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Dr. Lee Hoods scientific wellness startup Arivale raises $36M to improve health through genetics
GeekWire | Lee Hood's new startup, Arivale, raised $36 million yesterday from Arch Venture Partners and Polaris Partners. The company's total funding is now at $40 million.
Jul 14, 2015
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21st Century Cures Act Passes House Now Must Navigate Senate
Xconomy | The U.S. House of Representatives took a big step this morning toward major changes in the federal government's relationship to biomedical research, funding and regulation.
Jul 10, 2015
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Biogen R and D Chief Doug Williams Leaves to Run New Cancer Startup
Xconomy | Biogen's top research and development executive Doug Williams is leaving the company this month to take the helm at a startup that doesn't yet have a name.
Jul 10, 2015
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Juno Revs Armored CAR For Ovarian Cancer Trial
Xconomy | Juno Therapeutics has built remarkable momentum and is about to launch the first trial in humans of engineered T cells.
Jul 10, 2015
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Pistoia Alliance Launches Startup Challenge
Bio-IT World | The Pistoia Alliance has launched a business plan contest that will ask startup companies from around the world to develop new ideas to lower the barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D. The Pistoia Alliance President’s Startup Challenge 2015 invites small and medium enterprises to compete for cash prizes and expert mentorship from a senior industry figure drawn from the Pistoia Alliance membership.
Jul 9, 2015
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Sequencing the genome creates so much data we don’t know what to do with it
Washington Post | Scientists say genomics will end up being the biggest data hog, set to surpass astronomy, particle physics -- even YouTube.
Jul 8, 2015
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GlaxoSmithKline Searching For Hit Drugs Pours $95M Into DNA Dark Matter
Forbes | GlaxoSmithKline is investing $95 million in a nonprofit research center in Seattle called the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, focusing on the "dark matter" of the genome.
Jul 8, 2015
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HealthSeq Study Offers Healthy New Yorkers Whole Genome Sequencing
Bio-IT World | Following on studies like ClinSeq and MedSeq, Mount Sinai School of Medicine's HealthSeq project is tracking patient responses to genome-wide testing, in an effort to extend these studies to a more diverse population and include non-health-related results like ancestry and physical trait information.
Jul 7, 2015
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Grappling with Genomic Sequencing of Newborns
MIT Technology Review | The BabySeq project in Boston has begun collecting data to quantify the risks and benefits of DNA sequencing at birth.
Jul 2, 2015
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June News and Product Briefs
Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including landmarks on the second anniversary of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, and the commercial launch of 10X Genomics' GemCode platform.
Jul 1, 2015
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Clone-Free, Single-Molecule Genome Assembly Illuminates Structural Variation
Bio-IT World | A large collaboration led by scientists at the Icahn Institute has combined PacBio sequencing and BioNano optical maps to produce the most contiguous human genome ever assembled without cloning steps, bringing a new degree of resolution to studies of complex structural variants.
Jun 30, 2015
