• FactBio Launches Annotated Metadata Collection

    Oct 30, 2017, 05:53 AM by Michael Croft
    CAMBRIDGE, UK - Oct 30, 2017 - FactBio has launched the Annotated Metadata Collection, a collection of commonly used, high interest, curated reference meta- data sets for the life sciences community
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  • BGI Launches George Church Institute

    Oct 27, 2017, 16:45 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Brief  BGI announced yesterday a joint effort with George Church and launched the George Church Institute of Regenesis, located in the China National GeneBank in Shenzhen, China. Church reportedly accepted the appointment as the chief scientist of the Institute. BGI made the announcement at the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Genomics (ICG-12).
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  • Certara-Monash University Industry Fellowship Program Receives Funding from MTPConnect’s Project Fund Program

    Oct 26, 2017, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft
    MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Oct 26, 2017 - MTPConnect - the Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre - today announced it will provide a proposed AUD750,000 provisional funding to the Certara-Monash University Industry Fellowship Program over two years, with proposed matched funding of AUD750,000 coming from Certara®
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  • Exhibitors count down the days to Lab Innovations 2017

    Oct 26, 2017, 09:38 AM by Michael Croft
    BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - Oct 26, 2017 - It’s less than a week before Lab Innovations 2017 begins, and preparations are in full swing as the NEC Birmingham gets ready to open its doors and welcome over 130 exhibitors showcasing the latest analytical, biotech and laboratory products
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  • Elsevier announces winners of the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize

    Oct 25, 2017, 12:11 PM by Michael Croft
    SHANGHAI - Oct 25, 2017 - Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, announced the three winners of the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize at its annual Symposium held in Shanghai, China
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  • FactBio CEO Joins OBO Foundry

    Oct 25, 2017, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft
    CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 25, 2017 - FactBio’s CEO, Dr James Malone has joined the Operations Committee of the OBO Foundry, a collective of ontology developers that are committed to developing a family of interoperable ontologies that are both logically well-formed and scientifically accurate
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  • The State Of CRISPR/Cas9: Patents And Possibilities

    Oct 25, 2017, 07:30 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | A lot has been happening in the CRISPR playing field. The Charpentier/Broad Institute lawsuit over CRISPR/Cas9 patent claims allows insight into the potential of this technology.

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  • Tracking The Cost Of Gene Therapy

    Oct 24, 2017, 14:09 PM by Michael Croft
    MIT Technology Review | Though expensive now, prices could get cheaper for more common diseases.
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  • DNA Scan For Infants Raise Questions Of Privacy And Discrimination

    Oct 24, 2017, 13:28 PM by Michael Croft
    CBS News | Genetic counselors in Boston are offering new parents a controversial peek at their baby's future health.
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  • BioIVT Expands Its Support for Precision Medicine Researchers

    Oct 24, 2017, 09:24 AM by Michael Croft
    WESTBURY, NY - Oct 24, 2017 - BioIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that it is sponsoring the Powering Precision Health Summit (PPHS) 2017
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  • Former IBM Watson Health Head of West Coast Sales Joins Deep 6 AI

    Oct 23, 2017, 17:58 PM by Michael Croft
    PASADENA, CA - Oct 19, 2017 - Former IBM Watson Health sales executive, Bill Hutchins, is joining Deep 6 AI to to support the rapid expansion of its clinical trial patient recruitment platform across hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations
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  • Leaders In Biobanking Congress: The Story So Far

    Oct 23, 2017, 11:40 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | This week Bio-IT World will be in attendance at the 9th international Leaders in Biobanking Congress, which takes place October 25-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. We at Bio-IT World would like to take a moment to review stories we’ve covered in the past few months in preparation for this event.

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  • Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia, Edico Set World Record For Secondary Analysis Speed

    Oct 23, 2017, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | Using Edico Genome’s DRAGEN pipeline on 1,000 Amazon EC2 F1 instances, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Edico Genome set a new scientific world standard last week in rapidly processing whole human genomes.

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  • News And Notes From ASHG 2017

    Oct 20, 2017, 13:15 PM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World Brief | The American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting took place this week in Orlando, Florida. Here are some of the product news and company announcements released over the course of the week. Highlights include the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Edico Genome’s world record-setting achievement, LifeOmic’s agreement with Genomenon, HudsonAlpha, and more.

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  • China Biotech Promise Struggles To Keep Foreign Innovators

    Oct 20, 2017, 12:19 PM by Michael Croft
    Bloomberg | As money rushes into China's fledgling biotechnology sector, Eli Lilly and other foreign drugmakers are scaling back.
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  • Laboratory Informatics Leaders to Gather in Philadelphia

    Oct 19, 2017, 15:48 PM by Michael Croft
    PHILADELPHIA, PA - Oct 19, 2017 - Philadelphia, PA  (October 19)  IQPC's  14th Laboratory Informatics Summit, the nation's foremost event addressing innovative solutions to leverage the modern lab will take place in Philadelphia, PA, this December 4-6, 2017
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  • Observations On The Post-Mortem Tissue Donation Process For Biospecimen Research

    Oct 19, 2017, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World Podcast | Sarah Gray of the American Association of Tissue Banks is featured on this podcast from Cambridge Healthtech Institute in preparation for the Leaders in Biobanking Congress. Topics include expectations about the process of donating post-mortem tissue for biospecimen research, possible process improvements to better serve patients, and more.

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  • Boehringer Ingelheim partners with TARGET PharmaSolutions to Progress NASH Research

    Oct 19, 2017, 14:36 PM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC - Oct 19, 2017 - TARGET PharmaSolutions, Inc., a real-world clinical data company, is pleased to announce that Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership for TARGET-NASH
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  • TraceLink Hits Industry Milestone with 100 CMOs Serialization-Ready

    Oct 19, 2017, 11:36 AM by Michael Croft
    NORTH READING, MA - Oct 19, 2017 - North Reading, Mass. (October 19, 2017)—TraceLink Inc., the World’s Largest Track and Trace Network for connecting the life sciences supply chain and providing real-time information sharing for better patient outcomes, today announced that more than 100 contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) are fully configured  on the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud and ready to exchange serialization data
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  • Fortune Ranks Reltio #1 in List of Best Small Workplaces in America

    Oct 18, 2017, 20:01 PM by Michael Croft
    REDWOOD SHORES, CA - Oct 18, 2017 - Reltio, the enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management Platform as a Service (PaaS) company, today announced it has been ranked number one in Fortune's 50 Best Small Workplaces in the U
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