• Eli Lilly CEO Lechleiter to Retire After Eight-Year Stint

    Jul 27, 2016, 10:11 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | After eight years at the helm of Eli Lilly, a tenure characterized by a steadfast belief in home-grown research, rather than deals, John Lechleiter is retiring. David Ricks, who currently runs Lilly's diversified bio-medicines unit-which develops drugs for neurological and cardiovascular disorders, among other diseases-will be named CEO on Jan. 1
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  • Time to Remodel the Journal Impact Factor

    Jul 27, 2016, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature News & Comment | Nature and the Nature journals are diversifying their presentation of performance indicators. Impact factor is crude and also misleading. It effectively undervalues papers in disciplines that are slow-burning or have lower characteristic citation rates. Accordingly, Nature has updated its online journal metrics page to include an array of additional bibliometric data.
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  • Bioelectronics Market to be Driven by Increasing Prevalence of Several Neural and Cardiac Diseases

    Jul 27, 2016, 05:40 AM by Michael Croft
    ALBANY, NY - Jul 27, 2016 - Bioelectronics is an emerging branch of medical science dealing with combined application of the principles of biology and electrical engineering
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  • Definiens Releases Tissue Studio® 4.3 and Developer XD 2.6 to Meet Quantification Demands in Translational Research

    Jul 26, 2016, 10:34 AM by Michael Croft
    MUNICH, GERMANY - Jul 26, 2016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization, today announced the release of the Tissue Studio 4
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  • Nvidias Quadro P6000 GPU blasts out 12 teraflops of performance

    Jul 26, 2016, 09:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Nvidia keeps upping the performance with each new GPU based on the Pascal architecture. Its latest, the Quadro P6000, can deliver 12 teraflops of single-precision performance, a teraflop more than the Titan X unveiled just last week.
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  • Pharma firms establish exclusive agreement

    Jul 26, 2016, 06:59 AM by Michael Croft
    SLOVAKIA, SLOVAKIA - Jul 26, 2016 - Slovakia-based contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) Saneca Pharma has sold registration dossiers for more than 20 pharmaceutical products to Switzerland-headquartered Xantis Pharma as part of an exclusive agreement
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  • Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter’s Latest Production

    Jul 25, 2016, 16:49 PM by Michael Croft
    MIT Technology Review | His startup is using data to unlock the connections between DNA and illness.
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  • BC Platforms to Partner with Codigo46 to support the creation of the largest biobank in Latin-America

    Jul 25, 2016, 03:14 AM by Michael Croft
    BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Jul 25, 2016 -  BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions today announces that it has signed a partnership with Codigo46, an emerging Mexican company, focused on building and managing the largest biobank in Latin-America in co-operation with Mexican health and research specialists to deliver clinical patient benefits and future personalised medicines through academic and commercial research
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  • Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial

    Jul 22, 2016, 10:38 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature News & Comment | Gene-editing technique to treat lung cancer is due to be tested in people in August. Sichuan University's West China Hospital in Chengdu plans to inject lung cancer patients with cells modified using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique. The clinical trial received ethical approval from the hospital July 6.
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  • Certara Appoints Nathan Teuscher to Lead Phoenix Software Division

    Jul 21, 2016, 12:37 PM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jul 21, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced the appointment of Nathan Teuscher, PhD, to vice president of pharmacometric solutions
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  • Bioz Launches Life Sciences Search Engine

    Jul 20, 2016, 14:35 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Bioz, Inc. came out of stealth today with the introduction of a search engine for life science experimentation. The company, started by Stanford research scientist Karin Lachmi and serial entrepreneur Daniel Levitt, also announced $3 million in seed funding, led by 5AM Ventures.
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  • Mitsubishi Tanabe Joins Certara’s Simcyp Consortium

    Jul 20, 2016, 08:07 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jul 20, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that Mitsubishi Tanabe has joined its Simcyp Consortium and licensed its proprietary Simcyp® Population-based Simulator
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  • The Seven Bridges CGC: Boon for Bioinformatics, Success for a Startup

    Jul 20, 2016, 04:55 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World It's been a busy two years for Seven Bridges. In May 2014, Seven Bridges was introducing its open source cancer informatics pipeline: open source algorithms running on the proprietary Seven Bridges cloud infrastructure. Less than six months later, the company was awarded one of three National Cancer Institute Cloud Pilot contracts.
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  • Indivumed and Definiens Partner to Unlock the Power of Tumor Tissue for Drug Discovery and Development

    Jul 19, 2016, 10:02 AM by Michael Croft
    MUNICH, GERMANY - Jul 19, 2016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization and Indivumed, GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany announced today a strategic partnership to offer a unique combination of tissue-based biomarker validation and assay development with Definiens Cognition Network Technology® for image analysis and data mining
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  • NewLeaf Symbiotics Appoints VP for Research and Discovery

    Jul 19, 2016, 09:20 AM by Michael Croft
    ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jul 19, 2016 - NewLeaf Symbiotics, announced today the appointment of Dr. Janne Kerovuo as Vice President for Research and Discovery
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  • Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge Results Announced

    Jul 18, 2016, 13:45 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge results have been announced from the fourth challenge launched by sbv IMPROVER, an international scientific crowdsourcing initiative.
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  • Appistry’s Vision for Clinical Lab Analysis

    Jul 15, 2016, 05:50 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Appistry launches managed services for clinical sequencing, incorporating GenomePilot, and covering the entire pipeline from when data comes off the sequencers to results analysis.
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  • With new owner the hated impact factor is overdue for change

    Jul 14, 2016, 09:47 AM by Michael Croft
    STAT | The impact factor is a poor measure of a journal's quality, and academics say it should either be overhauled or done away with entirely.
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  • Wellcome Trust launches open-access publishing venture

    Jul 13, 2016, 08:16 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature News & Comment | Wellcome Open Research is meant to allow Wellcome grant recipients to publish their findings more quickly. The charity hopes other funders will follow a similar model. Management of the venture will be contracted to F1000Research.
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  • Genomic Medicine Training, New Storage Options, Food Allergy Science

    Jul 12, 2016, 15:10 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | News and product launches from around the Bio-IT landscape include a postdoctoral fellowship in genomics medicine in Alabama, a synthetic biology partnership, new Lustre storage, and the Broad's food allergy science institute.
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