• Toward Ubiquitous Computational Life Sciences

    Feb 23, 2016, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Wolfgang Gentzsch of UberCloud argues that the expansion of software containers for life sciences applications is moving biology and medicine closer to a state of 'ubiquitous computing,' where compute infrastructure becomes all but invisible to most end users.
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  • Diabetes Diagnoses Lead to DIY Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Production

    Feb 23, 2016, 12:39 PM by Michael Croft
    New York Times | Parents of children with diabetes have led an egalitarian push for improved technology to monitor the condition, and to even develop cheaper insulin.
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  • Genedata Announces ONO PHARMACEUTICAL Transforms High-Throughput Screening with Genedata Screener

    Feb 23, 2016, 09:34 AM by Michael Croft
    BASEL, N/A, SWITZERLAND - Feb 23, 2016 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO
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  • DDN Introduces Solution for Enterprise-Wide Mobile Data Access

    Feb 22, 2016, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | DDN, creator of the WOS object storage platform for simplified data storage and access at multi-petabyte scale, has launched a new product for enterprise data governance as employees access files at home and through mobile devices.
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  • Rho Experts to Speak at the 2016 SCOPE Summit

    Feb 19, 2016, 14:44 PM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 19, 2016 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will speak on post lock data flow at the 2016 SCOPE Summit, taking place on February 23-25 in Miami, Florida
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  • Potential New Drug Therapy for Peripheral Nerve Damage Announced by MDI Biological Laboratory

    Feb 19, 2016, 09:12 AM by Michael Croft
    BAR HARBOR, ME - Feb 19, 2016 -  The Mount Desert Island (MDI) Biological Laboratory has announced that assistant professor Sandra Rieger, Ph
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  • Building a Social Reader Reality

    Feb 17, 2016, 14:50 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Brief | More than eight months after its Kickstarter launch, N of Everyone is pushing ahead with its social reader product. Today Reader lists more than 3.5 million papers available for reading, comment, search, and discussion and has 700 registered users.
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  • IndiGenomics Aims to Expand the Horizons of DNA Sequencing

    Feb 17, 2016, 13:46 PM by Michael Croft
    BBC News | TED Fellow Keolu Fox has been describing his hopes to include indigenous groups in future genetic testing.
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  • 2016 Open Source Awards Finalists Named

    Feb 17, 2016, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Bioinformatics.org has announced the nominees for the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award. Voting is open now to Bioinformatics.org members. The winner will be announced at the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo.
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  • Seven Bridges Unveils Cancer Genomics Cloud, Takes on Private Funding

    Feb 16, 2016, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | This morning, Seven Bridges Genomics announced the opening of its Cancer Genomics Cloud, an online platform for accessing and analyzing public data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. The National Cancer Institute commissioned the platform as a way to make TCGA data easier to query and more available to small labs with limited compute resources.
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  • US BIOTECHS DRIVING GROWTH AT SCOTTISH CMO

    Feb 16, 2016, 06:41 AM by Michael Croft
    STIRLING, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 16, 2016 - Stirling, UK – STERILE manufacturing specialist Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services has unveiled a significant surge in demand for its services from US-based biotechnology firms just a year after it expanded its presence into this territory
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  • Amazon Web Services acquires Italian SaaS vendor

    Feb 15, 2016, 16:11 PM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Amazon Web Services has agreed to buy Nice, an Italian vendor of high-performance computing software and services, to extend its as-a-service offering.
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  • Gen9 Develops Novel Multiplex Synthesis Platform for DNA Assembly

    Feb 15, 2016, 15:09 PM by Michael Croft
    CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES - Feb 9, 2016 - Gen9 today announced it has developed a novel multiplex DNA assembly approach which scales the manufacture of synthetic DNA by nearly two orders of magnitude
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  • Google Bets on Health

    Feb 15, 2016, 11:14 AM by Michael Croft
    Bloomberg | "The most you can lose is all your money," says Bill Maris, the founder of Google Ventures who is making big investments in the riskier, more highly regulated fields of health other Silicon Valley investors have avoided.
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  • JUNIPER AND CRYSTEC SIGN AGREEMENT FOR NEXT GENERATION MEDICINES

    Feb 15, 2016, 05:04 AM by Michael Croft
    NOTTINGHAM, UK - Feb 15, 2016 - Nottingham, UK – Juniper Pharma Services, a subsidiary of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNP), will work with CrystecPharma on a major multi-partner project as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI) to help create a new platform to accelerate drug development in the future
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  • Recipharm takes the lead in serialisation challenge with €40m investment

    Feb 12, 2016, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft
    STOCKHOLM, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 12, 2016 - RECIPHARM, the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has taken the decision to lead the market in coding and serialisation to actively help pharmaceutical companies prepare for the implementation of new regulations
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  • Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database

    Feb 11, 2016, 15:09 PM by Michael Croft
    Nature News | Toxicologists at Johns Hopkins have charted the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals to help predict the toxicity of untested substances.
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  • 10X Genomics Reveals Upgraded Platform with New Features for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing

    Feb 11, 2016, 14:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | 10X Genomics, whose GemCode platform allows for much better structural variant resolution and haplotype phasing during short-read sequencing experiments, has released a new system, Chromium, that builds on the efficiency of GemCode and can label RNA molecules from individual cells.
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  • Cenduit Launches New Professional Services Division to Provide Seamless User Experience

    Feb 11, 2016, 11:57 AM by Michael Croft
    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 11, 2016 - Cenduit Launches New Professional Services Division to Provide Seamless User ExperienceDivision provides total solution for smoother, more efficient trialsResearch Triangle Park, NC - February 11, 2016 -Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced the launch of its new Professional Services Division
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  • VeriStor Integrates SwiftStack Object Storage

    Feb 10, 2016, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Brief | VeriStor is integrating SwiftStack’s object storage into its enterprise cloud services portfolio, the companies announced this week.
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