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As it enters its 18th season, Vox Musica prepares for a holiday concert to bring hope and human connection.

David Taylor passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Lebanon Reporter on 2023-08-21.

Needham (PRWEB) April 20, 2023 -- Bio-IT World today announced the 2023 Innovative Practices Awards winners. Six projects were honored; companies involved in

/PRNewswire/ -- MemVerge®, pioneers of Big Memory software, today announced that its MemVerge Memory Machine™ Cloud Edition has been named the winner of the...

/PRNewswire/ -- Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, the premier event showcasing applications of IT and informatics to biomedical research and the drug discovery...

NHGRI Takes New, WGS Look at Mendelian Diseases July 27, 2021 By Allison Proffitt July 27, 2021 | The National Institutes of Health has made a five-year, nearly $80 million commitment to the establishment of a  Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium of five clinical laboratories and one data coordinating center. The Consortium will build on previous National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) work to develop new methods for identifying the genetic causes of single-gen...

  February 23, 2021   February 23, 2021 | Shortly after his appointment as the CIO for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 2003, Mike Tartakovsky renamed the NIAID Office of Technology and Information Systems. Rechristened the NIAID Office of Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), the name change reflects the realization that information technology has become a fundamental research tool for the biomedical research community. As he ...

Immunai Joins 10x To Scale Single Cell Genomics December 21, 2020 By Allison Proffitt  December 21, 2020 | Immunai has announced its collaboration with 10x Genomics as one of the first 10x Certified Service Providers. Immunai will leverage 10x’s robust single-cell technologies to map hundreds of cell types and states. By applying its proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, Immunai supports biomarker discovery and insight generation to ultimat...

December 15, 2020 By Allison Proffitt December 15, 2020 | Sequencing in the palm of your hand is now a reality. Oxford Nanopore’s MinION is a handheld sequencer that has been used “in the field” to sequence genomic materials in Africa in the middle of the Ebola outbreak, in South America during the Zika outbreak, and even on the International Space Station. But even as the sequencers are spitting out reads, that’s not solving the analysis problem.  iGenomics can do that fo...