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ADI wins SBIR Phase II grant to commercialize novel antigens (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
Antigen Discovery has received a Phase II SBIR from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Center for Research Resources.
(Jul 5, 2008)
Researchers reveal types of genes necessary for brain development (News-Medical-Net)
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University have successfully completed a full-genome RNAi screen in neurons, showing what types of genes are necessary for brain development. Details of the screen and its novel methodology are published July 4th in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.
(Jul 5, 2008)
Shining a light on genetic testing (The Arizona Republic)
Several experts question whether direct-to-consumer tests are valid or accurate.
(Jul 5, 2008)
Analysis of body's metabolism can tell whether you're healthy (Deccan Herald)
Want to find out whether you are healthy or diseased? An analysis of body's metabolism can give you an answer, says a new study.
(Jul 5, 2008)
Former Intel Chair Andy Grove: Energizing the Rollout of Plug-In Cars (TechNewsWorld.com)
Former Intel Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry -- and how to respond. He even has coined a term for it: the "strategic inflection point." Now the retired chairman of the world's largest computer chip maker thinks the term applies to energy and transportation.
(Jul 5, 2008)
Function Of Glucose Transport Molecule Clarified By UCLA Researchers (Medical News Today)
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. These transport proteins are used in the treatment of chronic diarrhea via oral rehydration therapy, saving the lives of millions of children each year.
(Jul 5, 2008)
Dublin, Ireland July 4, 2008 Scientists from all over the world will travel to Ireland in August for the Agricultural ... (SeedQuest)
(ABIC). Exciting new developments in biotechnology will be presented and discussed over the three-day conference which takes place in University College Cork beginning on Sunday, 24 August 2008.
(Jul 5, 2008)
In genes, pair sees future of medicine (The Palm Beach Post)
When West Boca Raton High cheerleader Stephanie Kuleba died in March after outpatient surgery, geneticists Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance had a suspicion.
(Jul 6, 2008)
Merrimack College turns focus to biotechnology and biomedical sciences (The Eagle-Tribune)
NORTH ANDOVER — The local biotechnology industry is receiving a lot of attention after Gov. Deval Patrick signed a $1 billion bill last month to promote the life sciences industry in Massachusetts.
(Jul 6, 2008)
Genetics for the average patient (Miami Herald)
When West Boca Raton High cheerleader Stephanie Kuleba died in March after outpatient surgery, geneticists Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance had a suspicion.
(Jul 6, 2008)
Genetics for the average patient (Miami Herald)
When West Boca Raton High cheerleader Stephanie Kuleba died in March after outpatient surgery, geneticists Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance had a suspicion.
(Jul 6, 2008)
Researchers Reveal Types Of Genes Necessary For Brain Development (Medical News Today)
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University have successfully completed a full-genome RNAi screen in neurons, showing what types of genes are necessary for brain development. Details of the screen and its novel methodology are published July 4th in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.
(Jul 6, 2008)
Red Wine Ingredient Wards Off Effects Of Age On Heart, Bones, Eyes And Muscle (Medical News Today)
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 6, 2008)
Outstanding young S’poreans honoured at youth award ceremony (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
SINGAPORE: Three individuals and two teams received this year’s Singapore Youth Award from Deputy Prime Minister Professor S Jayakumar at the Istana on Sunday.
(Jul 6, 2008)
Outstanding young S’poreans honoured at youth award ceremony (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Philippines News)
SINGAPORE: Three individuals and two teams received this year’s Singapore Youth Award from Deputy Prime Minister Professor S Jayakumar at the Istana on Sunday.
(Jul 6, 2008)
Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
(Draft Version for review...) Will the Real Theory of Evolution Please Stand Up?
(Jul 6, 2008)
New Head For Food Standards Australia New Zealand (Scoop.co.nz)
A former Commonwealth Ombudsman, Philippa Smith AM, has been appointed as Chair of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) board. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Jan McLucas, said today Ms Smith would take up the position for four years.
(Jul 7, 2008)
The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Examines the Hottest U.K. Institutions (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters today announced results of a study assessing high-impact research by the United Kingdom's top-cited institutions and researchers. In the May/June issue of Science Watch and on ScienceWatch.com, Thomson Reuters analyzes data from its Essential Science Indictors to identify "high-impact papers" that rank among the top one percent most-cited, by field, ...
(Jul 7, 2008)
The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Examines the Hottest U.K. Institutions (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters today announced results of a study assessing high-impact research by the United Kingdom's top-cited institutions and researchers.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Regulation battle will shape future of genomics companies (BizJournals)
Navigenics Inc.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Youths spend summer in science lab (Tucson Citizen)
Classmates used to kid Juliet Kasaya when they found out her favorite subject was science.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Genetic haul lifts hopes on Crohn's (Boston Globe)
If finding disease-related genes is like fishing, then scientists have recently shifted from rods and reels to big nets, and they have just announced their biggest haul ever.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Medical advances promising, but hurdles exist (Aspen Daily News)
According to presenters at last week’s Aspen Ideas Festival, there is a great deal of hope on the medical front, especially for modern day’s biggest medical bogeymen: Cancer and AIDS. But the barrier to having a world full of healthy people is often not medical expertise, but access to and affordability of medical care.
(Jul 7, 2008)
AutoGenomics INFINITI Analyzer Receives Artistic Design Award (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Society of Plastics Engineers in their Annual Thermoforming Division Meeting selected the INFINITI Analyzer from AutoGenomics as a recipient of the artistic Multi-Part design award.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Agios Pharmaceuticals Closes $33 Million Series A Funding (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Agios Pharmaceuticals, the first biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel drugs that target key metabolic pathways to fundamentally disrupt cancer cells' ability to grow and survive, today announced that it has closed a $33 million Series A financing.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Learn about the World Biotechnology Instrumentation Market (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Medical devices industry is available in its catalogue.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Review article provides tools for the Rosaceae genomics community (EurekAlert!)
The woodland strawberry, a member of the Rosaceae family.
(Jul 7, 2008)
The Energy Superbugs (Forbes)
Extremophiles create, collect and store power in ways once reserved to the realm of comic book superheroes. Can they teach us how it's done?
(Jul 7, 2008)
Review article provides tools for the Rosaceae genomics community (PhysOrg)
A recent paper published in the journal Plant Physiology provides a comprehensive overview of the genomics tools and resources available for the rapidly growing Rosaceae scientific community. Rosaceae is an economically important group of plants that comprises more than 3,000 species, including strawberry, apple, peach and pear. Members of this plant family provide high-value nutritional foods ...
(Jul 7, 2008)
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Iris BioTechnologies for Technology Innovation in the Pharmacogenomics Arena (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PALO ALTO, Calif.----Based on its recent analysis of the pharmacogenomics market, Frost & Sullivan presents Iris BioTechnologies Inc. with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Review Of Tools For Genomics Community Studying Rosaceae (Apple, Peach, Pear, Strawberry) (Science Daily)
A comprehensive overview of the genomics tools and resources available for the rapidly growing Rosaceae scientific community has been published. Rosaceae is an economically important group of plants that comprises more than 3,000 species, including strawberry, apple, peach and pear.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Iris BioTechnologies for Technology Innovation in the Pharmacogenomics Arena (Centre Daily Times)
Based on its recent analysis of the pharmacogenomics market, Frost & Sullivan presents Iris BioTechnologies Inc. (Iris) with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. The Award recognizes the firm's remarkable efforts toward the development of a patented, integrated technology platform, the Nano-Biochip(TM) gene expression diagnostic system and an artificial ...
(Jul 7, 2008)
OMEGA Multi-Conformer Databases Now Compatible with MOE (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA FE, N.M. & MONTREAL----OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc., the developer of innovative molecular modeling and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, and Chemical Computing Group, Inc., a leading supplier of scientific software for Life Sciences, announced today the release of a utility allowing OMEGA conformer databases in OpenEye binary format to be converted into a MOE compatible ...
(Jul 7, 2008)
Embryo Viability Studies Support Utility Of Novel, Metabolomic Profiling Technology (BioresearchOnline)
Molecular Biometrics, LLC, a privately-held metabolomics company developing novel clinical tools for applications in personalized medicine to more accurately characterize biologic function in health and disease, presented data from four new studies evaluating the benefits of metabolomic profiling to determine embryo viability and enhance in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes
(Jul 7, 2008)
OMEGA Multi-Conformer Databases Now Compatible with MOE (Centre Daily Times)
OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc., the developer of innovative molecular modeling and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, and Chemical Computing Group, Inc., a leading supplier of scientific software for Life Sciences, announced today the release of a utility allowing OMEGA conformer databases in OpenEye binary (oeb) format to be converted into a MOE compatible multi-conformer file.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Researchers reveal types of genes necessary for brain development (EurekAlert!)
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University have successfully completed a full-genome RNAi screen in neurons, showing what types of genes are necessary for brain development.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Researchers reveal types of genes necessary for brain development (PhysOrg)
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University have successfully completed a full-genome RNAi screen in neurons, showing what types of genes are necessary for brain development. Details of the screen and its novel methodology are published July 4th in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Researchers Clarify Function Of Glucose Transport Molecule, May Lead To New Diabetes, Cancer Drugs (Science Daily)
Scientists have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters, 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 7, 2008)
Curious about Cats? (UC Newsroom)
A UC Davis genomics study of more than 11,000 cats has traced their domestication to the Fertile Crescent.
(Jul 7, 2008)
SACGHS Task Force Sees Consumer Genomics as 'Number One Priority' (GenomeWeb News)
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(Jul 7, 2008)
Function of glucose transport molecule clarified (UC Newsroom)
Discovery will accelerate development of new drugs to treat patients with diabetes and cancer.
(Jul 7, 2008)
posted by Edward H. Trager on Mon 1st Dec 2003 07:38 UTC (OS News)
I work in a genetics research laboratory at an academic institution. Recently, a colleague of mine was having a lot of trouble with his Windows 2000 workstation.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Can You Hear Me Now? (Newswise)
When it comes to cellular communication networks, a primitive single-celled microbe that answers to the name of Monosiga brevicollis has a leg up on animals composed of billions of cells. It commands a signaling network more elaborate and diverse than found in any multicellular organism higher up on the evolutionary tree, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Can you hear me now? (PhysOrg)
When it comes to cellular communication networks, a primitive single-celled microbe that answers to the name of Monosiga brevicollis has a leg up on animals composed of billions of cells. It commands a signaling network more elaborate and diverse than found in any multicellular organism higher up on the evolutionary tree, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Medical Lab Receives Grant for Vaccine Research (WNEP 16 Pennsylvania)
Workers at a small lab in Lackawanna County will soon start work on a vaccine to help in case of a bird flu pandemic. A $1.6 million grant was presented to Vital Probes of Mayfield Monday to develop a vaccine in case there is a need to use it.
(Jul 7, 2008)
Beijing, China July 7, 2008 Chinese Academy of Sciences (SeedQuest)
botanists have made novel progress on studies of origin and domestication of the Asian cultivated rice Oryza sativa. Their work was published in the June issue of Genetics .
(Jul 7, 2008)
The Energy Superbugs (Forbes)
Extremophiles create, collect and store power in ways once reserved to the realm of comic book superheroes. Can they teach us how it's done?
(Jul 8, 2008)
Creating a new approach to archiving human genetic information (EurekAlert!)
A genome sequence is a long sequence written in a four letter code—3 billion letters in the case of a human genome. But what is the meaning—how is the code deciphered?
(Jul 8, 2008)
How to Check Yourself for Genetic Abnormalities (Wired News)
Curious about that wheat-gluten allergy that runs in the family? Wondering if you're more likely to develop cancer than your mate? There are several options for testing the stuff your genes are made of, ranging from online DNA-sequencing shops to home-brew basement kits. Grab your cotton swabs and confront your future.
(Jul 8, 2008)
Cell Biosciences appoints key executives (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
Cell Biosciences, a provider of ultra sensitive protein detection and characterization systems to life science researchers, has appointed Jason Novi as its new CFO.
(Jul 8, 2008)
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