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Ceiba Solutions Enables R&D Laboratories to Meet Increasingly Complex IT and Information Management Challenges

Addressing the needs of R&D laboratories to free scientists from time consuming IT and information management responsibilities, Ceiba Solutions today formally introduced its portfolio of Information Innovation Solutions. Developed through years of experience working with the world’s leading life sciences R&D organizations, the solutions span thre...

Webcast RateMyProduct, Product Assessment Tool for Life Science Suppliers

Arlington, VA (PRWEB) April 30, 2013 BioInformatics LLC, life science industry market research experts announces a May 1, 1PM EDT webcast to learn more about RateMyProduct™. RateMyProduct is an automated product assessment tool providing...

PerkinElmer to Host Revolutionaries for Global Health Summit in Newton, MA

PerkinElmer Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, is hosting a Revolutionaries for Global Health Summit from Wednesday May 8th through Thursday May 9th

King Fahd Hospital of the University of Damman Chooses Nuance’s Advanced Speech Recognition

Emerging Technologies announced today that Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd University Hospital is to implement the Nuance Healthcare Dragon Medical 360 | Network Edition hospital-wide in a bid to deliver a truly 21st century healthcare experience. All 550-plus clinicians at this major Middle East

UK Hospitals Order All Varian TrueBeam Radiotherapy Systems Offered Under Government Stimulus Program

CRAWLEY, U.K., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospitals in London and Dorset have acquired the final two of ten advanced Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) radiotherapy treatment machines offered as part of an innovative government program to roll out the most modern cancer treatments for patients in the UK's public hospitals. North Middlesex University Hospital and Poole Hospital NHS Foundat...

Facebook May Be The Key To Tracking Obesity

The greater percentage of people in a city that list a healthy, active lifestyle under their Facebook interests, the lower that area's obesity rates are, a new study suggests. The study, led by by Rumi Chunara, PhD, and John Brownstein, PhD, of Bosto...

Facebook May Be Useful Indicator For Tracking Obesity

The greater percentage of people in a city that list a healthy, active lifestyle under their Facebook interests, the lower that area's obesity rates are, a new study suggests. The study, led by by Rumi Chunara, PhD, and John Brownstein, PhD, of Bosto...

UpTech Business Accelerator Seeks Startups to Receive $50,000 in Equity Investment

UpTech, Northern Kentucky’s super business accelerator has opened the application process for UpTech II. Launched in 2012, the intense, six-month accelerator program provides $50,000 in equity investment and is designed to attract and accelerate entrepreneurs who have the next big idea to make the world a better place. As Tri-ED,...

Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota becomes first pediatric hospital in U.S. to develop interoperability between infusion pumps and electronic medical records

MINNEAPOLIS, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota announced it has successfully implemented a new automated system which is significantly reducing medication errors by wirelessly transmitting data between patients' infusion pumps and electronic medical records (EMR). Children's partnered with medical technology company, CareFusion, and EMR pro...

Like A Television Show On Facebook? You May Be Obese

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online We give a lot of information to sites like Facebook and Google, even when we don’t realize it. It’s only when we pull back for a moment and see the big picture that we realize just how much information we’ve shared and what can be done with it. For instance, each year Google releases a list of the most searched terms from the previous...

Can Facebook Likes Be An Indicator Obesity?

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online We give a lot of information to sites like Facebook and Google, even when we don’t realize it. It’s only when we pull back for a moment and see the big picture that we realize just how much information we’ve shared and what can be done with it. For instance, each year Google releases a list of the most searched terms from the previous...

Elsevier, AcademicCME and ArcheMedX Announce the All-New ThrombosisClinic.com

PHILADELPHIA, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New ThrombosisClinic.com will be the first informatics-powered, connected learning environment for continuing education Elsevier's Office of Continuing Medical Education (EOCME) announced today that it is extending its existing collaboration with AcademicCME and ArcheMedX to re-launch the ThrombosisClinic.com website. The ArcheMedX connected learning...

23andMe Aims to Close Genetics Literacy Gap Among Americans in Celebration of DNA Day

A new survey commissioned by 23andMe – the leading personal genetics company – in celebration of DNA Day reveals that the majority of Americans have an interest in learning more about themselves by exploring their DNA, even though many do not fully understand how their DNA functions. While only two percent of the nation has already had a genet...

Centrillion Biosciences Announces Next-Gen Sequencing Innovation Grant Program

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 Centrillion Biosciences, a leading genomic and bioinformatics solution provider, has announced a new grant program focused on innovation in the application of next-gen sequencing technology. The Sequencing Inn...

Japan Bioinformatics Announces Release of a Case Study on Detecting SNPs and Short INDELs

Tokyo, Japan (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 TOKYO, Japan – April 25, 2013 – Japan Bioinformatics, today announced the release of their case study: Simbiot® ‘How To’: SNP and INDEL Detection. The case study describes several a...

New Research Projects to Enhance Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Tools and Methodologies

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 04/25/13 -- New Canadian bioinformatics and computational biology research projects will help manage, analyze and interpret vast amounts of genomics data to accelerate advances in personalized medicine, public health and other areas of importance to Canadians and the economy. "Our government is investing in the technological solutions needed to advance genomi...

Scotland launching center for trial stratification

The Scottish government is forming the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC) to evaluate genomic data and individual responses to treatments to identify strata of responders/non-responders and to predict adverse events, with the goa...

Patient Logic Launches Next-generation Physician Documentation System

Patient Logic, which develops intuitive software that fits within workflows that clinicians and hospital administrators use every day, today announced general availability of Physician Documentation, the first installment of Physician Experience from Patient Logic. Physician Documentation is physician-centric technology that allows users to quickl...

Metabolic Pathways Collection at SRI International the Largest in the World

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at SRI International, in collaboration with the Boyce Thompson Institute and the Carnegie Institution, have reached a milestone in their development of MetaCyc, a database and web site (MetaCyc.org) that consolidates much known information about metabolism. MetaCyc now includes 2,000 pathways, each a collection of metabolic reactions a...

PAREXEL Honored with 2013 "Partnership Pioneers of the Year" Award

BOSTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, today announced it has been named a recipient of the 2013 "Partnership Pioneers of the Year" award in recognition of its innovative strategic partnership with Pfizer and ICON. Given by the advisory board of the Institute for International Research and...

New Challenges in the Fast Changing Landscape of Bioinformatics

The world of DNA sequencing and bioinformatics has evolved at a staggering pace. In 2009, the biggest problem for researchers was creating an efficient solution for sequencing DNA. At that time, sequencing cost of $100,000 for a single human and took...

UHC and American College of Medical Quality Offer Special Supplement From UHC Annual Conference

CHICAGO, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UHC, in collaboration with the American College of Medical Quality, has developed a 28-page supplement from the UHC Annual Conference 2012, "Re:imagine." The "Re:imagine" summary is available as a supplement to the March/April 2013 issue of the American Journal of Medical Quality and online at uhc.edu. It highlights the key presentations at UHC's second an...

MaxCyte Highlights the Use of Large Scale Transient Transfection for High Throughput Screening in Biologically Relevant Cells in an Upcoming Educational Webinar Presentation

MaxCyte, Inc., the pioneer in scalable, high performance cell transfection systems, is hosting an educational webinar entitled “Streamlining HTS: Ion Channel, GPCR, and Transporter Assays in Biologically Relevant Cells using Large Scale Transfection” on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT. Dr. Jinliang Sui, Senior Director of HTS &...

LifeMap Sciences, a Subsidiary of BioTime, Announces Partnership with Appistry

LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX), announced today a collaborative partnership and value-added reseller agreement with Appistry, Inc., which provides big-data computing that supports life-science and medical analytics at hospitals and medical research centers and organizations. The intent of the partnership is to integrat...

New York Genome Center Announces Roswell Park Cancer Institute as Associate Member

The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) today announced that RPCI, a nationally-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY, is joining the organization as an Associate Member. This unique collaboration is designed to accelerate the clinical applications for genome sequencing in oncology. “We are thri...