• Scientists Raise Concern By Wanting To Create Synthetic Human Genomes

    NPR.org | In New York, hundreds of scientists discussed a highly ambitious and controversial project. They want to create synthetic genetic codes for all kinds of creatures - including the human genetic code.

    May 15, 2017

  • Nvidia CEO Software Is Eating the World but AI Is Going to Eat Software

    MIT Technology Review | Jensen Huang predicts that health care and autos are going to be transformed by artificial intelligence.

    May 12, 2017

  • Deep Genomics Shifts Focus to Genetic Medicines

    Bio-IT World | Earlier this month Deep Genomics announced a shift in company focus. Genetic testing was the Deep Genomics business plan in August of 2015; today the company is working to develop genetic medicines.

    May 12, 2017

  • Hacking Bio-IT: Bio-IT World Launches First Hackathon

    Bio-IT World | At the end of May, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo will host its first Bio-IT Hackathon, this year focusing on FAIR data, data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

    May 10, 2017

  • Edico Announces $22M Round

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Edico Genome announced today it has raised $22 million in a Series B financing to expand market adoption and product development of its DRAGEN platform. New investor Dell Technologies Capital, the venture arm of Dell Technologies, led the round and all existing investors participated, including Qualcomm Ventures, Axon Ventures and life sciences industry executive Greg Lucier.

    May 9, 2017

  • PacBio's Juliet Minor Variant Software

    Bio-IT World At PacBio’s SMRT scientific symposium and developers meeting last week held at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, Lance Hepler, with PacBio, announced three apps coming in the next SMRT Analysis release: minor variants, structural variation, and multiplexed microbe WGS.

    May 8, 2017

  • NIH Grant Limits Rile Biomedical Research Community

    Nature News & Comment | Scientists are split over whether limiting grant support to individuals will help young researchers or hurt collaboration.

    May 5, 2017

  • 2017 Bio-IT World Best Of Show People's Choice Award Contenders

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced the 2017 Best of Show competition with the Bio-IT World People’s Choice award. The four awards named by the judges and the People’s Choice Award will be announced at a live event on the Bio-IT World Expo floor at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 24.

    May 4, 2017