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Mitrionics and SGI Customers Validate Global Demand for Accelerated FPGA Technology (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Mitrionics(TM), Inc., developer of the Mitrion(TM) Software Acceleration Platform and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, today announced a growing number of global companies, organizations, and universities that are using their accelerated FPGA technology platform and NCBI BLAST-n application. The Mitrion-Accelerated BLAST application runs on a turnkey SGI® RASC(TM) RC100 blade system equipped with ...
(Nov 7, 2007)
Translational Research Benefits From $6.37 Million To Find New Ways To Treat Psoriasis (Medical News Today)
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a research center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center a $6.37 million award to establish a Center of Research Translation (CORT) for the skin disease psoriasis. [click link for full article]
(Nov 7, 2007)
SeedQuest - Central information website for the global seed industry (SeedQuest)
Providing food security, one of the greatest challenges of our time, is a critical goal especially in the developing world, where crop destruction by drought, disease and pest infestation swiftly places millions of lives at risk of hunger.
(Nov 7, 2007)
FibroGen Announces New Research in HIF and CTGF Therapeutic Programs Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----FibroGen, Inc. today announced data from research on its therapeutic programs targeting hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase and connective tissue growth factor reported at the 40th annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology Renal Week November 2 - 5, 2007, in San Francisco, CA.
(Nov 7, 2007)
Scientists compare 12 fruit fly genomes (EurekAlert!)
An international research consortium of scientists, supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced publications comparing the genome sequences of 12 closely related fruit fly species, 10 of which were sequenced for the first time.
(Nov 7, 2007)
New Reagent From Applied Biosystems Accelerates Real-Time PCR (BioresearchOnline)
Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, today introduced a new master mix reagent designed to accelerate real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction)
(Nov 7, 2007)
UC Riverside Lands $1.7M Grant to Use Genomics to Improve Cowpea Cultivars (GenomeWeb News)
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(Nov 7, 2007)
New dengue viral host genes identified (UPI)
Singaporean scientists have identified new host genes linked with the dengue virus, possibly leading to creation of drugs to treat the disease.
(Nov 7, 2007)
New dengue viral host genes identified (EARTHtimes.org)
Singaporean scientists have identified new host genes linked with the dengue virus, possibly leading to creation of drugs to treat the disease. Researchers at the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases and the Genome Institute of Singapore, led by Subha...
(Nov 7, 2007)
AnaSpec Introduces HiLytePlus(TM) - AnaSpec's Highest Performance Fluorescent Dyes (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----This week AnaSpec announced the release of the HiLytePlus™ series of fluorescent dyes. Demonstrating even greater brightness than AnaSpec's HiLyte Fluor™ line, this series represents the next generation in AnaSpec's line of high performance fluorescent dyes.
(Nov 7, 2007)
Boston University Medical Center researcher's abstract selected by Society for Neuroscience (EurekAlert!)
Boston, MA—David Farb, PhD, recently had an abstract selected that was highlighted by the Society for Neuroscience (SFN). The abstract details how antioxidants influence dopamine release from striatal synaptosomes.
(Nov 7, 2007)
Evolution and Fly Genomics (UC Davis)
New work on fruit fly genomics suggests new ways to look at the much larger human genome, and gives insights into the role of adaptation in evolution.
(Nov 7, 2007)
Applied Digital Reports 2007 Third Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.----Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. , a leading provider of identification and security technology, today reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2007.
(Nov 7, 2007)
News: Emerging field: Bioinformatics: Conference on campus showcases University lead on frontier (Stanford Daily)
Researchers gathered together this week to discuss new ways in which computers can help to diagnose and treat disease as Stanford hosted the fifth annual Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, Aug. 14 through tomorrow.
(Nov 8, 2007)
A Better Recommendation Engine (Technology Review)
Cleverset's approach to e-commerce exposes consumers to the long tail.
(Nov 8, 2007)
A Novel Approach to DNA Analysis (Technology Review)
Comparing fruit flies reveals a new way to identify the functional elements of genomes.
(Nov 8, 2007)
New Life, New Rules (The Harvard Crimson)
Bioengineer J. Craig Venter is expected to announce within the next few months, perhaps weeks, that he and his company, Synthetic Genomics of Rockvile, Md. and La Jolla, Calif., have created Earth’s first artificial life form.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Reports Recent Accomplishments and Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. today reported recent accomplishments and financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2007.
(Nov 8, 2007)
BASF sees future profits in a genetically modified potato (International Herald Tribune)
Approval by the European Commission would help BASF push other commodities through its biotechnology pipeline, including a blight-resistant potato.
(Nov 8, 2007)
New medical IT administrator named (The Daily Utah Chronicle)
Joyce Mitchell was appointed to the position of associate vice president for health sciences information technology last month. Mitchell will direct and coordinate clinical and information technology services for the U's health sciences. Mitchell came to the U two years ago as a professor of bioinformatics and became chair of the medical school's department of biomedical informatics.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Society For Neuroscience Selects Boston University Medical Center Researcher's Abstract (Medical News Today)
David Farb, PhD, recently had an abstract selected that was highlighted by the Society for Neuroscience (SFN). The abstract details how antioxidants influence dopamine release from striatal synaptosomes. It was presented at SFN's 37th annual meeting November 7th in San Diego, California. [click link for full article]
(Nov 8, 2007)
Medarex Announces Presentations on UltiMAb(R) Antibodies at 71st Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Medarex, Inc. announced today that at least five antibodies generated from Medarex's UltiMAb® technology in which Medarex wholly owns or has an economic interest through co-promote/profit sharing rights, royalties and/or equity ownership, are expected to be the subject of oral or poster presentations at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology , being held November 6-11, ...
(Nov 8, 2007)
Spending bill has nearly $4 million for area (The Buffalo News)
WASHINGTON — The House has approved a spending bill for labor and health programs and military construction that includes a treasure trove of earmarks for Western New York — including projects that prompted Republican Reps. Thomas M. Reynolds and Randy Kuhl to buck the White House and support it.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Announces Profitability for 2007 Third Quarter Financial Results (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc.(OTC.BB: SLXCF), a Canadian pharmaceutical developer and marketer of high quality, cost-effective products for select health care markets, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Rosetta Genomics Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. , a global leader in the field of microRNA, reported today its consolidated financial results for the quarter and six months ended October 30, 2007, and business highlights.
(Nov 8, 2007)
MedImmune Presents Data from Its Advancing Inflammatory Disease Portfolio at 71st Annual Meeting of The American ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
MedImmune, Inc. today announced it will present 11 abstracts at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, demonstrating the company's breadth of ongoing, multi-stage research evaluating the origins and effects of inflammatory disease and novel disease pathways.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Scientists Compare Twelve Fruit Fly Genomes (Kansas City InfoZine)
Fly Consortium Uncovers Swarm of Novel Findings About Genomic Evolution, Function
(Nov 8, 2007)
SGI Builds World's Largest FPGA Supercomputer, Boosts Nucleotide Query Performance By More Than 900 Times Over 68-Node ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
SGI today announced it built the world's largest Field Programmable Gate Array supercomputer configuration, then ran a broadly used bioinformatics application more than 900 times faster than the same application would run on a traditional cluster.
(Nov 8, 2007)
PGI Compilers and Tools from The Portland Group (ThomasNet)
64-bit high-performance parallel Fortran, C and C++ Tools support Mac OS X Leopard Portland, Ore, October 29, 2007 - The Portland Group®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and leading supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), today announced the general availability of its PGI® Workstation suite of 64-bit high-performance parallel compilers and tools ...
(Nov 8, 2007)
Biological Sciences Symposium Showcases Grad Student Work (Duke University)
Durham, NC -- The 16 th Biological Sciences Graduate Student Symposium will showcase a wide variety of biological research conducted by graduate students at Duke University including novel, cutting-edge research in biochemistry, cancer biology, cell biology, genomics, immunology, molecular biology, neurobiology, pharmacology, and toxicology.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Spending bill has nearly $4 million for area (The Buffalo News)
WASHINGTON — The House has approved a spending bill for labor and health programs and military construction that includes a treasure trove of earmarks for Western New York — including projects that prompted Republican Reps. Thomas M. Reynolds and Randy Kuhl to buck the White House and support it.
(Nov 8, 2007)
AnaSpec Introduces HiLytePlus™ – AnaSpec’s Highest Performance Fluorescent Dyes AnaSpec Inc. Posted on: 08 Nov 07 (PharmiWeb)
This week AnaSpec announced the release of the HiLytePlus™ series of fluorescent dyes. Demonstrating even greater brightness than AnaSpec’s HiLyte Fluor™ line, this series represents the next generation in AnaSpec’s line of high performance fluorescent dyes.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Rosetta Genomics Posts $2.2M Net Loss for Q3 (GenomeWeb News)
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(Nov 8, 2007)
NASA Spaceline 26 October 2007 Current Space Life Science Awareness (SpaceRef)
Norrbrand L, Fluckey JD, Pozzo M, Tesch PA. Resistance training using eccentric overload induces early adaptations in skeletal muscle size. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2007 Oct 10; [Epub ahead of print] (PI: P.A. Tesch)
(Nov 8, 2007)
The genetic basis of inbreeding avoidance in house mice (EurekAlert!)
A new study appearing online on November 8th in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press, offers new insight into how wild house mice avoid mating with their relatives.
(Nov 8, 2007)
ExonHit Completes a Prototype to Detect Alzheimer's Disease From Blood (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ExonHit Therapeutics, a drug and diagnostic discovery company, has completed a prototype of the first blood-based Alzheimer's disease test. The company expects to have this test certified and to provide it as a service in its GLP compliant laboratories to the pharmaceutical industry as early as 2009.
(Nov 8, 2007)
Studies Investigate Diagnostic Performance And Reproducibility Of Pathwork Diagnostics' Tissue Of Origin Test (BioresearchOnline)
Pathwork Diagnostics, a genomics-based diagnostics company focused on oncology, announced that its Pathwork Tissue of Origin Test is the focus of two studies featured in poster presentations at this week's 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Molecular Pathology (November 7-10, Los Angeles)
(Nov 8, 2007)
Monarch LifeSciences Proteomic Technologies Have identified And quantified Promising Biomarkers In Ovarian Cancer Cells (BioresearchOnline)
Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death among all gynecological cancers. Most patients with the disease are initially responsive to platinum-based chemotherapy treatments, such as cisplatin, but they eventually relapse and become resistant to additional treatment
(Nov 8, 2007)
BIO Welcomes New Report Detailing Policy Options To Ensure Responsible Use Of Synthetic Biology (BioresearchOnline)
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) applauded the report "Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance," released by the J. Craig Venter Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Nov 8, 2007)
Medarex Announces Presentations on UltiMAb(R) Antibodies at 71st Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (The San Francisco Examiner)
PRINCETON, N.J. ( Map ) - PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medarex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDX ) announced today that at least five antibodies generated from Medarex's UltiMAb(R) technology in which Medarex wholly owns or has an economic interest through co-promote/profit sharing rights, royalties and/or equity ownership, are expected to be the subject of oral or poster presentations at ...
(Nov 8, 2007)
MedImmune Presents Data from Its Advancing Inflammatory Disease Portfolio at 71st Annual Meeting of The American ... (The San Francisco Examiner)
BOSTON , Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- MedImmune, Inc. today announced it will present 11 abstracts at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, demonstrating the company's breadth of ongoing, multi-stage research evaluating the origins and effects of inflammatory disease and novel disease pathways.
(Nov 8, 2007)
ParaMEDIC Enables Worldwide Supercomputer for Bioinformatics (Newswise)
A large-scale sequence-searching problem, like identifying genes, can exceed the computational and storage resources of a supercomputing site. A research team from Argonne National Laboratory and Virginia Tech have created a worldwide supercomputer and developed a novel framework that can accelerate the speed of parallelized bioinformatics programs by 27-fold.
(Nov 8, 2007)
British Library Selects Apex CoVantage as Digitization Partner in Expanding the Repository of UK PubMed Central (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Apex CoVantage, a leading knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, is pleased to announce another renewal from one of its long-standing customers, the British Library.
(Nov 9, 2007)
British Library Selects Apex CoVantage as Digitization Partner in Expanding the Repository of UK PubMed Central (PRWeb)
Apex CoVantage, a leading knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, is pleased to announce another renewal from one of its long-standing customers, the British Library. (PRWeb Nov 9, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.ph
(Nov 9, 2007)
Human Evolution And Fly Genomics (Medical News Today)
New work on fruit fly genomics suggests new ways to look at the much larger human genome, and gives insights into the role of adaptation in evolution. [click link for full article]
(Nov 9, 2007)
Three New Studies Show Benefits Of NuVim's Key Ingredient (Medical News Today)
NuVim, Inc. (OTCBB:NUVM) announced that three studies were recently published relating to GTC Nutrition's flagship ingredient solution NutraFlora(R) (short-chain fructooligosaccharides (scFOS®) prebiotic fiber). [click link for full article]
(Nov 9, 2007)
Safeway To Donate Nearly $17 Million For Critical Breast Cancer Research And Prevention Programs (Medical News Today)
Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY) announced it will provide nearly $17 million for critical breast cancer research and prevention programs in the United States and Canada. [click link for full article]
(Nov 9, 2007)
Landmark trial to evaluate cardioprotective properties of insulin (PhysOrg)
The ability of insulin to limit heart-tissue damage during a heart attack will be tested in a landmark clinical trial led by Paresh Dandona, M.D., Ph.D., University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor in the departments of Medicine and Pharmacology and Toxicology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
(Nov 9, 2007)
Nanogen to Host Third Quarter Conference Call on November 12, 2007 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Nanogen, Inc. , developer of advanced diagnostic products, will host a conference call on Monday, November 12, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern to discuss 2007 third quarter financial results.
(Nov 9, 2007)
Nanogen to Host Third Quarter Conference Call on November 12, 2007 (Finanzen.net)
Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq:NGEN), developer of advanced diagnostic products, will host a conference call on Monday, November 12, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern (1:30 p.m. Pacific) to discuss 2007 third quarter financial results. The financial ...
(Nov 9, 2007)
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