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tranSMART, IDBS, JAX and more: News from August 2016
Bio-IT World News Briefs | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from tranSMART, JAX, Internet2, IDBS, Synthego, and more.
Aug 30, 2016
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The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes Is a Mess
Pacific Standard | A recent study shows why genetic advances in medicine are so challenging.
Aug 29, 2016
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Digitizing The Pharma Research Value Chain For Faster Drug Discovery Through Precompetitive Collaboration
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The global pharmaceutical industry is at a crossroads. It is, therefore, imperative for pharma organizations to reimagine their research value chain, in order to accelerate product innovation, and boost molecule pipelines during the discovery stage.
Aug 26, 2016
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Stealthy Biotech Revives Stalled Parkinsons Drug Reveals Plans In Alzheimers and ALS
Forbes | Denali Therapeutics, the stealthy South San Francisco biotech startup that raised $217 million last year to fight Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS, is finally lifting the curtain on its plans this morning.
Aug 25, 2016
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Obama’s science legacy betting big on biomedical science
Nature News & Comment | Ambitious bids to map the brain and cure cancer have not boosted overall research funding.
Aug 22, 2016
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With $14 Billion Purchase Pfizer Signals That Cancer Drug Prices Will Remain High
Forbes | Pfizer says it will purchase biotechnology upstart Medivation for $14 billion in cash. The main prize in the deal: Medivation's prostate cancer drug, Xtandi, which costs $120,000 a year.
Aug 22, 2016
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Mass Innovation Labs Host Space for Growing Biotech
Bio-IT World “Something that the industry doesn’t really talk about is the cost of doing research,” says Amrit Chaudhuri, CEO of Mass Innovation Labs in Cambridge, Mass. Running a lab can cost hundreds of dollars per square foot, Chaudhuri says, but Mass Innovation Labs offers an alternative.
Aug 18, 2016
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Lies damn lies and CRISPR the legal battle escalates
STAT | The gloves are off in the legal fight over CRISPR genome editing patents, as the latest documents filed in the case make clear.
Aug 18, 2016
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ExAC Project Pins Down Rare Gene Variants
Nature News & Comment | Catalogue of genetic information from some 60,000 people reveals unexpected surprises - and highlights the need to make genomic data publicly accessible to aid studies of rare diseases.
Aug 17, 2016
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ARM pact Will Help Intel Woo Apple Into New Chip Deal
Computerworld | The chances of Apple's using Intel's factories to have its iPhone and iPad chips made have just rocketed up.
Aug 17, 2016
