• Zarxio Becomes First FDA-Approved Biosimilar

    Bloomberg | The FDA announced today that Novartis' white blood cell-stimulating drug Zarxio, a biosimilar version of Amgen's Neupogen, has received approval for use in all indications already covered by Neupogen.

    Mar 6, 2015

  • 'Junk DNA' Debates Still Piling Up

    New York Times | Carl Zimmer visits a pair of genetics labs as he digs into the ongoing arguments over whether our genome's vast tracts of noncoding DNA are mostly "junk."

    Mar 5, 2015

  • Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Makes Its Largest Ever Equity Investment In A Biotech Company

    Forbes | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is investing $52 million in CureVac, a German company involved in making vaccines. It is the largest ever investment by the foundation in a company, reflecting a new strategy of not just giving grants but supporting and having a stake in businesses.

    Mar 5, 2015

  • PacBio at AGBT

    Bio-IT World | Pacific Biosciences, the gold sponsor of this year's Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in Florida, hosted a workshop at the event that showed off the growing pipeline of tools for de novo diploid assembly, and ways in which routine use of this information could improve the practice of genomics.

    Mar 3, 2015

  • February News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including guidance from the Association for Molecular Pathology on direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the winner of the Swimming with the Sharks Competition at the Molecular Medicine Tri Conference.

    Mar 3, 2015

  • Reporter’s Notebook: Molecular Medicine Tri Conference 2015

    Bio-IT World | The 22nd annual Molecular Medicine Tri Conference in San Francisco is one of the year’s largest industry events for understanding human health on the level of genes, proteins, and cells, and this year’s conference tracked the latest trends in personalizing therapies and research programs with sharp attention to individuals’ unique molecular profiles.

    Feb 27, 2015

  • GCAT Team Publishes Methods, Results from Benchmark Tests of Aligners and Variant Callers

    Bio-IT World | GCAT, the Genome Comparison & Analytic Testing platform for benchmarking the performance of basic informatics tools, now has a formal home in the scientific literature with the publication of a paper in Nature Communications.

    Feb 26, 2015

  • 10X Genomics at AGBT

    Bio-IT World | On the first day of the annual Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in Marco Island, Florida, 10X Genomics has unveiled its GemCode Platform for recovering long-range information from genomes sequenced on Illumina short-read instruments.

    Feb 25, 2015

  • Allele Frequency Community to Share Data on Population-Wide Incidence of Genetic Variants

    Bio-IT World | This morning, diagnostics and laboratory supply company QIAGEN announced the creation of the Allele Frequency Community, a network of academic centers and commercial groups who will share data on the genetic variants they’ve uncovered during human sequencing studies.

    Feb 24, 2015