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Sequenom Plans to Expand SNP Testing Opportunity
Nov 20
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Boston Globe | Sequenom’s best-known product is designed to test for Down syndrome, but the genetic testing products company said Tuesday that there may be an even larger market is other kinds of prenatal testing.
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Woolly Mammoth Genome Partially Sequenced
Nov 20
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The Times/AFP | Scientists said they had reconstructed around half of the genome of the woolly mammoth, a species that became extinct at the end of the last Ice Age some 11,000 years ago.
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Targeted Therapies Are the Future - Lilly Chairman
Nov 20
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Arizona Republic | The chairman of Eli Lilly & Co. said the future of the pharmaceutical industry rests not with blockbuster drugs but with targeted therapies that work for smaller groups of people based on their biological makeup.
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Stem Cells Restore Hearing, Vision in Animals
Nov 19
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Reuters | Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said on Tuesday in what they believe is a first step toward helping people.
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 | Software Helps Doping Control Lab Streamline Results Management The Karolinska University Hospital’s Doping Control Lab tests thousands of samples annually for stimulants, diuretics, and other masking agents. Increased regulatory pressure and new technologies increased the number of samples analyzed creating data management challenges. Waters® NuGenesis® Scientific Data Management System and TargetLynx™ Application Manager software were used to reduce the time required to calculate, review and search results. |  | Managed Innovation, Assured Compliance Discovery organizations are identifying a lot of promising compounds, but clinical research processes haven't kept pace with timely testing of all those potential therapies. This white paper describes how SAS® Drug Development supports true innovation across the clinical trial process.
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Rising Clinical Trial Delays and Costs - Addressing the Cause, Not the Symptoms
 Protocol complexity is taking a toll on clinical study speed and efficiency: increasingly complicated and ambitious protocols are not only burdening sites and study volunteers but are also prolonging trials and increasing expenses. In response, sponsors have turned to global study placement, restructured site relationships and new site management practices, but the problem remains.
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- Why these responses address only the symptoms, not the underlying cause, of rising clinical trial delays and costs.
- Results of a recent joint Tufts University / Medidata Solutions study.
- New metrics benchmarking protocol design trends.
- Systematic protocol design improvements and why they are essential to clinical trial performance excellence.
Speakers: Ken Getz, Senior Research Fellow at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, and Ed Seguine, General Manager, Trial Planning Solutions at Medidata.
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Nov 20, 2008
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- HHMI launches Collaborative Innovation Awards
- BioFocus DPI and ZoBio announce marketing agreement
- RainDance Technologies introduces sequence enrichment solution
- Helicos launches open access web site with microbial genome data
- Wolfram Research releases Mathematica 7
- CDD gets $2M grant to develop TB database
- DIA opens new office in China
- CRL offers new molecular diagnostics services
- Wellcome Trust orders 11 more Illumina genome analyzers
- Children’s Hospital Boston selects Geospiza’s FinchLab for SOLiD
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Director, Center For Information Technology (CIT) - National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Service
Located in Bethesda, MD. This position requires:
• High-level vision, leadership, management, and modernization of CIT programs and services.
• Strategic direction and policy development for CIT long-term operations and objectives.
• Serve as a key IT advisor to the NIH Chief Information Officer.
A TOP SECRET security clearance will be required. More job detail is found at: http://www.jobs.nih.gov under the Executive Jobs section.Or contact Ms.Winnie Garner at seniorre@od.nih.gov. Applications must be received ELECTRONICALLY by (11:59 p.m.), December 17, 2008. DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers Bioinformatics Manager- Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery
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