• UC Berkeley Struggles To Find Sympathetic Court In CRISPR Patent Appeal

    STAT | The University of California, which has been losing the fight over US patents on the revolutionary genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, did not pull any rabbits out of a hat during oral arguments Monday in its appeal of the case.

    Apr 30, 2018

  • Illumina, Quartzy, PerkinElmer, And More: News From April 2018

    Bio-IT World | April featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Illumina, Quartzy, PerkinElmer, and more.

    Apr 30, 2018

  • 10x Genomics Announces $125 Million Funding

    Bio-IT World News Brief | 10x Genomics announced a $125 million funding round that included $50 million Series D financing. It was led by Meritech Capital Partners and included new investor Wells Fargo Strategic Capital along with current investors Paladin Capital, Fidelity, and the SoftBank Group. The company complemented this financing with a new $75 million debt facility with Silicon Valley Bank.

    Apr 27, 2018

  • UK Commits A Billion Pounds To AI Development

    TOP500 | The British government and the private sector are investing close to £1 billion pounds to boost the country's artificial intelligence sector. The investment, which was announced on Thursday, is part of a wide-ranging strategy to make the UK a global leader in AI and big data.

    Apr 27, 2018

  • Cloud Over Troubled Data: Healing Bio-IoT

    Bio-IT World | As the healthcare and life-sciences sector has gradually accepted cloud-based data solutions, and as the sector's Big Data still grows ever Bigger, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a driving force for health-IT practitioners and clinical researchers. All that data, after all, must come from somewhere—and must be constantly maintained and tempered by even more data.

    Apr 25, 2018