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GA4GH Releases 2018 Strategic Roadmap
Bio-IT World | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health has announced their Strategic Roadmap, which the organization hopes will aid in the major shift toward genomics becoming useful in healthcare.
Feb 26, 2018
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Changing Cancer Research: Biden Cancer Initiative On What’s Next
Bio-IT World | Gregory Simon, President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, discussed the current state of cancer treatment during his keynote address at the 25th annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference last week. “What I’m going to talk to you about today,” Simon said, “is changing the way we think about what we’re doing in [cancer] research.”
Feb 23, 2018
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Share The Data: David Haussler Envisions A New Future For Pediatric Cancer
Bio-IT World | David Haussler, Professor and Scientific Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, came to the 25th annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference to discuss using the power of big data to help pediatric cancer patients.
Feb 22, 2018
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CRISPR In China: Cancer Treatment With Gene Editing Underway
NPR | More than a third of patients with cancer of the esophagus responded to experimental treatment in China with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. Several CRISPR studies are underway there.
Feb 21, 2018
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100,000 Genomes Project Reaches Halfway Milestone
Bio-IT World Brief | The United Kingdom’s pioneering 100,000 Genomes Project has reached a major milestone by sequencing 50,000 genomes.
Feb 20, 2018
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Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer. They Were Wrong.
The New York Times | Scientists are racing to understand why immunotherapy drugs have worked for a few cancer patients when the medicines should have had no effect.
Feb 19, 2018
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Cambridge Semantics Announces Graph-Based Online Analytics Support For Amazon Neptune, Graph Databases
Bio-IT World Brief | Cambridge Semantics announced a preview of AnzoGraph, a native graph-based parallel query engine available for analyzing data from Amazon Neptune, the new fully managed graph database service from Amazon Web Services.
Feb 16, 2018
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iRODS Consortium Carries Open Source Data Management Software Forward
Bio-IT World | Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System is used across the globe in industries ranging from the life and physical sciences to media and entertainment. Recent developments in the software have invigorated the life sciences community and provided the possibility of collaboration.
Feb 15, 2018
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Bristol-Myers To Pay Largest Fee In Biotech History For Nektar Cancer Drug
Forbes | Bristol-Myers Squibb says it will pay a record $1.85 billion to Nektar Therapeutics, a small biotech startup, for rights to its experimental cancer drug, codenamed NKTR-214. Nektar will book 65% of global profits on the drug, should it reach the market, with Bristol getting the other 35%.
Feb 14, 2018
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The Pistoia Alliance Launches User Experience For Life Sciences Toolkit
Bio-IT World Brief | The Pistoia Alliance has today announced the launch of the User Experience for Life Sciences Toolkit, to help life science companies improve UX in line with other global industries.
Feb 13, 2018
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Reliable Standards: A Necessity For Genomic Data
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | As the field of genomics grows, it is imperative that we develop reliable, high-quality data standards with which to gauge accuracy and completeness.
Feb 12, 2018
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23andMe Launches The Global Genetics Project
23andMe Blog | 23andMe launches a Global Genetics Project recruiting thousands of individuals with recent heritage from dozens of countries in Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas to improve research in underrepresented populations, and reveal new insights into patterns of human migration and genetic diversity.
Feb 8, 2018
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This New Company Wants To Sequence Your Genome And Let You Share It On A Blockchain
MIT Technology Review | A new startup from George Church, Nebula Genomics, says it will sequence your genome, secure it using a blockchain, and let you earn cryptocurrency by sharing it with pharma companies.
Feb 7, 2018
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Scientific Data Doctoring: Could Blockchain Technology Help Stamp It Out?
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Blockchain technology has emerged as a technology that could reduce data falsification in a publicly visible, traceable, perpetual and immutable fashion, and thus help to rebuild trust in science.
Feb 7, 2018
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Oxford Nanopore Outlook 2018
Omics! Omics! Blog | Keith Robison gives his thoughts on the recent publication of the human genome sequencing paper focusing on Oxford Nanopore.
Feb 7, 2018
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Charles River Makes Investments In High-Throughput Screening Infrastructure
Bio-IT World Brief | Charles River announced a new agreement which grants Charles River commercial access to AstraZeneca’s high-throughput screening and compound management infrastructure.
Feb 6, 2018
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Sequencing Human Genome With Pocket-Sized “Nanopore” Device
NIH Director's Blog | A report in Nature Biotechnology highlights the latest advance in DNA sequencing: the sequencing and assembly of a human genome using a pocket-sized device.
Feb 6, 2018
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Gut Microbes Combine To Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests
The New York Times | Two types of bacteria common in the gut may accelerate the growth of tumors, suggesting new possibilities for diagnosis and prevention.
Feb 5, 2018
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Despite Doubters, Moderna Raises $500 Million, Is Now Worth $7 Billion
Forbes | Moderna Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm that is developing drugs that work on a genetic messaging system that is essentially to all living cells, has raised $500 million from a group of new and current investors.
Feb 2, 2018
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IBM Brings V100 GPUs To Its Cloud
TOP500 | The popularity of NVIDIA's Tesla V100 GPUs got another boost this week with IBM's announcement that it has added them to its cloud offerings.
Feb 2, 2018