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Men's hoops back from Puerto Rico feeling good (Dayton Daily News)
On a short holiday break after winning all three games at the San Juan Shootout against Oral Roberts, South Florida and Murray State, the Raiders can feel good about themselves for multiple reasons.
(Dec 24, 2008)
New method to study bacterial proteins (The Times of India)
WASHINGTON: A team of researchers has devised a computational method that can predict very accurately how bacterial proteins fold and interact.
(Dec 24, 2008)
Education Center (CattleNetwork.com)
Cattle Genomics: How Can Arthrogryposis Multiplex Be Prevented? Since AM appears to be a simple recessive condition, 25% of calves from matings of two AM carrier parents can be born with the condition. Therefore, AM carriers should not be bred to other carriers.
(Dec 24, 2008)
NIST Seeks White Papers on Critical National Needs (Newswise)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is interested in detailed pitches for critical national and societal needs that could be the basis for new competitions for research funding under its Technology Innovation Program (TIP).
(Dec 24, 2008)
'Personalized medicine' poised for progress in 2009 (San Jose Mercury News)
To many biotech professionals, personalized medicine broadly represents the promise of delivering more effective, efficient medical care through genomics and other science that probes an individual's makeup at the molecular level. Tech trend to watch: chat Tech trend to watch: cloud computing
(Dec 24, 2008)
UMBC licenses drug to Vironova AB (BizJournals)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County has licensed HIV-based drug development technology to Vironova AB, a Stockholm-based drug discovery and bioinformatics company.
(Dec 24, 2008)
Unlocking the dynamic web (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of the knowledge and services potentially available on the worldwide web can`t be accessed through browsers and websites. A new European research project has devised a smart toolkit that unlocks and links the web`s hidden resources.
(Dec 24, 2008)
Science’s top ten breakthroughs of 2008 (The Hindu)
In its annual list of the year’s top ten scientific breakthroughs, the journal Science has given top honours to research that produced ‘made-to-order’ cell lines by reprogramming cells from ill patients. These cell ...
(Dec 24, 2008)
Case Western Reserve finds mechanism underlying alt. splicing of premessenger RNA into messenger RNA (EurekAlert!)
A research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing. The new mechanism suggests that curing the more than half of genetic diseases that are caused by mutations in the genetic code that in turn create mistakes in alternative splicing may be considerably more ...
(Dec 24, 2008)
Researcher Finds Mechanism Underlying Alternative Splicing (Newswise)
Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor at Case Western Reserve University, discovered an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing. The new mechanism suggests that curing the more than half of genetic diseases that are caused by mutations in the genetic code that in turn create mistakes in alternative splicing may be considerably more complicated than researchers have previously assumed.
(Dec 24, 2008)
Researchers find mechanism underlying alt. splicing of premessenger RNA into messenger RNA (PhysOrg)
An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing, the process by which single genes produce different proteins in different situations. The new mechanism suggests that curing the more than half of ...
(Dec 24, 2008)
New technique expands understanding of bacterial proteins (New Kerala)
Washington, Dec 24 : A team of researchers has devised a computational method that can predict very accurately how bacterial proteins fold and interact.
(Dec 25, 2008)
Researchers Identify Gene Linked To Inherited Form Of Fatal Lung Disease (Medical News Today)
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that a mutation in a gene known for its role in defending the lungs against invading pathogens is responsible for some inherited cases of a lethal lung disease affecting older adults. The same mutation may also be associated with lung cancer, the researchers said.
(Dec 25, 2008)
Genetic Diseases More Complicated: Mechanism Underlying Alternative Splicing Of Premessenger RNA Into Messenger RNA ... (Science Daily)
A professor of medicine and biochemistry has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing. The new mechanism suggests that curing the more than half of genetic diseases that are caused by mutations in the genetic code that in turn create mistakes in alternative splicing may be considerably more complicated than researchers have previously assumed.
(Dec 26, 2008)
New study sheds light on evolution of malaria (New Kerala)
Washington, Dec 26 : In a novel study, scientists have revealed that malarial parasites found in tree-dwelling rats share a close evolutionary relationship with Plasmodium falciparum, the deadly form of malaria for humans.
(Dec 26, 2008)
Cumulative Risk Assessment Of Phthalates And Other Chemicals Should Be Pursued By EPA (Medical News Today)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from the National Research Council.
(Dec 26, 2008)
Cellular Reprogramming: Science's Breakthrough Of The Year (Medical News Today)
In its annual list of the year's top ten scientific breakthroughs, the journal Science has given top honors to research that produced "made-to-order" cell lines by reprogramming cells from ill patients.
(Dec 26, 2008)
Child health: obesity blamed on weight gain before age five (Guardian Unlimited)
Childhood obesity is determined before the age of five, researchers will tell ministers today. Most of the excess weight gained by children before puberty has typically been put on before they are five, according to the study by the EarlyBird Diabetes Trust. The researchers, based at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, said this suggested that efforts to prevent childhood obesity ...
(Dec 26, 2008)
Patients Share Health Data, Become Researchers to Seek Cures for Their Conditions (PR.com)
CureTogether to Demonstrate at Health 2.0 Conference How Some Patients Are Responding to Inadequate Research by Doing It Themselves. [PR.com - October 23, 2008]
(Dec 26, 2008)
How gene behind brain development is regulated by protein coding regions (New Kerala)
Washington, December 26 : Scientists at the Stowers Institute have announced the discovery of the mechanism whereby the gene behind the brain's development is regulated by certain protein coding regions.
(Dec 26, 2008)
Borlaug Fellows learn new ways to address agriculture issues in their countries (High Plains Journal)
A small group of promising young scientists from Africa and Central America now will be better able to resolve food security issues in their home countries thanks to the Borlaug Fellows Program, said program coordinators at Texas A&M University.
(Dec 26, 2008)
Experimental soybeans sabotage roundworm pest with its own gene (High Plains Journal)
Using biotechnology, Agricultural Research Service scientists have fortified the defenses of soybean plants against tiny but destructive pests called soybean cyst nematodes.
(Dec 26, 2008)
Borlaug Fellows learn new ways to address agriculture issues in their countries (High Plains Journal)
A small group of promising young scientists from Africa and Central America now will be better able to resolve food security issues in their home countries thanks to the Borlaug Fellows Program, said program coordinators at Texas A&M University.
(Dec 26, 2008)
Scripps Florida moves into new home in Jupiter (Palm Beach Daily News)
When professor Charles Weissmann invited French neurovirologist Corrine Lasmezas to join the department of infectology at Scripps Florida in 2005, Lasmezas hesitated. She knew South Florida had to be different from Paris, then her home and one of the world's cultural capitals.
(Dec 26, 2008)
What part of beer don’t you understand? (Realbeer.com)
26-year old Monique Haakensen , a graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan , has spent her years in college obsessed by beer. But not in the way you might think. She’s a doctoral candidate in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and her area of study is beer spoilage.
(Dec 27, 2008)
Q&A: Variant CJD (Guardian Unlimited)
What is variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ? A rare, long-incubating disease that is said to be incurable, although a controversial treatment regarded as unproven by most scientists has been tried by a handful of families and in some cases may have prolonged life significantly. A drug called pentosan polysulphate is pumped around the brain. The treatment involves surgery because it has ...
(Dec 28, 2008)
Potentially Disruptive Antibody Sequencing Technology Developed By UC San Diego And Genentech Scientists (Medical News Today)
Bioinformatics researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Genentech have developed a new, quicker way to sequence monoclonal antibodies - a process that is many times faster than the sequencing technology typically used by academic and industry researchers today.
(Dec 28, 2008)
New Paradigm For Medicinal Chemistry Offered By International Public-Private Partnership (Medical News Today)
The Wellcome Trust has announced a £4.1 million investment in a new initiative to generate small molecule inhibitors - "chemical probes" - for 25 proteins involved in epigenetic signalling, and to release these probes into the public domain with no restriction on use.
(Dec 28, 2008)
Darwin's dangerous idea: Top 10 evolution articles (New Scientist)
One hundred and fifty years after it was first proposed, natural selection continues to be a battleground and a hotbed of new ideas. Here are the best stories from 2008
(Dec 28, 2008)
Study Of New Drug To Stimulate Immune System Of Cancer Victims: TGen, Scottsdale Healthcare, Mayo Clinic (Medical News Today)
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Scottsdale Healthcare and Mayo Clinic are testing a new drug that could help cancer patients by stimulating the immune system. Clinical trials of the drug VTX-2337 are being conducted at TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare, a partnership of Phoenix-based TGen and Scottsdale-based Scottsdale Healthcare Corp.
(Dec 28, 2008)
Special feature: Unlocking the dynamic web to form new partnerships (IST Results)
Most of the web’s potential can’t be tapped via websites and browsers. A smart toolkit crafted by European researchers to unlock those hidden resources has now been tested in three real-world applications.
(Dec 28, 2008)
The Perl Foundation moves Perl 5 to Git (CIOL)
HOLLAND, MI: The Perl Foundation has migrated Perl 5 to the Git version control system, making it easier than ever for Perl's development team to continue to improve the language that powers many websites.
(Dec 29, 2008)
You should know ... (The Burlington Free Press)
Peter Banks, scientific director, BioTek Instruments Inc.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Genes Determining Asymmetry Probably Arose In The First Bilaterally Symmetric Organisms (Medical News Today)
Biologists have tracked down genes that control the handedness of snail shells, and they turn out to be similar to the genes used by humans to set up the left and right sides of the body.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics to start showing product revenue (Globes Online)
The company has launched its second microRNA-based molecular diagnostic test and expects to launch its third test by year-end.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Beef association president cuts to the meat of his industry (Journal & Courier)
This has been a busy year for Todd McGraw.
(Dec 29, 2008)
African Thicket Rat Malaria Linked To Virulent Human Form (Medical News Today)
Even though the most deadly form of malaria for humans, Plasmodium falciparum, has been linked to malaria found in chimpanzees, this group has been fairly isolated on the malarial family tree - until now.
(Dec 29, 2008)
New Gene Found To Be Associated With Widely-used Marker Of Blood Glucose Concentration (Medical News Today)
Scientists have found that genetic variation at the hexokinase-1 gene is linked to variation in the blood concentration of glycated hemoglobin, an index of long-term blood glucose concentration widely used in the follow-up of diabetes patients.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Economic stimulus could boost IT job prospects (InfoWorld)
The outlook for IT jobs in 2009 may not be as bad as some observers suggest. While some indicators and surveys are showing some declines in tech jobs, none predict a precipitous drop. In fact, a federal economic stimulus package may even add IT positions . "IT jobs are relatively safe in the aftermath of the economic meltdown compared to jobs in general," said David Foote of Vero ...
(Dec 29, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics Announces Commercial Availability of Its Third MicroRNA-Based Diagnostic Test: miRview(TM) meso (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. , the leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announced today the introduction of its third diagnostic test, miRview meso. The test is now commercially available through Rosetta Genomics CLIA-certified lab in Philadelphia.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Rosetta Genomics Announces Commercial Availability of Its Third MicroRNA-Based Diagnostic Test: miRview(TM) meso (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. , the leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announced today the introduction of its third diagnostic test, miRview meso. The test is now commercially available through Rosetta Genomics CLIA-certified lab in Philadelphia.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Commentary: Annus Horribilis 2009 (Middle East Times)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- In "Countdown to a Meltdown," The Atlantic's James Fallows describes "America's Coming Economic Crisis, a look back from the election of 2016," when the 46th president of the United States will be the first since before the civil war to be neither Democrat nor Republican.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Nutrigenomics -- developing personalized diets for disease prevention (EurekAlert!)
( Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News ) The emerging field of nutrigenomics, which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression, is explored in a series of provocative, interdisciplinary reports and analyses in the December 2008 special issue.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Nutrigenomics - Developing Personalized Diets for Disease Prevention - Is the Focus of a Special Issue of OMICS (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The emerging field of nutrigenomics, which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression, is explored in a series of provocative, interdisciplinary reports and analyses in the December 2008 Special Issue of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary ...
(Dec 29, 2008)
Open Knowledge Sharing for the Dynamic Web (ReadWriteWeb)
The EU-funded OpenKnowledge program is a smart toolkit designed to unlock the hidden resources of the web that can't be accessed by web sites and browsers alone. With a small, downloadable piece of Java code, users can coordinate and share information with each other more directly than through traditional means. To highlight the potential of the OpenKnowledge system, researchers have put ...
(Dec 29, 2008)
Stimulus could boost IT job prospects (IT World)
The outlook for IT jobs in 2009 may not be as bad as some observers suggest. While some indicators and surveys are showing some declines in tech jobs, none predict a precipitous drop.
(Dec 29, 2008)
Nutrigenomics -- developing personalized diets for disease prevention (PhysOrg)
The emerging field of nutrigenomics, which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression, is explored in a series of provocative, interdisciplinary reports and analyses in the December 2008 Special Issue (Volume 12, number 4) of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, a peer-reviewed ...
(Dec 29, 2008)
NHGRI Informatics Training Programs Could Become Bioinformatics Centers (GenomeWeb News)
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(Dec 29, 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 29, 2008)
Nutrigenomics: Developing Personalized Diets For Disease Prevention (Science Daily)
The emerging field of nutrigenomics aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression.
(Dec 30, 2008)
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