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Announcing the Bioinformatics Franklin Award Nominees (Bio-IT World)
January 31, 2007 | The Bioinformatics Organization has nominated four leading American scientists for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award. This year’s nominees are:
(Feb 1, 2007)
Bio-IT Briefs (Bio-IT World)
January 29, 2007 | Covance will open a dedicated central laboratory in Shanghai, China, to further strengthen the company's global network of full-service central laboratories and meet the growing demand for clinical trials conducted in China.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Australia February 1, 2007 (SeedQuest)
Two recently discovered genes from an ancient wheat variety have led to a major advance in breeding new salt-tolerant varieties.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Rochester lays seige to Capitol (Post-Bulletin)
ST. PAUL -- People of all ages enlivened the staid confines of the Capitol on Wednesday with feasting and political chants during the fourth-annual Rochester on Tour at the Capitol
(Feb 1, 2007)
Compugen-Teva Deal: Lessons For Investors (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance)
Shlomo Greenberg submits: A lesson in investor behavior can learned from the stock of Compugen . It reached $3.20 in mid-November, and has since fallen 20% to $2.50. Over the last week it began a revival, which culminated in Tuesday's colossal jump after the company announced that it had signed an agreement with Teva Pharmaceutical [... ]
(Feb 1, 2007)
Proposed U.S. farm bill may benefit California (Los Angeles Times)
Conservation programs and organic goods stand to profit as funds shift from traditional crops. WASHINGTON — In a potential windfall for California farmers, the Bush administration proposed a farm bill Wednesday that would boost spending for conservation, organic crops, and fruit and vegetable producers.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Althea Technologies and Blueshift Biotechnologies Combine Technologies for High Throughput, Gene Expression Screening (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Althea Technologies, Inc. and Blueshift Biotechnologies announced today that Althea has received a SBIR award from the National Human Genome Research Institute to explore the potential for practical high throughput and low cost gene expression analysis. The grant proposes the development of gene expression profiling methods that make use of Althea's proprietary strength in multiplexed PCR* ...
(Feb 1, 2007)
Money fuels next wave of innovation (Orange County Register)
Venture capital was down last year in O.C. Here's how some medical companies are spending what they got.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Research facility goes to Berkeley (Contra Costa Times)
International energy giant BP LLC is expected this morning to announce selection of a Bay Area team for a half-billion dollar institute devoted to cutting-edge research on biological fuels.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Stratagene Expects Fourth Quarter Revenue of Approximately $24.7 Million (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LA JOLLA, Calif.----Stratagene Corporation , a developer, manufacturer and marketer of specialized life science research and diagnostic products, today announced preliminary revenue results for the fourth quarter of 2006 ended December 31, 2006.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Molecular Devices Reports Revenues and Earnings for the Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2006 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Molecular Devices Corporation today announced revenues and earnings for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2006.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Affymetrix to Webcast Presentation at Merrill Lynch Global Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Medical Device Conference (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Affymetrix, Inc. today announced it will webcast its presentation at the Merrill Lynch Global Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Medical Device Conference in New York City at 3:20 p.m.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Affymetrix to Host Conference Call on February 7, 2007 to Announce Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Affymetrix, Inc. today announced that it will release results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006 after close of the stock market on Wednesday, February 7, 2007.
(Feb 1, 2007)
UB to expand near downtown Buffalo medical campus (The Buffalo News)
The University at Buffalo's master plan will mean a significant investment and presence in downtown Buffalo, officials say.
(Feb 1, 2007)
New forecasting tool could reduce drug development costs (EurekAlert!)
It now costs more than $800 million to develop a new drug.
(Feb 1, 2007)
New Forecasting Tool Could Reduce Drug Development Costs (Newswise)
It now costs over $800 million to develop a new drug. But what if drug companies could predict which new drugs will get FDA approval and which will fail? Researchers present an analytical model that could save hundreds of millions of dollars per new drug, and urge more data sharing by the drug industry to improve forecasting, so that more medical discoveries can be brought to the bedside.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Helicos BioSciences Validates Commitment to Bioinformatics with Most Recent Addition to Scientific Advisory Board (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Helicos BioSciences, pioneering new frontiers in genetic analysis, today announced the addition of Eugene Myers, Ph.D. of the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia, to its scientific advisory board.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Agilent Technologies Named Instrument Business Outlook's 2006 Company of the Year (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Influential technical instruments newsletter Instrument Business Outlook has named Agilent Technologies as its 2006 Company of the Year. The award recognizes noteworthy achievements of Agilent's life sciences and chemical analysis business.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Grafts against cancer (EurekAlert!)
A research team led by Prof. Claude Perreault, Université de Montréal, is announcing a major discovery in Genomics. This will generate a fundamental impact on the treatment of blood cancers (leukemias and lymphomes) by means of peripheral blood T-cell grafts.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Lockheed Martin Completes Acquisition of Management Systems Designers Incorporated (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Lockheed Martin Corporation has completed its acquisition of Management Systems Designers Incorporated , a Fairfax, Virginia-based provider of information technology and scientific solutions supporting government life science, national security, and other civil agency missions.
(Feb 1, 2007)
DuPont to Open India Facility by 2008 (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
DuPont said Thursday it plans on building a research and development center in India at a cost of about $22.5 million. The company said it signed a memorandum of understanding with ICICI Knowledge Park in Hyderabad, India, for a long-term lease that will give the company 15 acres of land.
(Feb 1, 2007)
DuPont to Open India Facility by 2008 (KiplingerForecasts.com)
DuPont said Thursday it plans on building a research and development center in India at a cost of about $22.5 million.
(Feb 1, 2007)
DuPont to open India facility by 2008 (Sharewatch)
The company said it signed a memorandum of understanding with ICICI Knowledge Park in Hyderabad, India, for a long-term lease that will give the company 15 acres of land. DuPont said it expects to break ground in March and expects the facility to be fully operational by early 2008.
(Feb 1, 2007)
EU Sets Aside $650K to Hold Five Genomics Conferences in Europe (GenomeWeb News)
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(Feb 1, 2007)
Illumina Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter 2006 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Illumina, Inc. announced today its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2006.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Life Scientists Embrace New Media (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Life scientists rely on the Internet when conducting their research. A new study shows that they are increasingly turning to new digital information sources to find the products used in their labs.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Ithaca, New York February 1, 2007 An international project led by Cornell University and the Boyce Thompson Institute ... (SeedQuest)
(BTI) at Cornell has received $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue sequencing the tomato genome and to create a database of genomic sequences and information on the tomato and related plants.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Lockheed Martin Completes Acquisition of Management Systems Designers Incorporated (SYS-CON Media)
Lockheed Martin Corporation has completed its acquisition of Management Systems Designers Incorporated (MSD), a Fairfax, Virginia-based provider of information technology (IT) and scientific solutions supporting government life science, national security, and other civil agency missions.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Biosite Incorporated Reports New Option Grants Under Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4350 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Biosite® Incorporated , today announced that, in accordance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4350, 30 non-officer employees were granted inducement stock options covering an aggregate of 47,625 shares of common stock.
(Feb 1, 2007)
February 1, 2007 (SeedQuest)
The cooperative nature of barley research and improvement efforts was evident at the 36th Barley Improvement Conference at the Hacienda Hotel in San Diego, California, on Jan. 10-11.
(Feb 1, 2007)
Life Scientists Embrace New Media (SYS-CON Media)
Life scientists rely on the Internet when conducting their research. A new study shows that they are increasingly turning to new digital information sources to find the products used in their labs. On average, respondents use four to five eMarketing channels to find information on research-related products. Overall, scientists prefer e-newsletters to email, discussion forums, e-zines, and other ...
(Feb 2, 2007)
Life Scientists Embrace New Media (SYS-CON Media)
Life scientists rely on the Internet when conducting their research. A new study shows that they are increasingly turning to new digital information sources to find the products used in their labs. On average, respondents use four to five eMarketing channels to find information on research-related products. Overall, scientists prefer e-newsletters to email, discussion forums, e-zines, and other ...
(Feb 2, 2007)
Education Briefs (The Lisle Sun)
Current 4-H members who are high school seniors or in their last year of 4-H are encouraged to apply for the 2007 Legacy of Leadership Scholarship. The application deadline for this merit-based award is March 1.
(Feb 2, 2007)
Lockheed completes purchase of Management Systems Designers (FCW.com)
Lockheed Martin completed its purchase Feb. 1 of Management Systems Designers (MSD), a Fairfax, Va.-based provider of information technology and scientific solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed in the announcement. The acquisition was originally announced on Dec. 21, 2006. MSD specializes in systems design, development and integration; systems engineering; ...
(Feb 2, 2007)
Whiteflies And Plant Viruses Can Help Each Other To Speed Up Biological Invasion (Science Daily)
An invasive whitefly has developed mutualistic relationships with the plant viruses it transmits and is able to increase its population much faster on virus-infected plants than on healthy plants, whereas its indigenous counterpart is unable to do so, according to the new research carried out at Zhejiang University and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China.
(Feb 2, 2007)
Strategic Diagnostics to Present at Roth Capital Partners 2007 ''OC'' Growth Conference February 21, 2007 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEWARK, Del.----Strategic Diagnostics Inc. - a leading provider of biotechnology-based detection solutions for a broad range of food, water, agricultural, industrial, environmental and scientific applications, announced today that its President and Chief Executive Officer, Matthew Knight, will present at the Roth Capital Partners 2007 "OC" Growth Conference at 9:30 a.m. on February 21, 2007 in ...
(Feb 2, 2007)
Cannibalism 'rife among prehistoric humans' (New Scientist)
Genetic evidence from a tribe of former cannibals could suggest all our ancestors frequently ate one another
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Together, Biological Membranes Prevail (Science Daily)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel method to visualize the fusion of biological membranes at the single-event resolution. Observing the individual fusion events revealed an unprecedented detailed picture of membrane fusion, which was chronicled in one of the cover stories in the December 2006 issue of the journal Proceedings of National Academy of ...
(Feb 2, 2007)
UC Riverside Boosts Collaborative Research With Powerful New SGI Altix Supercomputer (Broadcast Newsroom)
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the University of California, Riverside, faculty and administrators understand the enormous value of collaborative research, in which investigators in one discipline work closely with researchers in other fields.
(Feb 2, 2007)
Lockheed Martin buys Fairfax IT firm (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin has completed its acquisition of Management Systems Designers, an information-technology company catering to the U.S. government.
(Feb 2, 2007)
ReceptoPharm Expands Antiviral Clinical Research to South America (RedNova)
Nutra Pharma Corp. (OTCBB:NPHC), a biotechnology company that is developing drugs for HIV and Multiple Sclerosis, has today announced that its drug discovery division, ReceptoPharm, is expanding the clinical research of its lead antiviral drug candidate, RPI-MN, into South America.
(Feb 2, 2007)
UC Riverside Boosts Collaborative Research With Powerful New SGI Altix Supercomputer (SYS-CON Media)
At the University of California, Riverside, faculty and administrators understand the enormous value of collaborative research, in which investigators in one discipline work closely with researchers in other fields. Such an approach can speed innovations that sharpen the technical edge of the university, of industry, and of America itself.
(Feb 2, 2007)
Licensing contact (Pharmalicencing)
Osteoarthritis is chronic, often progressive and substantially disabling condition that becomes more common with advanced age. Osteoarthritis commonly involves the knees, hands, hips, neck and back resulting in pain and limitations of movement.
(Feb 2, 2007)
Going whole hog- BAC map expedites swine genome sequence (High Plains Journal)
Genome research is going to the hogs--and humans stand to benefit. A $10 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant is enabling members of the Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium, an international coalition of researchers, to develop a draft sequence of the swine genome.
(Feb 2, 2007)
UC Riverside Officials Inaugurate Supercomputer (UC Riverside)
The Bourns College of Engineering will be home for the Altix 4700, which will supercharge the pace of future research at UCR.
(Feb 3, 2007)
ScienceBlogs Network Reviewed - Part 3: The D's (Blogcritics.org)
Science Blogs is a semi-professional network of people blogging about science. Most of them are in the university system as graduates or academics, but there is the odd journalist having their say. There are more than 50 blogs updated fairly regularly, and the network itself has been up for a year. This is part 3 of a continuing series of reviews (read part 1 , part 2 ). The following ...
(Feb 3, 2007)
Newly discovered genes may lead to breeding new salt-tolerant wheat variety (ANI via Yahoo! India News)
Sydney, Feb 3 (ANI): A research team of the CSIRO's (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Plant Industry has found that the two recently discovered genes - Nax1 and Nax2 - from an ancient wheat variety will lead to a major advance in breeding new salt-tolerant varieties. According to the finding of the study, the two genes work by excluding salt from different ...
(Feb 3, 2007)
Pathways to growth (The Buffalo News)
Taking UB from 25,000 to 35,000 students would happen faster with the help of the state, but Simpson believes the school can move ahead, regardless. "We surely can make some headway with what we have now," Simpson said.
(Feb 3, 2007)
Rochester flexes its muscle at jazzed-up lobbying event (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Lobbying expeditions to the State Capitol from regional centers are nothing new, but the Rochester crowd has kicked it up a notch. An event last week hosted by the Rochester Chamber of Commerce brought in more than 600 Rochesterians, who fanned out to attend committee meetings and buttonhole legislators. The event featured a very lively jazz band and rally in the rotunda and a "Grand Reception" ...
(Feb 3, 2007)
Grafts Against Cancer (Medical News Today)
A research team led by Prof. Claude Perreault, Université de Montréal, is announcing a major discovery in Genomics. This will generate a fundamental impact on the treatment of blood cancers (leukemias and lymphomes) by means of peripheral blood T-cell grafts. [click link for full article]
(Feb 4, 2007)
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