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CRISPR Used To Peer Into Human Embryo's First Days
Nature News & Comment | Gene-edited embryos enable researchers to unpick role of a crucial gene, with more studies likely to follow.
Sep 20, 2017
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Edico Genome’s DRAGEN Now Available On Illumina’s BaseSpace Sequence Hub
Bio-IT World Brief | Edico Genome today announced the availability of its DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform on Illumina’s BaseSpace Sequence Hub, enabling users to now run DRAGEN instances to enhance the accuracy and speed of their secondary analysis of next-generation sequencing data.
Sep 19, 2017
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Amazon Announces Per-Second Billing For EC2 Instances And EBS Volumes
AWS Blog | Amazon has announced that, effective October 2, usage of Linux instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form will be billed in one-second increments. Similarly, provisioned storage for EBS volumes will be billed in one-second increments. Per-second billing also applies to Amazon EMR and AWS Batch.
Sep 18, 2017
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Earlham Institute Presents Sequence Alignment Using Optalysys’ Optical Correlator Computing System
Bio-IT World | 2017 Best Practices Awards | The Earlham Institute are working with Optalysys to apply Optalysys’ optical computing system to life science applications. The first release of the computing system is scheduled for early 2018, which both organizations say will be capable of performing a number of different DNA-based local sequence alignment applications.
Sep 18, 2017
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Moderna Ends “Venture” Experiment, Dissolves Four Startups
Xconomy | Moderna Therapeutics announced today that it is ending the experiment to hatch startups as wholly-owned subsidaries, bringing all their experimental drugs back into the Moderna nest.
Sep 14, 2017
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Brainin Joins WuXi NextCODE, Prioritizes Actionability Of Genome
Bio-IT World | WuXi NextCODE today announced the appointment of Rob Brainin as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Brainin joins the company from Illumina, where he was vice president and general manager of life sciences and applied genomics.
Sep 13, 2017
