• Searching for Common Ground in Autism Genetics

    Wired | Researchers including Evan Eichler and David Ledbetter are looking at groups of people with autism and searching for common underlying genetics.

    Nov 25, 2014

  • OK Go to Issue Album on DNA

    The New Yorker | Alt-rock band OK Go, a Grammy-winning group best known for its elaborate Youtube music videos, is enlisting the help of UCLA synthetic biologist Sri Kosuri to encode its latest album, "Hungry Ghosts," on a DNA molecule.

    Nov 24, 2014

  • American Biotech Start-Ups Head To China For Capital Partners

    Forbes | Several US biotechs are finding their funding needs met by venture firms from China.

    Nov 24, 2014

  • BioNano Closes Big Funding Round on Back of Key Irys Sales

    Bio-IT World News Brief | BioNano Genomics, a company headquartered in San Diego whose Irys instrument maps large structural variation in DNA samples, has announced a $53 million Series C financing round, to be invested in international expansion.

    Nov 21, 2014

  • NCBI Breaks Its Annotation Record

    NCBI | NCBI's Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline has completed the annotation of more than 100 organisms so far in 2014. 81 of the annotations thus far have been first annotations.

    Nov 21, 2014