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VLST Corporation Appoints Internationally Recognized Researcher Paul J. Carter, Ph.D. as Chief Scientific Officer (Centre Daily Times)
VLST Corporation, a Seattle-based biotechnology company focused on the development of therapeutics for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, today announced that Paul J. Carter, Ph.D., a 20-year biotechnology research veteran, will join the Company as chief scientific officer and senior vice president of research and development.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Footrot Vaccine For Sheep Closer Than Ever (Science Daily)
Scientists have started clinical trials to find a successful vaccine against footrot in sheep.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Ore Pharmaceuticals files to test drug on humans (BizJournals)
Ore Pharmaceuticals Inc. has filed an application to begin testing its first drug compound in humans. (ORXE)
(Jul 2, 2008)
Eating Broccoli May Keep Prostate Cancer Away, Study Suggests (Science Daily)
For the first time, a research group has provided an explanation of how eating broccoli might reduce cancer risk based upon studies in men, as opposed to trying to extrapolate from animal models. Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer for males in western countries. The research has provided an insight into why eating broccoli can help men stay healthy.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Healthy Or Diseased? Analysis Of Body's Metabolism Sheds New Light On The Question (Science Daily)
Scientists have shown that biological indicators for diseases caused or influenced by environmental factors can be detected by the systemic analysis of the body's metabolism (metabolomics). The procedure presented here is also suitable for pre-clinical drug testing and allows for the early detection of possible side effects of a new medication.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Professor Pevzner’s Do-It-Yourself Proteomics Class (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Budding bioinformaticists in Pavel Pevzner’s undergraduate research experiences class looked at the proteins found in a bacterium and worked backward to identify the genes that created them.
(Jul 2, 2008)
How relaxation response helps you deal with high BP, infertility and more (New Kerala)
Washington, July 2 : A collaborative study by members of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Genomics Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) casts light on how the relaxation response, a physiologic state of deep rest, enables patients to deal with disorders like high blood pressure, pain syndromes, infertility, ...
(Jul 2, 2008)
UC San Diego undergraduates forge new area of bioinformatics (EurekAlert!)
A screen shot of some of the bioinformatics software that undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego created during their quest to forge a new area of...
(Jul 2, 2008)
BioScience tip sheet July/August 2008 (EurekAlert!)
High-Speed Developments in Avian Genomics. Camille Bonneaud, Joan Burnside, and Scott V. Edwards.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Sequencing at the Speed of Lightning (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)
The technology for genome sequencing is advancing and costing less, giving rise to a flood of innovation.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Undergraduates Forge New Area Of Bioinformatics (Science Daily)
A group of undergraduate students have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the journal Genome Research.
(Jul 2, 2008)
New Senate majority leader starts upstate tour today in Buffalo (The Buffalo News)
The man responsible for protecting the Republican majority in the State Senate visited Buffalo today for meetings with the mayor and Erie County executive and to assure local leaders he has an ear to upstate.
(Jul 2, 2008)
National cancer experts meet in Louisville to discuss future of cancer care (BizJournals)
A panel of national cancer experts today discussed issues surrounding the disease during a symposium entitled "Discovery to Delivery: A Public Forum about the Future of Cancer Research."
(Jul 2, 2008)
Pediatric Researchers Find Possible 'Master Switch' Gene In Juvenile Arthritis (Science Daily)
Researchers have found that a gene region known to play a role in some varieties of adult rheumatoid arthritis is also present in all types of childhood arthritis. The researchers say the responsible gene may be a "master switch" that helps turn on the debilitating disease.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Relaxation Response Can Influence Expression Of Stress-related Genes (Science Daily)
How could a single, non-pharmacological intervention help patients deal with disorders ranging from high blood pressure, to pain syndromes, to infertility, to rheumatoid arthritis? That question may have been answered by a study finding that eliciting the relaxation response -- a physiologic state of deep rest -- influences the activation patterns of genes associated with the body's response to ...
(Jul 2, 2008)
Evolutionary Origin Of Mammalian Gene Regulation Is Over 150 Million Years Old (Science Daily)
Scientists have found that a complex, highly conserved and extremely important mechanism of controlling genes is over 150 million years old. The findings have provided new insights into the evolution of genomic or parental imprinting and epigenetic regulation in mammals. A failure of these sophisticated processes is associated with many human genetic diseases, psychiatric and autoimmune ...
(Jul 2, 2008)
Sen. Clinton returns to Buffalo's inner harbor (WIVB Buffalo)
Buffalo, N.Y. (WIVB) - - New York's Junior U.S. Senator is back in Buffalo for the first time in about a year.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Yoga And Meditation Change Gene Response To Stress (Medical News Today)
Research from the US suggests that mind body techniques like yoga and meditation that put the body in a state of deep rest known as the relaxation response, are capable of changing how genes behave in response to stress.
(Jul 2, 2008)
End of an era: Celera moves its HQ to California (The Daily Record)
Celera Corp., which helped put Maryland’s biotechnology sector on the map with its role in sequencing the human genome, has split from its parent company and relocated its headquarters to California.
(Jul 2, 2008)
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Feb 2006 22:21 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Goatherd (New Mobile Computing)
"Apple wants to make their switch to Intel chips seem like a no-brainer, but the reality of it was a lot more complicated than just faster chips for Macs. Apple's claims of their Intel systems being '4-5x faster' than their PowerPC systems is a little much to swallow, especially with Intel Macs landing in users' hands and failing to live up to the hype.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Genetic Study Supports Mind/Body Connection (BruDirect.com)
By Rick Nauert, Ph.D. Psych Central - A collaborative investigation demonstrates how a single, nonpharmacological intervention can help patients deal with disparate medical disorders.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Indian scientists developing drought-resistant groundnut (Calcutta News)
Indian farmers will soon get access to a new variety of groundnut that is drought-resistant and can be cultivated even in areas where water is scarce.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Online genetic testing exposed as a scam (The Inquirer)
SENDING YOUR BODIL Y fluids off to online DNA testing centres probably won’t bring you any closer to solving the mysteries in your family tree, according to an undercover investigation.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Antigen Discovery Inc. Awarded a SBIR Phase II Grant to Commercialize Novel Antigens for Serodiagnostic Products and ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Antigen Discovery Inc. , a leader in high throughput antigen/biomarker discovery using advanced genomics and proteomics tools, announced today that the Company was awarded a Phase II SBIR from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Center for Research Resources .
(Jul 3, 2008)
Antigen Discovery Inc. Awarded a SBIR Phase II Grant to Commercialize Novel Antigens for Serodiagnostic Products and ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Antigen Discovery Inc. , a leader in high throughput antigen/biomarker discovery using advanced genomics and proteomics tools, announced today that the Company was awarded a Phase II SBIR from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Center for Research Resources .
(Jul 3, 2008)
Beijing Genomics Institute signs global site license with CLC bio for Next Generation Sequencing software platform (Press Release Network)
Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has signed a global site license agreement for CLC bio's Next Generation Sequencing solution, CLC Genomics Workbench. The site license covers all researchers at all BGI sites, both inside and outside of China. [Wired by: PressReleaseNetwork.com]
(Jul 3, 2008)
Yoga, meditation improve health by switching off stress genes (New Kerala)
Washington, July 3 : Scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding how relaxation techniques like yoga, meditation, and prayer improve health.
(Jul 3, 2008)
HapMap Browsing And DDDP Methods For Genetic Analysis Featured In CSH Protocols (Medical News Today)
To aid in the study of genetic diseases, scientists with the International Haplotype Map Project have developed a haplotype map of the human genome, a tool that displays common patterns of genetic variation. While data from the project are available for unrestricted public use from the project's website (http://www.hapmap.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Metabolomics Sheds New Light On The Question "Healthy Or Diseased?" (Medical News Today)
Metabolomics aims to determine the totality of all small molecules of a cell or a tissue. The exponents of bioinformatics analyzed data collected in the framework of a pre-clinical metabolomics study in healthy and diabetic mice. In each case, a subgroup of the animals was treated with the diabetes drug RoziglitazoneTM.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Affymetrix Technology Used To Discover Molecular Mechanisms Of Liver Disease (Medical News Today)
Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) announced that a team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany is using Affymetrix' Whole Transcript (WT) gene expression technology to better understand the molecular basis of drug-induced liver injury (DILI).
(Jul 3, 2008)
KU Researcher Calls for Approval of Wireless Gadgets That Use 'White Space' (Kansas City InfoZine)
In most regions of the country, ample swaths of the television spectrum go unused. Such "white space" in the TV band once comprised useful buffer zones between broadcasters that cut the risk of interference, the way medians divide highway lanes. But research at the University of Kansas shows that the digital revolution has lifted the need for unoccupied gaps in the TV spectrum and opened white ...
(Jul 3, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics to Present at Collins Stewart Fourth Annual Growth Conference (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Rosetta Genomics Ltd , a leading developer of microRNA-based diagnostics and therapeutics, announced today it will present Collins Stewart Fourth Annual Growth Conference on Wednesday, July 9, at 8:30 am EST at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Connectomics: Mapping the Nervous System [60-Second Science] (Scientific American)
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] It took 13 years and countless hours of research to unravel the human genome. Now neuroscientists want to do their field’s version. A small group of researchers is advancing the emerging field of what they call “connectomics.” As genomics moved from individual genes to the entire genome, so connectomics wants to take us from individual ...
(Jul 3, 2008)
The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) Selects Illumina Infinium High-Density (HD) DNA Analysis Products ... (Medical News Today)
Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced that researchers participating in a new initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust selected Illumina's Infinium HD BeadChips to analyze 90,000 DNA samples. This new initiative aims to decipher the molecular basis of human disease and includes participation from leading research groups around the globe.
(Jul 3, 2008)
UC San Diego Undergraduates Forge New Area Of Bioinformatics (Medical News Today)
A group of undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the July issue of the journal Genome Research.
(Jul 3, 2008)
University of Hawaii researchers discover new pathway for methane production in the oceans (EurekAlert!)
Honolulu, HI – A new pathway for methane production has been uncovered in the oceans, and this has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Explore the Principles of Computational Cell Biology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Principles of Computational Cell Biology: From Protein Complexes to Cellular Networks" report to their offering.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Red wine ingredient wards off effects of age on heart, bones, eyes and muscle (EurekAlert!)
Large doses of a red wine ingredient can ward off many of the vagaries of aging in mice who begin taking it at midlife, according to a new report published online on July 3rd in Cell Metabolism , a Cell Press publication.
(Jul 3, 2008)
New Pathway For Methane Production In The Oceans Discovered (Science Daily)
A new pathway for methane production has been uncovered in the oceans, and this has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet. The article reveals that aerobic decomposition of an organic, phosphorus-containing compound, methylphosphonate, may be responsible for the supersaturation of methane in ocean surface waters.
(Jul 3, 2008)
State approves Kaleida-ECMC consolidation (UB Reporter)
New York State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines traveled to Buffalo Monday to announce his department’s approval of the consolidation of the Kaleida Health System and Erie County Medical Center to create the Western New York Healthcare System.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Cell Biosciences Strengthens Management Team (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Cell Biosciences, Inc., a provider of ultrasensitive protein detection and characterization systems to life science researchers, today announced three key management team additions.
(Jul 3, 2008)
UCLA researchers clarify function of glucose transport molecule (EurekAlert!)
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs), which pump glucose into cells.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Researchers Clarify Function of Glucose Transport Molecule; Findings May Lead to Improved Treatments for Diabetes, ... (Newswise)
UCLA scientists have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs), which pump glucose into cells. The solution of the SGLT structure will accelerate development of new drugs designed to treat patients with diabetes and cancer. The journal Science publishes the findings.
(Jul 3, 2008)
Researchers Are First To Simulate The Binding Of Molecules To A Protein (Science Daily)
You may not know what it is, but you burn more than your body weight of it every day. Adenosine triphosphate, a tiny molecule that packs a powerful punch, is the primary energy source for most of your cellular functions. Now researchers have identified a key step in the cellular recycling of ATP that allows your body to produce enough of it to survive.
(Jul 3, 2008)
More News (Gazette.Net)
Celera Corp., the human genome pioneer that helped put Rockville and Maryland on the national biotech map almost a decade ago, has completed its previously announced separation from its parent, Applera Corp., and as of this week is an independent company publicly traded on the Nasdaq.
(Jul 4, 2008)
Sigmund appointed to research chair (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Curt D. Sigmund, professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been named the Roy J. Carver Chair in Hypertension Research. The five-year appointment was effective July 1.
(Jul 4, 2008)
Relaxation Response Can Influence Expression Of Stress-Related Genes (Medical News Today)
How could a single, nonpharmacological intervention help patients deal with disorders ranging from high blood pressure, to pain syndromes, to infertility, to rheumatoid arthritis? That question may have been answered by a study finding that eliciting the relaxation response - a physiologic state of
(Jul 4, 2008)
New Anti-Keratin Antibodies Introduced by AnaSpec (PR.com)
AnaSpec has introduced two keratin antibodies that recognize both the intact and caspase digested N-terminal of K18 and K19 at Asp237. These antibodies are useful tools for studying keratin dynamics in mice undergoing hepatocyte apoptosis, patients with cirrhosis, and also in apoptotic cells of various epithelial human tumors in a non-invasive manner. Intermediate filaments (IFs), together with ...
(Jul 4, 2008)
M-Scan Ltd Successfully Passes GMP Inspections by the FDA and UK MHRA (PR.com)
The world-leading provider of contract analytical services now conducts bio/pharmaceutical analysis to both GMP and GLP (compliant since 1992.) [PR.com - July 04, 2008]
(Jul 4, 2008)
Milken students win first high school X PRIZE (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Milken Community High School students joined the space race this week when two seniors won the first-ever X PRIZE competition for high schoolers.
(Jul 5, 2008)
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