• Geisinger Says DNA Sequencing As Preventative Care Is Ready For The Clinic

    Forbes | Geisinger doctors will soon start offering patients DNA sequencing as part of routine preventative care, the Danville, Pennsylvania-based health system's president and CEO Dr. David Feinberg announced Sunday at the HLTH Conference in Las Vegas.

    May 7, 2018

  • National Adventure: All of Us Research Program Launches Prioritizing Diversity, Security

    Bio-IT World  The National Institutes of Health opened national enrollment for the All of Us Research Program today with a nationwide launch featuring events in New York; Birmingham, Ala.; Nashville, Tenn.; Detroit, Mi.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago; and Pasco, Wash. The launch events were broadcast on the All of Us website and Facebook live.

    May 6, 2018

  • BGI To Install BGISEQ-500 In Toronto

    Bio-IT World | BGI Genomics announced two new partnerships today, including the first North American deployment of the BGISEQ-500.

    May 4, 2018

  • AI And Machine Learning For Healthcare, Precision Wellness, Genomic Data Visualization

    Bio-IT World | Podcast | James Hendler of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is featured on this podcast from Cambridge Healthtech Institute for the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Hendler speaks about precision wellness as part of his research on artificial intelligence, agent-based computing, high-performance processing, and the Semantic Web.

    May 4, 2018

  • Bio-IT World Announces 2018 Best Of Show People's Choice Award Contenders

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is pleased to announce the 2018 Best of Show competition with the Bio-IT World People’s Choice award.

    May 3, 2018

  • Quartzy Partners With LA Biotech Accelerator For Lab Management, Supply

    Bio-IT World News Brief  Quartzy and LA-based biotechnology accelerator, BioBuilt, have announced a joint effort in which Quartzy will provide the accelerator’s companies with lab management software and faster access to critical reagents and consumables.

    May 2, 2018

  • Cancer Sequencing Hype And Reality

    In the Pipeline | Derek Lowe reviews a recent piece in Science, and tackles the issue of hype versus reality in cancer sequencing.

    May 2, 2018

  • UC Berkeley Struggles To Find Sympathetic Court In CRISPR Patent Appeal

    STAT | The University of California, which has been losing the fight over US patents on the revolutionary genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, did not pull any rabbits out of a hat during oral arguments Monday in its appeal of the case.

    Apr 30, 2018

  • Illumina, Quartzy, PerkinElmer, And More: News From April 2018

    Bio-IT World | April featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Illumina, Quartzy, PerkinElmer, and more.

    Apr 30, 2018

  • 10x Genomics Announces $125 Million Funding

    Bio-IT World News Brief | 10x Genomics announced a $125 million funding round that included $50 million Series D financing. It was led by Meritech Capital Partners and included new investor Wells Fargo Strategic Capital along with current investors Paladin Capital, Fidelity, and the SoftBank Group. The company complemented this financing with a new $75 million debt facility with Silicon Valley Bank.

    Apr 27, 2018