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Jan 2, 2015, 10:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Reuters | 2014 was a banner year for drug approvals, Reuters reports. 41 novel medications were approved, the most since the all-time high of 53 approvals in 1996.
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Jan 2, 2015, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Jan 2, 2015 - GE Healthcare - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides a comprehensive insight into the company's history, corporate strategy, business structure and operations
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Dec 31, 2014, 10:20 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Inside the Box | As petascale supercomputing systems grow more accessible, there is now an opportunity for life sciences researchers to run computations on genomic or molecular data that would be impossible with desktops or small clusters — but only if they are willing to adapt their informatics tools to new computing architectures.
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Dec 30, 2014, 12:10 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including a study of attitudes toward newborn genomic testing, and Definiens' latest tissue quantification software.
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Dec 30, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Dec 30, 2014 - TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Imaging Biomarkers market to grow at a CAGR of 15.09 percent over the period 2013-2018
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Dec 29, 2014, 11:15 AM
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Michael Croft
The Scientist | Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, the founders of the Retraction Watch blog, offer their annual list of the year's most prominent, spectacular, or telling retractions in the scientific literature.
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Dec 24, 2014, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
More Intelligent Life | One woman's search for family history led her to 23andMe first, and the reindeer next.
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Dec 22, 2014, 13:05 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore has created the world's first functional nanopore sequencer, the pocketsize MinION. As early access users start to share their experiences with the instrument, a picture is emerging of a world where DNA data could be gathered anywhere, anytime — and by almost anyone.
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Dec 22, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Dec 22, 2014 -
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Canadean's "Biocurv Medical Instruments, Inc.: Consumer Packaged
Goods - Company Profile & SWOT Report" contains in depth
information and data about the company and its operations
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Dec 22, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
WIRED | It's been a roller-coaster year for
science. It started with what looked like a remarkable breakthrough
in stem cell science, which was soon followed by a stunning
announcement by cosmologists: the first detection of gravitational
waves, direct evidence for a popular theory of how the universe
began. But as the year draws to a close, the first of these
discoveries has been thoroughly discredited, and the second appears
to be on the ropes.
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Dec 19, 2014, 17:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Bina Technologies announced this morning that it has been acquired by Roche. Financial details were not disclosed. The Roche acquisition is, “the best outcome that could have happened for our company,” co-founder and CEO Narges Bani Asadi told Bio-IT World today.
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Dec 19, 2014, 09:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Fitting a two-meter strand of DNA into a nucleus a few microns long is no simple thing. The genome isn’t wadded up and stuffed into every cell in the body, it’s folded meticulously. A five-year effort to look at the genome inside cells suggests that these folds may play crucial roles in function.
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Dec 19, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CALIFORNIA, CA, UNITED KINGDOM - Dec 19, 2014 - The report firstly introduced Electroencephalography Monitors basic information including Electroencephalography Monitors definition, classification, application and Market chain overview; Electroencephalography Monitors Market policy and plan, Electroencephalography Monitors product specification, manufacturing process, cost structure etc
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Dec 19, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
NIH Director's Blog | At the time that we
completed a draft of the 3 billion letters of the human genome
about a decade ago, it would have cost about $100 million to
sequence a second human genome. Today, thanks to advances in DNA
sequencing technology, it will soon be possible to sequence your
genome or mine for $1,000…
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Dec 18, 2014, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | A new version of a research tool described as the world’s first spatial index to the human proteome is expected to change the nature of drug development, and is already the source of some two external peer-reviewed research papers on average every day, said Professor Mathias Uhlén, at a press conference on Nov. 6 announcing the release of version 13 of the Atlas.
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Dec 18, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
MIT Technology Review | Scientists are starting to
open their DNA databases online, creating a network that could pave
the way for gene analysis at a new scale.
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Dec 17, 2014, 09:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Boston Globe | Big pharma is expanding its reach in the Boston area, picking up small to mid-sized biotechs for billions of dollars. Last week Merck announced plans to buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5 billion.
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Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
SHIRLEY, NY - Dec 17, 2014 - Recently Creative Diagnostics, a world leader in providing innovative diagnostic components and critical assay reagents, announced the launch of immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in situ hybridization (ISH) laboratory services for diagnostic and research purposes
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Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Business Weekly | A new genomics powerhouse, 14M
Genomics, spun out of the world famous Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute, has been launched in the Cambridge UK technology cluster
with a £12.5 million financing.
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Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
WARSAW, POLAND - Dec 17, 2014 - KCR, a European Contract Research Organization (CRO), has recently acquired the whole portfolio of clinical projects from the Ukrainian CRO, AXIS Group Ltd
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