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Jun 10, 2015, 10:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Heidi Rehm has been involved in ClinGen since its inception and recently published a report on the project in the New England Journal of Medicine. Rehm’s experience with ClinGen will make hers an important voice as the infrastructure needs for a Precision Medicine Initiative are better defined.
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Jun 9, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Jun 9, 2015 - London, UK
& Boston, USA. June 9th 2015: Digital Science
announced today the appointment of Daniel Hook, currently Director
of Research Metrics at Digital Science, as its new Managing
Director
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Jun 8, 2015, 17:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | BGI, the Shenzhen-based global genomics corporation, has revealed its first DNA sequencing instrument for worldwide markets, Revolocity: an ultra-high-throughput, fully automated system based on technology developed by BGI's subsidiary Complete Genomics.
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Jun 8, 2015, 16:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | David Mittelman and his colleagues at N of Everyone today
launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund Reader, a mobile and social reading
platform to promote conversation and collaboration within science.
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Jun 8, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
NEW YORK, NY - Jun 8, 2015 - BOC Sciences-recently a new synthetic molecule was introduced by an authoritative research center in America
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Jun 5, 2015, 13:50 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | The human body is host to an astonishing array of viruses, but efforts to study this secretive population have hit technological limitations. At Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, a new blood test is letting researchers look at patients' whole histories of viral infection, using their antibodies as a permanent record.
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Jun 5, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Jun 5, 2015 - Motion capture technology specialist Vicon has announced growing momentum in the life sciences sector with several recent customer wins
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Jun 5, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CHAPEL HILL, NC - Jun 5, 2015 - For Immediate
Release Rho Chairman and Co-Founder Ronald W.
Helms Inducted as a FellowOf the Society for
Clinical Trials Chapel Hill, NC ̶
June 4, 2015 ̶ Rho, a contract research
organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market
through a full range of product development services, recently
announced that its Chairman and Co-founder Ronald W
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Jun 4, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
ALBANY, UNITED STATES - Jun 4, 2015 - Market Research Reports
Search Engine (MRRSE) has announced the addition of the
' Frontier Pharma: Parkinsons Disease - Identifying
and Commercializing First-in-Class Innovation' report by
Market Research Reports Search Engine to its rapidly growing market
research report database
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Jun 4, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Xconomy | The immuno-oncology field is moving fast
these days, but the tough-to-treat blood cancer multiple myeloma
has not been one of its early targets.
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Jun 4, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Nature News & Comment | Moderna Therapeutics
has big ambitions and a bankroll to match. How a fledgling start-up
became one of the most highly valued private drug firms ever.
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Jun 3, 2015, 13:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Genomics England today announced four finalist companies and one alternate that will begin working on the interpretation of the genomes of the first 8,000 patients participating in the 100,000 Genomes Project. Congenica and Omicia will work in rare diseases, Nanthealth in cancer, and Wuxi Nextcode in both rare disease and cancer for this stage of the project. Lockheed Martin in partnership with Cypher Genomics is the alternate.
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Jun 3, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Jun 3, 2015 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the worlds leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, recently honored Genentech Partnering and Seragon, and Regeneron and Avalanche with the Allicense 2015 Breakthrough Award for Deals of the Year
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Jun 2, 2015, 15:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | BaseHealth, an Illumina-associated company using genomic data to provide patients with personalized health recommendations, is shifting to a more behind-the-scenes model, releasing an open API to integrate its own analysis engine into third-party apps and health platforms.
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Jun 2, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
WALTHAM, MA - Jun 2, 2015 - Trinity Pharma Solutions, a leader in cloud-based data and guided
analytics solutions for the global life sciences industry, today
announced the next generation of its cloud-enabled and mobile-ready
data analytics platform
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Jun 1, 2015, 14:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Invitae Corporation today announced a patient pay price for its full menu of genetic tests. For $475 per indication, patients can pay for their own genetic tests if insurance coverage is not available. The price covers all of Invitae’s offerings in cancer, cardiology, neurology, pediatric genetics, hematology and other rare conditions
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Jun 1, 2015, 12:25 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry, including a suite of new proteomics and lipidomics solutions from SCIEX, and new efforts at the Broad Institute to understand the mechanisms of cancer drug resistance.
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Jun 1, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | Google may not have caught up to
Amazon in the cloud market, but that's OK, according to a Google
executive. The company is heading in a slightly different direction
with cloud computing that involves helping customers analyze their
data.
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May 29, 2015, 15:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Definiens today launched a new suite of Biomarker Datafication Services for oncology clinical development programs. The package provides image analysis screening of tissue samples for exploratory screening, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, and companion diagnostic development.
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May 29, 2015, 11:50 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Months after 10X Genomics came to market with a platform for reassembling 100-kilobase DNA fragments with an Illumina sequencer, Pacific Biosciences and RainDance Technologies have teamed up on their own barcoded long read solution that they say could outperform 10X on virtually every count.
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