• Banner Year for New Drug Approvals

    Jan 2, 2015, 10:00 AM by 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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  • GE Healthcare - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

    Jan 2, 2015, 00:00 AM by 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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  • High-Performance Computing Can Accelerate Life Sciences Discoveries

    Dec 31, 2014, 10:20 AM by 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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  • November and December News and Product Briefs

    Dec 30, 2014, 12:10 PM by 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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  • Global Imaging Biomarkers Market Share, Size, Trends, Analysis and Forecasts To 2018

    Dec 30, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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  • Retraction Watch's Top Retractions of 2014

    Dec 29, 2014, 11:15 AM by 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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  • Reindeer and 23andMe

    Dec 24, 2014, 08:00 AM by 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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  • Nanopore Sequencing Is Here to Stay

    Dec 22, 2014, 13:05 PM by 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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  • Recent Report - Biocurv Medical Instruments, Inc.: Consumer Packaged Goods - Company Profile & SWOT Report

    Dec 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES - Dec 22, 2014 - Synopsis
    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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  • The Best and Worst in a Tumultuous Year for Science

    Dec 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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  • Roche Acquires Bina Technologies’ Powerful Genome Analysis Platform

    Dec 19, 2014, 17:00 PM by 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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  • Function Follows Form: A New Look at Genome Folding

    Dec 19, 2014, 09:00 AM by 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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  • Latest Report -Electroencephalography Monitors Market Research Report Size, Growth Trends to 2014: Deep Research Report

    Dec 19, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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  • Genome Sequencing Exploring the Diagnostic Promise

    Dec 19, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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  • Version 13 of the Human Protein Atlas, Clickable, Downloadable, and Nearly Complete, is Now Online

    Dec 18, 2014, 08:00 AM by 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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  • Global Alliance Plans Internet for Genomes

    Dec 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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  • Big Pharma Moves to Boston

    Dec 17, 2014, 09:00 AM by 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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  • Brand New IHC Services is Available Now at Creative Diagnostics

    Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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  • 14M Genomics Spins out of Sanger

    Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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  • KCR Acquires Project Portfolio from Ukrainian CRO AXIS

    Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by 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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