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Researchers At Mount Sinai, Sema4 Develop Powerful New Method For Microbiome Analysis
Bio-IT World Brief | Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Sema4, and collaborating institutions New York University and the University of Florida published a report detailing their new, more accurate method for identifying individual microbial species and strains in a community.
Dec 12, 2017
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Race And Ancestry: Distinguishing The Two For Genetic Studies
Bio-IT World | The findings from a study elucidating the differences in molecular alterations in multiple myeloma as a function of self-reported race and genetic ancestry were recently published in PLOS Genetics.
Dec 11, 2017
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The Biotech Industry Needs To Pay More Attention To Women's Health
STAT | In this opinion piece, the authors argue that reversing the dearth of investment in women's health would be good for women, for the biotech industry, and for the U.S. economy.
Dec 8, 2017
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Neuroscientists Just Launched an Atlas of the Developing Human Brain
WIRED | It's a look at how genes are expressed during the earliest stages of life-down to the cellular level.
Dec 7, 2017
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The Increasingly Important Role Of Project Manager In Life Sciences
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Life sciences, like many industries, require skilled, strategic-minded project managers. As a result of this, life science companies must empower PMs with more robust technology that meets unique industry needs.
Dec 7, 2017
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Cambridge Biotech Wants Workers To Understand Patients' Diet Experience
The Boston Globe | Biotech companies developing drugs for rare diseases often invite patients to visit so workers can put a human face on illnesses that could be viewed as abstract scientific puzzles. Akcea Therapeutics is taking that idea further - it wants staffers to get a taste of life with a super-rare metabolic disorder.
Dec 6, 2017
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Google Has Released An AI Tool That Makes Sense Of Your Genome
MIT Technology Review | AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies.
Dec 5, 2017
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Medherant, EightSpokes, Cambridge Semantics, And More: News From November 2017
Bio-IT World | November featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Medherant, EightSpokes, Cambridge Semantics, and more.
Dec 5, 2017
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NVIDIA Extends GPU Cloud Support For AI Researchers
Bio-IT World Brief NVIDIA has extended NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) support to NVIDIA TITAN, giving AI researchers using desktop GPUs access to NGC. The company has also added new software and other key updates to the NGC container registry to provide researchers a broader, more powerful set of tools to advance their AI and high performance computing research and development efforts.
Dec 4, 2017
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Deep Learning In The Clinic: Predicting Patient Prognosis
Bio-IT World | In a paper published last month on arXiv, and not yet peer-reviewed, Stanford researchers outlined how machine learning can be made to predict prognosis in a clinical setting.
Dec 4, 2017
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Edico Genome Launches DRAGEN Complete Suite On AWS Marketplace
Bio-IT World Brief | During the AWS re:Invent, Edico Genome revealed its DRAGEN Complete Suite on AWS Marketplace, a comprehensive package of pipelines that enables AWS users to access all of DRAGEN's applications for next-generation sequencing data analysis in one click.
Dec 1, 2017
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AWS Adds Capabilities For Amazon Aurora And Amazon DynamoDB, Introduces Amazon Neptune
Bio-IT World Brief | Yesterday at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new database capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and introduced Amazon Neptune, a new fully managed graph database service.
Nov 30, 2017
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A Virus Shortage? BlueBird Bio Buys A Factory To Make Its Own
Forbes | Amid a reported shortage of the disabled viruses used for gene therapies, BlueBird Bio has purchased a 125,000-square-foot facility in Durham, North Carolina, that it will use for manufacturing the lentiviral vectors used in its treatments.
Nov 29, 2017
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AI Exposes Patterns For Faster Drug Discovery
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Though the results are just starting to emerge, AI is showing positive traction in drug development. Machine learning in particular can help pharma recover the value of repurposed drugs by finding new therapeutic applications for them.
Nov 29, 2017
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A Grim Future? Here Are the Numbers
In the Pipeline | Here's a bracing look at the state of the pharma business, especially regarding R&D costs and return on investment. And let me warn you - it's not a feel-good outlook.
Nov 28, 2017
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750 Raspberry Pis Turned Into Supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory
ExtremeTech | A new project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's High Performance Computing Division seeks to make supercomputers more accessible with help from Raspberry Pi clusters.
Nov 28, 2017
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Gene Therapy Hits A Peculiar Roadblock: A Virus Shortage
The New York Times | Revolutionary new treatments depend on tailor-made viruses, but laboratories cannot make them fast enough.
Nov 27, 2017
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Three IT Tracks At Tri-Con Dig Deep Into Cloud, Data Commons, FAIR Data
Bio-IT World | The Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference will celebrate its 25th anniversary next February in San Francisco. Here are a few of the talks coming from the conference we’ve marked so far.
Nov 27, 2017
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Senator Calls For More Scrutiny Of Home DNA Test Industry
NBC News | With the holiday season in full swing, Sen. Chuck Schumer said customers may be putting their genetic information at risk of being sold to third parties.
Nov 27, 2017
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Multiple Myeloma Data Analysis Shows Need For Diversity In Research
Bio-IT World | An analysis of data from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) CoMMpass study by researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Translational Genomics found significant genetic mutation differences between African Americans and Caucasians with multiple myeloma. African American patients showed increased mutations in genes previously unassociated with multiple myeloma. The findings were published today in PLoS Genetics.
Nov 22, 2017