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Inova Translational Medicine Institute Deploys Cloudera
Jun 6, 2017, 18:10 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | Inova Translational Medicine Institute today announced that it has deployed Cloudera Enterprise to securely analyze massive collections of clinical and genomic data at unprecedented speeds and scale for faster innovations in translational medicine research.Full story -
Living Long and Living Well: Is It Possible to Do Both?
Jun 6, 2017, 11:32 AM by Michael CroftBAR HARBOR, ME, UNITED STATES - Jun 6, 2017 - Exactly when does old age begin? Which health markers best predict who will live a long and healthy life versus a life spent in poor health?Developing metrics to help answer these questions and to understand the tradeoffs between lifespan and health span are the subject of a recent paper by MDI Biological Laboratory scientists in Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, a publication of the Gerontological Society of AmericaFull story -
Elsevier launches new Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry to facilitate better connections between biological and chemical data
Jun 6, 2017, 11:18 AM by Michael CroftNEW YORK, NY - Jun 6, 2017 - Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, has today released a new version of Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry to improve the discoverability and extraction of relevant chemistry data – more than twice as fast as any other solutionFull story -
Tidbits From The Trenches: BioTeam Panelists Advocate Decentralization
Jun 6, 2017, 09:00 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | A panel representing BioTeam at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo discuss trends in the bio-IT space, analyze cultural issues, and offer advice for practitioners in the healthcare and life-sciences space.
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Certara Launches CODEx to Inform Comparative Effectiveness and Drug Development Decisions
Jun 6, 2017, 08:17 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - Jun 6, 2017 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today launched its Clinical Outcomes Database Explorer (CODEx)Full story -
TraceLink Unveils Automated Validation Manager, Removes Burden of Validating Software Updates for Life Sciences Cloud Customers
Jun 6, 2017, 05:30 AM by Michael CroftNORTH READING, MA, USA - Jun 6, 2017 - North Reading, Mass. (June 5, 2017)—TraceLink Inc., the Worlds Largest Track and Trace Network for connecting the life sciences supply chain and eliminating counterfeit prescription drugs from the global marketplace, today announced Automated Validation Manager (AVM) – a revolutionary web-based offering that automates the entire validation lifecycle of the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud on an ongoing basisFull story -
At Bio-IT World, CIOs Talk Technology, Talent, And Threats
Jun 5, 2017, 10:15 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | A panel of CIOs of healthcare and life-science organizations at the 15th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo discuss a range of topics from cybersecurity to the talent that might develop the IT realm.
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Rafael Irizarry Announced As 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner
Jun 2, 2017, 07:00 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Rafael Irizarry, of Harvard University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, was recently chosen as the 2017 laureate of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences. In his lecture at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Irizarry spoke about his collaborative efforts in Open Source Software and Educational Resources.
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Sema4 Eric Schadt’s Genomics Startup Spins Out of Sinai to Raise Cash
Jun 1, 2017, 13:52 PM by Michael CroftXconomy | Eric Schadt has been incubating a genomic data project within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for more than five years. Today, the company, Sema4, formally launches with 300+ employees.Full story -
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Offers Funding, Engineering Help To Human Cell Atlas
Jun 1, 2017, 10:35 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced financial support for the Human Cell Atlas, which is using sequencing technology to redefine every cell in the body. Funding and engineering support from CZI will enable EMBL-EBI, the Broad Institute, and the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute (UCSC) to set up an open, cloud-based Data Coordination Platform to check, share, and analyze the vast amounts of diverse information generated.Full story -
Rommie Amaro on Curing Cancer at Exascale
Jun 1, 2017, 09:55 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | In her opening plenary keynote at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, Computing Cures: Discovery Through the Lens of a Computational Microscope, Rommie Amaro emphasized to attendees the direct correlation between advances in life-sciences IT and scientific discovery.Full story -
Genome editing Thats the way the CRISPR crumbles
Jun 1, 2017, 09:50 AM by Michael CroftNature Book Reviews | Nathaniel Comfort finds heroism but little nuance in Jennifer Doudna's account of her co-discovery.Full story -
Saint-Gobain Launches ValPlus™ Enhanced Validation Tubing Products for Bioprocessing Applications
Jun 1, 2017, 08:53 AM by Michael CroftSOLON, OH - Jun 1, 2017 - Saint-Gobains Life Science Business Unit, the trusted leader in Single-Use components and assemblies for bioprocessing, introduces another industry first capability for critical fluid applications: the ValPlus Family of tubing productsFull story -
SimpleTrials Selected for the Innovators Hub at DIA 2017
May 31, 2017, 16:45 PM by Michael CroftOAKLAND, CA - May 31, 2017 - SimpleTrials is the new Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) released by Trial By Fire Solutions in 2016Full story -
TD2 and Deep 6 AI Announce Partnership to Accelerate Oncology Clinical Trial Recruitment
May 31, 2017, 13:19 PM by Michael Croft- May 31, 2017 - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & PASADENA, Calif.--Translational Drug Development (TD2) and Deep 6 AI announced today a formal agreement to work together in the fields of oncology and fibrosis to rapidly match eligible patients with appropriate clinical trialsFull story -
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, And More: News From May 2017
May 31, 2017, 08:30 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, and more.
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Certara Partners with PUMC Hospital to Deliver PBPK Modeling and Simulation Support for Chinese Drug Development
May 31, 2017, 08:29 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - May 31, 2017 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that it is partnering with Phase I Unit, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Hospitals Clinical Pharmacology Research Center (PUMCH-CPRC) in Beijing to help Chinese pharmaceutical companies enhance their drug development processesFull story -
MR Solutions brings preclinical MRI to World Preclinical Congress in Boston
May 31, 2017, 06:10 AM by Michael CroftGUILDFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - May 31, 2017 - MR Solutions, with offices in the UK and Boston, will be showing their latest state of the art 3T to 9Full story -
Recent Breakthroughs in the Fight Against Cancer – The New Revolution
May 30, 2017, 12:22 PM by Michael CroftMUNICH, GERMANY - May 30, 2017 - Definiens, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca, is the leader in Tissue Phenomics® and provider of solutions from biomarker discovery to meaningful diagnosticsFull story -
CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations
May 30, 2017, 09:03 AM by Michael CroftPhys.org | As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.Full story