Mainstays of biomedical research, permanent lines of cloned cells are used to study the biology of health and disease and to test prospective medical therapies. Yet, all too often, these apparent pillars of bioscience and biotechnology crumble because they are crafted from faulty starting materials: misidentified or cross-contaminated cell lines. Writing in the June 2016 issue of PLOS Biology, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) call for "community action" to assemble a "comprehensive toolkit for assuring the quality of cell lines," employed at the start of every study.
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NIH Big Data Effort Focuses On Better Knowledge From Existing Data
Susan D.Hall | Fierce Health IT | May 12, 2014
Big data is transforming biomedical research, National Institutes of Health director Francis S. Collins writes in a blog post announcing an initiative called Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K). To illustrate his point, Collins points to the work of Atul Butte of Stanford University, a NIH-funded researcher looking among mountains of existing data to find new links among genes, diseases and traits.
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NIH Broadens Its Role In Data Science
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | January 11, 2013
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is putting a fresh emphasis on health informatics, with Director Francis Collins, MD, creating a new advisory position and recruiting an associate director for Data Science. Read More »
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NIH Launches Database Of Liver Injury-Linked Drugs
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 15, 2012
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a database of pharmaceutical drugs associated with liver damage. Read More »
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NIH Offers Data Science $96 Million
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | July 24, 2013
The National Institutes of Health is going to fund several new Big Data to Knowledge Centers of Excellence, from a budget of $96 million over the next four years. Read More »
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NIH Sees Surge In Open-Access Manuscripts
Richard Van Noorden | Nature | July 2, 2013
Last November, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that “as of spring 2013″ it would start cracking down on enforcing its public-access policy — and it seems the agency is now seeing positive results. Read More »
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NIH Showcases Informatics Researchers As New Open Source Ventures Launch
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | November 9, 2012
After the National Institutes of Health grew interested in bioinformatics, following breakthroughts in the 1990s, the National Centers for Biomedical Computing were created with the goal of advancing the field by a few leaps and bounds, because IT systems hadn’t quite caught up to molecular biology. Read More »
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NIH To Appoint Chief Data Official
Joseph Marks | Nextgov | January 10, 2013
The National Institutes of Health plans to recruit a new associate director to examine the potential for vast new troves of biomedical research data related to genomics, imaging, and electronic health records, the institute said Thursday. Read More »
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NIH to Bring Precision Medicine Data Collection to Patient Homes
Jennifer Bresnick | HealthIT Analytics | April 6, 2017
Thousands of volunteers for the All of Us precision medicine cohort won’t even have to leave the comfort of their living rooms when contributing data to the project thanks to a new NIH collaboration with mobile medical service EMSI. The All of Us program, formally known as the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort, aims to collect biosamples from at least one million patients to fuel big data analytics and personalized medicine research...
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NIH Unveils Precision Medicine, Genomics, Big Data Analytics Plan
Jennifer Bresnick | HealthIT Analytics | September 21, 2015
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has published a detailed framework outlining its vision for the development of its Precision Medicine Initiative, a wide-ranging research program that hopes to integrate healthcare big data analytics, advances in genomics, and targeted therapies into real-world clinical applications...
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NIH-built Toolset Helps Researchers Share and Compare Data
Paul McCloskey | GCN | October 10, 2015
On battlefields across the Middle East and football fields in the United States, traumatic brain injury (TBI) has hit near-epidemic proportions in the past several years. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say it leads to 52,000 deaths and 275,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. each year. The spiraling caseload is pushing biomedical researchers to stretch their increasingly tight budgets and maximize their research to help prevent TBI and other serious health threats. Read More »
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NIST Issues Call For Developing -- And Using -- Consensus Standards To Ensure The Quality Of Cell Lines
Press Release |
National Institute Of Standards And Technology (NIST) |
June 14, 2016
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Obama Administration Announces Key Actions to Accelerate Precision Medicine Initiative
Press Release |
The White House |
February 25, 2016
A year ago the President announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative to accelerate a new era of medicine that delivers the right treatment at the right time to the right person, taking into account individuals’ health history, genes, environments, and lifestyles. Precision medicine is already transforming the way diseases like cancer and mental health conditions are treated. Molecular testing for cancer patients lets physicians and patients select treatments that improve chances of survival and reduce adverse effects...
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Open Access Advocates Protest The FIRST Act
Sal Robinson | Melville House | November 18, 2013
When, in February 2013, the White House issued a directive stating that all larger federal agencies (agencies that spent over $100 million R&D annually) should make the results of any federally funded research available to the public within a year of publication, Open Access advocates cheered. [...] However, a new bill [...] now threatens to reverse the progress made earlier in the year. Read More »
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Open Access Aids Science Research
Staff Writer | Jim Sensenbrenner | April 16, 2013
No one likes paying for the same thing twice. This holds true for federally funded scientific research. For years, scholarly journals have relied on taxpayers paying for research on the front end and access to the results on the back. It is past time to embrace an open access policy for scientific research. Read More »
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Open Access Allows Scholars To Find Information On Nearly Anything
Karen Wentworth | Inside UNM | October 31, 2014
...When the U.S. government funds research through the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, the researchers usually publish the results of their work in professional journals. But subscriptions to professional journals are costly...Celebrating Open Access Week was an opportunity to talk publicly about what it takes to see that the public actually has access.
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