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University of Melbourne parasite expert wins coveted Fulbright Senior Scholarship (University of Melbourne University News)
Dr Robin B. Gasser, Professor in Parasitology and Associate Dean International, at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Veterinary Science has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholarship.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Slow catch-up time just understanding what genetic screening can do (The Daily News)
Wandering the virtual aisles of a genetic-test Web site can be as dazzling and chaotic as shopping at a big-box hardware store on Saturday afternoon. Shelves are bursting with innovative products that promise to reveal a patient’s genetic propensity to conditions as varied as diabetes, alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and lung cancer. Fueled by the galloping pace ...
(Apr 1, 2008)
NZ, Aust scientists collaborate for better pasture (Scoop.co.nz)
Leading New Zealand plant breeder Agriseeds has joined forces with world-class Australian scientists and the NZ government on a $6 million research project to produce better pastures for NZ farmers.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Remapping sex genes of the past (Swissinfo)
Swiss researchers have discovered that X and Y sex chromosomes in human beings were created more than 100 million years later than previously believed.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Trans-tasman biotech projects receive $3.8 million (Scoop.co.nz)
Three trans-Tasman biotechnology projects will receive a total of $3.8 million in grants under the Australia New Zealand Biotechnology Partnership Fund, Economic Development Minister Pete Hodgson announced today.
(Apr 1, 2008)
As diabetes soars, genetics offering new leads (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
When doctors told 28-year-old Nakia East that her 1-year-old's sudden weight loss and unusual thirst were caused by diabetes, she found herself thrust into a whole new level of parenting.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Bipolar gene test stirs debate over at-home tests (The Monterey County Herald)
SAN DIEGO — Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression.
(Apr 1, 2008)
PULSE Education Prize Presented To Young Cancer Researcher (Medical News Today)
A young Hunter cancer researcher will visit the United States to meet with some of the world's leading cancer researchers and establish research alliances for our region.Gladys M. Brawn Memorial Post Doctoral Research Fellow Dr Nikola Bowden from the University of Newcastle has been awarded a PULSE Education Prize to attend two international cancer research meetings in San Diego.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Seanodes' Shared Internal Storage Supercharges Performance For Bioinformatics Industry (DataStorage-DataStorageConnection)
Seanodes, the leading developer and inventor of Shared Internal Storage solutions for commoditized servers, recently announced a 200 percent increase in BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) speeds for organizations in the Bioinformatic field that implement an Exanodes-based solution, which transforms storage components within computing nodes into a high-end virtualized storage pool by ...
(Apr 1, 2008)
Chips Could Speed Up Detection Of Livestock Viruses (Medical News Today)
Some of the worst threats to farm workers and farm animals such as bird flu, foot-and-mouth disease and other emerging viruses could soon be quickly identified by using a simple screening chip developed by scientists from the Institute for Animal Health, scientists heard on 31 March 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Achieves Milestone With Sale Of 15,000th Nanodrop 1000 Spectrophotometer (PharmaceuticalOnline)
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently announced that Drexel University is the 15000 th purchaser of the Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 1000 UV/VIS Spectrophotometer. The instrument will be used in a microbial source tracking project at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Apr 1, 2008)
ChemGenex Investigators Present Data on Clinical Activity of Omacetaxine in Imatinib-Resistant Chronic Myeloid ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.----ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals has announced interim results from its ongoing phase 2/3 trial of omacetaxine mepesuccinate in chronic myeloid leukemia patients with the T315I mutation.
(Apr 1, 2008)
ChemGenex Investigators Present Data on Clinical Activity of Omacetaxine in Imatinib-Resistant Chronic Myeloid ... (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)
ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX:CXS)(NASDAQ:CXSP) has announced interim results from its ongoing phase 2/3 trial of omacetaxine mepesuccinate (formerly known as Ceflatonin(R)) in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients with the T315I mutation. The data continue to show an increase in the number of patients responding with increasing duration of response in chronic and accelerated phase patients.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Invitrogen Launches New Website (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CARLSBAD, Calif.----Invitrogen Corporation , a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced it has launched a new website designed to offer its customers an easier, faster way to find and purchase products and services online.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Screening chip could speed up pathogen detection in animals (Food Production Daily)
The microarray was developed by scientists at the UK Institute of Animal Health (IAH), and is said to be able to detect up to 300 different viruses that infect animals and humans, including farm livestock and birds.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Agendia Appoints Oncologist Richard A. Bender as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Agendia BV, a world leader in the rapidly evolving field of cancer molecular diagnostics, today announced the appointment of Richard A. Bender, MD, FACP to the position of vice president and chief medical officer .
(Apr 1, 2008)
UCLA Awarded Grant to Improve Kidney Transplant Outcomes for Kids (Newswise)
The National Institutes of Health has awarded four partner institutions $6 million to explore new ways to make kidney transplants more tolerable for children.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Researchers Eliminate Drug Discovery Bottleneck (Newswise)
A new tool in the search of "the next cyclosporine" presented at RECOMB 2008.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Slow catch-up time just understanding what genetic screening can do (The Daily News)
Wandering the virtual aisles of a genetic-test Web site can be as dazzling and chaotic as shopping at a big-box hardware store on Saturday afternoon. Shelves are bursting with innovative products that promise to reveal a patient’s genetic propensity to conditions as varied as diabetes, alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and lung cancer. Fueled by the galloping pace ...
(Apr 1, 2008)
Agilent Technologies Broadens Microscopy Portfolio for Life Sciences with Acquisition of TILL Photonics (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of TILL Photonics GmbH, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of optical, fluorescence microscopy products for life sciences.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Who's your daddy? (Salon.com)
A new at-home paternity test helps answer the age-old question. (Whether he's rich, however, is a different issue entirely.)
(Apr 1, 2008)
Woven Systems and Customer, Sandia National Laboratories to Speak at OpenFabrics Alliance 2008 International Sonoma ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Woven Systems™ Inc., the leading innovator of Ethernet Fabric switching solutions for data centers and high-performance computing clusters to present at OpenFabrics Alliance 2008 International Sonoma Workshop.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Business of drug development on verge of great change (PhysOrg)
Significant changes to drug discovery and the pharmaceutical industry currently underway will increase in the next five to 10 years, according to a top researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who is helping transform the business of drug research and development.
(Apr 1, 2008)
A New Tool In The Search Of 'The Next Cyclosporine' Presented At RECOMB 2008 (Medical News Today)
Determining the structure of unknown natural compounds is a slow and expensive part of drug screening and development - but this may now change thanks to a new combination of experimental and computational protocols developed at the University of California, San Diego and presented at RECOMB 2008 (Research in Computational Molecular Biology) on March 31 in Singapore.
(Apr 1, 2008)
TB Accumulates Fat To Survive And Spread (Medical News Today)
Medical scientists from the University of Leicester, together with colleagues from St Georges, University of London, funded principally by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and The Wellcome Trust, have published details of a new breakthrough discovery on TB.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Genomic Profiling of Breast Cancers a Better Treatment Tool (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
TUESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Determining the genetic profile of a breast tumor, along with an assessment of a patient's clinical characteristics, can help predict prognosis and guide treatment choices, a Duke University study concludes.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Integrating genetic information with breast cancer risk factors may help refine prognosis (EurekAlert!)
Incorporating genetic information known as gene expression signatures with clinical and other risk factors for breast cancer may help refine estimates of relapse-free survival and predicted response to chemotherapy, according to a study in the April 2 issue of JAMA.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Biotech Avoids Fall Out From Tough Quarter for Capital Markets (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The biotech industry came through a very turbulent first quarter relatively unscathed with the Burrill Biotech Select Index, a price-weighted index tracking 20 of biotech's "blue chip" companies, finishing unchanged compared to the Dow, which closed down 7.5% and the Nasdaq, whose value dropped 14%.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features methods to screen genomes and analyze evolution (EurekAlert!)
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Tuesday, April 1, 2008) – Identifying genes that are important in specific tissues or processes in the mouse used to be a monumental task. New technologies and strategies have simplified this search, making it effective for even the smallest laboratories.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Scientists reshape Y chromosome haplogroup tree gaining new insights into human ancestry (EurekAlert!)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 –The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, since it is passed directly from father to son. In an article published online today in Genome Research ( www.genome.org ), scientists have utilized recently described genetic variations on the part of the Y chromosome that does not undergo recombination to significantly update and refine the Y chromosome ...
(Apr 1, 2008)
New breakthrough discovery on TB (News-Medical-Net)
Medical scientists from the University of Leicester, together with colleagues from St Georges, University of London, funded principally by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and The Wellcome Trust, have published details of a new breakthrough discovery on TB.
(Apr 1, 2008)
Bartow-Fort Meade ACS Unit Visits Can (Polk County Democrat)
Cancer patients refer to their experiences from diagnosis through treatment as a journey.
(Apr 2, 2008)
UCSF Schools Make Top 10 List In New Survey (NBC 11 Bay Area)
In a new survey, UCSF's School of Pharmacy ranks first, the School of Nursing second, and the School of Medicine fifth among all graduate schools in their respective fields.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Tag Archive | "4-1-08" (The Temple News)
Click below for Nick Pipitone’s audio report on the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Urban Education. When C. Kent McGuire stepped in as dean at the College of Education five years ago, he remembers one of his first visits came from Pennsylvania State Rep. James Roebuck of West Philadelphia.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Empathy for the Brain, After Insult and Injury (New York Times)
Michael Paul Mason's episodic tour of brain injuries and the strange behavior that often accompanies them focuses on the poor treatment available to many patients.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Agilent Technologies Broadens Microscopy Portfolio For Life Sciences With Acquisition Of TILL Photonics (PharmaceuticalOnline)
Agilent Technologies Inc. recently announced it has completed the acquisition of TILL Photonics GmbH, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of optical, fluorescence microscopy products for life sciences. Financial details were not disclosed.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Slow catch-up time just understanding what genetic screening can do (The Daily News)
Wandering the virtual aisles of a genetic-test Web site can be as dazzling and chaotic as shopping at a big-box hardware store on Saturday afternoon. Shelves are bursting with innovative products that promise to reveal a patient’s genetic propensity to conditions as varied as diabetes, alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and lung cancer. Fueled by the galloping pace ...
(Apr 2, 2008)
As diabetes soars, genetics offering new leads (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
When doctors told 28-year-old Nakia East that her 1-year-old's sudden weight loss and unusual thirst were caused by diabetes, she found herself thrust into a whole new level of parenting.
(Apr 2, 2008)
CME Outfitters Announces 1st Annual Chairs in Psychiatry Summit, June 27-29, 2008, Hilton Head Island, SC (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The inaugural Chairs in Psychiatry Summit, chaired by Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD, is an intensive 2-1⁄2 day master class designed for psychiatrists and other physicians in a variety of tracks related to the neurosciences. Scheduled for June 27 through June 29, 2008, the Summit will take place at the Westin Resort in Hilton Head Island, SC.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Genetic Information Improves Prognosis And Relapse-Free Survival Prediction For Breast Cancer Patients (Medical News Today)
According to an article published in JAMA, doctorswho breast cancer patients and integrate gene expressionsignatures with clinical and other risk factors may be better atpredicting a patient's response to chemotherapy. Chaitanya R.Acharya, M.S. (Duke Institute for Genome Sciencesand Policy, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
(Apr 2, 2008)
New Insights Into Human Ancestry Gained By Reshaping Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree (Medical News Today)
The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, since it is passed directly from father to son. In an article published online in Genome Research (http://www.genome.org/), scientists have utilized recently described genetic variations on the part of the Y chromosome that does not undergo recombination to significantly update and refine the Y chromosome haplogroup tree.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Monsanto Delivers Record Second-Quarter Results on Strong Growth of U.S. and International Corn Businesses, Growing ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
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(Apr 2, 2008)
02 April 2008 (PharmiWeb)
WILMINGTON, Delaware (March 28, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that Drexel University is the 15000th purchaser of the Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 1000 UV/VIS Spectrophotometer.
(Apr 2, 2008)
02 April 2008 (PharmiWeb)
2008,18-21 May, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. This unique patent-pending* high throughput blood fractionation system is used to extract buffy coat (white blood cells) from whole blood samples.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Three Duke Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships (Duke University)
Mark Hallen, Nicholas Patrick and Daniel Roberts were chosen on the basis of academic merit from a field of mathematics, science and engineering students nationwide.
(Apr 2, 2008)
($ in millions) Second Second Six Months Six Months Quarter 2008 Quarter 2007 2008 2007 Net Sales by Segment Corn seed ... (SeedQuest)
"The performance of our seeds and traits business has us on track for another exceptional year and well positioned to support our five-year strategic growth plan.
(Apr 2, 2008)
14th Annual Conference & Exhibition Of The Society For Biomolecular Sciences Reports Business Of Drug Development On ... (Medical News Today)
Significant changes to drug discovery and the pharmaceutical industry currently underway will increase in the next five to 10 years, according to a top researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who is helping transform the business of drug research and development.According to Christopher Austin, M.D.
(Apr 2, 2008)
Methods To Screen Genomes And Analyze Evolution Featured In Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (Medical News Today)
Identifying genes that are important in specific tissues or processes in the mouse used to be a monumental task. New technologies and strategies have simplified this search, making it effective for even the smallest laboratories. This month's issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (http://www.cshprotocols.org/T
(Apr 2, 2008)
Supercomputer is coming to SA shores (Independent Online)
The powerful Blue Gene supercomputer is on track for delivery to South Africa in the second half of this year.
(Apr 2, 2008)
BUSINESS NOTES (The Ann Arbor News)
Sabrina Boykin of Canton has earned Excellent Beginnings Program Achievers status for direct sales jewelry company, lia sophia.The status shows outstanding sales and professionalism.
(Apr 2, 2008)
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