• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Laboratory Developed Tests

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Today, the FDA officially issued a pair of draft guidance documents outlining its regulatory plans for laboratory developed tests.

    Oct 3, 2014

  • September News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including early-stage pharma startups supported by GSK and Avalon Ventures, and the Eaglecore cloud knowledge management platform.

    Oct 2, 2014

  • TranSMART Platform Powers International Asthma Research Initiative

    Bio-IT World | The U-BIOPRED Consortium, an international project searching for novel biomarkers to better define severe asthma cases, received a Bio-IT World Best Practices Award this spring for its far-reaching implementation of the tranSMART knowledge management platform.

    Oct 1, 2014

  • First NIH Grant Awards in BRAIN Initiative

    Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, the NIH announced the recipients of its first round of grants tied to the nationwide BRAIN Initiative, totaling $46 million in funding for research meant to develop an integrated understanding of human brain function.

    Sep 30, 2014

  • New, Larger Facility for Transcriptic Robotics Lab

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Transcriptic, the programmable lab-for-hire, has moved to a new, 10,000-square foot location as it adds more instruments and "work cells" where experiments are conducted.

    Sep 29, 2014

  • CRISPR Knockin Mice Enable Rapid Gene Editing

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a line of mice whose cells naturally express the Cas9 protein used in CRISPR gene editing, which can be used for virtually any gene knockdown experiment.

    Sep 26, 2014

  • GeneHub Pulls Its Kickstarter Project to Sequence Whole Genomes for the Masses

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Just two days after launching a Kickstarter campaign to start the world's first brokerage service for personal whole genome sequencing, GeneHub has pulled the plug.

    Sep 25, 2014

  • Illumina at EmTech

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Francis de Souza, president of gene sequencing company Illumina, spoke at the EmTech conference in Cambridge this week about his company's pivot to clinical use, and a growing market for whole genome sequencing that he says will produce 228,000 whole human genomes in 2014 alone.

    Sep 25, 2014

  • GeneHub Wants to Sell Whole Genomes Direct to Consumer

    Bio-IT World News Brief | San Francisco-based GeneHub has plans to become the first company selling whole genome sequences to all comers, and launched a Kickstarter campaign this week to raise the funds it needs to get started.

    Sep 24, 2014