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New NY Senator Makes First Visit to WNY (WKBW-TV Buffalo)
New York's new senator makes her first trip to Western New York since her appointment, to talk about issues important to this end of the state. She may have only been in town for a few hours, but she characterized her meeting with local leaders as "extremely productive."
(Jan 31, 2009)
BUSAC Discussion Session: "Genomics and the Future of Medicine" (Caltech Today)
At 2 p.m. on Thursday, February 5, in Baxter Lecture Hall, a discussion session called "Genomics and the Future of Medicine" will feature Francis S. Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health, and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, Caltech's president emeritus and Millikan Professor of Biology. Admission is free, and no ...
(Feb 1, 2009)
The week: Stories and photos from January 25-31 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Pentagon officials have toured the brig at Camp Pendleton as they consider moving Guantanamo Bay detainees there, to the prison at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station and to other facilities, a local congressman said Monday.
(Feb 1, 2009)
Gillibrand courts constituents in area (The Buffalo News)
Buffalo met New York's new U. S. senator, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, for the first time Saturday amid the gleaming new research facilities of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
(Feb 1, 2009)
Gillibrand courts constituents in area (The Buffalo News)
Buffalo met New York's new U. S. senator, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, for the first time Saturday amid the gleaming new research facilities of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
(Feb 1, 2009)
New technology discovery at Mount Sinai Hospital holds promise for improved breast cancer treatment (EurekAlert!)
( Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute ) In a study published by Nature Biotechnology online on Feb. 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital researchers have unveiled a new technology tool that analyzes breast cancer tumors to determine a patient's best treatment options. The tool can predict with more than 80 percent accuracy a patient's chance of recovering from breast cancer.
(Feb 1, 2009)
Scientists uncover new class of non-protein coding genes in mammals with key functions (EurekAlert!)
( Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ) Researchers have uncovered a vast new class of previously unrecognized mammalian genes that do not encode proteins, but instead function as long RNA molecules, and seem to play critical roles in both health and disease, including cancer, immune signaling and stem cell biology.
(Feb 1, 2009)
New Promise For Improved Breast Cancer Treatment (Science Daily)
Researchers have unveiled a new technology tool that analyzes breast cancer tumors to determine a patient's best treatment options. The tool can predict with more than 80 percent accuracy a patient's chance of recovering from breast cancer.
(Feb 1, 2009)
Expression Data May Help Weed Disease-Relevant SNPs Out of GWAS Data, Study Suggests (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Genetic variants influencing disease risk are more likely to occur in differentially expressed genes, according to a team of researchers who have developed a tool, dubbed functionally interpolating SNPs, or fitSNPs, for prioritizing candidate loci discovered during genome-wide association studies.
(Feb 1, 2009)
Ingenuity’s IPA to Act as Integration Core For Huntington’s-Specific CHDI Project (GenomeWeb News)
Following a year of evaluation , Huntington’s disease research organization CHDI has selected the Ingenuity Pathway Analysis system to serve as the foundation for a disease-specific research informatics platform it is developing for internal use.
(Feb 1, 2009)
Key To Pre-eclampsia May Be Found In Misfolded Proteins In Urine (Science Daily)
Clues to the cause of pre-eclampsia, a common, but serious hypertension complication of pregnancy that has puzzled doctors and researchers for decades, point to proteins that misfold and aggregate, according to researchers.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Genetic Blueprint Of Sorghum -- Key Food And Biofuels Crop -- Completed (Science Daily)
Scientists have completed the sequence and analysis of the complete genome of sorghum, a major food and fodder plant with high potential as a bioenergy crop. The genome data will aid scientists in optimizing sorghum and other crops not only for food and fodder use, but also for biofuels production.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Stephen Wong Named John S. Dunn Distinguished Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Methodist Hospital (Newswise)
Dr. Wong's research combines genomics with advanced imaging and biosensing techniques for more personalized medical care. His goal is to take the guess work out of treatment decisions, saving cost and time, both of which are precious commodities for patients with cancer or neurodegenerative diseases.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Vascular drug found to improve learning and memory in middle-aged rats (EurekAlert!)
( American Psychological Association ) A team of Arizona psychologists, geneticists and neuroscientists has reported that a safe and effective drug used to treat vascular problems in the brain has improved spatial learning and working memory in middle-aged rats. Although far from proving anything about human use of the drug, the finding supports the scientific quest for a substance that could ...
(Feb 2, 2009)
Arizona research team gathers valuable memory-drug data (The Arizona Republic)
Study suggests high doses of a drug called Fasudil improved learning and memory in lab rats.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Fox Chase Cancer Center's Keystone Program in Blood Cell Development and Cancer Adopts BioDiscovery's Nexus Copy ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
BioDiscovery Inc., the leading developer of integrated software solutions for microarray-based research, announced today that Fox Chase Cancer Center's Keystone Program in Blood Cell Development and Cancer has acquired a site license for Nexus Copy Number and Nexus Expression, two companion tools designed specifically for scientists working on DNA copy number and RNA expression analysis from ...
(Feb 2, 2009)
My Pharmiweb.com (PharmiWeb)
AnaSpec Inc. AnaSpec, Inc., a leading provider of integrated proteomics solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent number 7,465,810 for “Reactive 1,3’-Crosslinked Carbocyanines and Their Bioconjugates.”
(Feb 2, 2009)
Global warming spurs drive for drought resistant cereal (New Kerala)
London, Feb 2 : Global warming is prompting the drive for drought and heat resistant cereal, which can be grown in the most arid areas to take care of some of our food requirements.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Your Family May Once Have Been A Different Color (NPR)
Skin pigmentation in human lineages has changed much faster and more frequently than scientists previously thought, says anthropologist Nina Jablonski. The researcher says that a population can be one color (light or dark), and 100 generations later — with no intermarriage — be a very different color.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB) Becomes a GeneGo Center of Excellence for the Asia Pacific Region (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that QFAB has licensed MetaCore and entered a co marketing agreement with GeneGo for the Asia Pacific region.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Agilent Technologies and National University of Ireland, Galway, Open Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & GALWAY, Ireland----Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National University of Ireland , Galway, today announced the opening of a Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility on the NUI Galway campus.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Misfolded Proteins In The Urine May Provide Key To Pre-Eclampsia (Medical News Today)
Clues to the cause of preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertension complication of pregnancy that has puzzled doctors and researchers for decades, point to proteins that misfold and aggregate, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Agilent Technologies and National University of Ireland, Galway, Open Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility (Centre Daily Times)
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, today announced the opening of a Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility on the NUI Galway campus. The state-of-the-art facility is fully equipped with the latest accurate-mass quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) and triple quadrupole (QQQ) mass spectrometer platforms from Agilent.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Potential For Improved Breast Cancer Treatment Using New Technology Discovery At Mount Sinai Hospital (Medical News Today)
In a study published by Nature Biotechnology online on February 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital researchers have unveiled a new technology tool that analyzes breast cancer tumours to determine a patient's best treatment options. The tool can predict with more than 80 per cent accuracy a patient's chance of recovering from breast cancer.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Bioalma Introduces novo|seek Intelligent Search Resource for Life Sciences Community (Centre Daily Times)
Biomedical research and studies are critical to the implementation of new basic research, as it is for the development of new medicines. With the vastness of research data available today – estimated at 18 million documents across more than 20,000 medical journals – it is imperative that the research community have easy access to the latest research information available.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Genomics Workstation provides automated liquid handling. (ThomasNet)
Designed for molecular biology applications, Zephyr Genomics Workstation includes pre-installed methods for automating nucleic acid purification chemistries, as well as standard Caliper methods for routine applications such as PCR setup and sample normalization. With partial tip loading capability, instrument can process 8-96 samples simultaneously. Unit's ultrasonic detector provides ...
(Feb 2, 2009)
TGen and ASU researchers find drug that could reduce risk of Alzheimer's (EurekAlert!)
( The Translational Genomics Research Institute ) A drug used to improve blood flow to the brain also could help improve learning and memory and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study released today by investigators at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Arizona State University.
(Feb 2, 2009)
New vaccine R&D collaboration between Singapore's institute and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (EurekAlert!)
( Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore ) Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA Belgium have sealed an agreement to collaborate in three vaccine and adjuvant system related research projects. Adjuvants are compounds used together with vaccines to boost a person's immune responses.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Key To Preeclampsia May Be Found In Misfolded Proteins In The Urine (Medical News Today)
Clues to the cause of preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertension complication of pregnancy that has puzzled doctors and researchers for decades, point to proteins that misfold and aggregate, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers.
(Feb 2, 2009)
NUI Opening Mass Spec Facility Using Agilent Instruments (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Agilent Technologies today announced the opening of a mass spectrometry facility focused on functional genomics, proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics research on the National University of Ireland's Galway campus.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Roche Extends Genedata License (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Roche has extended a license agreement with Genedata for the Refiner mass spectrometry module of the Expressionist biomarker platform, Genedata said today.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Sorenson Forensics Sees 2008 Revenues Rise 240 Percent While Creating Programs to Empower Clients in Fast-Growing DNA ... (Centre Daily Times)
Sorenson Forensics today announced its gross revenues increased 240 percent in 2008 over the previous year. The independent business unit of Sorenson Genomics found increased profits by offering innovative programs to law enforcement, public crime labs, courts and private labs that helped these clients meet an increasing demand for timely and accurate forensic DNA services.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Darwin, Reviewed (GenomeWeb News)
In the New York Times Sunday Book Review , Christopher Benfey reviews two new books on Charles Darwin . According to Benfey, Adrian Desmond and James Moore say in Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution that Darwin argued "for the unitary origin and hence 'brotherhood' of all human beings."
(Feb 2, 2009)
It's Not Just Americans (GenomeWeb News)
The Rescuing Darwin survey, found that half of British adults do not believe in evolution , reports the UK's Guardian . The poll found that one-quarter of British adults say that the theory of evolution is "definitely true" and another quarter say it is "probably true."
(Feb 2, 2009)
From Lab Rat to Librarian (GenomeWeb News)
A blogger at Bitesize Bio tells the tale of how she went from aspiring scientific researcher to librarian . Her job includes everything from teaching workshops on clinical genetics to managing a web site and curating a bioinformatics database.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Doctors No Longer Have to Feel Left Out (GenomeWeb News)
ScienceRoll's Bertalan Meskó has launched PeRSSonalized Medicine , a new online tool for time-strapped doctors who need to keep up with the literature but don't have time, or don't know much about Web 2.0 tools.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Cognitive Ability of Aging Senior Citizens May Be Enhanced by Blood Flow Regulating Drug (Senior Journal)
Feb. 2, 2009 - A drug used to improve blood flow to the brain also could help improve learning and memory and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease for seniors, according to a new study released today by investigators at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Arizona State University.
(Feb 2, 2009)
The Hospital for Sick Children Selects GenoLogics for Integrated Lab and Data Management Solution (T-Net British Columbia)
Vancouver, BC, February 2, 2009--(T-Net)--GenoLogics announced that The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children is deploying its lab and data management solution across multiple facilities of its genome centre.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Predicting the Course (GenomeWeb News)
Canadian researchers found that determining how different proteins interact in tumors can be used to predict a woman's chances at surviving breast cancer . As they report in Nature Biotechnology , scientists led by the University of Toronto's Jeffrey Wrana first scoured the literature for proteins that interact with many other proteins and then looked at genome-wide expression from 79 human ...
(Feb 2, 2009)
MJM Bites the Dust (GenomeWeb News)
"A pioneering medical journal has fallen victim to the dramatic and wrenching changes that are overtaking the publishing industry," says a 60-Second Science story at Scientific American : the Medscape Journal of Medicine has closed shop.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Cambridge University Research Group Employs Fluidigm’s EP1 System for Cancer and Disease Association Studies (Centre Daily Times)
Fluidigm Corporation today announced that the Cancer Research UK Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, based at Strangeways Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom, has purchased the company’s EP1 System to conduct cancer research and disease association studies. The Fluidigm EP1 system combines the efficiencies of integrated fluidic circuit (IFC)-based high-throughput ...
(Feb 2, 2009)
Can bacteria rescue the oil industry? (The Scientist)
Microbes in oil deposits withstand enormous hydrocarbon loads, intense heat, high salt and immense pressure. How can we put them to work for us?
(Feb 2, 2009)
New Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Meets with WNY Leaders (WGRZ-TV Buffalo)
The state's newest senator visited Western New York Saturday and met with approximately 100 of the region's community leaders. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) held the roundtable discussion at the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
(Feb 2, 2009)
New Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Meets with WNY Leaders (WGRZ-TV Buffalo)
The state's newest senator visited Western New York Saturday and met with approximately 100 of the region's community leaders. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) held the roundtable discussion at the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
(Feb 2, 2009)
New vaccine developed for preventing 'uncommon cold' virus (EurekAlert!)
( George Mason University ) Common colds typically cause a week of sneezing, aches and pains and then fade away leaving only a sore nose and a few used sick days behind. But what if that cold turned out to be something more?
(Feb 2, 2009)
Comparative genomics reveals molecular evolution of Q fever pathogen (EurekAlert!)
( Virginia Tech ) In the year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin, researchers have uncovered genetic clues about why some strains of the pathogen that causes Q fever, Coxiella burnetii, are more virulent than others.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Boehringer Ingelheim, Cenix in RNAi Research Deal (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Cenix BioScience will support Boehringer Ingelheim with RNAi-focused contract research services for its therapeutic drug programs under a new agreement, Cenix said today.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Fluorotechnics Rebrands as Gelcompany (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Fluorotechnics, a Sydney, Australia-based supplier of fluorescence and other protein detection technologies, today said that it has rebranded itself under the name of a firm it acquired last year, Gelcompany.
(Feb 2, 2009)
Proxeon Raises $2.4M from VC Investors (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Danish proteomics firm Proxeon has raised DKK14 million ($2.4 million) in a round of private financing from venture capital investors.
(Feb 2, 2009)
DuPont Licenses DxS Multiplex Assay Technology (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — DuPont's Qualicon business has licensed DxS' Scorpion multiplex assay platform for use in developing diagnostic tests for the food industry.
(Feb 2, 2009)
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