• FDA Authorizes 23andMe BRCA Consumer Test

    Bio-IT World News Brief | FDA today authorized a direct-to-consumer genetic test for cancer risk. The authorization allows 23andMe to provide customers, without a prescription, information on three genetic variants found on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes known to be associated with higher risk for breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.

    Mar 6, 2018

  • Ballot is Open For 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner

    Bio-IT World Bioinformatics.org has announced five finalists for the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences, including the first finalist team. Voting will be open until Monday, March 12. Finalists are Christine Durinx, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & Johanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI; Melissa Haendel, Oregon Health and Science University; Desmond Higgins, University College Dublin (UCD) Conway Institute; B.F. Francis Ouellette, Ontario Institute of Cancer Research; and Frank W. Rockhold, Duke University Medical Center.

    Mar 5, 2018

  • The Latest in Data Integration and Personalized Medicine: Updates from the 2018 Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference

    Bio-IT World  In San Francisco last month, Bio-IT World caught up with leaders in data management and cloud computing at Tri-Con’s Converged IT & the Cloud track. In a series of talks and panel discussions, they shared their experiences dealing with the challenges of storing, transferring and integrating vast amounts of data from a broad range of sources.

    Mar 5, 2018

  • The Man Who Uncovered a New (Old) Way to Fight Cancer

    MIT Technology Review | Matthew Vander Heiden helped revive the forgotten- but critical-study of cancer metabolism.

    Mar 5, 2018

  • NIH, Inova Launch 10K-Person Database For Re-Contact

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The National Institutes of Health and Inova Health System today announced The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort (TGAC), a two-year pilot project that will allow researchers to re-contact genotyped people and examine the genes and gene variants' influence on their phenotypes, an individual's observable traits, such as height, eye color or blood type.

    Mar 1, 2018

  • 23andMe Adds 120 New Regions To Its Ancestry Test

    CNBC | At-home DNA testing company 23andMe is including 120 new regions in its ancestry report, making the test far more specific in its results.

    Feb 28, 2018

  • Dovetail Genomics, Illumina, The Broad Institute, And More: News From February 2018

    Bio-IT World | February featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Dovetail Genomics, Illumina, The Broad Institute, and more.

    Feb 28, 2018

  • Leroy Hood On How Systems-Driven 21st Century Medicine Could Transform Healthcare

    Diagnostics World | During the 25th annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco, Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology and Providence St. Joseph Health discussed his latest efforts to transform medicine through pioneering a systems-driven approach.

    Feb 27, 2018

  • GA4GH Releases 2018 Strategic Roadmap

    Bio-IT World | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health has announced their Strategic Roadmap, which the organization hopes will aid in the major shift toward genomics becoming useful in healthcare.

    Feb 26, 2018