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Dec 21, 2015, 12:42 PM
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Michael Croft
THOUSAND OAKS, CA - Dec 21, 2015 - Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE), an agricultural biotechnology company, today announced that its genomics team will demonstrate new features of its Persephone software technology at the upcoming International Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, Calif
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Dec 21, 2015, 10:40 AM
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Michael Croft
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 21, 2015 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced that it will be part of a major collaborative research project to improve sorghum's productivity under resource-limited conditions
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Dec 21, 2015, 10:05 AM
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Michael Croft
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ, UNITED STATES - Dec 21, 2015 - Leading global genomics service provider, GENEWIZ, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the genomic services business of Beckman Coulter, which delivers expert genomics sequencing solutions to healthcare businesses, as well as academic and government institutions worldwide (GS)
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Dec 21, 2015, 09:14 AM
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Michael Croft
Xconomy | Bayer and CRISPR Therapeutics have signed a pact that could be worth more than $335 million to develop CRISPR-based drugs for a variety of diseases starting with blindness, blood disorders, and congenital heart disease.
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Dec 18, 2015, 13:01 PM
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Michael Croft
Techonomy | A decade ago, the Personal Genome Project became the first massive study of people sharing their full genome information. Many thought it unlikely to succeed.
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Dec 18, 2015, 09:33 AM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | Juniper, a major manufacturer of networking equipment, said on Thursday it found spying code planted in certain models of its firewalls, an alarming discovery that echoes of state-sponsored tampering.
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Dec 17, 2015, 13:15 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | The Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP) accused the Food and Drug Administration of fabricating some of the examples included in a recent FDA report outlining the public health evidence for FDA oversight of laboratory-developed tests.
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Dec 16, 2015, 15:40 PM
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Michael Croft
STAT | The spending bill for the federal government, still pending passage, ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH with a $2 billion raise.
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Dec 16, 2015, 13:45 PM
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Michael Croft
Diagnostics World | Long-read sequencing today is mostly a
curiosity of basic research, but Roche Diagnostics is now planning to
commercialize it for clinical testing with a high-throughput instrument
launch in 2016. Robert Sebra, Director of Technology Development at
Mount Sinai, tells us where he sees the most promise in using long-read
sequencing to diagnose and treat patients.
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Dec 16, 2015, 13:31 PM
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Michael Croft
NEW YORK, NY - Dec 16, 2015 - Sinequa, a leader in real-time Big Data search and analytics, today announced that UCB has selected the Sinequa Big Data Search & Analytics Platform to speed vital information discovery of its clinical trial file share
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Dec 15, 2015, 10:45 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, the FDA announced the availability of precisionFDA, a platform where developers can upload and access pipelines for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data, comparing results against best-in-class reference standards.
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Dec 15, 2015, 10:40 AM
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Michael Croft
ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Dec 15, 2015 - Officials from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis and the University of Missouri (MU) announced today the joint hiring of Blake Meyers, Ph
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Dec 14, 2015, 16:12 PM
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Michael Croft
Scientific American Blog Network | Two specialists in the ethics and policy of biotechnology argue that personalized medicine is in danger of denying state-of-the-art care to the very data donors who make new discoveries possible.
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Dec 11, 2015, 11:29 AM
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Michael Croft
FierceBiotech | AstraZeneca, on the hunt for new drug targets and delivery mechanisms, is teaming up with the Swedish Wallenberg Centre for Protein Research to explore the universe of proteins secreted by human cells.
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Dec 11, 2015, 10:20 AM
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Michael Croft
RALEIGH, NC - Dec 11, 2015 - When Scott Vu started working on a computer science research project as a teenager, he didnt realize it would lead to his launching a company designed to help the biotechnology industry operate more efficiently
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Dec 10, 2015, 12:07 PM
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Michael Croft
Forbes | Flagship Ventures-funded Rubius Therapeutics wants to insert genes for therapeutic enzymes into blood-forming stem cells, then infuse the nucleus-free mature cells into patients to fight disease.
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Dec 10, 2015, 11:20 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina has made an investment in Desktop Genetics, a company that provides software for the design of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complexes.
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Dec 10, 2015, 09:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World Brief | sbv IMPROVER, an international scientific crowdsourcing initiative, has launched the Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge. The challenge, which is open to anyone working in computational science who is developing predictive modelling techniques, provides the unique opportunity for participants to vigorously and objectively test their methodologies. Working on blood gene expression data, participants are being challenged to derive a predictive model to distinguish current smokers from either non-smokers or former-smokers. Entries will be scored by an independent panel against a gold-standard dataset.
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Dec 9, 2015, 15:40 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Silicon Mechanics has opened its 5th Annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG) program. Two institutions will be selected, and both will be awarded a complete high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The competition is open to all United States and Canadian qualified post-secondary institutions, university-affiliated research institutions, non-profit research institutions, and researchers at federal labs with university affiliations.
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Dec 9, 2015, 14:10 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | With its cheap, handheld MinION sequencers, Oxford Nanopore is looking to early adopters like Karen James to help them reach teachers and citizen scientists ready to bring DNA sequencing outside the research lab.
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