• Leading Gravimetric-based Pharmacy Medication Workflow Solution, BD Cato™, Now Available with Visual Documentation Hardware (VDH) Camera

    May 1, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ - May 1, 2015 - Franklin Lakes, NJ (April 30, 2015) - BD Medical, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that its BD Cato™ Medication Workflow software product is now available with an optional, camera-based, visual documentation hardware
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  • Amazon Buys ClusterK

    Apr 30, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Yesterday, Amazon acquired ClusterK, a start up Bio-IT World covered in February for between $20 and $50 million, Venture Beat reported.
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  • WuXi NextCODE, DNAnexus Launch End-to-End Sequencing in China and Beyond

    Apr 30, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Last week during the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, WuXi NextCODE and DNAnexus announced a strategic alliance to accelerate genomics worldwide.
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  • Industry Experts on Designing Research Platforms to Serve Patient Participants

    Apr 29, 2015, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | A keynote panel at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, featuring representatives from PatientsLikeMe, the Empowered Genome Community, and the Open Medicine Institute, addressed ways to make research meaningful for the patient participants who want to share their data and experiences with science.
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  • Illumina Pursues a $20B Market

    Apr 29, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | Illumina, one of the most important companies in biomedicine, is still barely known to the public. But scientists, diagnostics makers, physicians, and Wall Street look at the company with a mix of fear and awe. Just as Intel became the company that sparked so much of the computer revolution, Illumina is driving the genomics revolution.
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  • New Projects for Pistoia

    Apr 28, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Contributed Report | ZURICH--Early arrivals at the Pistoia Alliance Annual European Conference were able to enjoy the local festival of Sächsilüüte whereby a snowman (the Böögg, literally translated as the bogeyman) is packed with fireworks and placed atop a lit bonfire. The less time it takes for its head to explode, the better the summer will be. Although not usually so spectacularly explosive, the life sciences industry is certainly feeling the heat at present as technology develops rapidly and commercial pressures increase. The goal is to avoid a similar fate to that of the unfortunate Böögg.  
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  • Bio-IT World Recognizes 2015 Best of Show Winners

    Apr 27, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Bio-IT World announced the 2015 winners of the Best of Show Awards Program last Wednesday to a packed audience at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The awards program recognizes the best of the innovative product solutions for the life sciences industry on display at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston.
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  • April News From the Bio-IT World Conference and Around the Industry

    Apr 27, 2015, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo and more. WuXi NextCODE moves to the DNAnexus cloud, Apple makes its ResearchKit development platform open source, and Seven Bridges Genomics integrates with Station X.
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  • New ESI Instrument First to Support Sub-Cellular Elemental Imaging

    Apr 27, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Apr 27, 2015 - PORTLAND, Ore., April 27, 2015—Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESIO), an innovator of laser-based manufacturing solutions for the micromachining industry, today announced the NWRimage™ system that gives researchers a powerful new tool for investigating elemental binding and transport within cells
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  • Chris Sander at Bio-IT World

    Apr 23, 2015, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Chris Sander, chair of the Computational Biology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, delivered a keynote address this week at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.
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  • Owen White Receives 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award at Bio-IT World Conference

    Apr 22, 2015, 14:20 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | At the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, Bioinformatics.org President Jeff Bizzaro presented the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences to Owen White, who leads the bioinformatics department at the University of Maryland Institute of Genome Sciences and manages the Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project.
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  • 2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards Winners Announced

    Apr 22, 2015, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World held an awards ceremony this morning at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, announcing seven winners in its eleventh annual Best Practices Awards competition.
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  • BGI, China's Global Genomics Powerhouse, Enters Cloud Analysis Market

    Apr 21, 2015, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BGI has announced a cloud-based genome analysis service, BGI Online, which will provide an online computational environment to process genetic data, competing with established providers like DNAnexus and Seven Bridges Genomics.
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  • Creative Diagnostics Announces the Launch of Human TSH ELISA Kit

    Apr 21, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    SHIRLEY, NY, U.S. - Apr 21, 2015 - Creative Diagnostics, Inc. is happy to announce the product launch of a new Human TSH ELISA Kit. The TSH Human ELISA kit is an in vitro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay used for the quantitative measurement of Human TSH in serum, plasma and cell culture supernatants
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  • XenoTech Plans Expansion to New Global Headquarters after Impressive Revenue Growth in 2014

    Apr 21, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    LENEXA, KS - Apr 21, 2015 - Contract Research Organization XenoTech, LLC, a division of Sekisui, has announced plans to relocate into a new 41,500 ft2 facility
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  • MAVERIX DEMONSTRATES LEADERSHIP IN BEST PRACTICES FOR NGS ANALYSIS AT BIO-IT WORLD

    Apr 20, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    SAN MATEO, CA - Apr 20, 2015 - SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA - Maverix Biomics, Inc. is demonstrating its growing industry leadership in the analysis of high throughput sequencing genomic data with several notable presentations at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to be held April 21 - 23 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts
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  • HIMSS Keynote Speakers Highlight the Speed of Innovation

    Apr 17, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The move toward connectedness in health care has not slowed, as a range of presenters, exhibitors and attendees filled two entire buildings of Chicago’s McCormick Place almost to capacity, during this week’s annual HIMSS meeting.
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  • Now Biotech-Only Atlas Reloads With $280M Fund For New Startups

    Apr 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | It's been a transition year for Atlas Venture. Last October, the Cambridge, MA-based firm announced its tech and biotech teams would part ways and raise their own funds.
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  • Harvard Medical Creates Department of Biomedical Informatics

    Apr 16, 2015, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Harvard Magazine | Harvard Medical School has appointed Isaac Kohane, co-director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and director of an informatics program at Boston Children's Hospital, to be the first chair of a newly-created department of biomedical informatics.
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  • Bio-IT World Launches People's Choice Award

    Apr 16, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | With the countdown on to the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, we are thrilled to announce the first Bio-IT World People’s Choice award as part of the Best of Show program. The Best of Show Awards offers exhibitors at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo an opportunity to showcase their new products. This year, for the first time, we are opening up the program to public voting as well. 
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