketplace, and calling partners, developers and phone app enthusiasts to come up with unique apps coded for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) that will benefit their organizations, employees or consumers.
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Genedata Announces Software Suite for Biologics R&D
Feb 23, 2011, 05:40 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | SAN FRANCISO—Genedata today released Genedata Biologics, a first-in-class, off-the-shelf software solution for comprehensive data management and analysis of biologics R&D activities. The platform is featured at CHI’s Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2011 in San Francisco this week (Moscone Convention Center, Feb. 23-25).
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Context and the Cloud: the Third Era of Computing
Feb 22, 2011, 07:30 AM by Michael CroftFull storyForbes | IBM's Watson not only soundly beat two Jeopardy champions, but also may have ushered in a new era of computing, the third in IBM's long history.
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Obama Aims for Exascale
Feb 18, 2011, 05:40 AM by Michael CroftFull storyComputerworld | President Obama has included supercomputing in his 2012 budget proposal. If the budget is approved, the Department of Energy will get $126 million for development of an exascale computing system.