• Definiens to Present at First Rational Combinations 360° Conference in New York

    Jun 20, 2016, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft
    MUNICH, GERMANY - Jun 20, 2016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization, today announced that chief commercial officer Merrilyn Datta, PhD, will present at Rational Combinations 360°, being held in New York, NY from June 23-24, 2016
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  • WuXi AppTec Adopts Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry to Support Research and Expansion Ambitions

    Jun 17, 2016, 12:07 PM by Michael Croft
    PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA - Jun 17, 2016 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that WuXi AppTec, the world's largest Contract Research Outsourcing (CRO) provider, has adopted Reaxys® and Reaxys® Medicinal Chemistry
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  • Building Human Longevity’s Exhaustive Knowledgebase

    Jun 17, 2016, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Despite advances in genomics in the past decade, there are still large portions of the genome that scientists and physicians don’t know how to interpret. Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) wants to fill in those gaps.
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  • China claims exascale by 2020 three years before U.S.

    Jun 17, 2016, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | China's Tianhe-3 exascale system is set to go live in 2020, three years ahead of the US roadmap. But raw power aside, what might matter most in next-gen systems is how efficiently apps run.
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  • Rgenix Closes $33 Million Series B Round

    Jun 15, 2016, 16:25 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Rgenix, a cancer therapeutics company developing first-in-class drugs targeting novel cancer pathways, announced a $33 million Series B financing led by Novo A/S and Sofinnova Partners, with participation from existing investors including Partnership Fund for New York City, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Conegliano Ventures LP. The financing will support clinical development of Rgenix’s lead drug candidates, RGX-104 and RGX-202, as well as further development of its therapeutics pipeline.
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  • NCI Launches GDC

    Jun 15, 2016, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World The National Cancer Institute's new Genomic Data Commons platform aims to make genomic data publicly available in support of the “moonshot” to cure cancer.
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  • How iPS cells changed the world

    Jun 15, 2016, 10:27 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature News & Comment | Induced pluripotent stem cells were supposed to herald a medical revolution. But ten years after their discovery, they are transforming biological research instead.
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  • WIRB-Copernicus Group Acquires Data and Technology from karmadata

    Jun 15, 2016, 08:38 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 15, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG™), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced an industry-transforming agreement with karmadata, the market leader in clinical trial database and decision support applications
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  • Survey Launch on Public Attitudes Toward Genomic Data Sharing

    Jun 13, 2016, 15:50 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World  | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Wellcome Genome Campus have together launched a video series and survey to explore public attitudes toward genetic data handling.
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  • Sekisui XenoTech Introduces New Research BioBank

    Jun 13, 2016, 12:14 PM by Michael Croft
    KANSAS CITY, KS, UNITED STATES - Jun 13, 0016 - As part of Sekisui XenoTech’s commitment to furthering knowledge of hepatic diseases, the company has begun providing disease-diagnosed tissue samples and hepatocytes through its new Research BioBank
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  • United States Golf Association Taps Danforth Center To Improve Course Sustainability

    Jun 13, 2016, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft
    ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jun 13, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced it is collaborating with Washington University in St
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  • Gene Therapy Is Curing Hemophilia

    Jun 13, 2016, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft
    MIT Technology Review | Spark Therapeutics is turning gene-therapy experiments into real drugs.
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  • WorldQuant Backs Cycle Computings High-Performance Computing Play

    Jun 13, 2016, 10:37 AM by Michael Croft
    Fortune | Cycle Computing, which bootstrapped its high-performance computing cloud capabilities for 11 years, now has backing of WorldQuant Ventures.
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  • Heres what six storage suppliers will be doing for the next year or two

    Jun 10, 2016, 12:08 PM by Michael Croft
    The Register | At the Stifel technology conference, analyst Aaron Rakers, had some fireside chats with senior execs from Brocade and QLogic, Pure and Nimble, Seagate and WDC.
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  • AstraZeneca’s CI360 Wins Bio-IT World’s Knowledge Management Best Practices Award

    Jun 10, 2016, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | Best Practices Winner | Last April, Bio-IT World announced the winners of its Best Practices Awards in Boston. AstraZeneca came away this year as the big winner in the Knowledge Management category, impressing judges with their CI360 competitive intelligence platform. 

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  • OCF increases staff count 30 per cent across HPC, data analytics, and OpenStack teams

    Jun 10, 2016, 08:27 AM by Michael Croft
    SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 6, 2016 - HPC, storage and data analytics integrator, OCF, continues to expand its operations, recruiting a number of new staff to meet the growing appetite and demand for HPC and data analytics solutions across universities, research institutes and commercial businesses in the UK
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  • Global Alliance for Genomics & Health Argues for Federated Data Ecosystem

    Jun 9, 2016, 16:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | In a perspective article in the June 10 issue of Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6162), 31 authors from The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health challenged the genomics community to adopt a federated ecosystem for sharing genomic and clinical data.
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  • Rho to Recruit New Team Members for 30 Open Positions During DIA 2016 Annual Meeting

    Jun 8, 2016, 16:55 PM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 8, 2016 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is making the most of its presence at one of the industry's leading events by seeking out talent to fill a number of clinical research positions during the Drug Information Association (DIA) 2016 Annual Meeting, the largest global interdisciplinary event for disciplines involved in the discovery, development and life cycle management of health care products
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  • Omicia Closes $23 Million Series B

    Jun 8, 2016, 15:20 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Omicia today announced the completion of a $23 million Series B financing round. Several new investors participated in the round, including UPMC Enterprises, Roche Venture Fund, LDV Partners, Ping An Ventures, and a large genomics investor, as well as existing investors ARTIS Ventures, Acadia Woods Partners and Buchanan Investments.
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  • Certara and the FDA Extend Their Partnership to Develop PBPK Models to Support Veterinary Drug Evaluations

    Jun 8, 2016, 08:11 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 8, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Veterinary Medicine has extended its five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the company until 2020
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