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US genomics leader bows out from institute (Nature)
Francis Collins, the geneticist who led the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, through the completion of the Human Genome Project and the dawn of the personal genomics era, has announced that he will leave his post on 1 August.
(Jun 4, 2008)
Winners of the 2008 Life Science Industry Awards Announced (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Winners have been announced for the 2008 Life Science Industry Awards, which recognize those life science suppliers that are best-in-class in both product categories and customer communications and support categories.
(Jun 4, 2008)
Invitrogen Wins Six Life Science Industry Awards (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CARLSBAD, Calif.----Invitrogen Corporation , a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced it was the winner in six categories at the annual Life Science Industry Awards.
(Jun 4, 2008)
CORRECTING and REPLACING Invitrogen Receives FDA Clearance for Diagnostic System to Help Determine Transplant ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CARLSBAD, Calif.----Headline of release dated June 3, 2008, should read: Invitrogen Receives FDA Clearance for Diagnostic System to Help Determine Transplant Compatibility .
(Jun 4, 2008)
Kissing cousins can have healthy kids (The Times of India)
MELBOURNE: The belief that babies born to first-cousins will suffer from some kind of deformities is all a myth, say researchers in Australia. According to an earlier Australian research published in 2001, babies born to first-cousins are nearly three times more likely to have serious birth defects.
(Jun 4, 2008)
Invitrogen Wins Six Life Science Industry Awards (wallstreet:online AG)
Invitrogen Corporation (8208;NASDAQ:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for research,
(Jun 4, 2008)
New Link Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Researchers Discover New Way Fats Kill Beta-cells (PhysOrg)
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered a new link between increased level of fat in the human body and Type 2 diabetes. Researchers believe this will open new fields in diabetes research and could lead to new therapies.
(Jun 4, 2008)
Vancouver Nets $400K for Shellfish Genomics Lab (GenomeWeb News)
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(Jun 4, 2008)
Human Viruses Appear To Be Making Wild Chimpanzees Sick (Science Daily)
After studying chimpanzees in the Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park for the past year, biologists have evidence that chimpanzees are becoming sick from viral infectious diseases they have likely contracted from humans.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Geneombio Tech to launch first predictive gene testing service for osteoporosis (PharmaBiz)
The Pune-based Geneombio Technologies, a contract research organisation that has strong focus on genomics and molecular biology, will soon launch a predictive gene testing service to detect osteoporosis for the first time in India.
(Jun 5, 2008)
5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA (AskMen)
Here are 5 things you didn't know about DNA It's inside all of us, telling us how to behave, how to function and how to grow. It's your deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and it contains the genetic instructions that essentially make you who you are.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Pfizer Licenses Ariadne Pathway Studio Enterprise (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Ariadne announced today that Pfizer, Inc. has purchased a multi-site license for Pathway Studio Enterprise software. Pfizer is going to use it to assemble reference networks of biological interactions from internal and public data sources for interpretation of experimental results throughout its research facilities.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Vancouver Lawyer John J. Swift Joins Webnames.ca Inc. Board of Directors (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Webnames.ca® Inc. today announced that John J. Swift has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Webnames.ca.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Invitrogen Receives FDA Clearance For Diagnostic System To Determine Transplant Compatibility (Medical News Today)
Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its DynaChip™ Antibody Analysis System. The DynaChip™ system is the only automated chip-based system for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibody detection and identification.
(Jun 5, 2008)
www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to Kent (The Kent Messenger)
The president of brewery Shepherd Neame, Robert Neame, and former Kent University vice-chancellor Professor Sir David Melville are among those receiving honorary degrees from the university next month.
(Jun 5, 2008)
454 Sequencing for Melon Research in Spain (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BRANFORD, Conn.----A new research study planned at CRAG, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics in Barcelona, Spain, is focusing on the de novo sequencing of the musk melon . CRAG recently bought a Genome Sequencer FLX from 454 Life Sciences, a centre of excellence of Roche Applied Science, for use in this project and in support of other ongoing research projects.
(Jun 5, 2008)
GlaxoSmithKline Signs Licensing Agreement With Compendia Bioscience (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Compendia Bioscience today announced that it has signed a two-year licensing agreement with GlaxoSmithKline for Oncomine Enterprise Edition, a value-added product extension Compendia's flagship product, Oncomine.
(Jun 5, 2008)
GE Healthcare And UPMC Launch Joint Venture To Digitize Pathology Images (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)
InformationWeek - Onmyx aims to get pathologists to abandon glass slides and microscopes for the digital technology it says will improve diagnoses.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Build your own Google (ZDNet)
In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...
(Jun 5, 2008)
The 'febit science lounge' presents: Webinar About Role of Non-Protein-Coding RNA in Human Genome Set for 11 a.m. EDT ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
febit holding gmbh today unveiled plans for the first of a series of educational Webinars geared for genomics researchers worldwide.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Dr. Alexander Makarov Receives 2008 ASMS Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry Award (ThomasNet)
56TH ASMS CONFERENCE ON MASS SPECTROMETRY AND ALLIED TOPICS, DENVER (June 2, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that Dr. Alexander Makarov, the company's director of global research for Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, has received the 2008 Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry Award from the American Society for Mass ...
(Jun 5, 2008)
Indianapolis, Indiana and Richmond, California June 5, 2008 (SeedQuest)
Dow AgroSciences LLC and Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced today the successful completion of research milestones as part of their joint Research and Commercial License Agreement.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Genomics of Cardiovascular Disease: Current Clinical Applications (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Kari Stefansson, MD, DR. MED, CEO DeCODE Genetics
(Jun 5, 2008)
Invitrogen Wins Six Life Science Industry Awards (Centre Daily Times)
Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced it was the winner in six categories at the annual Life Science Industry Awards.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Brucella abortus S19 genome sequenced; points toward virulence genes (EurekAlert!)
Blacksburg, Va. – Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, and collaborators at 454 Life Sciences of Branford, Conn., have sequenced the genome of Brucella abortus strain S19. Strain S19 is a naturally occurring strain of B. abortus that does not cause disease and was discovered by Dr. John Buck in 1923. It has ...
(Jun 5, 2008)
Working magic with sciences (Hindustan Times)
Commerce might be the most popular subject at Delhi University, but it is the science students who are set to reap benefits of change and initiative this session.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Branford, Connecticut June 5, 2008 (SeedQuest)
A new research study planned at CRAG, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics in Barcelona, Spain, is focusing on the de novo sequencing of the musk melon (Cucumis melo).
(Jun 5, 2008)
Branford, Connecticut June 3, 2008 454 Life Sciences , a company of Roche , today announced that they will support ... (SeedQuest)
, in the development of solutions enabling large scale crop SNP discovery projects. Limagrain aims to improve certain feed crops through the selection and cross breeding of desirable characteristics that occur in natural variants of each species.
(Jun 5, 2008)
Roche NimbleGen signs strategic alliance with BioDiscovery (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
Roche NimbleGen, a company of Roche Applied Science, has signed a strategic alliance with BioDiscovery, to offer complete solutions to comparative genomic hybridization microarray customers.
(Jun 6, 2008)
CET marks 10 years of local bio-tech (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A decade after opening the Center for Emerging Technologies biotech business incubator, Marcia Mellitz has learned not to take anything for granted.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Winners of the 2008 Life Science Industry Awards Announced (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Winners have been announced for the 2008 Life Science Industry Awards, which recognize those life science suppliers that are best-in-class in both product categories and customer communications and support categories. The 20 companies receiving the highest overall scores in each award category were named the Winners out of the 650 life science suppliers.
(Jun 6, 2008)
$500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize: The Recipient Is Spradling For New Genetic Techniques, Advancing Understanding Of Stem ... (Medical News Today)
Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D., of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Baltimore, is the recipient of the 2008 Genetics Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for his work on fruit fly genomics and for "fundamental discoveries about the earliest stages of reproduction.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Leading U.S. Bioscience Pioneers Enter International Collaboration With Government of Luxembourg to Accelerate ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Three of the United States' most prominent biomedical science leaders have been tapped by the government of Luxembourg for an unprecedented international collaboration to establish a bioscience center of excellence in the heart of the European Union.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Sequencing Of Brucella Abortus S19 Genome Points Toward Virulence Genes (Medical News Today)
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, and collaborators at 454 Life Sciences of Branford, Conn., have sequenced the genome of Brucella abortus strain S19. Strain S19 is a naturally occurring strain of B. abortus that does not cause disease and was discovered by Dr. John Buck in 1923.
(Jun 6, 2008)
QIAGEN to Present At the Goldman Sachs 29th Annual Global Healthcare Conference (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
VENLO, The Netherlands, June 6, 2008 -- QIAGEN N.V. today announced that it will present at the Goldman Sachs 29th Annual Global Healthcare Conference at 3:20 p.m. PT on Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics and M. D. Anderson to Develop a MicroRNA-based Diagnostic Test to Identify Risk of Recurrence of Lung ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. , a leader in the development of microRNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic products, announced today a research collaboration with The University of Texas M. D.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics, MD Anderson to Collborate on Lung Cancer Dx (GenomeWeb News)
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(Jun 6, 2008)
Dr. Raymond Salemme Joins BioLeap's Advisory Board (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW HOPE, Pa.----"Dr. Salemme is broadly recognized in the pharmaceutical industry as a business leader and entrepreneur with deep expertise in the application of crystallography and structure-based design to drug discovery and, more broadly, to molecular research.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Dr. Raymond Salemme Joins BioLeap's Advisory Board (Centre Daily Times)
"Dr. Salemme is broadly recognized in the pharmaceutical industry as a business leader and entrepreneur with deep expertise in the application of crystallography and structure-based design to drug discovery and, more broadly, to molecular research. We are excited by the opportunity to benefit from Ray's experience and guidance at BioLeap in building a capital-efficient business leveraging our ...
(Jun 6, 2008)
Business Line Headlines Saturday, May 05, 2001 (The Hindu)
Agriculture Coir geotextiles, brown fibre show good growth THE coir geotextiles and the non-traditional brown fibre sector showed significant growth in the domestic market last fiscal following the implementation of various schemes.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Business Line Headlines Monday, July 23, 2001 (The Hindu)
Accountancy ICAI's guidance note on audit THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has issued a guidance note on audit under Section 115JB of the Income-Tax Act, 1961.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Business Line Headlines Tuesday, September 25, 2001 (The Hindu)
Agriculture Inspection facilities for agri-export items sought THE Centre should set up inspection facilities in respect of all agriculture products so that the exports market performance is no more sullied ``for lack of home work''.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Business Line Headlines Tuesday, November 06, 2001 (The Hindu)
Agriculture Hatcheries to close down for one week POULTRY farmers and representatives of several hatcheries from Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have decided to shut down hatcheries for a week from November 15 in an effort to overcome the current crisis in the industry.
(Jun 6, 2008)
Global Health and Bioinformatics Workforce Capacity Initiative to Be Led by AMIA and Supported by the Rockefeller ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
A $500,000 grant has been awarded to AMIA from the Rockefeller Foundation to help convene a conference in collaboration with the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on capacity building in health informatics. The conference is part of the Foundations Making the eHealth Connection conference series to be held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, beginning in ...
(Jun 6, 2008)
Canisius receives boost in aid for Science Hall (The Buffalo News)
Canisius College has received a major boost toward the construction of an interdisciplinary science center.
(Jun 7, 2008)
Time to Talk About CAM, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Kansas City InfoZine)
Health Care Providers and Patients Need To Ask and Tell
(Jun 7, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics And M. D. Anderson To Develop A MicroRN Based Diagnostic Test To Identify Risk Of Recurrence Of Lung ... (Medical News Today)
Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDQ: ROSG), a leader in the development of microRNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic products, announced a research collaboration with The University of Texas M. D.
(Jun 7, 2008)
Genomics Started With Boozing Session in Maine (Wired News)
When our children's children look up the word "genomics," they'll learn that it was born in Maine.
(Jun 7, 2008)
Robot fly could unlock secrets of the human brain (Sunday Herald)
fruit fly may not look very clever, but its tiny brain has more in common with humans' than you might think - a fact that has encouraged scientists to attempt to create a "virtual fly brain" in the hope that it will lead to discoveries that could combat neurological diseases.
(Jun 7, 2008)
Earthworm Detectives Provide Genetic Clues For Dealing With Soil Pollution (Science Daily)
The humble earthworm provides a new sensitive and detailed picture of what is going on in our contaminated soil ecosystems. New research shows that copper contamination has a detrimental effect by interfering with the energy metabolism of the exposed invertebrates and that different pollutants have unique molecular effects, with implications for both monitoring and remediation of toxins.
(Jun 8, 2008)
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