• Understanding Africas Diverse Gene Pool Can Help Fight Lifestyle Diseases

    The Conversation | Cracking genetic responses to the changing environment in Africa would open a new frontier in the drive against rising non-communicable diseases on the continent.

    Nov 7, 2016

  • Supercomputing the p53 Protein as a Promising Anticancer Therapy

    Texas Advanced Computing Center | Computational biophysicist Rommie Amaro is using the Stampede supercomputer at TACC to model the largest atomic level system of the tumor suppression protein p53 to date - over 1.5 million atoms. The simulations identify new "pockets" to reactivate p53 which would be a tremendous boost for future anti-cancer drug discovery.

    Nov 4, 2016

  • Tackling the Organizational Challenges Slowing Biotech

    Bio-IT World  “How do you change the way scientists operate in a fundamental way to win them over?” Matthew Trunnell, CIO at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, asked the crowd at the Converged IT Summit* last week in San Diego during his opening keynote. While there were plenty of the talks wading into the weeds of how to build and structure data centers, much of the conversation at the Summit tackled the more amorphous problems plaguing bio-IT today: building a community that shares data and incentivizes collaboration.

    Nov 4, 2016

  • Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center Awarded NCI Grant to Create Genomic Data Center

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center  were recently awarded a federal grant from the National Cancer Institute to support a joint cancer genomics data center for the research and clinical interpretation of tumors. The grant will provide funding of $490,000 per year over the next five years.

    Nov 3, 2016

  • Flatiron Health And Foundation Medicine Partner To Launch Clinico-Genomic Database

    Diagnostics World News | Flatiron and Foundation Medicine today announced the launch of a clinico-genomic database designed to help researchers and biopharmaceutical partners accelerate the development of targeted therapeutics and immunotherapies to treat cancer. the clinico-genomic database, containing information on nearly 20,000 patients, is one of the largest and most comprehensive information efforts of its kind in oncology.

    Nov 3, 2016

  • New Data Show Power Limits of Bluebird’s Gene Therapy For Blood Diseases

    Xconomy | Bluebird Bio is releasing new data this morning that speak to both the potential and the limitations of a gene therapy it's been developing for two deadly blood diseases: sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia.

    Nov 3, 2016

  • Optibrium And Collaborative Drug Discovery Integrate StarDrop With CDD Vault

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Optibrium and Collaborative Drug Discovery announced a collaboration to integrate the StarDrop and CDD Vault platforms. This creates a connection in real time between project data, securely held and managed in CDD Vault, and StarDrop’s unique compound design and optimization capabilities. 

    Nov 1, 2016

  • Young Scientists Ditch Postdocs for Biotech Start-Ups

    Nature News & Comment | Many biologists are founding their own firms as venture capitalists show increased interest in science.

    Nov 1, 2016

  • Smarter ELNs and Smarter Labs Make for Smarter Science

    Bio-IT World | New technology, new laws and regulations, and more cumbersome "Big Data" have together caused the standard, traditional electronic lab notebook (ELN) to obsolesce.  But some experts believe new digital-transformation technology—including the Internet of Things and cloud computing—will allow for enhanced ELNs that can address today's clinical pain points of efficiency, ROI, scientific contextual consistency, and risk reduction.

    Oct 31, 2016

  • Mark Zuckerberg Is Funding a Facebook for Human Cells

    MIT Technology Review | The billionaire is the first major donor to back the idea of creating an atlas of all human cells.

    Oct 31, 2016