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Two Industry Leaders Join Progenitor Cell Therapy Board (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HACKENSACK, N.J.----Progenitor Cell Therapy, LLC , a leading full service provider for the contract development of cell therapies, announced today that Mr. Robert Hamm and Professor K.K.
(Oct 10, 2006)
Preparing for Failure (Enterprise Storage Forum)
Around the globe, scientists are using blindingly fast, incredibly powerful supercomputers to model and predict important environmental events, such as global warming, the paths of hurricanes and the motion of earthquakes, and to envision more fuel-efficient cars and planes, ensure nuclear stockpile safety and develop new sources of energy.
(Oct 10, 2006)
Yale School of Medicine Awarded $11.5 Million to Study and Treat Skin Cancer (Yale University)
New Haven, Conn. — Yale School of Medicine researchers have received an $11.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to improve risk assessment, measures for diagnosis and prognosis, and therapies for patients with two types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma and melanoma.
(Oct 10, 2006)
Fill up empty science classrooms (Hindustan Times)
On a balmy morning in Bangalore’s thickly wooded 440-acre campus best known as India’s academic answer to a Stanford University or an MIT, its director P. Balaram is called away on urgent business — to inspect the state of the student hostels, which are almost a century old.
(Oct 10, 2006)
Biomedical center to open amid funding pinch (Lawrence Journal-World)
Kansas University is nearing completion of the $57.2 million Biomedical Research Center at a time when many are bemoaning the challenges of bringing in federal biomedical research funds.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Linux Software Developer Terra Soft, Sony Partner To Build World's First Cell Cluster (Linux World)
Terra Soft was contacted by Sony Computer Entertainment to develop and manage a supercomputing cluster built upon the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux OS. This spring, Terra Soft was contracted by Sony and in August completed the construction of a 3000 sq-ft supercomputing facility capable of housing 2400 1U systems.
(Oct 11, 2006)
UA opens Phoenix medical campus (Arizona Daily Star)
PHOENIX — The University of Arizona opened its new medical-school campus in Phoenix Tuesday, unveiling the stunning restoration of three century-old buildings and an unprecedented collaboration with rival Arizona State University.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Two Industry Leaders Join Progenitor Cell Therapy Board (PR Web)
Manufacturing and market experts added to Progenitor Cell Therapy’s Board of Managers. (PRWeb Oct 11, 2006)
(Oct 11, 2006)
Affymetrix, NimbleGen ink licensing deal (PharmaBiz)
Affymetrix Inc. and NimbleGen Systems Inc, a leading supplier of flexible high-density microarray products and services, announced that NimbleGen has obtained a non-exclusive, worldwide license to a number of Affymetrix patents covering the manufacture, use and sales of nucleic acid microarrays and related products and services in the research field.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Arizona Daily Wildcat (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
The UA College of Medicine campus in downtown Phoenix is now "open for business" and will boost the state's economy and supply Arizona's rapidly increasing population with more physicians, said President Robert Shelton at the college's opening ceremony yesterday.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Illumina to Host Conference Call on October 17, 2006 Following Release of Third Quarter 2006 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Illumina, Inc. announced today that it will issue results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2006 following the close of the market on Tuesday, October 17, 2006.
(Oct 11, 2006)
First Major Study Of Mammalian "Disorderly" Proteins (Medical News Today)
Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital turned up the heat on "disorderly" proteins and confirmed that most of these unruly molecules perform critical functions in the cell. The St. [click link for full article]
(Oct 11, 2006)
Terra Soft, Sony to Build World's First Cell Cluster (LinuxElectrons)
LOVELAND , Colorado – Terra Soft is proud to announce construction of the world's first Cell-based supercomputing cluster.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Validation Study Confirms Value of TaqMan(R) Drug Metabolism Genotyping Assays in Pharmacogenetic and Complex Disease (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
FOSTER CITY, Calif. & NEW ORLEANS----Today at the 56th annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, scientists from Applied Biosystems , an Applera Corporation business, and SAIC-Frederick, Inc. presented data showing that the TaqMan® Drug Metabolism Genotyping Assays provide higher accuracy than other methodologies in identifying variation in genes that code for drug metabolism
(Oct 11, 2006)
Caprion Pharmaceuticals Enters Into Oncology Target Licensing Agreement with Centocor Research and Development, Inc. (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MONTREAL----Privately held Caprion Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that is has entered into an agreement with Centocor Research and Development, Inc., under which Caprion will provide a number of protein targets for the development of monoclonal antibody and other potential therapeutic products for the treatment of several cancer indications.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Monsanto's Ag Productivity Business Contributes to Strong Fourth Quarter; Seeds and Traits Business Drives Record Sales (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Fourth
(Oct 11, 2006)
NHGRI Appoints Two New Branch Chiefs (National Institutes of Health)
Bethesda, Md. — The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the appointment of two leaders in the medical application of basic research as branch chiefs in its Division of Intramural Research.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Monsanto 4th-Quarter Loss Widens (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Herbicide and biotech seed producer Monsanto Co. said Wednesday its loss for the fourth quarter widened from a year ago, hurt by lower sales in its seeds and genomics segment.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Gene Codes Corporation Announces Version 4.7 of Sequencher; Adds Additional Capabilities to Support DNA Sequence (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Gene Codes Corporation, a leading bioinformatics software developer, announced the immediate availability of a new version of Sequencher, its award-winning DNA sequence assembly and analysis program.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Robotic Whiskers Can Sense Three-dimensional Environment (Science Daily)
Two Northwestern University engineers have been studying the whisker system of rats to better understand how mechanical information from the whiskers gets transmitted to the brain. Now they have developed arrays of robotic whiskers that sense in two dimensions and that can sense information about both object shape and fluid flow. The arrays could find application on assembly lines, in pipelines
(Oct 11, 2006)
Burnham awarded $12.7 million from NIH to create one of nation's top neuroscience research centers (EurekAlert!)
La Jolla, Calif.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Health Discovery Corporation Receives Pioneering U.S. Patent for Its Renowned RFE-SVM Technology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAVANNAH, Ga.----Health Discovery Corporation today announced the issuance of its pioneering U.S. patent covering the well-established and widely-used recursive feature elimination method for support vector machines , a major addition to its intellectual property portfolio.
(Oct 11, 2006)
The gene screen (CNN Money)
This summer retired computer consultant Carleton Neville went online, took out his credit card, and ordered a $500 colon cancer test from DNA Direct, a San Francisco genetic-testing service.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Luminex Corporation Third Quarter Earnings Release Scheduled for October 25, 2006 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Luminex Corporation today announced that it expects to report third quarter 2006 results on Wednesday, October 25, 2006.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Learn About Functional and Comparative Genomics with This New Encyclopedia (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics" to their offering.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Speed is the name of the game for researchers (EurekAlert!)
Cutting-edge computer technology designed for use in game consoles like the PlayStation 3 will power complex research software at the University of Manchester.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Chemist to talk about high-tech startups at UNCA (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Noted chemist David J. Rakestraw will be the featured speaker at UNC Asheville's ninth annual S. Dexter Squibb Lecture Series Monday and Tuesday. Rakestraw is the co-founder and senior scientist of Eksigent Technologies in Livermore, Calif.
(Oct 11, 2006)
New science could combat cancer compound in nuts (Nutraingredients.com)
10/11/2006 - US scientists have found a way to prevent the formation of the naturally occurring cancer-causing compound aflatoxin in nuts such as almonds, pistachios and walnuts, findings they hope will lead to the first environmentally friendly way to combat the toxin.
(Oct 11, 2006)
BUSCADOR DE NOTICIAS - AGMNEWS (AGMnews)
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(Oct 11, 2006)
Chemical Genomic Screening Identifies Novel Therapeutic Strategies For Cancer (Science Daily)
A sophisticated new chemical genetic screening strategy that serves as a tool for identifying anticancer compounds may significantly enhance the drug discovery process. Two research papers that describe using this exciting gene expression-based chemical genomic strategy to identify therapeutics for cancer phenotypes previously associated with a poor prognosis and to gain new insight into cancer
(Oct 11, 2006)
Optical Mapping Reveals More Than Traditional DNA Sequencing (Science Daily)
Optical mapping is a powerful genetic identification tool that so far has been limited to lower organisms. Now a USC-led team of computational biologists has made the method practical for human genomes.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Speed is the name of the game for researchers (PhysOrg)
Cutting-edge computer technology designed for use in game consoles like the PlayStation 3 will power complex research software at The University of Manchester. Academics in several scientific and engineering fields will use IBM's latest powerful hardware to run a range of scientific and engineering programs.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Gene Codes Corporation Announces Version 4.7 of Sequencher; Adds Additional Capabilities to Support DNA Sequence (SYS-CON Media)
Gene Codes Corporation, a leading bioinformatics software developer, announced the immediate availability of a new version of Sequencher, its award-winning DNA sequence assembly and analysis program. Version 4.7 builds on the success of Sequencher 4.6, released in March 2006, by adding additional analysis capabilities to Sequencher, continuing its long established history of helping life sciences
(Oct 11, 2006)
Wall Street shares fall in midday trade (AP via Yahoo! News)
Blue chip stocks fell Wednesday as investors cringed at the first batch of quarterly earnings reports, which included weaker-than-expected results from aluminum producer Alcoa Inc.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Stocks remain mixed amid profit reports (AP via Yahoo! News)
Stocks meandered in and out of positive territory Wednesday afternoon as investors began to shrug off a weaker-than-expected profit report from aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. and turned attention to minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting due later in the day.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Monsanto shares fall on wider Q4 loss (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Monsanto Co.'s stock price fell 4.7 percent, or $2.19, Wednesday morning after the company reported that its fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened on weaker-than-expected sales in its seeds and genomics segment.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Monsanto seed, genomics sector drives fourth-quarter net losses (Agriculture Online)
Monsanto reported net sales of $1.4 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2006, which was nine percent higher than sales in the same period in fiscal year 2005 despite fourth-quarter net losses higher than a year ago, according to a company release.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Population Diagnostics and Empire Genomics to Create Expansive Relationship for Large Scale Molecular Diagnostics & (RedNova)
Population Diagnostics, Inc. (PDI) announced that it has agreed to terms with Empire Genomics LLC (EG) to establish an infrastructure for PDI to begin commercializing at full scale its core technology platform.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Linux Software Developer Terra Soft, Sony Partner To Build World's First Cell Cluster (Linux World)
Terra Soft was contacted by Sony Computer Entertainment to develop and manage a supercomputing cluster built upon the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux OS. This spring, Terra Soft was contracted by Sony and in August completed the construction of a 3000 sq-ft supercomputing facility capable of housing 2400 1U systems.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Applied Biosystems Group and Celera Genomics Group First Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results and Conference Call (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NORWALK, Conn.----Applera Corporation announced today that it will issue fiscal 2007 first quarter results for its Applied Biosystems Group and Celera Genomics Group on Wednesday, October 25, 2006.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Dow ends down 15 on Alcoa profit report (AP via Yahoo! News)
Stocks pulled back Wednesday after aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. kicked off earnings season with a weaker-than-expected profit report and minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting stoked concerns about the economy.
(Oct 11, 2006)
Affymetrix Appoints Masao Yoneyama as General Manager of Japan Operations (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Affymetrix Inc. announced today that it has named Masao Yoneyama, Ph.D., General Manager of Japan Operations. As part of this role, Dr. Yoneyama has been elected as Affymetrix' representative director for Japan and will be responsible for growing the business across the country.
(Oct 12, 2006)
Dow ends down 15 on Alcoa profit report (AP via Yahoo! News)
Stocks pulled back Wednesday after aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. kicked off earnings season with a weaker-than-expected profit report and minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting stoked concerns about the economy.
(Oct 12, 2006)
UCSD Developing New Genome Sequencing Technology (Medical News Today)
The current cost to determine the sequence of nucleotide bases in the 6-billion-base-pair human genome is roughly $10 million, but researchers at UC San Diego and eight other universities and biotech companies hope to use a federal grant to lower the cost to only $1,000 per human genome sequenced. [click link for full article]
(Oct 12, 2006)
InforSense(R) and Thermo Electron Corporation Announce Three-Year OEM Agreement (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LONDON & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of enterprise real-time analytics and Thermo Electron Corporation , the leading provider of analytical instruments, today announced a three-year OEM agreement.
(Oct 12, 2006)
Prof helps develop ground breaking genome microscope (The GW Hatchet)
As a young boy, Akos Vertes was hooked on science. An elementary school classmate in communist Hungary told him that hydrochloric acid could dissolve iron. This simple experiment began a lifelong passion for scientific learning. Today Vertes is working on a slightly larger experiment - one that may revolutionize the way scientists study and treat diseases.
(Oct 12, 2006)
First Round Of Whole Genome Association Studies Focuses On Disorders Of The Brain, Skin And Kidney (Medical News Today)
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) have announced that six major studies of common diseases have been selected as the first to undergo whole genome analysis by the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN).This type of analysis is designed to identify the genetic contributions to common illnesses that affect the public health, such as depression and diabetes. [click
(Oct 12, 2006)
Pets Best Provides Insurance Plans for ALLERCA Lifestyle Pets Hypoallergenic Kittens (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ALLERCA Lifestyle Pets has produced the world's first scientifically proven hypoallergenic cats. These cats allow some of the millions of people with feline allergies to finally enjoy the love and companionship of a household pet without suffering from allergic symptoms. The kittens cost $3,950.00 and the company has teamed up with Pets Best Insurance Services, LLC as the exclusive pet insurance
(Oct 12, 2006)
DNAPrint Genomics to Exhibit Enhanced DNAWitness(TM) With Retinome(TM) 2.0 at International Convention of Police Chiefs (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DNAPrint Genomics, Inc. today announced that the Company will exhibit its products, including DNAWitness(TM) with Retinome(TM) 2.0, at the 113th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Booth 803 at the Boston Exhibition and Convention Center in Boston, Mass., from Sunday, Oct. 15 through Tuesday, Oct. 17.
(Oct 12, 2006)
Cyntellect Issued U.S. Patent on High-Throughput Iterative Laser Processing of Cells (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Cyntellect, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company based in San Diego, California, announced today that the Company has been issued U.S. Patent #7,092,557.
(Oct 12, 2006)
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