FDA Reform: A Prescription for More and Better Drugs and Medical Devices (The Heritage Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
It also creates an abbreviated licensure pathway for biological products that are demonstrated to be 'biosimilar' to or 'interchangeable' with FDA-licensed biologics.[15] Specifically, the BPCIA provides that a drug may be demonstrated to be 'biosimilar' to an already approved biologic if data show, among other things, that the product is 'highly similar' to that biologic....

Printed Moose Hunting Applications Available (State of Vermont)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
(Source. State of Vermont). June 13, 2016. Printed Moose Hunting Applications Available. Deadline to Apply is July 12 ... 'We recommended a reduction in permit numbers and a continuation of bulls-only permits in most of the units this year based on biological data, and our population estimates indicating moose densities remain below management goals in many areas,' said wildlife biologist Cedric Alexander, Vermont's moose project leader....

IBM and University of Calgary collaborate to advance genomic health research (IBM Canada Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jun 2016
With the IBM collaboration, it will be possible for the information from the biologic samples to be managed with all of the data collected in the study since 2008. This integration of biologic data with lifestyle and environment data helps researchers untangle the relative contribution of genes and environment to childhood challenges such as coping with stress....

Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces New Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Real-World Data at the Annual European Congress ...

Edit Stockhouse 08 Jun 2016
Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces New Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Real-World Data at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2016) ... Other data being presented ... The study analyzed data from the Corrona, LLC RA registry, the largest RA cohort prospectively followed in North America ... It currently includes data from more than 40,000 patients with RA ... to other Biologics? Data from a Rheumatic Disease....

Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces New Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Real-World Data at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2016) (Bristol-Myers Squibb Company)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jun 2016
PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE.BMY) today announced that it will present new data - offering insights into the field of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) - at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2016), to be held June 8-11, in London, UK ... It currently includes data from more than 40,000 patients with RA ... Abatacept and Other Biologics ... to other Biologics? Data from a Rheumatic Disease....

Aquatic animals harmed by our noise (Universiteit Leiden)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jun 2016
Both PhD studies are part of this project and were conducted at the Institute of Biology Leiden in collaboration with TNO Acoustics & Sonar, The Hague ... Linking to biological data ... In the next step of his research Sertlek linked his data to biological data on the distribution and swimming patterns of porpoises. The data came from a third study in the NWO/ZKO project, by postdoc Geert Aarts....

China seeks DNA for Xinjiang passports

Edit BBC News 07 Jun 2016
Police in China's north-western border region ask some residents to provide DNA samples and other biological data when applying for travel documents ... ....

Chinese police require DNA for passports in Xinjiang

Edit BBC News 07 Jun 2016
Police in China's north-western region of Xinjiang are asking some residents to provide DNA samples and other biological data when applying for travel documents. People in the multi-ethnic area of Yili will have to provide the samples before being allowed to go abroad ... Share this story About sharing. ....

One man's quest to pay for lunch with a chip implanted in his thumb

Edit Mashable 06 Jun 2016
SEE ALSO. Geneva. The story of Facebook's new font ... Image ... We already give companies immense reams of our biological data — think fingerprint access on our smartphones or iris authentication — and such chips could go someway to halting that flow ... Tinkering with old Omega systems forms some of his childhood memories, but it was really the blurring line between biology and computing that was most alluring, and one film provided an answer ... ....

One Year After Launch, BRCA Share™ Open Data Initiative Reveals New Findings on BRCA Gene Mutations Linked to Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk (Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
The goal of the initiative is to share clinical, genetic, epidemiological and biological data on BRCA variants, particularly variants of uncertain significance, in order to improve the quality of laboratory diagnostics to better predict which individuals are at risk of developing hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, and to accelerate research on BRCA gene mutations....

Review Conference on Saving World’s Fish Stocks Concludes with Adoption of Robust Draft Outcome (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. UN - United Nations) ... It also expressed concern that the overall status of highly migratory fish stocks and straddling fish stocks had not improved since 2006 and 2010 ... In addition, the considerable limitations in fisheries and biological data continue to be one of the main impediments to assessing the state of exploitation of highly migratory species, straddling stocks and other high seas fish stocks ... Background ... (noodl....

Review Conference on Saving World’s Fish Stocks Concludes with Adoption of Robust Draft Outcome (ECOSOC - United Nations Economic and Social Council)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. ECOSOC - United Nations Economic and Social Council) ... In addition, the considerable limitations in fisheries and biological data continue to be one of the main impediments to assessing the state of exploitation of highly migratory species, straddling stocks and other high seas fish stocks ... Some of the themes addressed by the recommendations include ... Other themes included in the recommendations were ... Background ... (noodl. 33924319) ....

Watch: Research Drones Monitor Whale Snot

Edit Newsweek 01 Jun 2016
Try Newsweek ...The idea behind Snotbot is to collect physical, biological data and video and photographs from a whale without the whale knowing,” said Iain Kerr, CEO of Ocean Alliance and founder of Snotbot. “We needed a drone to collect that data ... ....
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