• Several Rho Experts to Present at Annual PharmaSUG Conference

    May 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 29, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced its participation at the 2014 Annual Pharmaceutical Industry SAS Users Group (PharmaSUG) Conference June 1-4 in San Diego
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  • RCRI Appoints Christine Lys as West Coast Senior Business Development Advisor

    May 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN - May 29, 2014 - RCRI Appoints Christine Lys as West Coast Senior Business Development AdvisorBefore joining RCRI, Christine Lys, M
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  • Annual Dotmatics Days in Boston and San Francisco

    May 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - May 29, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, will host the scientific community at Dotmatics Days in the biotech hubs of Boston and San Francisco
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  • MolecularHealth Signs Internationally-Recognized Oncology Expert to Advisory Board

    May 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    THE WOODLANDS, TX, UNITED STATES - May 29, 2014 - Today, MolecularHealth announced Waun Ki Hong, M.D., as the newest member of its advisory board. Dr. Hong is one of the nation’s leading experts on head, neck and lung cancers, recently honored by ASCO’s “Oncology Luminaries” series
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  • Twist Bioscience Takes in Funding Round for DNA Synthesizer

    May 28, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Twist Bioscience yesterday announced a $26 million Series B funding round, as well as a $5 million DARPA contract, to continue development of a high-throughput DNA synthesis device.
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  • ARRAY BIOPHARMA ANNOUNCES DRUG DISCOVERY COLLABORATION AGREEMENT WITH BIOGEN IDEC

    May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - May 28, 2014 - Array BioPharma (Nasdaq: ARRY) announced today a collaboration agreement with Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) for the discovery and development of inhibitors targeting a novel kinase for the treatment of autoimmune disorders
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  • TELCOR Named Microsoft® Partner for 15th Straight Year

    May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    LINCOLN, NE - May 28, 2014 - TELCOR Inc announced today it has achieved the prestigious Microsoft Partner status through Microsoft Corp
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  • Rho to Use Clinical Trial Oversight Summit as Platform to Share Best Practices in Clinical Monitoring

    May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 28, 2014 - Rho to Use Clinical Trial Oversight Summitas Platform to Share Best Practices in Clinical MonitoringClinical trial thought leaders share insight on risk-based monitoring, monitoring with EDC, and the importance of strong relationships between sites and CROs WHAT:          Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced its participation at the 5th Annual Clinical Oversight Summit in Boston as a sponsor
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  • Thomson Reuters Report Identifies BRIC Nations as Emerging Leaders in Global Clinical Trials Landscape

    May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    PHILADELPHIA, PA - May 28, 2014 - The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in providing intelligent information to businesses and professionals, today announced the release of Overcoming Clinical Challenges in BRIC Markets, a report exploring the benefits and challenges of conducting clinical trials in the pharmaceutical markets of the BRIC nations: Brazil, Russia, India and China
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  • Design your target-focused library with OTAVA

    May 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    TORONTO, КАНАДА - May 28, 2014 -  The key goal during drug design process is to limit the number of compounds among large number of available ligands for experimental testing
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  • Build up your compounds using chemical building blocks from OTAVA!

    May 26, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    TORONTO, CANADA - May 26, 2014 - OTAVA specializes in synthesis and distribution of quality chemical building blocks. You could request custom synthesis of chemical compounds of your interest, for this purpose just send single or multiple structures as attached files by filling the form at the OTAVA’s web-site (http://www
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  • Quantapore Receives $35m Investment Toward New Sequencer

    May 22, 2014, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft
    San Francisco Business Times | An ex-Ion Torrent scientist has a $35 million investment to prove his new sequencer is faster and cheaper than anything else.
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  • Advances in Genetic Engineering at the 2014 American Society for Microbiology Meeting

    May 22, 2014, 07:55 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Presenters at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology showed off new applications for the CRISPR system of gene editing, and projects that have re-coded bacterial genomes on a massive scale.
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  • GenePeeks Launches Sperm Donor Matching Service

    May 22, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | GenePeeks has opened its in silico nursery, formally launching the Matchright screening service for families who are planning to use a sperm donor to conceive.
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  • N-of-One Signs Agreement with Mayo Clinic

    May 21, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Mayo Clinic and N-of-One, have signed an agreement under which N-of-One will provide Mayo Clinic with clinical interpretation information to aid in highly complex molecular diagnostics.
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  • QIAGEN Adds HGMD and Other BIOBASE Offerings, Plans Ingenuity Clinical

    May 21, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | QIAGEN is adding content from BIOBASE including HGMD, the human gene mutation database, to its bioinformatics offerings. HGMD and other BIOBASE solutions will provide the foundation for Ingenuity Clinical, QIAGEN's forthcoming clinical NGS decision-support solution.
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  • A European Look at the Changing Landscape of Prenatal Testing

    May 21, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | At the Prenatal Molecular Diagnostics Europe conference last week in Lisbon conversations ranged from the current landscape in prenatal diagnostics to the future vision of the technology and the regulatory environment that will enable it.
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  • Medidata and TransCelerate BioPharma Inc. Announce Joint Initiative

    May 20, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

    NEW YORK, N.Y. – May 20, 2014 – Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced that it is partnering with TransCelerate BioPharma Inc. ("TransCelerate") on a project designed to inform the nonprofit organization’s continued efforts to modernize and streamline the way clinical trials are conducted and monitored worldwide.

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  • Rho Expands Team in Research Triangle Park, Continues Hiring

    May 20, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 20, 2014 -  Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced it has added 14 professionals to its Research Triangle Park team in April and has plans to hire an additional 25 more team members as part of its growth expansion strategy in 2014
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  • At AstraZeneca, Occasion for Introspection

    May 19, 2014, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | On Friday, a frank assessment of AstraZeneca's R&D practices appeared in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, just as Pfizer's repeated takeover bids have increased scrutiny of AstraZeneca's drug development pipeline.
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