• Optibrium And Collaborative Drug Discovery Integrate StarDrop With CDD Vault

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Optibrium and Collaborative Drug Discovery announced a collaboration to integrate the StarDrop and CDD Vault platforms. This creates a connection in real time between project data, securely held and managed in CDD Vault, and StarDrop’s unique compound design and optimization capabilities. 

    Nov 1, 2016

  • Young Scientists Ditch Postdocs for Biotech Start-Ups

    Nature News & Comment | Many biologists are founding their own firms as venture capitalists show increased interest in science.

    Nov 1, 2016

  • Smarter ELNs and Smarter Labs Make for Smarter Science

    Bio-IT World | New technology, new laws and regulations, and more cumbersome "Big Data" have together caused the standard, traditional electronic lab notebook (ELN) to obsolesce.  But some experts believe new digital-transformation technology—including the Internet of Things and cloud computing—will allow for enhanced ELNs that can address today's clinical pain points of efficiency, ROI, scientific contextual consistency, and risk reduction.

    Oct 31, 2016

  • Mark Zuckerberg Is Funding a Facebook for Human Cells

    MIT Technology Review | The billionaire is the first major donor to back the idea of creating an atlas of all human cells.

    Oct 31, 2016

  • Third Rock Ventures One of Biotechs Daring Investors Raises $616M For More Startups

    Forbes | Biotech venture capital is supposed to be the highest-risk/highest-reward type of investment there is. But many biotech VCs are actually pretty conservative, hesitant to wager on edgy science that might take a decade to pay off. Not Third Rock Ventures.

    Oct 31, 2016

  • Onboarding New Talent Post-IPO Turnover Of Biotech Boards

    Forbes | A biotech's Board often plays important roles in shaping the company's success or failure: contributing strategic guidance, providing proper governance, stewarding fiduciary responsibilities, raising a startups' profile, aiding business development, to name a few.

    Oct 31, 2016

  • Nation’s Report Card Shows Improvement In Science, But There’s Still Work To Do

    Bio-IT World | The White House released the National Assessment of Educational Progress, their report card for the nation’s educational systems. In the field of science, Tennessee was among the standouts of those recognized.

    Oct 28, 2016

  • Internet2, Google, BGI, and More: News from October 2016

    Bio-IT World News Briefs | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from Internet2, Google, BGI, and more.

    Oct 28, 2016

  • China National GeneBank Opening Hopes To Provide Resource For Global Health

    Bio-IT World Brief | The official opening of the China National GeneBank (CNGB) marks a new phase in Chinese-International genomics collaboration, providing scientists from across the world with access to one of the world's most comprehensive and sophisticated biorepositories with the goal of enabling breakthroughs in human health research, and contributing to global biodiversity conservation efforts.

    Oct 26, 2016