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Jan 28, 2015, 11:25 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | The long courtroom fights are at long last coming to an end as Myriad Genetics has announced it will settle its complex web of suits and countersuits and end claims to ownership of certain genetic testing targets and methods.
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Jan 28, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Xconomy | Cambridge, MA-based Exosome Diagnostics
aims to raise $25 million, on top of the $27 million in Series B
funding it raised last March. Exosome would use the cash to launch
its first two products: a blood-based test for lung cancer, and a
urine test for prostate cancer.
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Jan 27, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
- Jan 27, 2015 - Potassium
channels are attractive therapeutic targets for treatment of
cardiovascular and cancer diseases which are the top two
public-health problems for the aging population
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Jan 27, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bloomberg | Google Inc., expanding its foray into
medical research, will join multiple sclerosis drugmaker Biogen
Idec Inc. to study environmental and biological contributors to the
debilitating disease's progression.
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Jan 27, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jan 27, 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) West Coast conference, being held February
3-4 in Burlingame, California
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Jan 26, 2015, 11:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Claritas Genomics announced today that it has secured $15 million in capital for its Series B round to expand its commercial operations, launch new next generation sequencing-based tests for diagnosis of pediatric genetic disorders and continue to build its network of clinical pediatric disease experts.
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Jan 26, 2015, 10:35 AM
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Michael Croft
Xconomy | Yumanity, a well-connected drug discovery startup, plans to play the long game in drug development by using yeast models in deep phenotypic screens to study neurological diseases based on protein misfolding.
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Jan 26, 2015, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Appistry today launched Appistry CloudDx Translational, a “sister product” to the CloudDx platform launched last June, now renamed CloudDx Clinical.
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Jan 26, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Jan 26, 2015 - Global transformation and smart data are terms bandied about in the same breath the world over. With wide-ranging implications across sectors, industries such as banking, retail and services, to name only a few, are no strangers to this trend
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Jan 23, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
- Jan 23, 2015 - IDBS has completely revitalized its ELN software for multidisciplinary research and development (R&D)
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Jan 22, 2015, 12:20 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | A team based at the University of Toronto has published the first reported case of using the Oxford Nanopore MinION to sequence human DNA, in a study focused on three genes with known relevance to drug dosing.
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Jan 22, 2015, 12:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | GenoSpace announced this morning that Michelle Munson, CEO of Aspera, an IBM Company, has joined its board as an independent director.
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Jan 21, 2015, 13:15 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today released its MiSeq FGx instrument, a version of the company's MiSeq next generation sequencer modified for forensic DNA testing, as well as ForenSeq chemistry and software kits.
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Jan 21, 2015, 11:45 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Commentators from around the science and healthcare world react to President Obama's announcement, in last night's State of the Union address, that his new budget will propose a Precision Medicine Initiative to support research into individualized therapies based on patients' unique genetic and molecular profiles.
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Jan 21, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
BILLERICA, MA - Jan 21, 2015 - ~~RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of Scott R
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Jan 20, 2015, 14:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | SV Bio today announced a new name, a new focus, and a new product: a next generation sequencing (NGS)-based oncology assay, the Pan Cancer Somatic Panel (PCSP).
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Jan 20, 2015, 09:50 AM
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Michael Croft
New York Times | "I have my seatbelt and crash helmet on," a biotech CEO tells The New York Times in an investigation of soaring biotechnology stocks and drug approvals in the wake of last week's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
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Jan 20, 2015, 09:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World Product Brief | LifeMap Sciences has released VarElect, an application that David Warshawsky, CEO of the company, calls a next-generation sequencing phenotyper. The tool leverages LifeMap’s integrated biomedical knowledgebase and discovery platform for biomedical research, which includes GeneCards human gene database; MalaCards human disease database; and LifeMap Discovery, the database of embryonic development, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine.
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Jan 20, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
BOSTON, MA - Jan 20, 2015 - Terascala, the industry leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) storage management software, today announced that it had more than doubled—126% increase—its year-over-year OEM bookings and had a record year for its business in 2014
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Jan 20, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Jan 20, 2015 - Clinical Conductor, the industrys most collaborative CTMS, was recently fitted with new features and functionality that provide users with even more capability to connect with other research technologies and further collaborate with research partners to ensure clinical research success
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