• Grappling with Genomic Sequencing of Newborns

    MIT Technology Review | The BabySeq project in Boston has begun collecting data to quantify the risks and benefits of DNA sequencing at birth.

    Jul 2, 2015

  • June News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including landmarks on the second anniversary of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, and the commercial launch of 10X Genomics' GemCode platform.

    Jul 1, 2015

  • Clone-Free, Single-Molecule Genome Assembly Illuminates Structural Variation

    Bio-IT World | A large collaboration led by scientists at the Icahn Institute has combined PacBio sequencing and BioNano optical maps to produce the most contiguous human genome ever assembled without cloning steps, bringing a new degree of resolution to studies of complex structural variants.

    Jun 30, 2015

  • Celgene To Pay $1B For A Big Piece of Juno and T Cell Therapies

    Xconomy | It seemed only a matter of time. One of biotech's most aggressive deal makers, Celgene has struck a wide-ranging, billion-dollar partnership with Juno Therapeutics.

    Jun 30, 2015

  • #TCGC15: Databases, Genomics, and Making Clinical Sequencing Work

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The fourth annual Clinical Genome Conference wrapped up last week in San Francisco. It was a packed three days of short courses, presentations, and discussion that spilled over the time slots and into the evening. Thankfully, much of it ended up on Twitter.

    Jun 29, 2015

  • Report from the Festival of Genomics

    Bio-IT World | A new event held this week in Boston, the Festival of Genomics, aimed to engage the public with this burgeoning science, while emphasizing to scientists the importance of data sharing and of integrating DNA data with meaningful health information in order to deliver on the promises of genomic medicine.

    Jun 26, 2015

  • Mount Sinai Announces Precision Wellness Center

    Bio-IT World | The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai today announced the Harris Center for Precision Wellness. The center is part of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and will be directed by Joel Dudley of the Icahn Institute and Gregory Stock, formerly of UCLA.

    Jun 25, 2015

  • Google Genomics, Broad Partner, Offer GATK on Google Cloud Platform

    Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning Google Genomics announced a partnership with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to, “combine the power, security, and scale of Google Cloud Platform with Broad Institute’s expertise in scientific analysis.” The first offering will be the GATK on Google Cloud Platform. 

    Jun 24, 2015

  • Duplications in Figures, Data in Oncology Journals

    In the Pipeline | Here's a disturbing read for you: the author of this paper (Morten Oksvold, of Oslo University) sat down and did what none of us ever do. He chose three different journals in the oncology field, picked one hundred and twenty papers, at random, from their recent issues, and carefully looked every one of them over for duplications in the figures and data. On PubPeer, you can see what he found. Nearly a quarter of the papers had problems.

    Jun 23, 2015

  • A Colorful Business

    Diagnostics World | Color Genomics is just one of several companies toying with a new model for selling low-priced DNA tests online, by enlisting physicians as intermediaries. If Color's business model becomes popular, it will have big implications for the way genomic testing reaches the broader public — and who sets the standards for this maturing technology.

    Jun 22, 2015

  • Why Hasn't Big Data Come to Rescue Clinical Data?

    Clinical Informatics News | The cost-to-value equation for standardizing clinical data is broken. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars annually, and substantially delay products’ time to market, sending clinical data to contractors for preparation and integration before analysis. Why is the standardization process for clinical data still manual?

    Jun 19, 2015