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Sep 22, 2014, 12:55 PM
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Michael Croft
Fierce Biotech | Fierce Biotech has unveiled its hotly-anticipated Fierce 15, an annual list of biotech companies showing special promise in delivering transformative new therapies.
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Sep 22, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
BILLERICA, MA - Sep 22, 2014 - RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of Frederick (Fritz) L
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Sep 19, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 19, 2014 - For Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, partnering is an integral part of its business strategy
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Sep 18, 2014, 08:35 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | As personalized medicine opens up new possibilities in cancer immunotherapy, quantified image analysis is a promising route to discovering biomarkers that can meaningfully stratify patients for treatment.
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Sep 17, 2014, 09:30 AM
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Michael Croft
MIT Technology Review | Oxford Nanopore, and the early access users of its MinION nanopore sequencer, share details about the device's accuracy, read length, applications, and a forthcoming high throughput instrument.
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Sep 17, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 17, 2014 - The In Silico Drug Discovery Conference today announced speakers and presentation topics that will be featured at the conference, which takes place at North Carolina Biotechnology Centers Hamner Conference Center on December 3 and 4, 2014
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Sep 15, 2014, 10:35 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Genentech combed through its trove of thousands of cell lines to create a definitive phenotypic and genetic profile of each, making it possible to trace back preclinical experiments and share results company-wide. The project won the company its second straight Bio-IT World Best Practices Award for finding new efficiencies in its preclinical pipeline.
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Sep 15, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Sep 15, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the 150th anniversary of the Zoological Record, the oldest continuous bibliographic database in life sciences and the leading and most comprehensive source for biodiversity, systematics and zoological information
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Sep 12, 2014, 06:50 AM
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Michael Croft
Nature News | While the human microbiome has been mined as a source of novel therapies for years — through probiotics or fecal transplantation — a team at UC San Francisco is now exploring whether more traditional drugs could be found in the arsenals of our commensal bacteria.
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Sep 11, 2014, 12:05 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | The old Roche 454 facility in Branford, Connecticut, will soon be returning to genomic science, as the Icahn Institute at Mount Sinai prepares to set up its second sequencing facility on grounds abandoned by Roche in its shutdown of 454 Life Sciences.
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Sep 11, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - Sep 11, 2014 - Array BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted small molecule drugs to treat patients with cancer, today announced the appointment of Victor Sandor, M
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Sep 10, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
THOUSAND OAKS, CA - Sep 10, 2014 - Software engineers at Ceres, Inc. announced today that they are looking for life science specialists in various fields to test a cloud service edition of the companys Persephone genome visualization application
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Sep 9, 2014, 11:45 AM
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Michael Croft
BostInno | Sangeeta Bhatia, director of MIT's Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies, today received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize awarded to mid-career inventors "who have developed a patented product or process of significant value to society."
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Sep 9, 2014, 08:55 AM
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Michael Croft
Bioscience Technology | The pond-dwelling protist Oxytricha Trifallax, already known for the genomic oddity of having roughly 16,000 chromosomes, has revealed an even more remarkable quirk in its native DNA.
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Sep 8, 2014, 14:20 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Gene sequencing company Illumina has joined with four major cancer centers to found the Actionable Genome Consortium, an organization dedicated to publicizing standards for cancer genetics.
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Sep 8, 2014, 10:20 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Coinciding with the completion of an early phase of the NIH-funded Roadmap Epigenomics Project, a team at Washington University in St. Louis has created a genome browser with added capabilities to deal with epigenetic data.
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Sep 8, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
PHILADELPHIA, PA, US - Sep 8, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released its annual synopsis of pharmaceutical industry trends in its 2014 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook, compiled by CMR International, a Thomson Reuters business and world leader in global pharmaceutical R&D performance metrics
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Sep 8, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
RICHARDSON, TX - Sep 8, 2014 - Bluebee, a next generation sequencing data analysis provider and Convey Computer Corporation, the leader in hybrid-core computing for accelerating data analytics, today announced a distribution agreement that strengthens both companies’ bioinformatics offerings
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Sep 8, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 8, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, has again been honored with the 2014 When Work Works Award
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Sep 4, 2014, 08:20 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Edico Genome, which claims its DRAGEN chip can assemble a whole human genome and call variants in as little as 20 minutes, has made its first sale of the device to prenatal testing company Sequenom, which will use the DRAGEN to search for genetic disorders in fetal DNA samples.
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