• The Man Who Uncovered a New (Old) Way to Fight Cancer

    MIT Technology Review | Matthew Vander Heiden helped revive the forgotten- but critical-study of cancer metabolism.

    Mar 5, 2018

  • NIH, Inova Launch 10K-Person Database For Re-Contact

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The National Institutes of Health and Inova Health System today announced The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort (TGAC), a two-year pilot project that will allow researchers to re-contact genotyped people and examine the genes and gene variants' influence on their phenotypes, an individual's observable traits, such as height, eye color or blood type.

    Mar 1, 2018

  • 23andMe Adds 120 New Regions To Its Ancestry Test

    CNBC | At-home DNA testing company 23andMe is including 120 new regions in its ancestry report, making the test far more specific in its results.

    Feb 28, 2018

  • Dovetail Genomics, Illumina, The Broad Institute, And More: News From February 2018

    Bio-IT World | February featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Dovetail Genomics, Illumina, The Broad Institute, and more.

    Feb 28, 2018

  • Leroy Hood On How Systems-Driven 21st Century Medicine Could Transform Healthcare

    Diagnostics World | During the 25th annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco, Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology and Providence St. Joseph Health discussed his latest efforts to transform medicine through pioneering a systems-driven approach.

    Feb 27, 2018

  • GA4GH Releases 2018 Strategic Roadmap

    Bio-IT World | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health has announced their Strategic Roadmap, which the organization hopes will aid in the major shift toward genomics becoming useful in healthcare.

    Feb 26, 2018

  • Changing Cancer Research: Biden Cancer Initiative On What’s Next

    Bio-IT World | Gregory Simon, President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, discussed the current state of cancer treatment during his keynote address at the 25th annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference last week. “What I’m going to talk to you about today,” Simon said, “is changing the way we think about what we’re doing in [cancer] research.”

    Feb 23, 2018

  • Share The Data: David Haussler Envisions A New Future For Pediatric Cancer

    Bio-IT World | David Haussler, Professor and Scientific Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, came to the 25th annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference to discuss using the power of big data to help pediatric cancer patients.

    Feb 22, 2018

  • CRISPR In China: Cancer Treatment With Gene Editing Underway

    NPR | More than a third of patients with cancer of the esophagus responded to experimental treatment in China with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. Several CRISPR studies are underway there.

    Feb 21, 2018