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February 19, 2015 | The Molecular Medicine Tri Conference is being held in San Francisco this week, and several updates and new products have emerged already. For live coverage of the event, follow @BioITWorld and the hashtag #TriCon on Twitter. Maverix
May 27, 2015
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By Aaron Krol February 27, 2015 | Last week offered some brief sanctuary from snowy, subzero New England asBio IT World hit the 22nd annual Molecular Medicine Tri Conference in San Francisco, joining dozens of other Boston area professionals who navigated the ever
May 27, 2015
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By Allison Proffitt May 21, 2015 | The CLARITY challenge is back, and calling for entries. Boston Children’s Hospital is launching the second iteration of the challenge—CLARITY Undiagnosed—focusing on identifying molecular diagnoses for five families with as yet undiagnosed conditions. Teams
May 27, 2015
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January 28, 2015 | Cambridge, MA based Exosome Diagnostics aims to raise $25 million, on top of the $27 million in Series B funding it raised last March. Exosome would use the cash to launch its first two products a blood
May 27, 2015
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February 10, 2015 | When it comes to high risk, infectious diseases, early detection can make all the difference in getting ill patients some much needed treatment. In some cases, it may even help stem an outbreak. This becomes incredibly critical
May 27, 2015
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February 22, 2015 | Among Tech Review's top breakthroughs of 2015 liquid biopsy. Fast DNA sequencing machines are leading to simple blood tests for cancer. Availability now MIT Technology Review
May 27, 2015
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By Aaron Krol September 23, 2014 | Nearly two months have passed since the FDA announced its intention to start regulating laboratory developed tests, or LDTs, by mid 2015. These tests, which are designed, made and performed entirely in a single
May 27, 2015
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By Aaron Krol August 1, 2014 | On Thursday afternoon, the FDA announced that it plans, for the first time, to regulate laboratory developed tests in the same way it does other diagnostics. Up until now, this particular type of test
May 27, 2015
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By Aaron Krol September 23, 2014 | Nearly two months have passed since the FDA announced its intention to start regulating laboratory developed tests, or LDTs, by mid 2015. These tests, which are designed, made and performed entirely in a single
May 27, 2015
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By Aaron Krol January 2, 2015 | I came to the Simoa Accelerator, a small lab located inside the Quanterix headquarters in Lexington, Mass., at a good time the first experiment of the day had finished in the early afternoon, and
May 27, 2015
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Bio-IT World | WuXi PharmaTech headquartered in Shanghai has acquired NextCODE Health of Iceland for $65 million in cash. The acquisition will merge the WuXi Genome Center with NextCODE to form WuXi NextCODE Genomics. The business will be headquartered in Shanghai.
May 27, 2015
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Clinical Informatics News | Foundation Medicine of Cambridge, Mass., continues to make the case for expansive next generation sequencing (NGS) tests as the front line of cancer diagnostics, with a new publication in Clinical Cancer Research.
May 27, 2015
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By Bio IT World Staff January 12, 2015 | Roche announced this morning that it has acquired a majority stake in Foundation Medicine. Roche will tender approximately $780m for 56.3% of the company and make an additional $250m investment by acquiring
May 27, 2015
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By Aaron Krol January 13, 2015 | Yesterday, Illumina CEO Jay Flatley gave his annual address at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, one year after using his J.P. Morgan slot to announce the launch of the HiSeq X, the fastest
May 27, 2015
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By Bio IT World Staff January 20, 2015 | SV Bio today announced a new name, a new focus, and a new product a next generation sequencing (NGS) based oncology assay, the Pan Cancer Somatic Panel (PCSP). Silicon Valley Biosystems was
May 27, 2015
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By Clinical Informatics News Staff January 21, 2015 | QIAGEN’s circulating tumor DNA companion diagnostic for lung cancer has been granted CE IVD marking in 30 European countries, the company announced. The diagnostic is designed as a companion for Astra Zeneca’s
May 27, 2015
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By Bio IT World Staff January 26, 2015 | Claritas Genomics announced today that it has secured $15 million in capital for its Series B round to expand its commercial operations, launch new next generation sequencing based tests for diagnosis of
May 27, 2015
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By Bio IT World Staff January 26, 2015 | Appistry today launched Appistry CloudDx Translational, a “sister product” to the CloudDx platform launched last June, now renamed CloudDx Clinical. CloudDx Translational is a cloud based system for conducting patient centered translational research.
May 27, 2015
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By Aaron Krol February 2, 2015 | In December 2010, Ion Torrent of Connecticut launched the first commercial product based on a new technology called semiconductor sequencing. The Ion PGM, sold at half the price of its nearest competitors, was taking
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February 12, 2015 | Invitae, a genetic testing company founded by former Genomic Health CEO Randy Scott, raised $102 million today in an initial public offering. While many in the field of genomics have predicted that plummeting costs of DNA sequencing
May 27, 2015