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Nov 1, 2012, 12:10 PM
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Michael Croft
The Guardian | Scientists with the 1,000 Genomes Project have published the full genetic sequences of more than 1,000 people from 14 countries, creating the most complete inventory of the millions of variations between people's DNA sequences ever assembled. The resource will shed light on the genetic roots of complex diseases, as well as informing studies of human evolution.
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Nov 1, 2012, 12:00 PM
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Michael Croft
The Independent | Roche is being accused of withholding key trial data about a vital flu drug, Tamiflu, on which governments around the world have spent billions of dollars. The editor of the British Medical Journal published an open letter to Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and a Roche board member, asking him to persuade the company to release the data "for independent scrutiny".
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Nov 1, 2012, 11:55 AM
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Michael Croft
Physics Today | With Oxford Nanopore exhibiting at next week's American Society of Human Genetics conference, there is growing excitement about the prospects for nanopore sequencing technology, particularly given recent progress in controlling DNA’s motion in the pore. The signs are that this technology is indeed inching towards a commercial debut in the near future.
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Oct 31, 2012, 06:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Reuters | Novartis has announced a $500 million investment in Singapore in the form of a new manufacturing facility that will focus on drug substance manufacturing based on cell culture technology.
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Oct 31, 2012, 06:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Economist | Two guys are asking the internet for help funding a meth lab. Their project is one of many crowd-sourced research options out there.
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Oct 31, 2012, 05:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Dr Peter Hoffman’s research group is using mass spectrometry to create high-resolution images of proteins in archived tumour samples to help identify new diagnostic markers for cancer.
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Oct 29, 2012, 06:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | A new 20 petaflop supercomputer dubbed Titan is powering up at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and ready to tackle some a host of scientific applications.
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Oct 26, 2012, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
HPCwire | The world's current fastest supercomputer--Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sequoia--has created a simulation of the human heart.
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Oct 26, 2012, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Time | Advances in DNA sequencing present challenges for doctors. Pediactric sequencing can help sick babies, but it can also give doctors more information than they know what to do with.
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Oct 26, 2012, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from the life sciences. Thomson Reuters releases drug repositioning white paper; Broad announces GenePattern v3.4; and iNova moves to Singapore.
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Oct 25, 2012, 11:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bloomberg | Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have successfully replaced unhealthy DNA from one human egg with disease-free genetic material from another.
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Oct 25, 2012, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
eWeek | Teradata, a provider of analytic data solutions, has announced new database capabilities that enable customers to deliver real-time agility. The new Teradata Database capabilities include workload management features, Teradata Data Lab with Smart Loader, Teradata Studio and Teradata Virtual Machine Edition.
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Oct 25, 2012, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Sci-News.com | Researchers in New Zealand sequenced mitochondrial DNA of some of the country's earliest inhabitants, and discovered more genetic diversity than previously thought.
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Oct 24, 2012, 13:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | Building on its pioneering use of DNA sequencing to diagnose and treat Nic Volker, the Medical College of Wisconsin is in talks to develop an ambitious $60 million public/private partnership aimed at bringing sequencing to more patients.
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Oct 24, 2012, 06:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | Gartner says that big data is becoming an engine of job creation. By 2015, big data will create 4.4 million IT jobs globally, of which 1.9 million will be in the U.S.
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Oct 23, 2012, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | VIENNA—Scientists shared some important advances in fields from big data and cloud computing to bioinformatics and clinical genomics in the beautiful surroundings of Vienna at the fourth annual Bio-IT World Europe conference earlier this month.
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Oct 22, 2012, 14:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Mendels Pod | Bill Frezza, venture capitalist and Bio-IT World guest columnist (The Skeptical Outsider), talks to Mendels Pod about the two presidential candidates.
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Oct 22, 2012, 12:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World Roundup | Hugh Rienhoff has found the gene responsible for his daughter's extremely rare condition. Bea Rienhoff's condition stumped doctors and led her father on his own quest in 2007. At an Open Science Summitt on Saturday, he said he found the point mutation responsible for her illness.
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Oct 22, 2012, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Wall Street Journal | Ancestry.com has been acquired by a European private equity firm for $1.6 billion. The buyer's goal--sources say--is expansion into Western Europe.
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Oct 19, 2012, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), a set of protocols defining how companies can safely move data between private and public clouds.
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