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Congenica achieves ISO 27001 and NHS IGT accreditation
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 18, 2016 - Congenica, a world leading developer of genome analysis technologies, places the highest importance on data security and information governance and is therefore pleased to announce that it has successfully achieved two major milestones: ISO 27001 accreditation and compliance with the NHS Information Governance Toolkit (IGT)
Jan 18, 2016
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Titian Software launches Mosaic SampleBankTM to offer a simple route to sample management best practice
LONDON, UK - Jan 18, 2016 - Titian (www.titian.co.uk) is launching Mosaic SampleBank™ to offer the benefits of sample management best practice, gained from collaborating with big pharma companies, in a format that is cost-effective and rapid for other institutions to deploy
Jan 18, 2016
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Potentially transformative therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension to be progressed by Morphogen-IX
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 18, 2016 - Morphogen-IX, a new Cambridge-based biotech company, has gained seed funding to develop a new treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) that directly targets the major pathway implicated in human genetic studies
Jan 18, 2016
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The Danforth Center Collaborates With the University of Illinois to Develop More Efficient Crops that Will Use Less Fertilizer to Produce More Yield
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jan 13, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced it has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to enhance nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
Jan 13, 2016
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Certara Launches a Strategic Drug Development Consulting Company in China
PRINCETON, NJ - Jan 12, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the launch of Certara Strategic Consulting China in Shanghai
Jan 12, 2016
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Social Problems due to Drug Abuse Driving Substance Abuse Treatment Market
ALBANY, NY, UNITED STATES - Dec 30, 2015 - Substance abuse refers to the use of psychoactive substances, which include alcohol and illicit drugs, to the extent that it is harmful or hazardous
Dec 29, 2015
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New Persephone Technology to Be Demonstrated at Genome Conference
THOUSAND OAKS, CA - Dec 21, 2015 - Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE), an agricultural biotechnology company, today announced that its genomics team will demonstrate new features of its Persephone software technology at the upcoming International Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, Calif
Dec 21, 2015
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U.S. Department of Energy Awards $13.5M to Enhance Sorghum for Biofuel
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 21, 2015 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced that it will be part of a major collaborative research project to improve sorghum's productivity under resource-limited conditions
Dec 21, 2015
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GENEWIZ Acquires the Genomic Services Business of Beckman Coulter
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ, UNITED STATES - Dec 21, 2015 - Leading global genomics service provider, GENEWIZ, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the genomic services business of Beckman Coulter, which delivers expert genomics sequencing solutions to healthcare businesses, as well as academic and government institutions worldwide (GS)
Dec 21, 2015
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Sinequa Selected by UCB to Reduce Time and Cost of Searching Clinical Trial Data
NEW YORK, NY - Dec 16, 2015 - Sinequa, a leader in real-time Big Data search and analytics, today announced that UCB has selected the Sinequa Big Data Search & Analytics Platform to speed vital information discovery of its clinical trial file share
Dec 16, 2015
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Strategic Partnership Attracts Plant Genomics Expert to Region
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 15, 2015 - Officials from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis and the University of Missouri (MU) announced today the joint hiring of Blake Meyers, Ph
Dec 15, 2015
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Computer Science Project Evolves Into New Tool for the Biotech Industry
RALEIGH, NC - Dec 11, 2015 - When Scott Vu started working on a computer science research project as a teenager, he didnt realize it would lead to his launching a company designed to help the biotechnology industry operate more efficiently
Dec 11, 2015
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DIAGNOMICS AND MAVERIX ACHIEVE CLIA VALIDATION FOR CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC PRE-NATAL TESTING
SAN MATEO, CA - Dec 8, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, and Diagnomics, a developer of innovative products and services for personalized medicine based on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology, today announced their achievement of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) validation for NGS based Pre-natal Testing using the Maverix Dx Platform
Dec 8, 2015
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Certara Launches Version 15 of its Simcyp Population-based Simulator
PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 8, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the release of version 15 of its Simcyp® Population-based Simulator
Dec 8, 2015
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Shimadzu Introduces New ATHAP Matrix Kits for Improved Characterization of Hydrophobic Peptides and Proteins
COLUMBIA, MD - Dec 3, 2015 - Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) has introduced ATHAP MALDI matrix kits to improve the detection of hydrophobic proteins or peptides containing transmembrane domains
Dec 3, 2015
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Touch Surgery Officially The Largest Worldwide Community Of Surgeons Practicing Surgery Virtually
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Dec 4, 2015 - Touch Surgery Officially The Largest Worldwide Community Of Surgeons Practicing Surgery Virtually Digital Surgical Simulator Touch Surgery collaborates with Experts Surgeons at International Institutions (Stanford, Harvard Yale, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Imperial College London,& Others) to Create Surgical Simulations
Dec 3, 2015
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Efforts to ‘Turbocharge’ Rice and Reduce World Hunger Enter Important New Phase
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 1, 2015 - A long-term project aimed at improving photosynthesis in rice is entering its third stage, marking another step on the road to significantly increased crop yields that will help meet the food needs of billions of people across the developing world
Dec 1, 2015
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Certara Acquires Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Consultancy XenologiQ; Professor Piet van der Graaf to Lead New QSP Organization
PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 1, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that it has acquired XenologiQ, a UK-based quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) consultancy
Dec 1, 2015
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Engineering a Promising Drug Candidate for Alzheimer's Disease
ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA - Nov 24, 2015 - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most well-known and common form of dementia. It is also a progressive, degenerative brain disease whose cause is not fully understood, however, amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, metal ions and reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been suggested to be involved in AD pathogenesis
Nov 29, 2015
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sciNote - First Open Source Scientific Notebook Released On Kickstarter
BOSTON, MA - Nov 26, 2015 - The creators behind sciNote - an open source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) - believe that laboratories deserve reliable and easy-to-use software at affordable prices
Nov 26, 2015