Watch Atul Butte’s presentation at TEDMED 2012.

At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Atul Butte gave a talk entitled, “Translational Medical Discoveries Through Data…

Biology has never been so sexy. BioCurious, a 2,500-square-foot hacker space in Sunnyvale, opened in October with the idea that innovations in biology…

Locally based Assay Depot is offering the scientific industry a one-stop shop to find vendors and request bids, as well as software to…

The idea behind most diagnostic tests is simple: Identify a telltale chemical and look for it in a blood sample. The PSA test…

Entrepreneurs are often advised to stay nimble during the startup years of a new venture, so they can quickly change direction as new…

Last August, Kunhua Chen, CEO at Exon Biosystems—a San Diego–based contract research organization (CRO) specializing in protein services—got a request from Elan Pharmaceuticals…

The three co-founders of San Diego’s Assay Depot started the company in 2006 as a for-hire cancer research outfit, with the big idea…

While other marketplaces targeting researchers in academia and industry do exist, they focus on laboratory equipment, consumables and other products. Assay Depot is…

Its founders have announced that sum of $1.8m (€1.3) has been raised from private investors in a Series A financing that will allow…