• From App Store To Drug Store, Digital Health Is Redefining Pharma’s Pipeline

    STAT | Backed by a growing body of evidence, software is itself becoming a prescription for diseases ranging from depression to heart disease, and drug companies are starting to take notice.

    Mar 13, 2018

  • Rob Brainin Named New CEO at WuXi NextCODE

    Bio-IT World News Brief | WuXi NextCODE has named a new CEO: Rob Brainin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer effective today. Brainin succeeds Hannes Smárason, who will work as a senior advisor for the company as he pursues other entrepreneurial activities, according to the company.

    Mar 12, 2018

  • AI Has a Hallucination Problem Thats Proving Tough to Fix

    WIRED | Machine learning systems, like those used in self-driving cars, can be tricked into seeing objects that don't exist. Defenses proposed by Google, Amazon, and others are vulnerable too.

    Mar 9, 2018

  • WuXi NextCODE Announces Genomics Partnership with Google Cloud

    Bio-IT World  | WuXi NextCODE today announced a partnership with Google Cloud. WuXi NextCODE’s core suite of capabilities—including GORdb, WuXi NextCODE secondary analysis, the Sequence Miner case-control research application, and the Clinical Sequence Analyzer clinical interpretation system—will be hosted on Google Cloud and available on the Google Cloud Launcher marketplace.

    Mar 7, 2018

  • FDA Authorizes 23andMe BRCA Consumer Test

    Bio-IT World News Brief | FDA today authorized a direct-to-consumer genetic test for cancer risk. The authorization allows 23andMe to provide customers, without a prescription, information on three genetic variants found on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes known to be associated with higher risk for breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.

    Mar 6, 2018

  • Ballot is Open For 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner

    Bio-IT World Bioinformatics.org has announced five finalists for the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences, including the first finalist team. Voting will be open until Monday, March 12. Finalists are Christine Durinx, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & Johanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI; Melissa Haendel, Oregon Health and Science University; Desmond Higgins, University College Dublin (UCD) Conway Institute; B.F. Francis Ouellette, Ontario Institute of Cancer Research; and Frank W. Rockhold, Duke University Medical Center.

    Mar 5, 2018

  • The Latest in Data Integration and Personalized Medicine: Updates from the 2018 Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference

    Bio-IT World  In San Francisco last month, Bio-IT World caught up with leaders in data management and cloud computing at Tri-Con’s Converged IT & the Cloud track. In a series of talks and panel discussions, they shared their experiences dealing with the challenges of storing, transferring and integrating vast amounts of data from a broad range of sources.

    Mar 5, 2018