• VeriStor Integrates SwiftStack Object Storage

    Bio-IT World Brief | VeriStor is integrating SwiftStack’s object storage into its enterprise cloud services portfolio, the companies announced this week.

    Feb 10, 2016

  • AbbVie Invests in Synthetic Microbes for Treatment of Intestinal Disorders

    Bio-IT World | This morning, AbbVie announced a partnership with Synlogic of Cambridge, Mass., to target inflammatory bowel disease with a strain of genetically engineered microbes that can sense and respond to symptoms as they occur.

    Feb 10, 2016

  • Fidelity, Biogen, Sanofi Join $45M Bet on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Startup

    Forbes | The drug industry is pouring billions into R&D against Alzheimer's disease. Yet many people in the business will tell you not nearly enough is known about the underlying biology.

    Feb 10, 2016

  • Sure Genomics Wants to Sell Private Genetic Profiles for $2500

    The Verge | Sure Genomics, a startup based in Utah, launched a whole genome testing service today, but its plan to report a host of important health results is really testing the FDA.

    Feb 9, 2016

  • The Search for Schizophrenia Genes

    Slate | Larger and larger genetic studies are finding smaller and smaller effect sizes. What does this mean for drug development, clinical practice, and our view of mental illness?

    Feb 8, 2016

  • New Type of CRISPR Screen Probes the Regulatory Genome

    Bio-IT World | Scientists at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have invented a "multiplexed editing regulatory assay" (MERA) to test large swathes of the genome in parallel for regulatory elements that can turn gene activity on and off over the course of a cell's development.

    Feb 8, 2016

  • Debugging Science Experiments at Elemental Machines

    Xconomy | A Cambridge startup is trying to remove extraneous variables from experiments with a "smart lab" that can better control for simple factors like temperature and humidity.

    Feb 3, 2016

  • Mobile DNA Sequencing in the Ebola Epidemic

    Bio-IT World | The results of a months-long effort to sequence virus samples in the middle of the largest Ebola outbreak in history, using the handheld MinION DNA sequencer and a miniature mobile lab, have been published in Nature.

    Feb 3, 2016

  • Venter Expands Attempt to Fight Disease, Increase Lifespan

    San Diego Union-Tribune | J. Craig Venter's company Human Longevity, Inc. has purchased LifebankUSA, a biobank that preserves stem cells from cord blood and placental tissue, growing an enterprise that will soon begin sequencing infants' genomes as a service.

    Feb 1, 2016

  • UK Scientists Gain Licence to Edit Genes in Human Embryos

    Nature News | A team at Francis Crick Institute has been permitted to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology in embryos for early-development research, but the work is still many steps away from genome-edited human beings.

    Feb 1, 2016

  • January News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including a high-throughput protein conformation analyzer, and updates to the cloud-based genome analysis services of both DNAnexus and Seven Bridges.

    Jan 29, 2016