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Jun 18, 2018

Mixed Reaction

Nature News reports that some developers are nervous about GitHub's acquisition by Microsoft.

May 01, 2018

Other Ways to Use His Time

President Donald Trump offered former Microsoft CEO and philanthropist Bill Gates the presidential science advisor job, but he passed on it, Stat News reports.

Apr 17, 2018

St. Jude Opens Its Pediatric Cancer Sequencing Data to Researchers Worldwide

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St. Jude Cloud, powered by DNAnexus and Microsoft, offers free access to thousands of WGS records plus cloud-based visualization and computational tools.

Jan 30, 2018

UPDATE: Multi-Omics Researchers Among Recipients of New Stand Up to Cancer Awards

Stand Up to Cancer is teaming with Microsoft and SITC to provide a new round of $11 million in grants to study cancer immunotherapies.

Jan 04, 2018

Microsoft, Adaptive Biotechnologies Partner to Study Immune System Genetics

The companies are planning to develop individual disease diagnostics, and then a universal diagnostic from a single blood test.

Jan 02, 2018

DNAnexus Closes $58M Venture Capital Round

The financing, led by new investor Foresite Capital, will help DNAnexus deploy its genome informatics technology and expand its clinical trials presence.

May 22, 2017

Within the Nucleotides

Microsoft is exploring using DNA as a data storage device, Technology Review reports.

Nov 30, 2016

Codigo, BC Platforms, Microsoft Partner to Build Commercial Repository of Latin American Genotype Data

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The company plans to recruit one million patients from Mexico over three years and then expand to Columbia, Argentina, and Brazil.

Nov 15, 2016

DNAnexus Launches Platform on Microsoft's Azure Cloud; Stanford University First Customer

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DNAnexus customers now have a choice of two cloud platforms and ancillary tools and the company has access to a wider pool of potential users.

Nov 08, 2016

MediSapiens to Offer Data Solutions on Microsoft Cloud

The Helsinki-based firm plans to offer data solutions on Microsoft's Azure cloud to Finnish healthcare organizations first.

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The Scan

Building Up Numbers

With H3Africa, Charles Rotimi has been working to bolster the representation of African participants and African researchers in genomics, Newsweek reports.

Slow Coverage

NPR reports that government and private insurers are being slow to cover recently approved CAR-T cell therapies.

Many Choices

CNBC reports that there are thousands of genetic tests available for consumers to chose between.

This Week in Nature

In Nature this week: genomic analysis of ducks, whole-genome doubling among tumor samples, and more.

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