• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Creative Biogene Launches Novel Plasmid DNA Production for Genetic & Biotech Research

    Apr 16, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    SHIRLEY, NY - Apr 16, 2015 - Creative Biogene, a leading manufacturer and provider of genomics and proteomics products and services for academic and governmental research institutes, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, today announced the launch of newly updated plasmid DNA production service for genetic & biotech research
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  • California Plants Its Own Stake in National Precision Medicine Effort

    Apr 15, 2015, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft
    SFGate | Hot on the heels of President Obama's proposal for a nationwide Precision Medicine Initiative, California Governor Jerry Brown has committed $3 million to a California Initiative for Advancing Precision Medicine.
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  • Arvados Project Looks to New Models of Genomic Data Management

    Apr 14, 2015, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Curoverse, a Boston-based company supporting the open source Arvados project, is opening a public beta of its service, inviting new users to test a platform built from the ground up to store and manage large volumes of complex biomedical data.
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  • Rho CEO Laura Helms Reece Honored with Women in Business Award by the Triangle Business Journal

    Apr 14, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 14, 2015 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, recently announced that Laura Helms Reece, Rho's co-chief executive officer, was recognized as a top businesswoman by the Triangle Business Journal, a multimedia source for local business news, research and events in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill region of North Carolina, where Rho is headquartered
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  • BC Platforms signs a co-operation agreement with Cloudlynx for GxP validated cloud services

    Apr 14, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Apr 14, 2015 - A collaboration agreement where Cloudlynx provides cloud services for the BC Platforms software solutions was announced today at the Swiss Biotech Day 2015 in Basel
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  • Clinical Conductor Adds Flexible CTMS Features to Facilitate Dynamic Research

    Apr 14, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    ROCHESTER, NY - Apr 14, 2015 - The team behind Clinical Conductor CTMS recently debuted new functionality that allows healthcare organizations to better manage adaptive and dynamic clinical research that is becoming more relevant in the industry every year
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  • Roche Acquires Circulating Tumor DNA Company

    Apr 13, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Roche is at it again. The pharma today acquired CAPP Medical, a genomics research company founded by Stanford University oncologists and industry veterans, to advance the development of technology for cancer screening and monitoring through the detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in blood.
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  • IBM Announces Deals With Apple Johnson And Johnson And Medtronic In Bid To Transform Health Care

    Apr 13, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | Experts in health care and information technology agree on the future's biggest opportunity: the creation of a new computational model that will link together all of the massive computers that now hold medical information. The question remains: who will build it, and how? IBM is today staking its claim to be [...]
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  • SDSU Uses Terascala-Powered HPC Storage Appliance to Study the DNA of Viruses and Bacteria

    Apr 13, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    BOSTON, MA - Apr 13, 2015 - Terascala, the industry leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) storage management software, today announced that its TeraOS software powers the Lustre®-based parallel storage appliance at the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) data center at San Diego State University (SDSU)
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  • Cypher Releases Validation Data on CNVs

    Apr 10, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Cypher Genomics released data last month showing that the company’s Mantis software provided “highly equivalent interpretations” to a panel of genetic counselors when evaluating whether 91 copy number variations (CNVs) detected in non-invasive prenatal testing were pathogenic.
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  • Open Humans Aims to Be the Social Network for Science Volunteerism

    Apr 9, 2015, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The Open Humans network has launched as a social network to connect research participants with new scientific studies, backing projects like the Harvard Personal Genome Project and American Gut that allow members to own, share, and publicize their own data.
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  • Cloud Pharmaceuticals CEO to Discuss Improving the Accuracy of Drug Discovery at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

    Apr 9, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 9, 2015 - Ed Addison, CEO of Cloud Pharmaceuticals, a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, is being featured as a speaker at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo taking place April 21-23, 2015 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston
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  • Microexons In the Autistic Brain

    Apr 8, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | A recent transcriptomic study has revealed that hundreds of proteins have bonus snippets one to nine amino acids in length that are expressed primarily in the brain, altering protein function compared to isoforms elsewhere in the body. In autistic brains, about a third of these snippets are more often skipped.
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