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Recent Breakthroughs in the Fight Against Cancer – The New Revolution
May 30, 2017, 12:22 PM by Michael CroftMUNICH, GERMANY - May 30, 2017 - Definiens, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca, is the leader in Tissue Phenomics® and provider of solutions from biomarker discovery to meaningful diagnosticsFull story -
CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations
May 30, 2017, 09:03 AM by Michael CroftPhys.org | As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.Full story -
Optibrium, Imperial College and DNDi Collaborate in Drug Development Programme for Neglected Diseases
May 30, 2017, 08:31 AM by Michael CroftCAMBRIDGE AND LONDON UK, AND GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - May 30, 2017 - Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation today announced it had entered into a collaboration with Imperial College London, the world leading science-based research institution and university, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit drug R&D organisation developing new treatments for neglected diseasesFull story -
Geneious Biologics to Power Better Biological Drug Development
May 29, 2017, 21:41 PM by Michael CroftAUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - May 23, 2017 - BIO-IT WORLD, BOSTON, MA – May 23, 2017 – Geneious Biologics, an enterprise software solution for screening antibodies and related constructs using sequence data, was launched today and will change the way scientists identify antibodies for use in biological drug developmentFull story -
Deloitte Debuts ConvergeHEALTH Evidence Lifecycle Management Solutions that Support Shift to Value Based, Personalized Health Care at 2017 Bio-IT World Conference
May 26, 2017, 13:34 PM by Michael CroftBOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - May 23, 2017 - This year at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Deloitte will be showcasing the latest updates to its ConvergeHEALTH suite of life sciences end-to-end evidence lifecycle management solutions, as well as hosting a series of panel discussions with life sciences innovatorsFull story -
Recipharm makes strategic appointment in the UK & Ireland
May 26, 2017, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft- May 26, 2017 - Recipharm, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has invested in its UK & Ireland presence with the appointment of Shabbir Mostafa to its Business Management teamFull story -
RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) team helps organizations avoid over $785 million in data breach costs
May 25, 2017, 18:55 PM by Michael CroftMENLO PARK, CA - May 25, 2017 - Menlo Park, CA (May 25, 2017) - RedLock, the true cloud infrastructure security company, today officially announced the RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) team, which brings together elite security analysts, data scientists and data engineers from respected corporations such as Microsoft, Credit Suisse and HoneywellFull story -
Sartorius Stedim Biotech supports mainstream adoption of Quality by Design
May 25, 2017, 12:46 PM by Michael CroftGOETTINGEN, GERMANY - May 25, 2017 - Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, has developed an innovative and fully integrated technology platform to meet the requirements of todays upstream bioprocessingFull story -
Thermo Fisher Scientific Strengthens Portfolio of Endotoxin-Free Plasmid DNA Isolation Kits
May 25, 2017, 11:26 AM by Michael CroftCARLSBAD, CA, UNITED STATES - May 15, 2017 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has expanded its line of endotoxin-free plasmid DNA isolation products with the launch of the PureLink Expi Endotoxin-Free Maxi Plasmid Purification KitFull story -
Bio-IT World Announces 2017 Best Practices Awards Winners
May 25, 2017, 09:00 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced the winners of the 2017 Best Practices Awards at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Entries from Maccabi Healthcare System, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, Allotrope Foundation, Earlham Institute, Biomedical Imaging Research Services Section (BIRSS), and Alexion Pharmaceuticals were honored.
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Bio-IT World Announces 2017 Best Of Show Award Winners
May 24, 2017, 17:50 PM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the 2017 winners of the Best of Show Awards Program to a packed audience at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The awards program recognizes the best of the innovative product solutions for the life sciences industry on display at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston.
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Broad Institute To Release Genome Analysis Toolkit 4 As Open Source Resource To Accelerate Research
May 24, 2017, 13:00 PM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | The Broad Institute will release version 4 of the industry-leading Genome Analysis Toolkit under an open source software license. It is available currently as an alpha preview on the Broad Institute’s GATK website, with a beta release expected in mid-June.
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Researchers gain greater insights into experimental data by leveraging the growing collections of molecular interactions from published literature
May 24, 2017, 10:36 AM by Michael CroftNEW YORK, NY - May 23, 2017 - SolveBio and Elsevier, the information analytics company, have announced a collaboration to integrate the use of Pathway Studio, Elseviers database of biological molecular interactions and curated pathways, with SolveBio platform, providing customers with one seamless solution to drive better precision medicine researchFull story -
Ovation Receives $1.5M In Funding And Launches Collaboration With iGeneTrain
May 24, 2017, 07:30 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World Brief | Ovation announced today the receipt of $1.5 million in funding from StageDotO, and existing investors, including Longfellow Ventures. The company will use the funds to continue the development of its next-generation scientific data-layer-as-a-service platforms, built to accelerate the progress of life science by improving how the story of scientific data is told. Ovation also announced a partnership with iGeneTRAiN to use Ovation Research to maximize collaboration capabilities across iGeneTRAiN’s transplant consortium.Full story -
IBM And The tranSMART Foundation Bring Translational Medicine Data To Scientists
May 23, 2017, 15:20 PM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | The tranSMART Foundation and IBM today announced their collaboration and the general availability of the tranSMART platform (version 16.2) on IBM Power8 servers. The translational research platform is running on IBM Power8 servers at the tranSMART Foundation’s Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan.
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Life Sciences and Medical Research Turn to Qumulo for Modern Scale-Out File Storage
May 23, 2017, 09:53 AM by Michael CroftSEATTLE, WA - May 23, 2017 - Qumulo, the leader in modern scale-out storage, today announced that leading life sciences and medical research institutions are choosing Qumulo to accelerate their data-intensive workflows, including cancer and infectious disease research, genomics, bioinformatics, proteomics, microscopy and big dataFull story -
Linguamatics to Highlight New Text Analytics Technologies and Innovative Deployments at Bio-IT World 2017
May 22, 2017, 10:04 AM by Michael CroftCAMBRIDGE, UK - May 22, 2017 - Leading NLP text analytics provider Linguamatics today announced plans to highlight the latest version of its text mining platform at this weeks Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in BostonFull story -
Cray And Markley Partner To Provide Supercomputing As A Service
May 22, 2017, 09:30 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | Cray and Markley have announced a partnership to provide supercomputing as a service solutions that combine the power of Cray supercomputers with the premier hosting capabilities of Markley.
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OCF deliver new 600 Teraflop HPC machine for University of Bristol
May 22, 2017, 09:07 AM by Michael CroftBRISTOL, UNITED KINGDOM - May 22, 2017 - For over a decade the University of Bristol has been contributing to world-leading and life changing scientific research using High Performance Computing (HPC), having invested over £16 million in HPC and research data storageFull story -
Data: The Lifeblood of Life Sciences Research
May 19, 2017, 08:35 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The increasing growth of research technologies and digital data is straining today’s IT infrastructure with changes in the lab happening so fast that the infrastructure must not only meet today’s needs, but also have flexibility for an uncertain tomorrow.