• Nvidias new Pascal GPU to supercharge deep learning

    Computerworld | Some of the world's fastest computers use Nvidia's graphics processor for computer vision and complex calculations, and a new GPU will supercharge these applications.

    Jun 20, 2016

  • Building Human Longevity’s Exhaustive Knowledgebase

    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Despite advances in genomics in the past decade, there are still large portions of the genome that scientists and physicians don’t know how to interpret. Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) wants to fill in those gaps.

    Jun 17, 2016

  • China claims exascale by 2020 three years before U.S.

    Computerworld | China's Tianhe-3 exascale system is set to go live in 2020, three years ahead of the US roadmap. But raw power aside, what might matter most in next-gen systems is how efficiently apps run.

    Jun 17, 2016

  • Rgenix Closes $33 Million Series B Round

    Bio-IT World Rgenix, a cancer therapeutics company developing first-in-class drugs targeting novel cancer pathways, announced a $33 million Series B financing led by Novo A/S and Sofinnova Partners, with participation from existing investors including Partnership Fund for New York City, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Conegliano Ventures LP. The financing will support clinical development of Rgenix’s lead drug candidates, RGX-104 and RGX-202, as well as further development of its therapeutics pipeline.

    Jun 15, 2016

  • NCI Launches GDC

    Bio-IT World The National Cancer Institute's new Genomic Data Commons platform aims to make genomic data publicly available in support of the “moonshot” to cure cancer.

    Jun 15, 2016

  • How iPS cells changed the world

    Nature News & Comment | Induced pluripotent stem cells were supposed to herald a medical revolution. But ten years after their discovery, they are transforming biological research instead.

    Jun 15, 2016

  • Survey Launch on Public Attitudes Toward Genomic Data Sharing

    Bio-IT World  | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Wellcome Genome Campus have together launched a video series and survey to explore public attitudes toward genetic data handling.

    Jun 13, 2016

  • Gene Therapy Is Curing Hemophilia

    MIT Technology Review | Spark Therapeutics is turning gene-therapy experiments into real drugs.

    Jun 13, 2016

  • WorldQuant Backs Cycle Computings High-Performance Computing Play

    Fortune | Cycle Computing, which bootstrapped its high-performance computing cloud capabilities for 11 years, now has backing of WorldQuant Ventures.

    Jun 13, 2016

  • Heres what six storage suppliers will be doing for the next year or two

    The Register | At the Stifel technology conference, analyst Aaron Rakers, had some fireside chats with senior execs from Brocade and QLogic, Pure and Nimble, Seagate and WDC.

    Jun 10, 2016

  • AstraZeneca’s CI360 Wins Bio-IT World’s Knowledge Management Best Practices Award

    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Last April, Bio-IT World announced the winners of its Best Practices Awards in Boston. AstraZeneca came away this year as the big winner in the Knowledge Management category, impressing judges with their CI360 competitive intelligence platform. 

    Jun 10, 2016