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Candidate Markers For Gastric Cancer (Medical News Today)
The sequencing of the human genome has opened the door for proteomics by providing a sequence-based framework for mining proteomes. As a result, there is intense interest in applying proteomics to foster a better understanding of cancer processes, develop new biomarkers for diagnosis and early detection of cancer.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Breakthrough Mapping of Alzheimer's Genome Helps ID Four New Suspect Genes (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Four novel genes that may significantly increase the risk of the most common form of late-onset Alzheimer's have been identified by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as reported in the November 7th issue of American Journal of Human Genetics. The findings, part of a larger "Alzheimer's Genome Project" (AGP) established three years ago to identify the full ...
(Oct 30, 2008)
Greater Richmond Companies to Watch named (TechJournal South)
RICHMOND, VA - The Venture Forum has announced the 2009 Greater Richmond Companies to Watch(GRCTW) Selected Companies. The Venture Forum celebrates innovative early-stage companies with high growth potential in Greater Richmond.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Following the Phoenicians: Genetic methodology complements historical record (EurekAlert!)
( Cell Press ) A new study uses a sophisticated genetic strategy to reveal new roads past an apparent dead end in the historical record of a distinctive civilization that dominated the Mediterranean Sea during the first millennium BC. The research from National Geographic and IBM's Genographic Project, published by Cell Press in the Nov. 14 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, ...
(Oct 30, 2008)
Charlotte Biotechnology Conference Draws Record Crowd (Centre Daily Times)
The Seventh Annual Charlotte Biotechnology Conference drew over 325 attendees at the Barnhardt Student Activities Center on the campus of UNC Charlotte.
(Oct 30, 2008)
RainDance Technologies Delivers RDT 1000, Sequence Enrichment Solution to JCVI (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative droplet-based microfluidic solutions for human health and disease research, today announced that the J. Craig Venter Institute , a not for profit genomic research organization located in Rockville, MD and La Jolla, CA, will become an early access partner for its new RDT 1000 instrument and Sequence Enrichment application.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory at Iowa State University is largest in the USA (SeedQuest)
The largest cluster of plant databases in the nation has a new home, the Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and Iowa State University facility.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Massive Computational Boost To Biomedical Research At TGen (Medical News Today)
In less time than the blink of an eye, the Translational Genomics Research Institute's new supercomputer at Arizona State University can do operations equal to every dollar in the recent Wall Street bailout. That would be 700 billion computations in less than 1/60th of a second, says Dan Stanzione, director of the High Performance Computing Initiative at ASU's Ira A.
(Oct 30, 2008)
The University Times | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Student Newspaper Since 1949 (Niner Online)
The best of the best, in Biotechnology, gathered on Oct. 28, in the Student Activity Center to attend the seventh annual Charlotte Biotechnology Conference.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Effectiveness Of Megaplex™ MiRNA Profiling Tools On Small Samples Demonstrated (Medical News Today)
Researchers from the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium and Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) have published a study demonstrating the effectiveness of a new method for profiling microRNAs in small samples.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Strategic Diagnostics Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEWARK, Del.----Strategic Diagnostics Inc. - a leading provider of biotechnology-based detection solutions for a broad range of food, water, agricultural, industrial, environmental and scientific applications, today reported financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2008.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Strategic Diagnostics Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEWARK, Del.----Strategic Diagnostics Inc. - a leading provider of biotechnology-based detection solutions for a broad range of food, water, agricultural, industrial, environmental and scientific applications, today reported financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2008.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Strategic Diagnostics Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results (Centre Daily Times)
Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: SDIX) - a leading provider of biotechnology-based detection solutions for a broad range of food, water, agricultural, industrial, environmental and scientific applications, today reported financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2008. Revenues for the quarter increased 5% to $6.9 million, compared to $6.6 million for the same ...
(Oct 30, 2008)
A chill wind (Express India)
It may seem surprising, but tiny Iceland has produced two of the world's most innovative small drugs companies. By combining advanced gene-sequencing technologies with privileged access to the genetic data of Icelanders, DeCode Genetics pioneered the field of personal genomics.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Type-1 diabetes not so much bad genes as good genes behaving badly, Stanford research shows (EurekAlert!)
( Stanford University Medical Center ) Investigators combing the genome in the hope of finding genetic variants responsible for triggering early-onset diabetes may be looking in the wrong place, new research at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests.
(Oct 30, 2008)
Type-1 Diabetes Not So Much Bad Genes as Good Genes Behaving Badly, Stanford Research Shows (wallstreet:online AG)
Investigators combing the genome in the hope of finding genetic variants responsible for triggering
(Oct 30, 2008)
GenomeQuest Announces Integration Of GenomeQuest(TM) 5.0 With Invitrogen's Vector NTI Advance(TM) For Genomic Sequence ... (BioresearchOnline)
GenomeQuest and Invitrogen today announced that the GenomeQuestT 5.0 web-based sequence search, analysis and data management platform is now interoperable with Invitrogen's Vector NTI AdvanceT desktop sequence analysis solution.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Good genes behaving badly behind type 1 diabetes (News-Medical-Net)
Investigators combing the genome in the hope of finding genetic variants responsible for triggering early-onset diabetes may be looking in the wrong place, new research at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Breakthrough Mapping Of Alzheimer's Genome Helps ID Four New Suspect Genes (Medical News Today)
Four novel genes that may significantly increase the risk of the most common form of late-onset Alzheimer's have been identified by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as reported in the November 7th issue of American Journal of Human Genetics.
(Oct 31, 2008)
InteRNA Technologies And VU University Medical Center To Develop MicroRNA-Based Diagnostics And Therapeutics For Cancer (Medical News Today)
InteRNA Technologies B.V. and VU university medical center in Amsterdam, VUmc, announce the signing of a framework research agreement to develop microRNA (miRNA)-based diagnostics and therapeutics for cancer using InteRNA's proprietary library of miRNAs.
(Oct 31, 2008)
TIME's Best Inventions of 2008 (Time Magazine)
(Oct 31, 2008)
GenomeQuest Announces Integration Of GenomeQuest(TM) 5.0 With Invitrogen's Vector NTI Advance(TM) For Genomic Sequence ... (BioresearchOnline)
GenomeQuest and Invitrogen today announced that the GenomeQuestT 5.0 web-based sequence search, analysis and data management platform is now interoperable with Invitrogen's Vector NTI AdvanceT desktop sequence analysis solution.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Expression Analysis Adopts Cure Kids Cancer Coalition (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DURHAM, N.C.----Expression Analysis, Inc., the industry’s leading provider of genomic services for clinical trials and research, has adopted the Cure Kids Cancer Coalition as its charity and will begin its fund-raising efforts next month.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Corn Researchers Discover Novel Gene Shut-off Mechanisms (Newswise)
University of Delaware scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Arizona and South Dakota State University, have identified unusual differences in the natural mechanisms that turn off, or "silence," genes in corn. The discovery, which was made by comparing the impact of inactivating a gene that occurs in both corn and in the much-studied laboratory plant Arabidopsis, ...
(Oct 31, 2008)
LI-COR Blot Washer Automates Western Blot Processing (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
LI-COR Biosciences now offers the LI-COR Blot Washer for automating the tedious process of blot washing and secondary antibody addition for Western blots. Providing consistent, reproducible incubation and wash cycles for one or multiple blots, the LI-COR Blot Washer is an easy to use liquid delivery and aspiration instrument featuring user-defined, preset wash cycles.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Genetic Methodology Complements Historical Record (Medical News Today)
A new study uses a sophisticated genetic strategy to reveal new roads past an apparent dead end in the historical record of a distinctive civilization that dominated the Mediterranean Sea during the first millennium BC.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Corn Researchers Discover Novel Gene Shut-off Mechanisms (Science Daily)
Scientists have identified unusual differences in the natural mechanisms that turn off, or "silence," genes in corn. The discovery, which was made by comparing the impact of inactivating a gene that occurs in both corn and in the much-studied laboratory plant Arabidopsis, provides new insight into how one of the world's most important crops protects itself from mutation-causing mobile DNA ...
(Oct 31, 2008)
Corn researchers discover novel gene shut-off mechanisms (PhysOrg)
University of Delaware scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Arizona and South Dakota State University, have identified unusual differences in the natural mechanisms that turn off, or "silence," genes in corn.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Type-1 Diabetes Less About Bad Genes And More About Good Genes Behaving Badly, Stanford Research Shows (Medical News Today)
Investigators combing the genome in the hope of finding genetic variants responsible for triggering early-onset diabetes may be looking in the wrong place, new research at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Groundbreaking Drug Development Technology: Frost & Sullivan Award Goes To Imperacer (Medical News Today)
The 2008 European Immunoassay Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Technology Award has been awarded to Chimera Biotec, a bioanalytical company based in Dortmund, Germany. Chimera Biotec is recognized for its pioneering Imperacer® ultra-sensitive immunoassay system, which has a 1000-fold better sensitivity compared to ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay).
(Oct 31, 2008)
EurActiv.com - Interview: Life sciences need to enter ICT age | EU - European Information on Science & Research (EUActiv)
Life scientists need to turn to ICT experts for computational modelling to simulate how living systems work and make new discoveries, argues a biologist in an interview with EurActiv.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Biotech IPOs dying on the vine (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
While the market for initial public offerings has shut down in all industries, with no deals in the United States in nearly three months, biotechnology companies desperate for capital will likely be waiting in line far longer than others when it does re-open.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Protein Signature May Predict Who Responds to Hepatitis C Treatment (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A tell-tale set of newly-identified proteins may be able to predict who will most likely respond to standard therapy for hepatitis C infection, say researchers in the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). It is a development that could help patients facing one of the most taxing therapeutic regimens in medicine.
(Oct 31, 2008)
OSC, Partners Developing Cancer Microscopy, Microarray Database (Newswise)
Repository first ever to provide 24/7 access to tumor pathology alongside genetic data; comprehensive knowledge of tumors key to developing personalized treatments for cancer.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Richard Aster Jr Buys Carter's Inc., Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc., International Game Technology, Sells Norfolk ... (Guru Focus)
The market has been tough, it is certainly not for faint-hearted. Richard Aster, who manages both growth and value funds, has been shopping. These are his buys and sells during the third quarter. Many of them are down since he bought. If you believe in value, you should look into this stocks. Richard Aster Jr owns 136 stocks with a total value of $2.6 billion. Richard Aster Jr buys Carter's ...
(Oct 31, 2008)
U.S. biotech IPOs dying on the vine (USA Today)
While the market for initial public offerings has virtually shut down in all industries, with no deals in the United States in nearly three months, biotechnology companies desperate for capital will likely be waiting in line far longer than others when it does reopen .
(Oct 31, 2008)
Corn researchers discover novel gene shut-off mechanisms (SeedQuest)
Among the University of Delaware team involved in the study were Manoj Pillay, research associate and programmer in the Meyers lab, postdoctoral scientist Dong-Hoon Jeong and research associate Monica Accerbi, both from the Green lab, and Blake Meyers, associate professor.
(Oct 31, 2008)
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