• Sharp rise in cancer drug spending forecast but access remains a problem

    STAT | Last year, annual global spending on cancer treatments and drugs used for supportive care hit $107 billion, up 11.5 percent from 2014.

    Jun 2, 2016

  • Novartis CEO on Why the Firm Just Opened a Major R&D Facility in China

    Fortune | The Novartis CEO is betting China will play a key role in discovering life-changing drugs. The firm opened an R&D facility in Shanghai.

    Jun 2, 2016

  • May New Products

    Bio-IT World | News and products from 10x Genomics, DirectData Networks, BT, The Genome Analysis Centre, Veeva and more.

    May 27, 2016

  • A Road Map for 21st Century Drug Discovery

    Bio-IT World | Book Review | Merging bioinformatics, computational biology, and technology are clearly important parts of the drug discovery equation. But in his new book, William Loging argues that IT is not a silver bullet, and user-centric design must be a key component.

    May 26, 2016

  • Using CRISPR To Learn How a Body Builds Itself

    The Atlantic | The popular gene-editing technique can deliver a step-by-step account of how a single-cell embryo becomes a trillion-cell animal.

    May 26, 2016

  • Oxford Nanopore's London Calling Kicks Off

    Bio-IT World Roundup | London Calling, Oxford Nanopore’s user group conference, began this morning in London. The user community looks to the London Calling event for news and announcements from Oxford, and each attendee will receive the new MinION Mk 1B at the event.

    May 25, 2016

  • White House Announces Data Security Policy Principles for Precision Medicine Initiative

    Bio-IT World  The White House announced the final Data Security Policy Principles and Framework (Security Framework) for the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) this afternoon. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Lisa O. Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, laid out a security framework for institutions who participate in the PMI and provides a risk management approach to achieving those principles. Federal PMI agencies have committed to integrate the framework throughout all PMI activities

    May 25, 2016

  • Reality check on reproducibility

    Nature News & Comment | A survey of Nature readers revealed a high level of concern about the problem of irreproducible results.

    May 25, 2016

  • WuXi NextCODE, Huawei Launch Precision Medicine Cloud for China

    Bio-IT World Brief | WuXi AppTec and Huawei launched the China Precision Medicine Cloud today. The two companies hope the platform will support the Chinese government’s Precision Medicine Initiative, and link researchers across China through a secure nationwide network.

    May 24, 2016

  • This Machine Spits Out Pills In A Whole New Way

    NPR.org | A refrigerator-sized machine could someday make lifesaving drugs on site when outbreaks occur or where medicine is in short supply, like on the battlefield.

    May 23, 2016

  • Review Twin Books on the Genome Far From Identical

    New York Times | Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee offers a soaring epic, while Dr. Steven Lipkin watches a revolution in genomics unfold in the clinic.

    May 19, 2016