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Dec 8, 2015, 08:42 AM
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Michael Croft
PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 8, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the release of version 15 of its Simcyp® Population-based Simulator
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Dec 7, 2015, 11:45 AM
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Michael Croft
FierceBiotech | Roche will invest as much as $500 million in a partnership with SQZ, based on a technology that physically manipulates immune cells to admit new antigens, with the aim of training these cells to fight a patient's own cancer.
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Dec 7, 2015, 11:40 AM
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Michael Croft
Wired | Biologists at MIT have engineered new genetic elements to insert in bacteria, making these microbes dependent on lab-supplied synthetic molecules to survive.
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Dec 4, 2015, 17:13 PM
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Michael Croft
Nature News & Comment | Geneticist Charles Danko turned to Twitter this week for help in convincing his IRB at Cornell that he should be allowed to let his study participants download their genetic information
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Dec 4, 2015, 09:49 AM
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Michael Croft
The New York Times | Scientists have shown that DNA molecules can be the basis for a long-term storage system potentially capable of holding all of the world's digital information in a tiny space.
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Dec 3, 2015, 16:08 PM
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Michael Croft
COLUMBIA, MD - Dec 3, 2015 - Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) has introduced ATHAP MALDI matrix kits to improve the detection of hydrophobic proteins or peptides containing transmembrane domains
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Dec 3, 2015, 15:50 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | News and product launches from around the industry, including CRISPR experiments in the cloud lab, and a machine learning venture for searching the scientific literature.
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Dec 3, 2015, 10:58 AM
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Michael Croft
The OpenHelix Blog | This week's question is a biggie. And there's no answer yet. But that is the topic of the National Academies big event this week, International Summit on Human Gene Editing.
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Dec 3, 2015, 10:10 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Scientists working at Feng Zhang's lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used insights about Cas9's structure and domains of DNA interaction to produce a mutant molecule, just as capable of cutting chosen DNA sequences, but with lower risk of making off-target cuts in distant areas of the genome.
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Dec 3, 2015, 07:28 AM
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Michael Croft
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Dec 4, 2015 - Touch Surgery Officially The Largest Worldwide Community Of Surgeons Practicing Surgery Virtually Digital Surgical Simulator Touch Surgery collaborates with Experts Surgeons at International Institutions (Stanford, Harvard Yale, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Imperial College London,& Others) to Create Surgical Simulations
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Dec 1, 2015, 14:54 PM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | Hewlett Packard Enterprise outlined new details about its hybrid cloud partnership with Microsoft in an announcement Tuesday, saying it will provide a new hardware product that integrates with the Azure cloud platform and build its software to take advantage of Microsoft's offerings.
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Dec 1, 2015, 12:01 PM
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Michael Croft
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 1, 2015 - A long-term project aimed at improving photosynthesis in rice is entering its third stage, marking another step on the road to significantly increased crop yields that will help meet the food needs of billions of people across the developing world
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Dec 1, 2015, 10:58 AM
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Michael Croft
PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 1, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that it has acquired XenologiQ, a UK-based quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) consultancy
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Nov 30, 2015, 15:45 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Human Longevity this morning announced that it has acquired Cypher Genomics for an undisclosed amount. Cypher has 14 employees who will join HLI including Cypher CEO and Co-founder, Ashley Van Zeeland, Ph.D., who is now the head of HLI's Pediatric Business.
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Nov 30, 2015, 15:34 PM
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Michael Croft
Wired | uBiome has announced a partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a standardized way of measuring disruptions and changes to the human microbiome.
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Nov 30, 2015, 10:58 AM
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Michael Croft
The Atlantic | CRISPR-Cas9 experiments are revealing which human genes are essential, and which matter specifically to cancer cells.
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Nov 30, 2015, 03:31 AM
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Michael Croft
ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA - Nov 24, 2015 - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most well-known and common form of dementia. It is also a progressive, degenerative brain disease whose cause is not fully understood, however, amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, metal ions and reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been suggested to be involved in AD pathogenesis
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Nov 26, 2015, 09:30 AM
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Michael Croft
BOSTON, MA - Nov 26, 2015 - The creators behind sciNote - an open source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) - believe that laboratories deserve reliable and easy-to-use software at affordable prices
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Nov 25, 2015, 11:40 AM
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Michael Croft
Diagnostics World | Quanterix, the Lexington, Mass.-based creator of a high-throughput protein analysis instrument, is overhauling its hardware and software as it prepares for a more commercial stage in its development.
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Nov 24, 2015, 10:40 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Complete Genomics of Mountain View, Calif., is undergoing a big shakeup under the direction of its Shenzhen-based owner BGI, reorganizing as a research site developing assays for the BGISEQ-500 and cutting short the launch of its Revolocity clinical sequencing system.
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