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Patients Without Traditional Cancer Screening Find Allies In Maccabi And Medial EarlySign
Bio-IT World | 2017 Best Practices Awards | Maccabi Healthcare System is using Medial EarlySign’s clinical decision support tool to find colon cancer patients among individuals who didn’t go through traditional channels for screening.
Sep 8, 2017
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Does Your Genome Predict Your Face? Not Quite Yet
MIT Technology Review | Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter says if he had your genome he could pick you out of a crowd. According to two experts who reviewed the famed genomics expert's claim, however, that's not necessarily true.
Sep 7, 2017
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At Vanderbilt, NCI’s Cooperative Human Tissue Network Relies On Lean Principles For Efficiency
Bio-IT World | The National Cancer Institute’s Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN) provides human tissues and fluids from routine procedures to investigators who use human biospecimens in their research. Unlike tissue banks, the CHTN works prospectively with each investigator to tailor specimen acquisition and processing to meet their specific project requirements.
Sep 7, 2017
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IBM Pitched Watson As A Revolution In Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close
STAT | Three years after IBM began selling Watson for Oncology to recommend cancer treatments, it's falling short of the lofty expectations IBM created for it.
Sep 6, 2017
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Human Longevity Researchers Use Whole Genome Sequence Data And Machine Learning To Identify Individuals Through Face And Other Physical Trait Prediction
Bio-IT World Brief | Researchers from Human Longevity have published a study in which individual faces and other physical traits were predicted using whole genome sequencing data and machine learning. This work was published in the journal Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences.
Sep 5, 2017
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GenePattern Notebook Environment Needs Only A Web Browser To Run Analyses
Bio-IT World Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have launched a new GenePattern Notebook environment, which combines the dynamic capabilities of an electronic analysis notebook with the ease of use of a point-and-click interface to hundreds of genomic tools.
Aug 31, 2017
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Renewed Attention Sees New Progress For Hepatitis B
Bio-IT World | The HBV field has seen increased attention from industry research in the past few years, influenced by the success of new hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapies. After scientists realized HCV could be cured, they turned their attention to hepatitis B, hoping to develop a cure for it also.
Aug 31, 2017
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FDA Approval Brings First Gene Therapy To The United States
Bio-IT World Brief | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a historic action today making the first gene therapy available in the United States, ushering in a new approach to the treatment of cancer and other serious and life-threatening diseases.
Aug 30, 2017
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Edico, DNAnexus Launch $20, 90-minute Whole Genome Analysis
Bio-IT World Edico Genome and DNAnexus, Inc. today announced the availability of Edico Genome’s DRAGEN on Amazon Web Service’s EC2 F1/FPGA instances via DNAnexus. For a limited time, the cost to analyze a whole genome at 35X coverage will be $20 and take about an hour and a half, Pieter van Rooyen said.
Aug 30, 2017
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Seven Bridges, Numerate, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, And More: News From August 2017
Bio-IT World | August featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Seven Bridges, Numerate, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and more.
Aug 30, 2017
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Freenome Announces Series A Extension Led By Section 32
Diagnostics World News | Freenome announced that it has raised an additional $7 million as an extension to its previously announced Series A funding, bringing the total to nearly $72 million. The extension was led by Section 32.
Aug 28, 2017
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Gilead Agrees To Buy Kite Pharma, Leaping Into CAR-T Cancer Therapy
STAT | Gilead agrees to buy Kite Pharma and its emerging line of CAR-T oncology therapies, which aim to harnesses the immune system to fight cancer.
Aug 28, 2017
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Allotrope Foundation: A Framework For Knowledge Management
Bio-IT World | 2017 Best Practices Awards | The Allotrope Foundation hopes their Allotrope Framework will allow researchers to rethink the way they acquire and manage scientific data.
Aug 25, 2017
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The Next Digital Arms Race In Life Sciences
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Life sciences research is in the middle of a digital arms race. As more research is conducted, more data is produced and more storage is required.
Aug 23, 2017
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Data Sharing Built With BRICS
Bio-IT World | 2017 Best Practices Awards | The Biomedical Imaging Research Services Section of the NIH is offering its Biomedical Research Informatics Computing System to assist researchers in the collection and application of data for research studies and clinical trials.
Aug 21, 2017
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Scientists Try Gene Editing In Human Embryos
NPR.org | Scientists at the Oregon Health & Science University have begun editing the DNA in human embryos to try to prevent genetic diseases.
Aug 18, 2017
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Helix Teams Up With Illumina Accelerator To Drive Innovation And DNA-Powered Products
Bio-IT World Brief | Helix today announced a collaboration with Illumina Accelerator. Together, the organizations will partner with entrepreneurs to foster and accelerate innovation and development of DNA-driven products and insights for consumers.
Aug 17, 2017
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Microsoft Acquires Cycle Computing Away From Amazon, Google
Business Insider | Microsoft's acquisition of Cycle will make its cloud business more attractive and give it access to a new group of customers.
Aug 16, 2017
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Deep Learning Thrives In Cancer Moonshot
HPCwire | Recently, deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool in the arsenal in the Cancer Moonshot and is the driving force in the CANDLE project, a joint effort between the DOE and the NCI.
Aug 15, 2017
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Your Genome May Become The Next Facebook
The Motley Fool | The social media king's targeted advertising made billions of dollars for investors. But something even bigger is on the horizon.
Aug 14, 2017