• Rommie Amaro on Curing Cancer at Exascale

    Bio-IT World | In her opening plenary keynote at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, Computing Cures: Discovery Through the Lens of a Computational Microscope, Rommie Amaro emphasized to attendees the direct correlation between advances in life-sciences IT and scientific discovery.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Genome editing Thats the way the CRISPR crumbles

    Nature Book Reviews | Nathaniel Comfort finds heroism but little nuance in Jennifer Doudna's account of her co-discovery.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, And More: News From May 2017

    Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, and more.

    May 31, 2017

  • CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations

    Phys.org | As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.

    May 30, 2017

  • Bio-IT World Announces 2017 Best Practices Awards Winners

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced the winners of the 2017 Best Practices Awards at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Entries from Maccabi Healthcare System, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, Allotrope Foundation, Earlham Institute, Biomedical Imaging Research Services Section (BIRSS), and Alexion Pharmaceuticals were honored.

    May 25, 2017

  • Bio-IT World Announces 2017 Best Of Show Award Winners

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the 2017 winners of the Best of Show Awards Program to a packed audience at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The awards program recognizes the best of the innovative product solutions for the life sciences industry on display at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston.

    May 24, 2017

  • Broad Institute To Release Genome Analysis Toolkit 4 As Open Source Resource To Accelerate Research

    Bio-IT World Brief | The Broad Institute will release version 4 of the industry-leading Genome Analysis Toolkit under an open source software license. It is available currently as an alpha preview on the Broad Institute’s GATK website, with a beta release expected in mid-June.

    May 24, 2017