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Jennifer Doudna Joins Synthego Advisory Board
Mar 29, 2018, 14:10 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | Jennifer Doudna has joined Synthego’s advisory board. She will advise Synthego on a variety of product, partnership, and business strategy initiatives to help amplify the company's fast-growing impact in the genome engineering space. The advisory role builds on Doudna’s January 2017 individual investment in the company.Full story -
AI Designs Organic Syntheses
Mar 29, 2018, 12:59 PM by Michael CroftNature | Software that devises effective schemes for synthetic chemistry has depended on the input of rules from researchers. A system is now reported in which an artificial-intelligence program learns the rules for itself.Full story -
The Government Wants To Free Health Data. Will That Unleash Innovation?
Mar 29, 2018, 09:41 AM by Michael CroftSTAT | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to put patients in charge of their information - and it wants to do so explicitly to help app and device makers gain access to high-quality data.Full story -
Niche CDMO adds spray drying for highly potent drugs
Mar 28, 2018, 08:43 AM by Michael Croft- Mar 28, 2018 - IDIFARMA has announced new GMP spray drying capabilities which will make it one of the very few contract development and manufacturing organisations (CDMO) to offer spray drying technology for highly potent drugs up to Category 4 OEL/OEBFull story -
PAREXEL, Vanderbilt University, Boehringer Ingelheim, And More: News From March 2018
Mar 28, 2018, 07:45 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | March featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including PAREXEL, Vanderbilt University, Boehringer Ingelheim, and more.
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CRISPR Restored: Scientists Reverse Finding That Gene Editing Technology Had Flaws
Mar 27, 2018, 13:54 PM by Michael CroftForbes | Last summer a paper appeared suggesting that CRISPR gene editing could cause hundreds of off-target mutations. Turns out that was wrong, and the authors have just published a preprint admitting it.Full story -
BioIVT Acquires Ascendance Biotechnology, Expanding its Drug Safety Testing and Toxicology Portfolios
Mar 27, 2018, 11:04 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - Mar 27, 2018 - BioIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that it has acquired Ascendance Biotechnology, IncFull story -
WCG (WIRB-Copernicus Group) Clinical Services Division Acquires ACI Clinical Adjudication and Data Monitoring Safety Committees
Mar 27, 2018, 09:02 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - Mar 27, 2018 - WCG (WIRB-Copernicus Group®) Clinical Services Division, the worlds leading provider of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced its acquisition of ACI Clinical, the top provider of Endpoint Adjudication and Data Monitoring Safety CommitteesFull story -
Creative Enzymes Launches Insulin Degrading Enzyme for Bio-researchers
Mar 25, 2018, 21:23 PM by Michael CroftSHIRLEY, NY - Mar 26, 2018 - As an excellent supplier and manufacturer, Creative Enzymes recently launches insulin degrading enzyme, also known as insulysin or insulin protease, for researchers working in the life science fieldFull story -
SEA Vision invests €400K in new serialisation services at its France site
Mar 23, 2018, 11:52 AM by Michael CroftTIGERY, FRANCE - Mar 21, 2018 - Serialisation software provider SEA Vision has announced a €400k investment in a new training and software testing showroom at its French facilityFull story -
Sequencing Patients' Genomes Might Not Break The Health Care Bank
Mar 22, 2018, 11:48 AM by Michael CroftSTAT | The first rigorous study of its kind finds that sequencing people's genomes might not lead to extensive and expensive follow-up care, researchers reported.Full story -
Bio-Optronics and Synexus Align to Further Optimize Global Research Operations
Mar 22, 2018, 10:35 AM by Michael CroftROCHESTER, NY - Mar 22, 2018 - Bio-Optronics, the creator of the market-leading Clinical Conductor Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) announces a new partnership with Synexus, the worlds largest site network organizationFull story -
Equus Highlights SDX Platforms at Intel Partner Connect 2018
Mar 21, 2018, 12:54 PM by Michael CroftWASHINGTON, D.C. - Mar 21, 2018 - Equus Compute Solutions, the largest U.S. manufacturer of custom computer hardware systems to the channel, highlighted their new white box SDX Platforms line of custom servers and storage solutions for cost-optimized Software Defined Infrastructures (SDI) at their Intel Partner Connect booth March 13-16, 2018 in Washington, DCFull story -
CRISPR Strategy & Standards: How Synthego’s Free Software Lays The Groundwork For CRISPR Futures
Mar 21, 2018, 09:30 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Synthego has had a remarkable year of development, including their Inference of CRISPR Edits, an open source algorithm for validating CRISPR edits that offers rapid, reproducible analysis of Sanger sequencing data.
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Creative Biostructure Releases Virus-like Particles for Virus Related Projects
Mar 21, 2018, 00:17 AM by Michael CroftSHIRLEY, NY - Mar 21, 2018 - March 21st, 2018, Creative Biostructure, an outstanding supplier in the science of structure biology, released a series of virus-like particle service to meet the increasing demands in vaccinology, commercial medical field, clinical study, etcFull story -
Global Gene Corp, Regeneron Announce Largest Genomics Program For Indian Population
Mar 20, 2018, 13:31 PM by Michael CroftThe Times of India | Global Gene Corp, a well-known genomics data platform, has teamed up with US-based Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) to sequence the exomes of people from the Indian subcontinent and examine the links between human genetic variations and specific diseases.Full story -
Announcing Support for HELM 2.0 (Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules) in the Open Source Web Editor
Mar 20, 2018, 12:48 PM by Michael CroftCAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES - Mar 21, 2018 - The Pistoia Alliance, a global alliance of life science companies, vendors, publishers and academic groups, and Scilligence Corporation are pleased to announce the release of the major new extension to the HELM Web EditorFull story -
MR Solutions launches a gradient coil upgrade service for MRI systems
Mar 20, 2018, 11:38 AM by Michael CroftGUILDFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Mar 20, 2018 - MR Solutions, subsidiary MRS Magnetics, is launching a gradient coil upgrade service for coil replacement within preclinical MRI imaging systemsFull story -
Rho Announces New Director of Quality Assurance and VP of Clinical Operations
Mar 20, 2018, 09:22 AM by Michael CroftCHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 20, 2018 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced that Lysa Triantafillou and Matt Healy have joined its team as director of quality assurance and vice president, clinical operations, respectively, at its headquarters in Chapel Hill, North CarolinaFull story -
Sciad Communications Announces Corporate Sponsorship of OBN
Mar 20, 2018, 07:00 AM by Michael CroftLONDON, UK - Mar 20, 2018 - Sciad Communications, the science, tech and health communications consultancy, is pleased to announce its corporate sponsorship of OBN, the membership organisation supporting the UKs innovative life sciences companiesFull story