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IBMs Watson is going to cybersecurity school
Computerworld | The result will be a cloud service called Watson for Cyber Security that's designed to provide insights into emerging threats as well as recommendations on how to stop them.
May 10, 2016
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CRISPR Drug Maker Intellia Therapeutics Sells $108M In IPO Shares
Xconomy | The latest biopharmaceutical company testing Wall Street's belief in the promise of gene modification has gone public. Intellia Therapeutics sold 6 million shares at $18 each to raise $108 million.
May 6, 2016
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Gene Therapy’s First Out-and-Out Cure Is Here
MIT Technology Review | A genetic therapy for "bubble boy" disease completes a 27-year journey.
May 6, 2016
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The New Parasite Award Recognizes Secondary Analysis of Data
STAT | The current incentives structure - mostly based on publishing in prestigious journals - discourages sharing, replication, and, some argue, careful science.
May 5, 2016
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Tech groups call on presidential candidates to support encryption embrace other IT issues
Computerworld | U.S. presidential candidates should embrace encryption and narrow government access to Internet users' data as part of a comprehensive technology agenda, 13 IT trade groups recommended.
May 5, 2016
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How Blockchain Is Helping Genomics Research
Bio-IT World | John Mattison predicts that blockchain, "is going to be the most disruptive technology in this space other than big-data analytics."
May 4, 2016
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The World’s Most Expensive Medicine Is a Bust
MIT Technology Review | The first gene therapy approved in the Western world costs $1 million and has been used just once. The doctor who tried it says the price is "absolutely too high."
May 4, 2016
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IBM launches quantum computing for the rest of us
Mashable | IBM unveiled the world's first cloud-based quantum computing experience. Starting today, anyone can access the quantum computing hardware based at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
May 4, 2016
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This MIT employee redefined how universities launch startups
STAT | Lita Nelsen of the Technology Licensing Office at MIT became an evangelist for tech transfer and a mentor to her counterparts around the world.
May 3, 2016
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Genomic Data and Drug Development EMA Offers New Draft Guidance
RAPS | The European Medicines Agency has released a new draft guidance to provide industry with more insight on how to identify and understand genomic factors that influence drug responses.
May 2, 2016
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The Struggle With Image Glut
Nature News & Comment | Experiments that generate millions of images have forced scientists to find new ways to store and share terabytes of experimental data.
May 2, 2016
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Three Pharma Data Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | There’s no lack of ideas about what is needed to make advancements in life sciences research and improving patient care: real-time research, humanizing big data, enhancing customer values and motivation, and that’s just for starters. It was evident that these data struggles were on the minds of attendees at the recent Bio-IT World 2016 Conference in Boston.
Apr 29, 2016
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AbbVie Buying Cancer Drug Startup Stemcentrx
Fortune | AbbVie will buy Stemcentrx, which has five drugs targeting "cancer stem cells" in early clinical trials, for up to $10.2 billion in cash and stock.
Apr 28, 2016
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Emmanuelle Charpentier, the Quiet Revolutionary
Nature News | The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.
Apr 28, 2016
