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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
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
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
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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Sep 4, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CAMBRIDGE, UK - Sep 4, 2014 - Eagle Genomics, a bioinformatics software and services company propelling new opportunities in large scale omics data and its application to real world problems in health and wellness, food and environmental sectors, has launched Eaglecore, a software platform to improve bioinformatics research
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Sep 2, 2014, 11:10 AM
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Michael Croft
New York Times | As the modENCODE project catalogues the transcription factors and other regulatory elements at work in fruit fly and worm cells at various stages of development, scientists are learning that many of the genetic regulatory elements at work in humans have deep evolutionary roots.
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Sep 2, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Sep 2, 2014 - The new report by Allied Market Research titled, "DNA diagnostics Market (products, applications, techniques, end users and Geography) Global Size, Industry Analysis, Trends, Opportunities, Growth and Forecast, 2013 - 2020," indicates that the global DNA diagnostics market would reach $19 billion by 2020 registering a CAGR of 9
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Sep 2, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
BOSTON, MA - Sep 2, 2014 -
Terascala, the industry leader
in HPC management software, today announced a partnership with a
global IT services and solutions provider, to expand its
integrated support model that ensures system-wide high availability
for HPC storage appliances
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Aug 29, 2014, 11:30 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | This week, the NIH issued its long awaited Genomic Data Sharing Policy, which encourages researchers to obtain the broadest possible patient consent for open data sharing, while at the same time considering new privacy measures to protect vulnerable patient populations.
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