KIKA™ Clinical Solutions, the leader in advanced EDC solutions for Clinical Asset Management™, announced that Denmark-based CRO BioStata ApS has made a seven-figure investment in KIKA technology to provide its Veracity™ advanced EDC platform to biopharmaceutical clients in Europe.

The world's food system provides food for nearly seven billion people each day. But according to a new report from the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), more advances are critical for an adequate food supply, which must nearly double during the next several decades, for the future world population.

Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical industry leaders are reducing their research and development time and costs using newly patented technology that is part of AspenTech’s aspenONE Process Development for Pharmaceuticals software.

The Food and Drug Administration can promote progress toward personalized medicine by approaching the oversight of laboratory developed tests (LDTs) in a focused, flexible, and balanced way according to the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA).

13th July 2010, InterSystems announce that NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) has selected InterSystems as its National Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) partner. The Welsh Assembly Government funding of £12.1m will be used to implement a single instance of InterSystems TrakCare Lab™.

Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management (ERCQM) software solutions, today announced that Insulet Corporation, a Massachusetts-based medical device company, has gone live with Pilgrim’s On-Demand “SaaS” delivery of its automated management solution for Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) management.

Adriane announces that Takeda San Francisco, Takeda’s global center for excellence for biologics, has signed an agreement to license Ariadne’s Pathway Studio® software. Takeda plans to utilize the software and underlying text-mining algorithms in their discovery program against cancer, inflammatory and metabolic diseases.

Cambridge Healthtech Institute is hosting its second annual Next Generation Dx Summit on August 24-26, 2010 in Washington, DC. Building on last year's inaugural success, the Summit is designed to bring together all of the major players in the Molecular Diagnostics arena.

Practical solutions and protocols will once again be exchanged at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's second annual "The Bioprocessing Summit" taking place August 23-26, 2010, in Boston. The four meetings comprising the event (Optimizing Cell Culture Technology, Affinity Tag Protein Purification, Optimizing Mammalian Cell Lines, and Baculovirus Technology) will address bioprocess challenges ranging from cell line and clone selection to scale-up and affinity tag purification.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced a joint project with Microsoft Corporation to create the PLM industry’s first cloud computing-based quality management solution.

Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management (ECQM) software solutions, today announced the global availability of its expanded Regulatory Reporting platform. Rounding out the platform, the MedDRA adapter is the newest capability from Pilgrim, integrating with its Complaints Management solution to ease adverse event reporting to global regulatory bodies.

As part of its commitment to introducing third generation DNA sequencing technology to the market, Pacific Biosciences today announced the launch of a software developer’s network – the PacBio DevNet – at the Eighteenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010).

PETra, the new PET process management LIMS from LabLogic Systems, has the cure for one of the industry’s biggest quality headaches - maintaining up-to-date records of the components that make up each radiopharmaceutical.

Labtronics Inc., a world leader in laboratory automation is pleased to announce the release of a new web based viewer for LimsLink, it's industry leading laboratory integration solution. The LimsLink Viewer allows operators to access data that has been processed by LimsLink, without installing a LimsLink client. Using a standard browser, you are able to access LimsLink data from any PC without installing software.

Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, and Tessella, the information technology and consulting services company and world leaders in digital preservation technology, today published a new paper highlighting that scientists’ instincts may not always lead them to making good drug discovery decisions.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that ESKOM, the largest electricity supply company in Southern Africa signed a contract to rollout Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) to its thirty four laboratories. The project will be delivered via Thermo Fisher’s partner in South Africa, LimsTricS.

The Outcomes Company®, today announced that the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) has listed three integrated clinical components of its Sunrise Enterprise™ 5.5 suite of products as premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified® electronic health records (EHRs).

eClinicalWorks(R), a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that Iowa’s Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center, has selected eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) system as a preferred ambulatory vendor for its primary care providers state-wide

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) will showcase StatisProTM, its new method evaluation software, at the AACC/ASCLS Annual Meetings and Clinical Lab Expo in Anaheim, California, from July 27 through July 29. StatisPro will make it easier for laboratory professionals to perform the statistical analysis necessary to implement recognized CLSI guidelines when evaluating a clinical method. StatisPro can be used to demonstrate that clinical methods conform to accreditation or regulatory requirements

Ariadne announces a new collaboration with the BIO-NMD consortium led by Professor Alessandra Ferlini at the University of Ferrara, Italy. BIO-NMD is a three year EU-funded research project concentrating on the search for non-invasive biomarkers in people with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and Collagen VI myopathies.