• GENALICE, Knome Announce Partnership

    Jan 12, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | GENALICE and Knome today announced a strategic partnership to offer their products together as a turn-key solution for those using next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to interpret patients’ genomes.
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  • Foundation Medicine Majority Stake Acquired by Roche for $1.03b

    Jan 12, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Roche announced this morning that it has acquired a majority stake in Foundation Medicine. Roche will tender approximately $780m for 56.3% of the company.
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  • Biotechs may face a slowdown

    Jan 12, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    BostonGlobe.com | These are boom times in biotechnology. Forty-one new drugs were approved for US sale in 2014, the highest tally in 18 years. A record 63 biotech startups went public, breaking the 1999 record of 52 initial public offerings. And the value of biopharma merger deals nearly tripled to $223 billion from a year earlier.
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  • Prokaryotic Expression Systems Market Forecast By 2014: Deep Research Report

    Jan 12, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    CALIFORNIA, CA, UNITED STATES - Jan 12, 2015 - The report firstly introduced  Prokaryotic Expression Systems Market basic information including  Prokaryotic Expression Systems Market definition, classification, application and Market chain overview;  Prokaryotic Expression Systems  Market policy and plan,  Prokaryotic Expression Systems  product specification, manufacturing process, cost structure etc
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  • Biogen buys UK-based neuropathic pain drug developer for up to $675M

    Jan 12, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Boston Business Journal | The Cambridge biotech firm, known best for its drugs for multiple sclerosis, announced the acquisition of Convergence Pharmaceuticals.
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  • 23andMe Turns Spit Into Dollars in Deal With Pfizer

    Jan 12, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bloomberg | 23andMe Inc., the genetic-testing startup backed by Google Inc., is sharing DNA data on about 650,000 individuals with Pfizer Inc., to help find new targets to treat disease and to design clinical trials.
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  • GENALICE AND KNOME FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO EMPOWER RAPID NGS DATA INTERPRETATION

    Jan 12, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    HARDERWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS - Jan 12, 2015 - Today GENALICE and Knome, Inc. USA jointly announced a strategic partnership to offer their products together as a turn-key solution for those using next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to interpret patients' genomes
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  • Chinese Services Group WuXi Buys NextCODE Health for $65m

    Jan 9, 2015, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | WuXi PharmaTech headquartered in Shanghai has acquired NextCODE Health of Iceland for $65 million in cash. The acquisition will merge the WuXi Genome Center with NextCODE to form WuXi NextCODE Genomics.
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  • Biogen Idec and Columbia University Medical Center to Conduct Collaborative Genetics Research

    Jan 9, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Jan 9, 2015 - CAMBRIDGE, MA, and NEW YORK, NY (January 9, 2015) - Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Columbia University Medical Center have formed a $30 million strategic alliance to conduct genetics discovery research on the underlying causes of disease and to identify new treatment approaches
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  • The What and Why on 2014s Record High Drug Approvals

    Jan 8, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | 2014 saw the highest number of new drug applications approved by FDA since 1996, but John LaMattina argues that the year was even more successful than that.
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  • New Antibiotic Discovered in Dirt

    Jan 8, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    New York Times | Researchers yesterday announced a new antibiotic found in dirt. Teixobactin has not been tested in humans, but was extremely effective in animal tests.
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  • CLIRINX Launches New CTMS System for Academc Clinical Research

    Jan 8, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    DUBLIN, IRELAND - Jan 8, 2015 - CLIRINX Ltd. announced today that it has launched a new web-based platform for clinical research. The software allows researchers manage their studies and collect medical research data using a sophisticated, web-based system
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  • Novartis Deal Signals Big Pharma's Entrance in CRISPR-Based Therapies

    Jan 7, 2015, 14:30 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Novartis today became the first big pharma company to announce a CRISPR program, through a deal with Intellia Therapeutics and Caribou Biosciences that will cover CAR-T therapies and hematopoietic stem cell programs.
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  • 2014's Turning Points in Genomics

    Jan 7, 2015, 11:15 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The $1,000 genome, CRISPR gene therapies, nanopore sequencing, the fall of 23andMe's health service... we look back at six of our most popular stories of 2014, and reflect on how each has developed since.
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  • Moderna's $450m Investment Brings Funding Total to $950m

    Jan 7, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Roundup | Moderna Therapeutics closed a massive private investment round earlier this week, raising $450 million bringing their total funding to $950 million.
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  • 23andMe Solidifies Business Model with Big Genentech Partnership

    Jan 6, 2015, 13:50 PM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | 23andMe has signed a deal with Genentech to sequence the whole genomes of 3,000 Parkinson's patients and relatives in its customer community, sharing both genetic and clinical data with the big biotech.
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  • David Mittelman Joins Tute Genomics

    Jan 6, 2015, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | David Mittelman, co-founder of Arpeggi and GCAT, the Genomics Comparison and Analytic Testing (GCAT) platform, has joined Tute Genomics as CSO.
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  • American Society for Cell Biology chooses TEMIS for Science Navigator application

    Jan 6, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    COLUMBIA AND BETHESDA, MD - Jan 6, 2015 - Columbia, MD and  Bethesda, MD - January 6, 2015 -  TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced an extension of their collaboration with the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) to further hone the ASCB Science Navigator, a bespoke version of TEMIS Luxid® Navigator - Biopharma Edition, as a tool for biomedical research
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  • Promising Gene Therapy Company Spark Therapeutics to Go Public

    Jan 5, 2015, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft
    FierceBiotech | Spark Therapeutics, a company with a strong Phase III drug candidate bidding to be the first gene therapy approved for use in the U.S., has filed for an IPO, planning to sell $86 million in public shares.
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  • With FDA Recommendation, Novartis Heads for First Approval of a Biosimilar

    Jan 5, 2015, 10:30 AM by Michael Croft
    Reuters | In advance of a final decision to be handed down January 7, the FDA today revealed that staff reviewers have recommended approval of a biologic made by Novartis that imitates Amgen's off-patent Neupogen.
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