• Peer Inside the American Gut

    Bio-IT World News Brief | This Wednesday, American Gut, the crowdsourced project that has now sequenced gut microbiota samples from over 3,000 volunteers, released both a round of results and its own analytical pipeline.

    Jul 11, 2014

  • Human Brain Project Responds to Complaints

    Bio-IT World | Today, the leadership of the Human Brain Project circulated a document responding to this Monday's open letter to the European Commission, in which neuroscientists aired concerns about the aims and decision-making processes behind the HBP.

    Jul 10, 2014

  • AWS Summit Kicks Off in New York, Features Best of Show Winner

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Amazon Web Services Cloud Summit kicked off with a keynote from Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer. Vogels announced CloudWatch Logs to monitor the system and application logs for trends and events over time, and highlighted the work of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research using a 2014 Bio-IT World Best of Show winner.

    Jul 10, 2014

  • Scripps Calls off USC Merger or Acquisition Discussions

    U-T San Diego | The rumored merger of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and the University of Southern California is off, the Scripps board of trustees said yesterday

    Jul 10, 2014

  • Francis Collins on Horizons in Biomedicine

    Wall Street Journal | In an oped in the Wall Street Journal, Francis Collins gives his view of the "broad horizon" before biomedical research today.

    Jul 9, 2014

  • Appistry Launches NGS Pipeline Creation Challenge

    Bio-IT World News Brief | If you’ve got an idea for a next-gen sequencing analysis pipeline—and you’re creative on camera—Appistry invites you to participate in its inaugural Appistry Pipeline Challenge. The winning group will receive $70,000 worth of hardware and software to build its pipeline.

    Jul 9, 2014

  • AbbVie Raises Bid for Shire

    New York Times | AbbVie raised its bid for Shire this morning to a cash and stock offering worth about $87.66 per share, or $51.6 billion total.

    Jul 8, 2014

  • Human Brain Project Faces Growing Skepticism from Neuroscientists

    Bio-IT World | This morning, the European Commission received an open letter signed by 154 European neuroscientists, expressing concern over the direction of the Human Brain Project that was launched last year.

    Jul 7, 2014

  • Maximizing Success from Vendor Consolidation

    Bio-IT World | Guest Commentary | The global pharmaceutical industry faces challenges that require it to look beyond the status quo and develop a fresh transformative vision for the future. Many pharmas are now looking to consolidate vendors as they embark on restructuring and cost reduction efforts.

    Jul 3, 2014

  • NIH Funds Six Centers in Undiagnosed Diseases Network

    NBC News | Yesterday the National Institutes of Health launched the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, a four-year, $43 million program focused on the rarest of diseases, many afflicting fewer than 50 people worldwide.

    Jul 3, 2014

  • China FDA Approves Two Chinese Sequencers, NIPT Kit

    South China Morning Post | The China Food & Drug Administration approved two sequencers from BGI--the BGISEQ-1000 and BGISEQ-100--and a diagnostic kit for prenatal testing of "high risk" pregnancies.

    Jul 3, 2014

  • Big BRAIN: Finding Connections in the Literature Flood with Euretos BRAIN

    Bio-IT World | Euretos is certainly not the first company to recognize the problems researchers have processing and keeping up to date with the latest research. While there’s ever more data pouring from researchers’ lab instruments, there’s also an ongoing flow to manage from journals and other publications. Euretos has launched a cloud platform called BRAIN: the Bio Relations and Intelligence Network, that allows researchers to mine and connect data from public and private published sources in new ways.

    Jul 1, 2014

  • Robots for Hire: Emerald Launches Robotic Laboratories for Life Sciences

    Bio-IT World | Outsourcing options in biotech have been growing. CROs and other labs offer a wide range of services. But what if you aren’t interested in a partner as much as simply automated experiments? Don’t outsource experiments to another lab; let the robots do them!

    Jul 1, 2014