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Almac announces study on colorectal pre-malignancies (News-Medical-Net)
Almac Diagnostics has announced a major study analysing colorectal polyp tissue samples using its novel Colorectal Cancer DSA microarray.
(Apr 6, 2007)
New Regulatory Mechanism For Critical Protein Signaling Domain Identified (Science Daily)
In a study with far-reaching implications, scientists have for the first time identified a new in vivo regulatory mechanism for the PH Domain, a component of many proteins that allows them to move from a cell's interior to the cell membrane in response to stimulation of cell surface receptors. The findings offer a promising avenue for the development of novel therapies for immunodeficiency or ...
(Apr 6, 2007)
UTMB helps overturn old infant disease dogma (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON — Parents can breathe a little easier after researchers, including a team from UTMB at Galveston, disproved a medical assumption that for decades has determined the hospital treatment of a deadly infants’ respiratory infection.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Universiti Industri Selangor Partners with Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Sdn Bhd in a Bioinformatics Research and ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Sdn Bhd (MGRC), announced a partnership with Universiti Industri Selangor (Unisel) that will see the provision of the latest bioinformatics technology, consultation and support for the University's Bachelor of Bioinformatics programme.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Collaboration formed here to work on research for ISM (Spokane Journal of Business)
The organization that’s working to establish an Institute for Systems Medicine here says a collaboration has been formed to do research on bioinformatics and medical informatics, both of which the institute would use heavily.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Universiti Industri Selangor Partners with Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Sdn Bhd in a Bioinformatics Research and ... (PR Web)
Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Sdn Bhd (MGRC), announced a partnership with Universiti Industri Selangor (Unisel) that will see the provision of the latest bioinformatics technology, consultation and support for the University's Bachelor of Bioinformatics programme. (PRWeb Apr 6, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.ph
(Apr 6, 2007)
UM aims for lead in gene research (Baltimore Sun)
Pioneering scientist to head new facility at medical school One of the world's leading experts on the DNA of microorganisms that harm humans will head a new research institute at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, an addition that promises to thrust the university to the front ranks of the movement to apply genetics to medicine.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Automotive X Prize Team Available for Interviews at NYIAS (The Auto Channel)
NEW YORK, April 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Automotive X Prize team will be available Wednesday, April 4 and Thursday, April 5 at the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) to discuss their draft competition guidelines for a multi-million dollar prize to build a super efficient vehicle that can attain 100 miles per gallon or its equivalent.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Malaysian Genome Resource Center, Regional University Pen Bioinformatics-Training Alliance (GenomeWeb News)
GenomeWeb Daily News You are not logged in. Existing subscribers login here . New to GenomeWeb Daily News? Register quickly here for your free subscription.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Agilent Technologies Signs Agreement to Acquire Stratagene Corp., a Developer of Life Science Research and Diagnostic ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Stratagene Corp. to acquire the developer, manufacturer and marketer of specialized life science research and diagnostic products.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Stratagene Signs Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Agilent Technologies (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LA JOLLA, Calif.----Agilent Technologies Inc. and Stratagene Corporation today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire Stratagene. Stratagene is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of specialized life science research and diagnostic products.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Agilent buys Strategene for $10.94 a share (UPI)
U.S firm Agilent Technologies said Friday it would acquire research and diagnostic products firm Stratagene for $10.94 per share.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Agilent to buy Stratagene for $246.2M (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Agilent Technologies Inc. said Friday it is buying Stratagene Corp., which makes life science research and testing products, for about $246.2 million in cash.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Third Wave rival Stratagene to be acquired (The Business Journal of Milwaukee)
Agilent Technologies Inc. said Friday it is buying Stratagene Corp., a developer of life science research and testing products and competitor of Third Wave Technologies Inc. in Madison, for about $246.2 million in cash.
(Apr 6, 2007)
Weak Immune Response Critical To Disease That Causes Most Infant Hospitalizations (Science Daily)
For the past four decades, medical science thought it knew how severe RSV infections arose. Scientists blamed an overreaction in the lungs by specific immune-system cells, T lymphocytes (also known as "T cells"), for the most drastic symptoms of infection. But now, researchers have shown that severe RSV infections in the lower respiratory tract actually are associated with an inadequate immune ...
(Apr 7, 2007)
Bio-Rad set up first Asia-pacific facility in Singapore (PharmaBiz)
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc, a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, has commissioned its first manufacturing plant in the Asia-Pacific region at Singapore.
(Apr 7, 2007)
U.S. Senator speaks out (Hickory Daily Record)
HICKORY - First-term U.S. Sen. Richard Burr spoke Wednesday of his legislation to fight the country’s high school dropouts dilemma and genomics bill co-sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama.
(Apr 7, 2007)
Philanthropic Gift Catalyzes Next Generation of Genomics-based Medicine (Newswise)
Philanthropic gift brings Mount Sinai Medical Center to the forefront of personalized medicine, an emerging field using information about a person's genetic make-up to customize startegies for the detection, treatment, and prevention of disease, by establishing the Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine.
(Apr 8, 2007)
Weekly Planner (Pioneer Press)
Monday, April 9 Speed Networking - Round II. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, 7800 Normandale Blvd., Bloomington. $30-$20.
(Apr 8, 2007)
Dr. Steven Zeisel: researcher expects top scientists in Kannapolis (Salisbury Post)
KANNAPOLIS — Dr. Steven Zeisel could work anywhere in the world, and he's chosen Kannapolis. A renowned scientist and Kenan Distinguished University Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Zeisel will direct the new UNC Nutrition Research Institute at the N.C.
(Apr 8, 2007)
MOTLEY FOOL (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Question | What does "liquidity" mean in the financial world? - L.P., Lake City, Fla. Answer | It often refers to a company's cash and assets that can be quickly converted into cash (such as money market funds and investments in stocks and bonds), minus its short-term debt. Companies with high liquidity can be less risky, but they might also grow more slowly, as assets that could be put to work ...
(Apr 8, 2007)
The nature of memory (The Buffalo News)
Maura Styczynski sat ramrod straight before a computer screen at Duke University and tried hard to memorize where a series of colored squares flashed.
(Apr 8, 2007)
Almac Diagnostics Announces Pioneering Genetic Research On Colorectal Pre-malignancies (Medical News Today)
Recently Almac Diagnostics announced a major study analysing colorectal polyp tissue samples using its novel Colorectal Cancer DSA™ microarray. The DSA™ research tool focuses on the transcriptome of an individual disease, in this case colorectal cancer, and contains significant additional data, relevant to the disease of interest that is not available on other generic microarrays. [click link for ...
(Apr 8, 2007)
Job-growth projects have been hit and miss (Arizona Daily Sun)
Michael Kerski and Stephanie McKinney have each been in the local job development game for more than six years.. Below are some of the major initiatives and the respective roles played by the city and GFEC in each.
(Apr 8, 2007)
INDUSTRY & ECONOMY (The Hindu)
CLIMATE & WEATHER Mango crop badly hit in Krishna district A summer sans mangoes is joyless, to say the least, but people in Krishna district and other parts of Andhra Pradesh may have to settle for it, as horticulture experts are predicting the lowest-ever yields of the fruit during the current ...
(Apr 8, 2007)
Weak immune response critical to disease that causes most infant hospitalizations (News-Medical-Net)
The most common cause of infant hospitalization in the United States, respiratory syncytial virus, infects virtually all children by age two.
(Apr 8, 2007)
UCSC Genome Browser Seminars in Los Angeles, Washington D.C./Baltimore, and Philadelphia (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Comprehensive hands-on computer workshop on the free, web-based, UCSC Genome Browser. The three and half hour seminar covers everything you need to know to use this popular bioinformatics resource.
(Apr 9, 2007)
UCSC Genome Browser Seminars in Los Angeles, Washington D.C./Baltimore, and Philadelphia (PR Web)
Comprehensive hands-on computer workshop on the free, web-based, UCSC Genome Browser. The three and half hour seminar covers everything you need to know to use this popular bioinformatics resource. (PRWeb Apr 9, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.ph
(Apr 9, 2007)
Centre at heart of life science excellence (icWales)
GE Healthcare's global centre of excellence for small-scale chemical and biochemical manufacturing is being located in South Wales.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Graduate programs fare well in U.S. News (Student Life)
In the newly released 2008 U.S. News and World Report's rankings for America's Best Graduate Schools, Washington University ranked in the top 10 in 18 different fields.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Plans for anemia drug run into roadblocks (Boston Globe)
A licensing deal between Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Florida biotechnology company to produce a "super" form of an anti anemia drug is in danger of foundering just two years after it was signed.
(Apr 9, 2007)
MOTLEY FOOL (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Question | What does "liquidity" mean in the financial world? - L.P., Lake City, Fla. Answer | It often refers to a company's cash and assets that can be quickly converted into cash (such as money market funds and investments in stocks and bonds), minus its short-term debt. Companies with high liquidity can be less risky, but they might also grow more slowly, as assets that could be put to work ...
(Apr 9, 2007)
Acacia Technologies Licenses Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology to Stock Building Supply (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.----Acacia Research Corporation announced today that Financial Systems Innovation LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Acacia Technologies group, a leader in technology licensing, has entered into non-exclusive licenses covering a patent that applies to credit card fraud protection technology with Stock Building Supply Holdings, Inc.
(Apr 9, 2007)
The Post Online (The Ohio University Post)
Ohio University researchers can now examine and analyze gene information on campus, as the ribbon was cut on a new research lab Friday in Porter Hall.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Acacia Technologies Licenses Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology to Stock Building Supply (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.,
(Apr 9, 2007)
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
Tim Berners-Lee is far from finished with the World Wide Web. Having invented the Web in 1989, he's now working on ways to make it a whole lot smarter.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! Asia News)
The inventor of the Web explains how the new Semantic Web could have profound effects on the growth of knowledge and innovation
(Apr 9, 2007)
Research Campus group gathers scientists from around globe for nutrition conference (Salisbury Post)
The university network making up the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis has invited scientists and researchers from around the world to a three-day conference next week on metabolomics and genomics.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Study Finds Dietary Fat Interacts with Genes (Newswise)
Research finds that for most adults in the Framingham Heart Study, dietary fat intake is associated with body mass index (BMI). However, for 13% of the study population with a specific gene variant within the apolipoprotein A5 gene (APOA5), higher dietary fat was not related to a higher BMI.
(Apr 9, 2007)
University celebrates opening of new facility for genomics research (Athens News)
Ohio University celebrated the grand opening of its new genomics facility on Friday.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Creating Designer Yeasts for Ethanol (Ag Report)
WASHINGTON - Apr 9/07 - SNS -- A robot recently reported to work at ARS's National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) in Peoria, Illinois, and its arrival was met with enthusiasm by many scientists there.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Taking the Lead (Baseline)
Four up-and-coming IT professionals show that innovative leadership needn't come from the corporate suite.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Monday's Late Winners & Losers (TheStreet.com)
DivX jumped in after-hours trading, after boosting its outlook.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Police DNA databases under debate (BBC News)
The Human Genetics Commission will host a debate on the holding of DNA on police databases.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Police DNA databases under debate (BBC News)
The Human Genetics Commission is to hold a debate on the practice of holding DNA on police databases.
(Apr 9, 2007)
Study finds dietary fat interacts with genes (EurekAlert!)
Boston — Research published in the Journal of Molecular Medicine examines how calories from fat, carbohydrate, and protein might interact with genes to affect body mass index (BMI), or body weight-for-height, and risk of obesity among adults in the Framingham Heart Study.
(Apr 10, 2007)
A smoke and a cup of Joe linked to warding off Parkinson's (The Star-Ledger)
Caffeine and nicotine don't get a lot of good press these days, for understandable reasons. But a new study found that people from families prone to Parkinson's who drink coffee and smoke cigarettes are less likely to develop the disease.
(Apr 10, 2007)
Almac Announces New Research On Colorectal Pre Malignancies (Medical News Today)
Today Almac Diagnostics announced a major study analysing colorectal polyp tissue samples using its novel Colorectal Cancer DSA™ microarray. The DSA™ research tool focuses on the transcriptome of an individual disease, in this case colorectal cancer, and contains significant additional data, relevant to the disease of interest that is not available on other generic microarrays. [click link for ...
(Apr 10, 2007)
Can Biotechs Make Any Money From MiRNAs? (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance)
Brian Orelli submits: Before we get into investigating Rosetta Genomics in detail, I thought I would give a little background on micro RNAs since its the molecule on which Rosetta has based its entire platform.
(Apr 10, 2007)
NuGEN Technologies Announces WT-Ovation(TM) FFPE System to Enable Global Gene Expression Profiling of Small and ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN CARLOS, Calif.----NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that develops and commercializes nucleic acid amplification and labeling systems announced today a system designed to access the critical biological information contained within precious FFPE tissue samples collected and banked through years of clinical studies and cancer research.
(Apr 10, 2007)
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