MERS-CoV Vaccine Derived from Dromedaries

March 25, 2016

Coronaviruses in the Middle East  Caroline Ash Science 1/1/16 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes severe acute respiratory illness and kills about a third of people infected. The virus is common in dromedary camels, which can be a source of human infections. In a survey for MERSCoV in over 1300 Saudi Arabian camels, Sabir et…

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Curetis Announces Participation in Several Investor and Industry Conferences in Q2-2016

March 24, 2016

Curetis Announces Participation in Several Investor and Industry Conferences in Q2-2016 Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Holzgerlingen, Germany, March 24, 2016 — Curetis N.V. (the “Company” and, together with Curetis GmbH, “Curetis“), a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, today announced its participation in several major industry conferences in the second quarter of 2016. The respective…

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NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Launches

March 2, 2016

NIH’s 1-million-volunteer Precision Medicine Study Announces First Pilot Projects By Jocelyn Kaiser, Feb. 25, 2016  President Obama’s huge 1-million-person long-term health study is getting started. Today, the White House and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced several pilot projects, including one to work out how to recruit hundreds of thousands of volunteers online. A Google company,…

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Community Hospitals Time Tissue Handling

March 1, 2016

View Entire Article at: http://www.captodayonline.com/community-hospitals-keep-time-tissue-handling/ February 2016 by Kevin B. O’Reilly, CAP TODAY Senior Editor – The great promise of genomics and actionable cancer biomarkers relies on cancer tissues being handled in the right way so they are suitable for study. Reducing cold ischemia time and the total time that biospecimens spend in formalin is key to…

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Asterand Awarded NIH CPTAC Contract

February 16, 2016

Asterand Bioscience Has Been Awarded a Five-Year, $6.5M Contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) DETROIT–(Business Wire)–Asterand Bioscience is pleased to announce that is has been awarded a five-year, $6.5M contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide oncology specimens with associated clinical data to the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC).…

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ISBER International (Bio)Repository Locator

December 14, 2015

https://irlocator.isber.org/ The International Repository Locator (IRL) is an initiative by ISBER to help investigators locate biospecimen and data repositories by developing a directory of repository information that can be searched online. The International Repository Locator also seeks to increase the profile of research and biobanking activities being supported by individual repositories amongst key global stakeholders…

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FDA Request for CRC Test Approval

November 5, 2015

http://www.epigenomics.com/en/news-investors/news-media/press-releases/latest-news/article/fda-fordert-weitere-daten-vor-zulassung-von-epigenomics-bluttest-zum-darmkrebs-screening.html

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Sepsis IVD for ASEAN Distribution

October 5, 2015

Curetis and Acumen to Collaborate on Unyvero Sepsis Test and ASEAN Distribution Curetis licenses Acumen’s proprietary sepsis biomarker panel for use with Unyvero Platform Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub in Singapore to support Acumen in development and clinical validation of the panel Acumen to distribute Unyvero product line in ASEAN countries [LINK] Holzgerlingen, Germany and Singapore,…

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