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Deep Genomics Raises $13 Million To Develop Genetic Medicines
Bio-IT World Brief | Deep Genomics received a USD $13 million equity investment led by Khosla Ventures. They are accompanied by early stage investment firm True Ventures. In the next three years, Deep Genomics will use its platform to unlock new classes of anti-sense oligonucleotide therapies that were previously inaccessible, and advance them for clinical evaluation.
Sep 25, 2017
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Congenica, PerkinElmer, Illumina, And More: News From September 2017
Bio-IT World | September featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Congenica, PerkinElmer, Illumina, and more.
Sep 25, 2017
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Jackson Lab Files Federal Complaint, Accusing Chinese University Of Selling Its Mice
Hartford Courant | The Jackson Laboratory is suing to stop Nanjing University, whom it accuses of selling offspring of the genomics center’s mice used for research.
Sep 22, 2017
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Even At $500K, Gene Therapy Could Be A Bargain For Some Diseases
MIT Technology Review | A one-time gene therapy that costs half a million dollars sounds crazy until you add up what it costs to treat some diseases over a lifetime.
Sep 21, 2017
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CRISPR Used To Peer Into Human Embryo's First Days
Nature News & Comment | Gene-edited embryos enable researchers to unpick role of a crucial gene, with more studies likely to follow.
Sep 20, 2017
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Edico Genome’s DRAGEN Now Available On Illumina’s BaseSpace Sequence Hub
Bio-IT World Brief | Edico Genome today announced the availability of its DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform on Illumina’s BaseSpace Sequence Hub, enabling users to now run DRAGEN instances to enhance the accuracy and speed of their secondary analysis of next-generation sequencing data.
Sep 19, 2017
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Amazon Announces Per-Second Billing For EC2 Instances And EBS Volumes
AWS Blog | Amazon has announced that, effective October 2, usage of Linux instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form will be billed in one-second increments. Similarly, provisioned storage for EBS volumes will be billed in one-second increments. Per-second billing also applies to Amazon EMR and AWS Batch.
Sep 18, 2017
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Earlham Institute Presents Sequence Alignment Using Optalysys’ Optical Correlator Computing System
Bio-IT World | 2017 Best Practices Awards | The Earlham Institute are working with Optalysys to apply Optalysys’ optical computing system to life science applications. The first release of the computing system is scheduled for early 2018, which both organizations say will be capable of performing a number of different DNA-based local sequence alignment applications.
Sep 18, 2017
