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Jan 25, 2016, 16:14 PM
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Michael Croft
Phenomena | A study using many parallel probes has revealed the spatial organization of different bacterial species in dental plaque. The strategy could be used to explore microbial ecology in all sorts of environments.
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Jan 25, 2016, 13:50 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Members of McGill University’s Centre of Genomics and Policy have published a global survey of restrictions on modifying the human genome, concluding that many regulations are vague and that bans or limitations often relax over time.
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Jan 22, 2016, 10:57 AM
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Michael Croft
Forbes | David Shaywitz weighs in on yesterday's editorial from NEJM calling data scientists "research parasites." He was glad, he says, for a major objection to finally be laid out. Now we can move past it.
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Jan 21, 2016, 18:04 PM
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Michael Croft
PROVO, UT, US - Jan 22, 2016 - Adaptive Computing, provider of award-winning workload and resource orchestration software, announces it has set a new record in High Throughput Computing (HTC) in collaboration with Supermicro, a leader in high-performance green computing solutions
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Jan 21, 2016, 15:35 PM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | It's notable enough that close to half of the 25 "best jobs in America" named by recruiting site Glassdoor this week are tech-related, but even more striking is the fact that "data scientist" tops the list.
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Jan 21, 2016, 15:15 PM
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Michael Croft
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Jan 21, 2016 - Biodesy, Inc., a next-generation protein analysis company, today announced the global availability of its Biodesy™ Delta System for measuring conformational change
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Jan 21, 2016, 15:12 PM
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Michael Croft
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Jan 21, 2016 - Biodesy, Inc., a next-generation protein analysis company, today announced the closing of its $10 million Series B financing and its 20th commercial services agreement using its proprietary, first-in-class technology for measuring protein conformational change
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Jan 21, 2016, 11:11 AM
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Michael Croft
Phenomena | At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a group of almost 100 pharma companies and trade associations have released a bare bones outline of a plan to spur research into new antibiotics and encourage their responsible use.
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Jan 20, 2016, 11:10 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | An ambitious new study from the Allen Institute for Brain Science illustrates how new methods for isolating and studying single cells, combined with massive RNA sequencing data, are changing the way neuroscientists think about the variety and organization of cells in the brain.
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Jan 19, 2016, 10:37 AM
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Michael Croft
FARGO, ND - Jan 20, 2016 - CSM, a leading clinical trial supply company, today announced that Brian Swites was promoted to Vice President of Operations and Bob Albanese was named Senior Vice President of Strategic Development
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Jan 19, 2016, 09:59 AM
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Michael Croft
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jan 19, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg , Ph.D., member and principal investigator was selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to serve as chair-elect for the Biological Sciences Section beginning in late February this year
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Jan 19, 2016, 05:43 AM
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Michael Croft
EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 19, 2016 - Aridhia has today announced that it is among 36 organisations behind a ground-breaking Innovative Medicines Initiative research programme that aims to build a platform for efficient testing of innovative treatments for the prevention of Alzheimers dementia
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Jan 18, 2016, 11:08 AM
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Michael Croft
ProPublica | David Epstein tells the story of how a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered, through years of dogged research, that she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic athlete.
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Jan 18, 2016, 10:42 AM
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Michael Croft
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 18, 2016 - Congenica, a world leading developer of genome analysis technologies, places the highest importance on data security and information governance and is therefore pleased to announce that it has successfully achieved two major milestones: ISO 27001 accreditation and compliance with the NHS Information Governance Toolkit (IGT)
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Jan 18, 2016, 10:06 AM
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Michael Croft
LONDON, UK - Jan 18, 2016 - Titian (www.titian.co.uk) is launching Mosaic SampleBank™ to offer the benefits of sample management best practice, gained from collaborating with big pharma companies, in a format that is cost-effective and rapid for other institutions to deploy
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Jan 18, 2016, 06:01 AM
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Michael Croft
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - Jan 18, 2016 - Morphogen-IX, a new Cambridge-based biotech company, has gained seed funding to develop a new treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) that directly targets the major pathway implicated in human genetic studies
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Jan 14, 2016, 14:25 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | With funding from the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, four new Centers for Common Disease Genomics could receive up to $260 million over four years.
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Jan 14, 2016, 10:50 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Intellia Therapeutics, one of three major companies developing drugs based on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, has announced that its ex vivo programs will now be pursued in a new division of the company called eXtellia Therapeutics.
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Jan 13, 2016, 12:51 PM
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Michael Croft
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Jan 13, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced it has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to enhance nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
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Jan 12, 2016, 15:05 PM
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Michael Croft
ZDNet | Pathway Genomics last week announced that the app the company has been developing with IBM Watson is now in closed alpha release.
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