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New therapy for pancreatic cancer (The Times of India)
WASHINGTON: A team of Indian and American scientists has found a new way of treating pancreatic cancer that kills nine in 10 of some 40,000 people diagnosed with the disease in the US each year.
(Dec 30, 2008)
Ariadne Provides Pathway Studio® Interoperability with Illumina's New GenomeStudio Software (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Ariadne announces the completion of a key partner program with Illumina Inc., to provide advanced integration and interpretation capabilities for data generated from their iScan and BeadArray Reader platforms.
(Dec 30, 2008)
New therapy for pancreatic cancer (The Times of India)
WASHINGTON: A team of Indian and American scientists has found a new way of treating pancreatic cancer that kills nine in 10 of some 40,000 people diagnosed with the disease in the US each year.
(Dec 30, 2008)
India-US team finds new therapy for pancreatic cancer (Deccan Herald)
The new personalised therapy involves targeting a receptor whose activation may be responsible for some pancreatic cancers, suggests a study by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore, Maryland and Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore.
(Dec 30, 2008)
New Technique Is Quantum Leap Forward In Understanding Proteins (Medical News Today)
In this ongoing quest, a group of Scripps Research Institute scientists, along with colleagues from the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) have borrowed from physics to deliver one of those research rarities - an unmitigated success. The group has devised a computational method that, with remarkable accuracy, predicts how bacterial proteins fold and interact.
(Dec 30, 2008)
Krumlauf Lab Demonstrates Modulation Of Gene Expression By Protein Coding Regions (Medical News Today)
A research team at the Stowers Institute has discovered how the expression of one of the Hox master control genes is regulated in a specific segment of the developing brain. The findings provide important insight into how and where the brain develops some of its unique and important structures.
(Dec 30, 2008)
On the Record / December 30, 2008 (The Buffalo News)
Hires/Promotions/ Honors
(Dec 30, 2008)
Can genetic tests identify athletic talent? (The Wichita Eagle)
When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit the talents of her 2 ½-year-old son, Noah, she instantly said, "Where can I get it, and how much does it cost?" "I could see how some people might think the test would pigeonhole your child into doing fewer sports or being exposed to fewer things, but I still think it's good to match them ...
(Dec 30, 2008)
FDA Seeks Public Assessments of Next-Gen Sequencing, Bioinformatics Tools (GenomeWeb News)
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(Dec 30, 2008)
Nutrigenomics to develop diets for disease prevention (The Times of India)
WASHINGTON: In a new article, researchers have explored the emerging field of Nutrigenomics, which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet - something that might one day help in developing personalized diets for disease prevention.
(Dec 30, 2008)
Few DNA repair genes maintain association with cancer in field synopsis (EurekAlert!)
( Journal of the National Cancer Institute ) Variants of numerous DNA repair genes initially appeared to be statistically significantly associated with cancer risk in epidemiological studies. When the data from individual studies are pooled, however, few DNA repair gene variants appear truly associated with increased cancer risk, according to a field synopsis published in the Dec. 30 online ...
(Dec 30, 2008)
Year in Review: 2008 was loaded with local health stories (Post-Bulletin)
Many health stories had local connections in 2008. From doctor-of-the-year to anniversaries and mysterious illness, the calendar was packed.
(Dec 31, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics introduces new cancer test (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
Rosetta Genomics, a developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, has introduced its third diagnostic test, miRview meso.
(Dec 31, 2008)
Genome-wide Association Studies Must Account For Ancestry (Medical News Today)
Ask someone where their ancestors were from and odds are that they know. Or maybe not. A new study published in Human Molecular Genetics suggests that scientists using the latest tools to scan the human genome must pay attention to ancestry when analyzing and interpreting their results. Chao Tian and Michael F. Seldin, MD, PhD, of University of California Davis, and Peter K.
(Dec 31, 2008)
Letters: Fundamental truth about cold cures (Guardian Unlimited)
Letters: So Agnès Poirier's British GPs, all five of them, tell her to go back if she is still ill with her cold for a second week
(Dec 31, 2008)
NIST Seeks White Papers on Critical National Needs (ThomasNet)
In Federal Register notice posted on Dec. 16, NIST is interested in detailed pitches for needs that could be basis for new competitions for research funding under its Technology Innovation Program (TIP). While NIST is accepting papers in any topic area it is particularly interested in white papers that would help further refine several topic areas such as civil infrastructure, energy, water, ...
(Dec 31, 2008)
The year was packed with health-related stories (Post-Bulletin)
Many health stories had local connections in 2008. From doctor of the year to anniversaries and mysterious illness, the calendar was packed
(Dec 31, 2008)
Scientists make strides toward defining genetic signature of Alzheimer's disease (EurekAlert!)
( Cell Press ) Scientists have new information about the complex genetic signature associated with Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of cognitive decline and dementia in the elderly. The research, published by Cell Press in the January issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, uses a powerful, high-resolution analysis to look for genes associated with this devastating ...
(Dec 31, 2008)
Scientists make strides toward defining genetic signature of Alzheimer's disease (PhysOrg)
Scientists have new information about the complex genetic signature associated with Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of cognitive decline and dementia in the elderly. The research, published by Cell Press in the January issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, uses a powerful, high-resolution analysis to look for genes associated with this devastating neurodegenerative disorder.
(Dec 31, 2008)
Scientists Make Strides Toward Defining Genetic Signature Of Alzheimer's Disease (Science Daily)
Scientists have new information about the complex genetic signature associated with Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of cognitive decline and dementia in the elderly. The research uses a powerful, high-resolution analysis to look for genes associated with this devastating neurodegenerative disorder.
(Dec 31, 2008)
Foundation makes $100K donation (The Hub)
OCEANPORT — Kristen and Rich Gillette, of Oceanport, presented a $100,000 check to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Dec. 11 in memory of their daughter Kortney, who died of a brain tumor in 2005.
(Dec 31, 2008)
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