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IBM CEO Survey Shows Hunger for Change in Life Sciences
Bio-IT World | “Change” is not merely a common refrain on the presidential election campaign trail. It’s also what dozens of life science CEOs are hankering for, according to preliminary findings from the latest IBM CEO survey. Michael Svinte, IBM’s VP Global Innovation and Information-Based Medicine, shared some of those findings with Bio-IT World at a briefing during the Drug Industry Association conference (DIA) this week in Boston.
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NIH Laptop Theft: How Safe Is Your Data?
Bio-IT World | A laptop stolen from the NIH included seven years’ worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses, and details of the patients' heart scans.
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Applied Biosystems and the $60,000 Human Genome
Bio-IT World | Just weeks after Illumina announced it had cracked the $100,000 threshold for sequencing a human genome, Applied Biosystems has sequenced a complete human genome sample using its new SOLiD next-generation sequencing platform, reportedly for less than $60,000.
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Helicos' Kristen Stoops on Next-Generation Data Management
Bio-IT World | Interview with Kristen Stoops, Helicos' director of bioinformatics, who is building a federation of IT vendors to identify best practices that will help users manage torrents of data.
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Grand Challenges Program Seeks Proposals for Global Health Breakthroughs
Bio-IT World | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has issued a call for proposals for its Grand Challenges in Global Health program.
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MIT Launches Interdisciplinary Cancer Center
Bio-IT World | The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology opened today in Cambridge, and will replace the previous MIT Center for Cancer Research.
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Helicos Ships First Instrument to Expression Analysis
Bio-IT World | Helicos BioSciences announced today that it has shipped the first ever single-molecule sequencing instrument – the HeliScope – to Expression Analysis, a contract genomic services company.
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Flawed Embryos Seen as Source for Stem Cells
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Alzheimer's Research Target May Be a Dead End
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Scientists Advance in Effort to Create Synthetic Organism
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underwritten by Definiens
This “Briefing On” collection of Bio-IT World features, commentaries and analysis, presents some of the latest thinking on high-throughput technologies that are being applied to the fields of research and drug discovery, with particular emphasis on oncology, diagnostics and imaging technologies. Download now at no charge compliments of the underwriting sponsor, Definiens. Download This Free Paper
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- Which life sciences research organizations are successfully adopting an informatics solution.
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