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IDBS takes Bioprocess Execution Solution to the Cloud
Nov 9, 2017, 10:17 AM by Michael CroftLONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Nov 9, 2017 - Guildford UK, Boston, US, 9 November 2017 - Today, IDBS announces the release of its latest Bioprocess Execution (BPES) informatics solutionFull story -
DDN Partners With Hewlett Packard Enterprise To Deliver Unmatched HPC Storage Solutions
Nov 9, 2017, 09:10 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | DDN has entered into a partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to integrate DDN’s parallel file system storage and flash storage cache technology with HPE’s HPC platforms. The focus of the partnership is to accelerate and simplify customers’ workflows in technical computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning environments.
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Build The Ebola Database In Africa
Nov 8, 2017, 14:30 PM by Michael CroftNature | To build trust, capacity and utility, put local researchers in charge of planned platform, says Brian Conton.Full story -
SeraCare Announces Industry's First Comprehensive NGS Reference Material for Hematologic Malignancies
Nov 8, 2017, 12:42 PM by Michael CroftMILFORD, MA, UNITED STATES - Nov 8, 2017 - SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, is expanding what is already the most comprehensive suite of clinical genomics development, validation, and QC tools with the launch of the SeraseqTM Myeloid DNA and Myeloid RNA fusion reference materials: the industry's first comprehensive reference standards to help ensure the sensitivity and robustness of next-generation sequencing (NGS) based assays focused on myeloid cancersFull story -
Artificial Intelligence & Real World Data: The Next Steps In Your Big Data Journey
Nov 8, 2017, 09:55 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Contributed Commentary | KPMG’s CEO Survey found that some of the largest U.S. life sciences companies are sending mixed signals about their commitment to technology and trailing other industries in their plans to adopt cutting edge technologies.
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What Happens When You Put 500,000 Peoples DNA Online
Nov 7, 2017, 16:32 PM by Michael CroftThe Atlantic | Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.Full story -
NIH Launches Data Commons Pilot With 9 Projects
Nov 7, 2017, 13:00 PM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | Yesterday the National Institutes of Health announced twelve awards totaling $9 million in Fiscal Year 2017 to launch a National Institutes of Health Data Commons Pilot Phase. The NIH Data Commons will be implemented in a four-year pilot phase to explore the feasibility and best practices for making digital objects available through cloud-based collaborative platforms.
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Bioclinica Acquires MDDX Research & Informatics Combining Advanced Image Management Cloud Technology with Its Scientific and Medical Imaging Leadership
Nov 7, 2017, 10:49 AM by Michael CroftAUDUBON, PA, UNITED STATES - Nov 6, 2017 - Bioclinica®, the world-leading provider of scientific-enabled Medical Imaging, eHealth, and patient-centric solutions supporting clinical research, today announces it has acquired Silicon Valley-based MDDX Research & Informatics, adding the industrys most advanced cloud research image management and submission technologies to its extensive suite of eHealth solutionsFull story -
BioIVT to Present Advances in Immunohistochemistry at AAPS Annual Meeting
Nov 7, 2017, 10:15 AM by Michael CroftWESTBURY, NY - Nov 7, 2017 - BioIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that it will be presenting and exhibiting at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual MeetingFull story -
Creative Diagnostics Introduces Treponema Pallidum Antigens
Nov 6, 2017, 23:26 PM by Michael CroftSHIRLEY, NY - Nov 8, 2017 - As a leading supplier of research products and custom services to global academic, pharmaceutical and biotech communities, Creative Diagnostics has introduced new treponema pallidum antigens for the diagnosis of syphilis, including recombinant TFull story -
Why Thomson Reuters' Introduction Of Enterprise Graph Analytics To Its Global Customers Is A Big Deal For Big Data
Nov 6, 2017, 12:10 PM by Michael CroftInternational Business Times UK | Older technology hasn't been able to keep up with data volumes and demand for insights; Cambridge Semantics' Sean Martin explains why business should sit up and take notice.Full story -
Seven Bridges Leads Public-Private Partnership To Develop New Data Ecosystem For NIH
Nov 6, 2017, 11:05 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | Seven Bridges today announced that it has been selected by the NIH to support the NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase. The Data Commons Pilot Phase is NIH’s latest effort to accelerate biomedical research through informatics. Seven Bridges will lead a team consisting of Repositive, Elsevier, and the Boston Veterans Affair Research Institute. Together, they are forming a private-public consortium called FAIR4CURES.
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Josh Denny On The All Of Us Research Program, Data Management On A National Scale
Nov 6, 2017, 10:00 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Vanderbilt University has been biobanking patient specimens since 2007 when Josh Denny launched BioVU. Today, the biobank has nearly 250,000 samples, some of which have associated medical records dating back to the early 1980s. Josh Denny, who leads the All of Us Research Program Data and Research Center, hopes the Precision Medicine Initiative will empower the same kind of studies.
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Lab Innovations 2017 celebrates another triumph
Nov 6, 2017, 09:53 AM by Michael CroftBIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - Nov 6, 2017 - Suppliers and manufacturers rubbed shoulders with existing and prospective customers over the two days, sharing novel ideas and discussing creative solutions to day-to-day laboratory challengesFull story -
What It's Really Like To Fundraise From Silicon Valley's VCs
Nov 3, 2017, 14:48 PM by Michael CroftCNBC | So-called biotech rebel Ethan Perlstein describes fundraising as a whole lot of rejections and "crippling self-doubt," but he got through it. Here are the three biggest lessons he learned.Full story -
A New Class: Protein-Protein Interactions As Drug Targets
Nov 3, 2017, 09:20 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Since the onset of targeted drug discovery, a little before the turn of the millennium, intracellular drug targets have primarily been enzymes that catalyze reactions. However, a new type of intracellular drug target—Protein-Protein Interactions—are now expanding the space in which to search for new types of medicines.
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MR Solutions restructures for ongoing expansion
Nov 3, 2017, 06:00 AM by Michael CroftGUILDFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Nov 3, 2017 - MR Solutions is expanding its management team following world-wide sales success of their ground-breaking, cryogen free preclinical MRI scannersFull story -
Gut Microbes Can Shape Responses To Cancer Immunotherapy
Nov 2, 2017, 15:25 PM by Michael CroftNature News & Comment | Studies find that species diversity and antibiotics influence cutting-edge treaments.Full story -
Normon Laboratories Selects TraceLink to Comply with EU FMD Serialization Regulations
Nov 2, 2017, 12:27 PM by Michael Croft, MA - Nov 2, 2017 - North Reading, MA (November 1, 2017)—TraceLink Inc. today announced that Spanish-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, Normon Laboratories, has selected its serialization solutions to comply with the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) requirementsFull story -
23andMe, Veeva Systems, Edico Genome, And More: News From October 2017
Nov 2, 2017, 10:20 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | October featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including 23andMe, Veeva Systems, Edico Genome, and more.