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MD Anderson Spins Out Neurosciences Company From Discovery Division
Bio-IT World News Brief | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management firm, have announced the launch of Magnolia Neurosciences Corporation, a company developing a new class of neuroprotective medicines, with $31 million in Series A funding.
Aug 20, 2018
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Dealing With Fast Growing Data With Hyperscale Data Distribution
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The biopharmaceutical industry is facing fast growing data movement challenges. The optimization of the data movement setup must be done in a holistic manner, not by each stack separately.
Aug 16, 2018
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Clouds And Collaboration: How St. Jude Built The Team That Built The St. Jude Cloud
Bio-IT World | In April of this year St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital launched the St. Jude Cloud, an online data-sharing and collaboration platform that provides researchers access to the world's largest public repository of pediatric cancer genomics data. What started with St. Jude’s isolated bioinformatics frustrations has expanded to a vision for global collaboration in pediatric oncology.
Aug 16, 2018
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CIO Perspective: Creating Community On Campus At St. Jude
Bio-IT World | The process of creating the St. Jude Cloud was a difficult one for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. But St. Jude’s CIO and chair of Computational Biology believe the relationships cultivated during the process will create a user community as much within St. Jude as without.
Aug 15, 2018
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Clues To Your Health Are Hidden At 6.6 Million Spots In Your DNA
The New York Times | With a sophisticated new algorithm, scientists have found a way to forecast an individual's risks for five deadly diseases.
Aug 14, 2018
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OmniTier’s CompStor Brings De Novo Analytics To Genomics
Bio-IT World News Brief | OmniTier announced that in a joint study with researchers at the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine, the company successfully demonstrated human DNA variant calling using de novo global assembly techniques with breakthrough performance and cost.
Aug 14, 2018
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The Future Of Humans As Model Organisms
Science | A better grasp of the dynamic relationship between genes and the environment may truly sharpen our ability to determine disease risk and response to therapy, argues a recent perspective essay in Science.
Aug 13, 2018
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US Scientist Who Edited Human Embryos With CRISPR Responds To Critics
MIT Technology Review | Facing criticism from fellow scientists, the researcher behind the world's largest effort to edit human embryos with CRISPR is vowing to continue his effort to develop what he calls "IVF gene therapy."
Aug 8, 2018
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A New Machine Learning Approach To Document Classification – A Pfizer/SciBite Collaboration
Bio-IT World | To address the issues surrounding knowledge transfer, Pfizer and SciBite collaborated on the development of ClassifR, a web-based tool that combines SciBite’s NER platform with novel machine learning (ML) approaches to automate the process of metadata extraction and alignment of incoming documents against a user-defined hierarchy.
Aug 8, 2018
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Prototypes Of China’s Exascale Supercomputers Point To Some New Realities
TOP500 | Two prototypes of China's initial batch of exascale supercomputers are now up and running according to local news reports. And neither of them appears to be based on x86 technology.
Aug 6, 2018
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Bluebird, Regeneron Team Up To Make Cell Therapies For Cancer
Xconomy | Regeneron and Bluebird have struck a wide-ranging deal to broaden the reach of their respective cancer immunotherapy work, inking a deal to develop multiple cell therapies together.
Aug 6, 2018
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Denial And Data Science: How You Must Change Your Thinking To Work In A Data Driven Environment
Bio-IT World | At the 2018 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, we dedicated a plenary session to a panel discussion on data science. Wanting to offer the conversation to our community, we asked Samantha G. Zeitlin about the optimal environment to grow data science, the skillsets necessary in the data science industry, and more.
Aug 3, 2018
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Precision Communication For Precision Medicine: How NIH’s All Of Us Is Tackling Patient Recruitment
Clinical Informatics News | In May, the National Institutes of Health launched national open enrollment for their All of Us Research Program. Now, the precision medicine is looking to make a difference in their approach to outreach.
Aug 2, 2018
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Quartzy, ACD/Labs, Eli Lilly, And More: News From July 2018
Bio-IT World | July featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Quartzy, ACD/Labs, Eli Lilly, and more.
Jul 30, 2018
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What AI Professionals Worry About As AI Clears The Hype Curve
Bio-IT World | When it comes to a hype curve, AI is coasting along it. This spring, Bio-IT World surveyed 124 professionals from pharma, biotech, academia, and more about the biggest opportunities and concerns associated with AI.
Jul 26, 2018
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23andMe Gets $300 Million Boost From GlaxoSmithKline To Develop New Drugs
Forbes | GlaxoSmithKline, a London-based drug giant is partnering with 23andMe, the San Francisco genetics startup, to develop new medicines. The companies will split costs and profits equally, and Glaxo will make a $300 million investment in 23andMe. The collaboration will last four years.
Jul 25, 2018
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Looking Forward: How Data Science Shapes Future Work
Bio-IT World | At the 2018 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, we dedicated a plenary session to a panel discussion on data science. Wanting to offer the conversation to our community, we asked Gaurav Kaushik, Associate Director, Data Products & Strategy at Foundation Medicine for his definition of “data science.”
Jul 25, 2018
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Illumina Releases Open Source AI Software
Bio-IT World Brief | Illumina announced the release of open source, novel artificial intelligence (AI) software that can distinguish between potential disease-causing mutations, and the millions of benign genetic variants in individuals.
Jul 24, 2018
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Eight New Mouse Models For Alzheimer’s Disease Available To Researchers
Bio-IT World Brief | The MODEL-AD Center, an ambitious project to develop and distribute precise mouse models of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD), has released eight new models carrying genetic mutations found in patients.
Jul 23, 2018
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Human Longevity Blasts Craig Venter, Claiming He Was Fired, Then Stole Trade Secrets — Poaching Staffers For Rival Operation
Endpoints News | On Friday, Human Longevity filed suit against ex-CEO and executive chairman Craig Venter, claiming that Venter had stolen trade secrets, recruited staffers, and planned to set up a rival organization.
Jul 23, 2018