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Mar 18, 2014, 12:00 PM
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Michael Croft
SFGate | More on Google's plans within the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Google invited geneticists to upload genomic information to its cloud infrastructure for free.
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Mar 18, 2014, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | D-Wave is selling quantum computing systems that NASA, Google, and Lockheed Martin are testing. Y
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Mar 18, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CAMBRIDGE, UK - Mar 18, 2014 - Linguamatics’ sales showed strong growth and exceeded ten million dollars in 2013, it was announced today - outperforming the company’s targeted growth and expected sales figures
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Mar 17, 2014, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
New York Times | American science rests more on more on the shoulders of billionaire investor/philanthropists.
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Mar 17, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
KERRY, IRELAND - Mar 17, 2014 - Portable Medical Technology and The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust have today announced an enterprise agreement which will see ONCOassist, Portable Medical Technology’s revolutionary CE approved software system being deployed as the main oncology decision support system used within Clatterbridge
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Mar 17, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
IRVINE, CA - Mar 17, 2014 - Zymo Research Corporation,
"The Epigenetics Company", today announced the
launch of the Pico Methyl-Seq™ Library Prep and RRHP™ 5-hmC Library
Prep kits for Illumina NGS-based, whole-genome analysis of
5-methlycytosine (5-mC) and genome-wide analysis of
5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in DNA, respectively
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Mar 14, 2014, 16:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | As biomarker-based gene panels gain acceptance as standard tools in the oncologist’s toolbox, GeneKey is going deeper, into the whole exome and transcriptome of its patients’ cancers.
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Mar 14, 2014, 10:00 AM
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Michael Croft
The Economist | A new institute at Stanford is taking on the role of research watchdog.
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Mar 13, 2014, 11:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World News Brief | Galapagos NV signed a definitive agreement to sell the BioFocus and Argenta service division operations to Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) for almost $180 million (Euro 129 million) in upfront payments and another $7 million upon achievement of revenue targets.
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Mar 13, 2014, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | N-of-One has launched Variant Interpreter, an app available on Illumina’s BaseSpace Apps, Illumina’s dedicated applications store and informatics community dedicated to advancing genomic analysis.
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Mar 12, 2014, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Mendelspod | Dietrich Hauffe, SVP, life sciences at QIAGEN, spoke with Mendelspod about QIAGEN's big vision, the clinical portion of their business, and more about GeneReader.
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Mar 11, 2014, 10:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | BaseSpace, Illumina's informatics app store, is an experimental model for the analysis of genetic data. Bio-IT World asks Illumina's Jordan Stockton how the multi-developer platform will fit the needs of high-volume labs that need coherent, flexible workflows.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
New York Times | One of the Japanese team who published results in Nature in January claiming to have induced stem cells via an acid bath is calling for the paper's retraction.
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Mar 11, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
HYDERABAD, INDIA - Mar 11, 2014 - Ocimum Biosolutions
announces release of its new software product,
Sciantis™, a lab process and data
management platform for biologics labs
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Mar 10, 2014, 17:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Jeff Bizzaro, Chairman of Bioinformatics.org, today announced that Helen M. Berman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Award winner.
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Mar 10, 2014, 10:35 AM
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Michael Croft
The Guardian | At the SXSW Festival in Austin yesterday, Anne Wojcicki acknowledged that the recent FDA action prohibiting her company from reporting health information to customers “has slowed up the number of people signing up” for the personal genotyping service.
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Mar 10, 2014, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Forbes | A quick overview of using fetal circulating cells to test for trisomy 21 and trisomy 18, which accurately predicted trisomies in young, healthy pregnancies.
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Mar 8, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
ATLANTA, GA - Mar 8, 2014 - Lena Biosciences announces the launch of its SeedEZ 3D cell culture products for tissue fingerprinting and drug testing in cancer research, ADME Tox screening, stem cell research, brain research and personalized medicine
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Mar 7, 2014, 11:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bloomberg | Eric Schadt discusses how supercomputing will change medicine: first in handling ever-increasing data sizes and second in building predictive models of disease.
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Mar 7, 2014, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World Roundup | Just days after the announcement of his new company, Human Longevity, Craig Venter sat down with Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute to discuss the future of genomic medicine.
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