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XDx Selects Ingenuity Systems IPA 5.0 for Pathways Solution (SYS-CON Media)
Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of solutions to explore, analyze, and interpret scientific literature and data, today announced that XDx, a leading molecular diagnostics company, has licensed Ingenuity's flagship solution IPA 5.0. Ingenuity Systems was selected by XDx after a comprehensive evaluation of several pathway analysis products.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Scientists Establish Essential Markers to Characterize Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SHEFFIELD, England & FOSTER CITY, Calif.----Scientists with the International Stem Cell Initiative have identified a set of common gene expression markers that may be used to reliably characterize diverse human embryonic stem cell lines.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Expression Analysis Enters Agreement With GeneGo to Provide Functional Analysis Services Using 1-2-3 Workflow (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Expression Analysis, Inc. will be providing functional analysis add-on services to their customers.
(Jul 10, 2007)
UB assembles impressive team to help develop new master plan (The Buffalo News)
The University at Buffalo has awarded $4.5 million worth of contracts to a team of wellknown architects and planners that will help redesign UB’s campuses for future growth, the university announced Monday.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Expression Analysis Enters Agreement With GeneGo to Provide Functional Analysis Services Using 1-2-3 Workflow (SYS-CON Media)
GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Expression Analysis, Inc. will be providing functional analysis (pathways and networks) add-on services to their customers. Expression Analysis is the leading microarray services and solutions provider for clinical trials customers. GeneGo's "1-2-3 Workflow" automatically uploads and normalizes genomics data, compares ...
(Jul 10, 2007)
'Virtual' mouse brains for practice (The Times of India)
WASHINGTON: A multi-institutional consortium that includes Duke University has created high resolution, three-dimentional microscopic images of tiny mouse brains, which unveil every layer of the organ.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Safeguard Scientifics Leads $8.7 Million Series B Financing for Cellumen, Inc. (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WAYNE, Pa.----Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. , a holding company that builds value in growth-stage technology and life sciences companies, today announced an $8.7 million Series B financing for Cellumen, Inc., a cellular systems biology company, of which Safeguard provided $6 million.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Luminex and Exiqon Sign Distribution Agreement for MicroRNA Products and Launch Expanded Product Line (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Luminex Corporation , a leading provider of multiplex solutions, and Exiqon A/S , a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the execution of a distribution agreement for the FlexmiR line of products co-developed by the companies in 2006.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Luminex and Exiqon Sign Distribution Agreement for MicroRNA Products and Launch Expanded Product Line (SYS-CON Media)
Luminex Corporation , a leading provider of multiplex solutions, and Exiqon A/S (OMX: EXQ), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the execution of a distribution agreement for the FlexmiR(TM) line of products co-developed by the companies in 2006. Under the terms of the agreement, Exiqon has obtained non-exclusive rights to distribute current and new ...
(Jul 10, 2007)
Mexico Genomics Initiative to use Illumina's BeadStation in SNP, Gene-Expression Studies (GenomeWeb News)
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(Jul 10, 2007)
Now, 'virtual' mouse brains available on the net (New Kerala)
Washington, July 10 : A multi-institutional consortium that includes Duke University has created high resolution, three-dimentional microscopic images of tiny mouse brains, which unveil every layer of the organ.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Invitrogen Develops Prototype Hand-Held Biothreat Detectors under $3.9M Contract from Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CARLSBAD, Calif.----Invitrogen Corporation , a provider of essential life science technologies for disease research and drug discovery, today announced that its subsidiary, Invitrogen Federal Systems, under a $3.9 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency , successfully completed the development of a prototype hand-held device for the detection of multiple biothreat agents in a ...
(Jul 10, 2007)
Recanati wants more state money to go to science education (Haaretz Daily)
Leon Recanati is worried about the level of education in Israel, so worried that he has broken his self-imposed media silence since his sale of IDB Holding Corp. about four years ago. In an interview with TheMarker, Recanati calls on the government to treat education more seriously.
(Jul 10, 2007)
Breast cancers to be more aggressive in African-American women (News-Medical-Net)
A study of more than 2,200 women at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia shows that African American women have more advanced breast cancer at the time of diagnosis than Caucasian women.
(Jul 10, 2007)
3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains available online (News-Medical-Net)
A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains - unveiled layer by layer - by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Gift wrap lingerie (FreshPatents.com)
A novel type of lingerie garment that wraps around a person to create a bow shaped design across the person's chest area to give the appearance that the person wearing the garment has been gift wrapped. When being
(Jul 11, 2007)
Korean Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Licenses ERGO(TM) Genomics Platform to Identify Biological ... (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Korean research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), a world leader in the integrated biotechnology and bioinformatics has licensed the ERGO(TM) bioinformatics software developed and maintained by Integrated Genomics. KRIBB will utilize the ERGO(TM) genome analysis tools for gene annotation, metabolic reconstruction and enzyme data-mining as well as for comparative genomics purposes.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Canadian, British And American Scientists Launch Major New Genome Partnership To Catalogue All Common Copy Number ... (Medical News Today)
An international team will use state-of-the-art, high-density microarrays and new computer algorithms to improve the detection of variants in the human genome which are implicated in various diseases. The new systems are the foundation of Phase 2 of the Genome Structural Variation Consortium, which was set up in 2004 and seeks to identify structurally variable regions in the human genome. [click ...
(Jul 11, 2007)
Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology Form Partnership to Sequence Oil Palm Genome (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Synthetic Genomics Inc., a privately-held company dedicated to commercializing synthetic genomic processes and naturally occurring processes for alternative energy solutions, and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology Sdn Bhd , a center that focuses on the application of genome technology to improve oil palm and other crops, today announced a multi-year, research and development joint venture to ...
(Jul 11, 2007)
CODA Genomics Announces Series C Financing (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CODA Genomics, Inc., a pioneer in applying Translation Engineering towards challenging protein expression, today announced it has secured $7 million in Series C financing. The Company will use these funds to expand and manage the growth experienced by the Company, driven primarily by the success of new and expanding collaborations with pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Acacia Technologies Licenses Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology to SAP (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 settled a potential dispute involving U.S.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Countdown to a synthetic lifeform (New Scientist)
As the first genome "transplant" is performed, scientists say it is only a matter of time before a truly artificial lifeform is created
(Jul 11, 2007)
EntreMed to Collaborate with University of New South Wales on Panzem(R) Mechanisms (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
EntreMed, Inc. , a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics primarily for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases, announced that it has entered into a collaborative research agreement with the University of New South Wales and Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research to map pathways involved in the mechanism of action for its lead compound, ...
(Jul 11, 2007)
Expanded Applications In Bioscience And Open Vessel Reactions Highlight 5th International Microwaves In Chemistry ... (ChemicalOnline)
New research in bioscience applications and the expanded use of microwave-assisted open vessel reactions highlighted the 5th International Microwaves in Chemistry Conference. The conference, which was held April 18-20, 2007 at Imperial College in London, was the largest to date with 250 attendees and more than 40 poster presentations
(Jul 11, 2007)
Acacia Technologies Licenses Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology to SAP (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.,
(Jul 11, 2007)
Thallion Announces Closing of Sale of Majority Stake in Caprion Proteomics to Great Point Partners (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of an 80 percent stake in the Company's wholly-owned proteomics business, Caprion Proteomics GP, to a company formed by Great Point Partners, LLC of Greenwich, Connecticut.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Nanogen Gains Access to Schizophrenia Markers (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Nanogen, Inc. , developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that it has entered into an agreement whereby the company acquired rights to genetic markers related to schizophrenia and responses to antipsychotic therapies.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Breast Cancers More Aggressive In African-American Women, Early Breast Cancer Screening Recommended By Oncologists (Medical News Today)
A study of more than 2,200 women at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia shows that African American women have more advanced breast cancer at the time of diagnosis than Caucasian women. In addition, African American women tend to have breast cancer tumor types that are more aggressive and have poorer prognoses. [click link for full article]
(Jul 11, 2007)
Thallion Announces Closing of Sale of Majority Stake in Caprion Proteomics to Great Point Partners (SYS-CON Media)
Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX: TLN) today announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of an 80 percent stake in the Company's wholly-owned proteomics business, Caprion Proteomics GP, to a company formed by Great Point Partners, LLC of Greenwich, Connecticut. Thallion will retain a 20 percent equity interest in the newly created company, to be called Caprion Proteomics Inc., ...
(Jul 11, 2007)
TLNFF: Closes Sale of 80% Stake in Caprion Proteomics GP (Nasdaq)
Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TLNFF) announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of an 80 percent stake in the Company's wholly-owned proteomics business, Caprion Proteomics GP, to a company formed by Great Point Partners, LLC of Greenwich, Connecticut.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Lumera Announces New Podcast Interviews with Kimberly D.C. Trapp and Dr. Craig Beeson; Next in 2007 Lumera Experts ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOTHELL, Wash.----Lumera Corporation , a leader in the emerging field of nanotechnology, announced today the release of its newest podcast interviews with Kimberly D.C. Trapp, Industry Liaison Officer at Lehigh University Center for Optical Technologies as well as an interview with Dr.
(Jul 11, 2007)
CODA Genomics Raises $7M (socalTech.com)
Laguna Hills-based CODA Genomics, which is developing technology for protein production, said today that it has raised $7M in a Series C funding round.... (more)
(Jul 11, 2007)
Synthetic Genomics, ACGT to Sequence Oil Palm Genome for Alternative Energy Clues (GenomeWeb News)
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(Jul 11, 2007)
Luminex Corporation Second Quarter Earnings Release Scheduled for July 25, 2007 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Luminex Corporation today announced that it expects to report second quarter results on Wednesday, July 25, 2007.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Korean Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Licenses ERGO(TM) Genomics Platform to Identify Biological ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO & DAEJEON, South Korea----Korean research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology , a world leader in the integrated biotechnology and bioinformatics has licensed the ERGO bioinformatics software developed and maintained by Integrated Genomics.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Some smokers have genetic predisposition to develop COPD, research shows (EurekAlert!)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Some people have a genetic variation that makes them more susceptible to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) if they smoke tobacco, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.
(Jul 11, 2007)
OVP leads two California financings (BizJournals)
OVP Venture Partners announced Wednesday that it led two rounds of financings worth a total of $15 million.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Microchip Biotechnologies, Inc. Secures Key Intellectual Property in Optimized Sample Injection Structures in ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Microchip Biotechnologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has secured key patent rights from Pathwork Diagnostics for sample injection structures in microfluidic separations.
(Jul 11, 2007)
Equal Footing Foundation to Host Venter Mobile Lab (SYS-CON Media)
The following is being issued by Equal Footing Foundation:
(Jul 11, 2007)
Asiatic buys into US genetic firm (The Star Online)
KUALA LUMPUR: Asiatic Development Bhd bought a stake in US genetic research company Synthetic Genomics Inc, and the two set up a joint venture to try and improve the crop’s hardiness.
(Jul 11, 2007)
NSU makes $70 million bet on biotech lab (Miami Herald)
South Florida's growing biotech industry has reached Nova Southeastern University, which announced Wednesday it will construct a new $70 million building dedicated to research in the field.
(Jul 12, 2007)
Nation's Only Lyme Disease Research Center Opens In N.E. (NBC 10 Providence)
For many, a course of antibiotics will do the trick. But for others, Lyme Disease is more of a chronic problem.
(Jul 12, 2007)
ASA Announces 2007 Award Winners: Presentations will be made at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation's preeminent professional statistical society, today announced the winners of its prestigious annual awards. The winners will be honored on July 31 at the President's Address session of the association's 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City. The list of awards and recipients is in the release.
(Jul 12, 2007)
ASA Announces 2007 Award Winners: Presentations will be made at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City (PRWeb)
The American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation's preeminent professional statistical society, today announced the winners of its prestigious annual awards. The winners will be honored on July 31 at the President's Address session of the association's 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City. The list of awards and recipients is in the release. (PRWeb Jul 12, 2007) Post ...
(Jul 12, 2007)
NSU makes $70 million bet on Davie biotech lab (Miami Herald)
South Florida's growing biotech industry has reached Nova Southeastern University, which announced Wednesday it will construct a $70 million building dedicated to research in the field.
(Jul 12, 2007)
12-07-2007: Genting unit in search of gasoline tree (The Edge Daily)
Genting Bhd's plantation unit Asiatic Development Bhd has acquired a stake in US-based Synthetic Genomics Inc for an undisclosed sum as part of a multi-year research and development joint venture (JV) to sequence and analyse the oil palm genome.
(Jul 12, 2007)
CLC bio releases Molecular Diagnostics Solution (Press Release Network)
CLC bio just released a molecular diagnostics solution for Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST). MLST is a portable and precise state-of-the-art technique for typing bacteria and yeast isolates. The development of this new module was motivated by usability studies showing that a typical current-day MLST workflow takes 25 minutes on average. Now, with CLC bio's MLST Module, scientists can conclude ...
(Jul 12, 2007)
George Mason University's CAP-CLIA Laboratory Utilizes Aushon BioSystems' Array Technology for Individualized and ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BURLINGTON, Mass.----In a cooperative effort to promote the development of personalized medicine based on reverse-phase protein array technology, Aushon BioSystems has placed a 2470 Arrayer in a CAP-CLIA laboratory established by George Mason University.
(Jul 12, 2007)
Library Of 3-D Mouse Brain Data Now Online (Medical News Today)
A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains -- unveiled layer by layer -- by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging."These images can be more than 100,000 times higher resolution than a clinical MRI scan," said G. Allan Johnson, Duke's Charles E. [click link for full article]
(Jul 12, 2007)
Test developed for chromosome defect (BizJournals)
Empire Genomics LLC is months away from selling its first commercial product -- a test that quickly detects genetic causes of diseases or medical conditions.
(Jul 12, 2007)
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