• Moderna Closes $474M Equity Financing

    Bio-IT World Brief | Moderna Therapeutics announced today that it has raised $474 million. The company currently has $1.4 billion in cash on its balance sheet and the potential for over $230 million of additional available funds from grants.

    Sep 7, 2016

  • First DNA Sequencing In Space A Success

    Bio-IT World News | NASA has released a statement saying that the first DNA sequencing in space has occurred on the International Space Station.

    Sep 7, 2016

  • Mylan Rebuffs Rumors CEO Will Step Down

    BioSpace  Mylan denies rumors that CEO will step down after controversy regarding EpiPen Auto-Injector.

    Sep 6, 2016

  • tranSMART Foundation Launches Online Marketplace

    Bio-IT World  The tranSMART Foundation has launched a free marketplace of service vendors for the tranSMART platform. The marketplace was developed by tranSMART as a way to localize the vast world of data research and the vendors who offer services within that field.

    Sep 2, 2016

  • Biogen’s Plaque-Busting Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Promise

    MIT Technology Review | An antibody that clears up brain-destroying plaques may settle the cause of Alzheimer's once and for all.

    Aug 31, 2016

  • How DNA Could Store All the World’s Data

    Nature News & Comment | Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.

    Aug 31, 2016

  • Novartis Dissolves CAR-T Unit Cutting 120 Positions

    Forbes | Novartis is shutting down the business unit it created to develop white blood cells that can attack certain types of cancer, but continuing to develop such projects known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, or CAR-Ts.

    Aug 31, 2016

  • Say hello to Dell Technologies on Sept. 7

    Computerworld | Dell will complete its acquisition of EMC on Sept. 7, ending nearly a year of approvals and decades of history for the two companies that will combine to become Dell Technologies.

    Aug 30, 2016

  • Excel Auto-Correct Creates Problems With Genomics Research

    PCMAG | An Excel auto-correct feature changes gene names to dates. An Australian group dug through 7,500 Excel files published in 18 journals. About 20% of the files had errors.

    Aug 30, 2016