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Mar 6, 2015, 12:10 PM
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Michael Croft
Bloomberg | The FDA announced today that Novartis' white blood cell-stimulating drug Zarxio, a biosimilar version of Amgen's Neupogen, has received approval for use in all indications already covered by Neupogen.
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Mar 5, 2015, 13:15 PM
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Michael Croft
New York Times | Carl Zimmer visits a pair of genetics labs as he digs into the ongoing arguments over whether our genome's vast tracts of noncoding DNA are mostly "junk."
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Mar 5, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Forbes | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
is investing $52 million in CureVac, a German company involved in
making vaccines. It is the largest ever investment by the
foundation in a company, reflecting a new strategy of not just
giving grants but supporting and having a stake in businesses.
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Mar 4, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
ALBANY, NY, UNITED STATES - Mar 4, 2015 - According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research Electronic Health Records (EHR) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020, the global EHR market was valued at USD 15
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Mar 3, 2015, 14:50 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Pacific Biosciences, the gold sponsor of this year's Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in Florida, hosted a workshop at the event that showed off the growing pipeline of tools for de novo diploid assembly, and ways in which routine use of this information could improve the practice of genomics.
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Mar 3, 2015, 09:05 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including guidance from the Association for Molecular Pathology on direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the winner of the Swimming with the Sharks Competition at the Molecular Medicine Tri Conference.
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Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
SAN MATEO, CA - Mar 3, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, today announced that it will provide $50,000 in analytic support to the Rare Genomics Institute (RGI) competition, BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries), an annual rare disease science challenge
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Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 3, 2015 -
WHAT: Rho, a full-service contract research
organization (CRO), will provide valuable insight and important
considerations for adopting the recent Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) Guidance, "Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic
Format - Standardized Study Data," through a free webinar
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Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
ROCKVILLE, MD - Mar 3, 2015 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced that it was named by KMWorld Magazine to its prestigious list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management
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Mar 2, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
MILPITAS, CA, UNITED STATES - Mar 2, 2015 - Amplidata, the leader in object-based software
defined storage, today announced that UConn Health has purchased
and installed a storage system based on Amplidata's Himalaya
object-based, software-defined storage software
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Feb 27, 2015, 13:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | The 22nd annual Molecular Medicine Tri Conference in San Francisco is one of the year’s largest industry events for understanding human health on the level of genes, proteins, and cells, and this year’s conference tracked the latest trends in personalizing therapies and research programs with sharp attention to individuals’ unique molecular profiles.
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Feb 26, 2015, 10:50 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | GCAT, the Genome Comparison & Analytic Testing platform for benchmarking the performance of basic informatics tools, now has a formal home in the scientific literature with the publication of a paper in Nature Communications.
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Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 26, 2015 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, is part of a groundbreaking National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study on peanut allergy
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Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
WILMINGTON, MA - Feb 26, 2015 -
Kapa Biosystems, Inc. today announced the launch of the latest
library preparation products for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)
DNA and RNA analysis
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Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
THOUSAND OAKS - Feb 26, 2015 - Ceres, Inc. today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork. In attaining Gold Level membership, Ceres has been recognized by Oracle for its commitment to establish Oracle-related knowledge in delivering Ceres Persephone genome visualization software and for uniquely addressing the challenges of joint customers
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Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
HARDERWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS - Feb 26, 2015 - Today,
biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE announced that they
have added a cloud solution via Amazon Web Services (AWS)
to its on-premise solution, the GENALICE VAULT
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Feb 25, 2015, 13:55 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | On the first day of the annual Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in Marco Island, Florida, 10X Genomics has unveiled its GemCode Platform for recovering long-range information from genomes sequenced on Illumina short-read instruments.
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Feb 25, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
MARCO ISLAND, FL - Feb 25, 2015 - MARCO ISLAND,
FLORIDA - Maverix Biomics Inc. today announced the
availability of its Maverix Complete solution at the 16th annual
Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT) meeting in Marco
Island, FL
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Feb 24, 2015, 12:50 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | This morning, diagnostics and laboratory supply company QIAGEN announced the creation of the Allele Frequency Community, a network of academic centers and commercial groups who will share data on the genetic variants they’ve uncovered during human sequencing studies.
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Feb 24, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
MUNICH, GERMANY - Feb 24, 2015 - Key professionals in leading biopharma organizations attended The International Symposium for Tissue Phenomics in October 2014 to discuss the latest developments in cancer research and big data
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