Open Bioinformatics Foundation Selected as Mentor Organization for Google Summer of Code
Google this week named the Open Bioinformatics Foundation among 150 mentoring organizations for the 2010 Google Summer of Code — a student internship program for open-source projects. (Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:05:20 GMT)

FDA Top Officials Discuss Ongoing Efforts to Bring Agency Into Genomics Era
From the outside , it may seem that while the US Food and Drug Administration often talks about the promise of personalized medicine, the agency is slow to act when it comes to issuing regulatory policies critical to advancing the discipline. (Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:05:09 GMT)

Q&A: Team Uses Dynamic Proteomics to Study How Multi-Drug Combinations Affect Proteins
In the current issue of Cell , researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, describe a dynamic proteomics approach to predict how proteins react to multiple-combination drug therapies. (Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:35:11 GMT)

Illumina Launches HiScanSQ, Hoping to Lure Microarray Users to Sequencing
Illumina today launched HiScanSQ, which combines a microarray scanner with a sequencing module that is primarily targeted at existing Illumina array users who want to start sequencing. (Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:20:18 GMT)

Methodist Hospital Research Institute Receives $5 Million Donation to Study Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer's
A $5 million gift from the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation will support research on progressive neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's Disease. The gift will establish The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Bioinformatics Research and Imaging for Neurosciences (BRAIN) at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute. (Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:37:25 GMT)

ZS Genetics Enters Genomics X Prize Competition
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - ZS Genetics said today that it has joined the Archon X Prize for Genomics competition, a contest sponsored by the X Prize Foundation that will award $10 million to the first research team that can sequence 100 human genomes within ten days for less than $10,000. (Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:05:20 GMT)

New Protein Targets Found in Multiple Sclerosis
There may be no bigger disease to study at the intersection of immunology and neurology than multiple sclerosis. (Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:06:05 GMT)

Arrayit Corporation Taps DOCRO, Inc. to Facilitate FDA Approval of OvaDx
Top Contract Research Organization Is Retained to Expedite Submission and Approval of the Company's Pre-Symptomatic Ovarian Cancer Screening Test (Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:13:35 GMT)