By Peter Mansell Growing implementation of adaptive clinical trials following the publication of draft guidance on adaptive designs by the US Food and Drug Administration in February 2010 is helping to ease regulatory concerns within industry about the approach, says eClinical solutions specialist Perceptive Informatics…read more
Researchers identify four cognitive biases that might be slowing drug discovery. By Courtney Andersen In an age of increasing financial and logistical pressures facing biotech and pharmaceutical companies, optimizing R&D success is a critical task. But in a commentary published last year in Drug Discovery Today, Andrew Chadwick of Tessella and Matthew Segall of Optibrium [...]
Matthew Segall, Optibrium Ltd., Cambridge, U.K. and Andrew Chadwick, Tessella plc, Burton upon Trent, U.K. When human biases distort drug discovery decision-making, software tools can guide thinking towards objective answers…read more
Tessella is vendor of digital archiving solutions. Minnesota Historical Society and three partner states, Illinois, Tennessee, and Vermont, will be working with Tessella to test implementations of Tessella’s product, the “Safety Deposit Box” system…read more
Barry Prescott, a,∗, James Downing, a,b, Marco Di Maio, a,c, John How,a a. ITER Organization, CS 90 046, 13067 St. Paul lez Durance Cedex, France b Tessella plc, 26 The Quadrant, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3YS, UK c projectglobe.com, 108 Totteridge House, 15 Yelverton Road, London SW11 3QH, UK The ITER Organization, in [...]
The first scientific results from ESA’s Planck mission were released at a press briefing on Tuesday 11 January in Paris (http://www.esa.int) and the latest results of the Planck telescope images presented at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Physics World have recently published an article detailing the success of this project, [...]
Based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has selected Mantid software developed by a team of Tessella scientists for the ISIS neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). Mantid (Manipulation and Analysis for ISIS Data) is an open source project for data reduction and analysis of neutron scattering [...]
How well can inertial navigation – measuring acceleration and orientation – be used to track people in areas where they can’t get a GPS signal? We spoke to Tessella’s Dave Dungate…read more
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, published a new paper highlighting that scientists’ instincts may not always lead them to making good drug discovery decisions. The challenges of decision-making arise from the importance of multiple/conflicting criteria [...]
UK companies have been successful in winning a number of ITER International Organisation (ITER IO) project management contracts to assist the central engineering team with design, procurement scheduling and liaison with other partners’ ITER Domestic Agencies..read more
