• The Statin-Diabetes Link

    Mar 5, 2012, 00:05 AM by Michael Croft
    New York Times | The Food and Drug Administration warned last week that statins could be causing a sharp increase in Type 2 diabetes and contributing to memory loss among users. 
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  • Buetow Moves On from caBIG

    Mar 2, 2012, 00:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | On March 5, Kenneth Buetow, former director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at the National Cancer Institute and instrumental in NCI's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG program, is joining Arizona State University as director of Computational Sciences and Informatics in the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative.
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  • February Free Trials and Downloads

    Mar 1, 2012, 05:30 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | Free trials & downloads featuring tox screening, ELNs, data visualization, digital signatures, plasmid mapping, and more.  

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  • Lilly to Spend $10m on Academic Collaborations

    Mar 1, 2012, 02:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Indy Star | Eli Lilly is planning to spend about $10 million on academic partnerships that would support its drug discovery efforts. This week, Lilly announced the first three projects chosen for funding. 
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  • Rare Disease Day, Common Focus

    Mar 1, 2012, 01:30 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Roundup | In honor of "Rare Disease Day" yesterday (Feb 29, get it?), rare diseases garnered quite a bit of attention from the Rare Genomics Institute, a Rare Diseases Clinical Exome Challenge, and the Clinic for Special Children.
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  • Instruct Network Links Structural Biologists in Europe

    Feb 29, 2012, 05:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature News | The Instruct Network launched last week in Europe, allows structural biologists to share the tools they need to model the cell. With a goal of having a "Google Cell" approach (similar to Google Earth), 22 structural-biology centers linked equipment and expertise.
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  • BGI, Agilent Announce Collaboration

    Feb 29, 2012, 04:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Asian Scientist | BGI and Agilent today announced a collaborative effort to develop new technologies for genome-wide association studies.
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  • Thomson Reuters Releases APIs for Cortellis Life Sciences Platform

    Feb 28, 2012, 04:55 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | Thomson Reuters announced a series of APIs (application programming interfaces) for its Cortellis life sciences platform this morning called Cortellis for Informatics. The APIs will give customers direct access to the Cortellis content.  

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  • 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award Finalists Named

    Feb 28, 2012, 02:30 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | Bioinformatics.org has announced the finalists in the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award: Helen Berman, Rutgers University; Carole Goble, University of Manchester; Eugene V. Koonin, NCBI/NLM/NIH; Heng Li, Broad Institute; John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard School of Public Health; Bruno Sobral, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; and Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute. 

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  • Modeling microRNAs

    Feb 28, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | MicroRNAs (miRNAs) work by modifying gene expression at the post-translational level across a range of species, from plants to worms to humans, and Stephen Cohen's lab at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in Singapore uses the fruit fly as a genetic model for the study of cancer, metabolic disease and neurodegeneration and in recent years has focused on understanding the biological functions of miRNAs in this context.  

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  • Roche Extends Illumina Offer

    Feb 28, 2012, 00:05 AM by Michael Croft

    Businessweek | Yesterday, Roche extended its offering for Illumina until March 23 after failing to win over shareholders with the $44.50/share offer that expired on February 24. Roche has been making offers for the biotech since January 25.

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  • Ed Liu on JAX's New Genomic Medicine Institute

    Feb 27, 2012, 02:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Connecticut Mirror | The Jackson Laboratory is launching a new institute, JAX Genomic Medicine, later this year in Farmington, Connecticut. Ed Liu, JAX CEO and president, spoke on Friday at the Connecticut Science Center about the new institute and personalized medicine. 
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  • Biotech VC Woes Really Demand Growth, Not Supply Shortfall

    Feb 27, 2012, 01:15 AM by Michael Croft
    Pharmalot | Conventional wisdom says that biotech is a tough sell for venture capitalists these days, but new analysis shows a 16% increase over VC funding in 2011 compared to 2010, and a stunning 90% increase year to year in the last quarter. 
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  • February New Products

    Feb 27, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | New products for February including Life Technologies' new Ion Proton sequence, new NGS analysis software from Integromics, new products for clinical trial randomization and patient enrollment tracking, and new product lines specifically for patient-specific molecular and genomic data.  

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  • Complete Genomics Announces Software Partners

    Feb 24, 2012, 03:25 AM by Michael Croft
    MSNBC | Complete Genomics has introduced its Genomic Discovery Software Partners Program, which currently includes Ingenuity Systems, Golden Helix, and DNAnexus.
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  • Integromics Intends to Reign Beyond Spain

    Feb 23, 2012, 09:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | In the heated field of genomics and proteomics informatics providers, new Integromics CEO Michael McManus has his work cut out to grow the business in a much more inclement economic climate than the one he experiences on his frequent visits to company headquarters in Madrid. 
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  • Drug Delivery Microchip

    Feb 23, 2012, 04:40 AM by Michael Croft
    Chicago Tribune Health | An implantable microchip has successfully delivered drugs to patients. The chip, developed by Microchips, Inc., is made of wells covered with a thin platinum/tatanium film. 
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  • Tech Review Lists 50 Most Innovative Companies

    Feb 23, 2012, 04:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Technology Review | MIT's Technology Review has published its list of the 50 most innovative companies in 2012 from energy, transportation, computing, web & digital media, materials, and biomedicine. Their list should sound familiar: Foundation Medicine; Integrated Diagnostics; PatientsLikeMe; Complete Genomics; Life Technologies; and more.
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  • February News Briefs

    Feb 23, 2012, 03:15 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | February news briefs from around the industry: DNA sequencing in the clinic, diagnostic assays, open science challenge, automated language processing of big data, CDISC in Europe, and more.
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  • The Nanopore Wars: Genia CEO Touts Best of Oxford Nanopore and Ion Torrent

    Feb 22, 2012, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Reacting to last week's nanopore sequencing breakthrough in a presentation at CHI's Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco, Stefan Roever, CEO of Bay Area Genia Technologies, said his company married attributes of Oxford Nanopore and Ion Torrent Systems, and was targeting the launch of a sequencing device with up to 1 million nanopores in 2013. 
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