• iSpecimen Launches Biospecimen Marketplace

    Bio-IT World | iSpecimen launched its marketplace today, an online shopping platform to connect life science researchers to healthcare organizations with human biospecimens.

    Jun 13, 2017

  • MyHeritage Launches New Comprehensive DNA Ethnicity Analysis

    Bio-IT World Brief | MyHeritage announced the launch of its new and improved Ethnicity Estimate. The new analysis, developed by the company’s science team, provides MyHeritage DNA customers with a percentage-based estimate of their ethnic origins covering 42 ethnic regions, many available only on MyHeritage, representing the most comprehensive report of its type available on the market.

    Jun 12, 2017

  • Gene Editing Companies Hit Back At Paper That Criticized CRISPR

    MIT Technology Review | Report that suggested CRISPR is too dangerous to use as a drug was wrong, say biotech companies.

    Jun 12, 2017

  • FAIR Hacking: Bio-IT World Hosts Its First Hackathon

    Bio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo featured its first Bio-IT Hackathon, a competition focusing on FAIR data, data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

    Jun 9, 2017

  • Text-Mining Tool Seeks Out Hidden Data

    Nature News & Comment | A tool called Wide-Open can search out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public, and it has already flagged hundreds of such instances in genetics research.

    Jun 8, 2017

  • Masters of Complexity: Edison Liu On The Future Of The Mouse Model

    Bio-IT World | Edison Liu, president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, is harnessing the JAX spirit to push the organization—and hopefully the field—toward a more mature understanding of complexity.

    Jun 8, 2017

  • A Retrospective Of The 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

    Bio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo took place recently in Boston. The exhibit floor and conference sessions featured discussions and product releases from The Jackson Laboratory, the Broad Institute, and more.

    Jun 7, 2017

  • Inova Translational Medicine Institute Deploys Cloudera

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Inova Translational Medicine Institute today announced that it has deployed Cloudera Enterprise to securely analyze massive collections of clinical and genomic data at unprecedented speeds and scale for faster innovations in translational medicine research.

    Jun 6, 2017