• Democratizing Data in Canada

    Jun 27, 2016, 05:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Molecular You (MYCo) has a vision to decipher a wide variety of individual patient data to promote health, detect disease in its earliest stages, and provide insights on therapeutic efficacy and timing. To manage a broad range of data, MYCo has enlisted a data warehouse solution built on Hadoop.
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  • The Concept Life Sciences Group expands its services to the US

    Jun 24, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael Croft
    , UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 24, 2016 - ~~FOR MEDIA INFORMATION:
    Sarah Roberts
    Vane Percy & Roberts
    (T) +44 (0)1737 821890
    (e) sarah@vanepercy
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  • Bio-IT World’s Editors’ Choice Award: XAbTracker and SeqAgent

    Jun 24, 2016, 05:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Award | Each year, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo welcomes innovators from around the world who come to share their best practices, and glean insight from others. This year, XOMA’s applications XAbTracker and SeqAgent stood out for doing just that. Their team targeted a bottleneck in the antibody discovery process and developed two software programs specifically designed to improve data analysis with both speed and efficiency.
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  • AWS and Azure clouds gain security OK from feds

    Jun 23, 2016, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Three vendors, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, have won a key U.S. government authorization that will allow federal agencies to put highly sensitive data on the cloud-computing services.
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  • Intel SAP other tech companies pledge to get more inclusive in hiring

    Jun 23, 2016, 09:27 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Intel, SAP, Lyft, Spotify and VMware are among more than 30 Silicon Valley companies to sign a pledge that they would take action to make their technology workforce "fully representative of the American people, as soon as possible."
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  • Certara Introduces the D360 Express Data Platform for Biotech R&D

    Jun 23, 2016, 08:17 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 23, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced the availability of D360 Express
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  • Buy-in from the top is key to cloud transitions AWS exec says

    Jun 22, 2016, 10:44 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | As the head of Amazon Web Services, Andy Jassy has seen a lot of big organizations start using the public cloud. The biggest indicator of success for a cloud transition is simple, he says: Has the business' senior staff bought into it?
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  • CenterWatch Joins WIRB-Copernicus Group

    Jun 22, 2016, 09:47 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 22, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG™), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced its acquisition of CenterWatch, the leading provider of clinical trial industry news and information, and the addition of Kenneth A
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  • Recipharm announces global serialisation collaboration

    Jun 22, 2016, 06:33 AM by Michael Croft
    JORDBRO, SWEDEN - Jun 22, 2016 - RECIPHARM, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has formed a global partnership with Marchesini, SEA Vision and TraceLink to introduce new serialisation capabilitiesx
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  • Congenica's Sapientia selected for 'PAGE' prenatal genetic testing project

    Jun 22, 2016, 05:45 AM by Michael Croft
    CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 22, 2016 -  In about 3% of pregnancies a fetal anomaly is detected by ultrasound; knowing the cause would greatly assist an accurate diagnosis and provide information about the potential health implications
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  • Federal Oversight Group Has Complaints But Says Yes To CRISPR Trial

    Jun 21, 2016, 16:44 PM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Despite worries about conflict of interest, a National Institutes of Health committee that oversees the use of gene therapy and other cutting edge biomedical technologies voted today to let researchers move ahead with the CRISPR-Cas9 clinical trial.
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  • Philips expands its Digital Pathology Solutions portfolio with the acquisition of PathXL

    Jun 21, 2016, 15:56 PM by Michael Croft
    ANDOVER, MA, UNITED STATES - Jun 21, 2016 - June 21, 2016  Philipsexpands its Digital Pathology Solutions portfolio with the acquisition of PathXL Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has acquired PathXL, a Northern Ireland-based leader in digital pathology image analysis, workflow software and educational tools
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  • Illumina's Flatley speaks of genomic future

    Jun 21, 2016, 13:16 PM by Michael Croft
    The San Diego Union-Tribune | Illumina's Flatley speaks of genomic future. Longtime CEO stepping down to become chairman, looks for near-universal use of genome sequencing.
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  • University of Southampton Leverages Medidata Clinical Cloud to Bridge Innovation Gap Between Academia and UK Drug Development Industry

    Jun 21, 2016, 13:15 PM by Michael Croft
    NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Jun 21, 2016 -  Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, and the Southampton Clinical Trials Unitat the University of Southampton today announced a partnership to accelerate drug development across the United Kingdom
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  • TABLET PRESS INVESTMENT AT JUNIPER PHARMA SERVICES

    Jun 21, 2016, 11:31 AM by Michael Croft
    NOTTINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 21, 2016 - Nottingham, UK – Juniper Pharma Services (“the company”), a subsidiary of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc
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  • Rho Recognized for Exemplary Workplace Practice

    Jun 20, 2016, 14:16 PM by Michael Croft
    Receives prestigious When Work Works Award for the fourth time   Chapel Hill, NC (June 15, 2016) – Rho, a full service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full
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  • Nvidias new Pascal GPU to supercharge deep learning

    Jun 20, 2016, 12:43 PM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Some of the world's fastest computers use Nvidia's graphics processor for computer vision and complex calculations, and a new GPU will supercharge these applications.
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  • Definiens to Present at First Rational Combinations 360° Conference in New York

    Jun 20, 2016, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft
    MUNICH, GERMANY - Jun 20, 2016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization, today announced that chief commercial officer Merrilyn Datta, PhD, will present at Rational Combinations 360°, being held in New York, NY from June 23-24, 2016
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  • WuXi AppTec Adopts Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry to Support Research and Expansion Ambitions

    Jun 17, 2016, 12:07 PM by Michael Croft
    PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA - Jun 17, 2016 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that WuXi AppTec, the world's largest Contract Research Outsourcing (CRO) provider, has adopted Reaxys® and Reaxys® Medicinal Chemistry
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  • Building Human Longevity’s Exhaustive Knowledgebase

    Jun 17, 2016, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Despite advances in genomics in the past decade, there are still large portions of the genome that scientists and physicians don’t know how to interpret. Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) wants to fill in those gaps.
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