• Certara Supported Risk Assessment Research Wins Outstanding Paper Award

    Mar 27, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 27, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consulting company, today announced that the Toxicological Sciences article, entitled “Incorporating Population Variability and Susceptible Subpopulations into Dosimetry for High-throughput Toxicity Testing,” using its Simcyp® Simulator, has been selected by the Risk Assessment Specialty Section (RASS) of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) as its “Best Published Paper Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment
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  • New Crop of Biotechs from Y Combinator

    Mar 26, 2015, 09:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Tech Crunch | This week marked Demo Day for budding companies incubated in Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, which began putting out feelers for biotech startups last year and is now moving with more confidence into the biomedical field.
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  • Emerald Opens Cloud Lab Facility

    Mar 25, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Emerald Therapeutics is opening its first Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL) production facility, ECL-1, in the biotech corridor of South San Francisco. The robotics life sciences laboratory was announced last year, though plans were already underway for a move to South San Francisco. Since then, the company built a new production facility from the ground up and installed over $3 million of scientific instrumentation.  
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  • deCODE Publishes Largest Human Genome Population Study

    Mar 25, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | With a package of four papers published today in Nature Genetics, deCODE genetics presents the largest set of  human genomes from one population, and findings including a set of complete human knockouts, a new timeline for the common Y-chromosome ancestor, and loss-of-function variants that confer Alzheimer’s disease risk.
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  • Systematic Overhaul Recommended for Human Brain Project

    Mar 24, 2015, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft
    Nature News | An independent committee reviewing the goals and practices of Europe's Human Brain Project (HBP) has substantially sided with critics of the effort, proposing major changes to the HBP's governance and to its central mission of creating a computer simulation of the human brain.
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  • Thomson Reuters Names Most Promising Drugs of 2015

    Mar 23, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Mar 23, 2015 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released the 2015 edition of its annual Drugs to Watch report
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  • New Online Tool Creates Guide RNAs for CRISPR Gene Editing

    Mar 20, 2015, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Horizon Discovery, a Cambridge, UK-based research supply company with a focus on gene editing experiments, has launched a free online tool to design guide RNA for CRISPR experiments.
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  • CRISPR in the Germline

    Mar 20, 2015, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | There is a renewed urgency to public conversations about the ethics of genome editing, thanks to the emergence of CRISPR, a gene engineering technology so effective and easy to use that scientists are racing to keep up with its potential applications.
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  • Albumin Fusion Protein Production Services Are Available in Creative BioMart Now

    Mar 20, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    SHIRLEY, NY, UNITED STATES - Mar 20, 2015 - March 20, 2015-Creative BioMart, a leading supplier for reagents in the biotechnology field, today has added novel Albumin Fusion Protein Production Services to its protein expression services
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  • Hsp90 Focused Library from OTAVA

    Mar 20, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    - Mar 20, 2015 - Nowadays, a number of highly potent and pharmaceutically improved heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitors are undergoing clinical trials
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  • The Right Drug the First Time

    Mar 19, 2015, 11:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Scientists in the growing field of pharmacogenetics believe that new DNA tests can protect patients from adverse drug responses and ineffective prescriptions. Yet it's been an uphill battle to convince payers, medical centers, and clinicians to embrace these tests in mainstream medicine.
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  • Ginkgo Bioworks Opens Its Genetic Engineering Foundry

    Mar 18, 2015, 10:30 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Ginkgo Bioworks announced this morning that its synthetic biology “foundry,” an 18,000 square foot facility on the Boston waterfront designed to rapidly iterate through new prototypes of genetically modified organisms, is open for business.
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  • Building an Analytical Knowledge Management System at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Strasbourg

    Mar 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    STRASBOURG, FRANCE - Mar 18, 2015 - At the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Strasbourg houses (France) a diverse group of research teams work at the interface between chemistry and biology
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  • 23andMe Therapeutics Won't Change Drug Discovery

    Mar 17, 2015, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | 23andMe's new drug discovery unit isn't the next disruptive health innovation from Silicon Valley, but it is a good move for a company that should know better than anyone how to turn genetic data into real value.
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  • GenomeNext, Powered by Amazon Web Services and Intel, Achieves Unprecedented Throughput of 1,000 Genomes Analyzed per Day, Enabling Population-Scale Genomics

    Mar 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    COLUMBUS, OH - Mar 17, 2015 - GenomeNext, LLC, a leader in genomic data management and integrated analysis, announced today that, through the “Intel Heads In The Clouds Challenge on Amazon Web Services (AWS)” with support from JHC Technology, and in conjunction with Nationwide Children’s Hospital, has benchmarked whole genome sequencing analysis at an unprecedented 1,000 genomes per day
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  • Cloud Pharmaceuticals and the University of Florida Department of Medicine Collaborate on the Rapid Design of Novel Cancer Inhibitors

    Mar 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - Mar 17, 2015 - Cloud Pharmaceuticals, a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, and the University of Florida Department of Medicine have announced an academic collaboration that will help rapidly design and develop novel drugs to inhibit the reproduction of cancer cells
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  • Rho Showcases Clinical Services Expertise, Recruits New Employees at OCT Southeast

    Mar 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 17, 2015 - WHAT: Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will highlight its continued success in drug development strategies and services during the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials (OCT) Southeast conference, being held March 24-25 in Cary, North Carolina
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  • New Research Retrieval Tool ‘Article Galaxy Widget’ Termed “The Ultimate Sophistication” by Analyst and Advisory Firm Outsell, Inc.

    Mar 13, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    LOS ANGELES, CA - Mar 13, 2015 - Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions (OTCQB: RSSS) company and top-rated document delivery supplier for scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, has announced the immediate full-text availability of the article The Ultimate Sophistication: Reprints Desk Launches its Article Galaxy Widget, created by independent research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc
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  • Tute Genomics Shares Genetic Variants Database on Google Genomics

    Mar 12, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Google Genomics and Tute Genomics have announced that a Tute database of 8.5 billion annotations of genetic variants is publicly available through Google Genomics. The database will be hosted on Google Genomics, and can be queried at regular Google Genomics query rates.
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  • Marcogen selects GENALICE MAP to process its large-scale genome analysis and clinical sequencing service data

    Mar 12, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    HARDERWIJK, NETHERLANDS - Mar 12, 2015 - Today, biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE and Personalized medicine & biotechnology company Macrogen Inc (CEO Hyonyong Chong) jointly announced that Macrogen has chosen GENALICE MAP to reinforce its big data processing and analysis capacity for large-scale genome analysis and clinical sequencing services
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