• David Ho Highlights Launch of Bio-IT Asia Conference

    Jun 6, 2012, 02:50 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—Ten years after the launch of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo series in Boston, the conference made its debut in Asia in the sparkling Marina Bay Sands convention center. The trio of speakers who opened the three-day meeting was veteran HIV researcher David Ho, bio-IT consultant Chris Dagdigian, and AstraZeneca bioinformatician Yaron Turpaz. 
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  • Does Thimerosal Prevent Autism? Epidemiology Gone Wild

    Jun 6, 2012, 02:40 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The Skeptical Outsider | Human beings are born pattern recognizers, part of the repertoire of survival skills that separates us from the beasts. We are programmed to spot relationships that we are looking for, sometimes when they're not even there. This occasionally causes us to leap to questionable conclusions that can wreak all sorts of havoc. 
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  • Quake Wins $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize

    Jun 6, 2012, 01:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Mass High Tech | Stephen Quake, Helicos co-founder and Stanford University professor, has been recognized as this year's Lemelson-MIT Prize winner. He is being recognized for his invention of an improved method for measuring the immune system along with other work. 
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  • Complete Genomics Cuts Jobs, Starts Review

    Jun 6, 2012, 01:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Bloomberg Businessweek | Complete Genomics is laying off about 20 percent of its workforce and has hired a financial adviser, Jeffries & Co., to help it explore various strategic options including a possible merger or sale of the company.
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  • What's In a Name?

    Jun 5, 2012, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Biotech companies change their names for many reasons, some good, some questionable. Xconomy looks at the old and new names of several biotechs. 
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  • Best Practices: Safety Rules for ELNs

    Jun 4, 2012, 03:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Best Practices | Keeping track of all of the safety rules for reactions and reagents was an overwhelming proposal, so the chemistry safety officers at Bristol-Myers Squibb recruited informatics help to see if there was another option. The resulting electronic laboratory notebook customization earned a best practices nod by the judges in the 2012 Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards competition. 
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  • Investing in the Abandoned

    Jun 4, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | When it comes to investing, pharma might point the way to areas of high return--if you take a look at what the sector is abandoning. 
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  • Genomics-Enabled Prevention

    Jun 4, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | Ronald Davis, director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center, believes the time to invest in genomics and personalized medicine is now. 
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  • Genentech's New and Improved Herceptin

    Jun 4, 2012, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | Genentech and ImmunoGen have released early results of an experimental drug, trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1), that targets HER2-expressing breast cancers. The drug combines the targeting capabilities of Genetech's Herceptin with an additional tumor toxin thanks to a chemical linker from ImmunoGen. 
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  • Bio-IT World News Briefs: May

    Jun 1, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | News briefs and bits from the biotech industry in May.
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  • Cancer Survivor on N-of-One Direct-to-Patient Ombudsman Model

    May 31, 2012, 09:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The long-term success of cancer informatics company N-of-One will be shaped by its newly appointed CEO, strategic partnerships with companies like Foundation Medicine, and ultimately the experiences of cancer patients such as Elaine Waples. 
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  • The Human Protein Atlas at the GoldLab Symposium

    May 31, 2012, 02:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BOULDER, CO—Larry Gold, the founder and CEO of protein biomarker company SomaLogic, hosted a diverse and engaging group of speakers for the third annual GoldLab Symposium* on the future of health care and personalized medicine earlier this month. “Technology is only the penultimate step in successful innovation,” he said. 
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  • Ensemble, Genentech Development Collaboration

    May 31, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Mass High Tech | Ensemble Therapeutics and Genentech are collaborating on macrocyclic drug candidates against targets identified by Genentech. The companies will use the Ensemblin collection of macrocycles and Ensemble's proprietary drug discovery platform. 
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  • GSK Steps Up Bid for Human Genome Sciences

    May 31, 2012, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    CNBC | GlaxoSmithKline is hoping to replace the board of Human Genome Sciences with its own representatives, reaching out to executives who could be nominated as "independent" directors. 
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  • Foundation Medicine Announces First Genomic Profile for Patient Treatment

    May 30, 2012, 04:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Foundation Medicine has announced the commercial launch of FoundationOne, the first pan-cancer, fully informative genomic profile designed to help oncologists expand their patients’ treatment options. 
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  • Computer-Aided Drug Design

    May 30, 2012, 00:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Texas Advanced Computing Center | Drug discovery with 3D help may be a lot more efficient than traditional methods. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin's Computational Visualization Center have attacked each step of the drug discovery process. 
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  • Immunogenomics Conference

    May 30, 2012, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature | The HudsonAlpha Institute in Huntsville, Ala. is hosting a conference covering immunology, genomics, bioinformatics, and clinical interactions. 
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  • PCORI’s Research Agenda is Broad, Cost-Neutral

    May 29, 2012, 05:00 AM by Michael Croft
    eCliniqua | The role of cost and patients in comparative effectiveness research (CER) were among the themes of a Post-Approval Summit held earlier this month at Harvard Medical School*. So, too, was the agenda and funding priorities of the latest actor in the CER arena: the independent, multi-stakeholder Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). 
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  • 23andMe Announces First Patent

    May 29, 2012, 03:00 AM by Michael Croft
    The Spittoon | 23andMe CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki has announced the company's first patent, expected today: “Polymorphisms Related to Parkinson’s Disease.” The patent relates to the company's discovery of a variant in the SGK1 gene that may be protective against individuals at high risk of Parkinson's thanks to the rare LRRK2 G2019S mutation. 
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  • Whole Genome Sequencing Sheds Light on Hepatitis Virus Integration in Cancer Genome

    May 29, 2012, 02:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Researchers focusing on Asian cancers have used whole-genome sequencing to study the level of hepatitis B virus integration in the genomes of cancer patients and to discover three novel genes associated with recurrent hepatitis B virus integration in hepatocellular carcinoma. The study was published today in Nature Genetics. 
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