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Suddenly, Twitter's the rage with D.C. politicos (CNET)
Missouri's U.S. senator becomes the latest to make waves with the microblogging site--this time suggesting when Obama would announce his choice for Health and Human Services head.
(Feb 28, 2009)
Suddenly, Twitter's the rage with D.C. politicos (CNET)
Missouri's U.S. senator becomes the latest to make waves with the microblogging site--this time suggesting when Obama would announce his choice for Health and Human Services head.
(Feb 28, 2009)
Origin of Life On Earth: Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Molecular Machine (Science Daily)
A major mystery about the origins of life may have been resolved. Scientists have proposed a new theory for how a universal molecular machine, the ribosome, managed to self-assemble as a critical step in the genesis of all life on Earth.
(Mar 1, 2009)
This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)
In early online publication, UCLA researchers have constructed a global map of human genetic variation using large-scale genotyping data.
(Mar 1, 2009)
Ring in the New Year and the Ouija Board, Too (GenomeWeb News)
It's that time again -- when half the people think about the year in retrospect and the other half of the people start thinking about what's going to happen next year.
(Mar 1, 2009)
The case against enterprise micro-blogging (CNET)
Twitter and its clones seem like a good idea for the enterprise-until you realize that the short message format is just no good for business.
(Mar 1, 2009)
At ASMS, Mass-Spec Vendors Debut Tools to Meet Growing Demand for Better Performance (GenomeWeb News)
DENVER — As mass-spectrometry vendors search for the next breakthrough in instrument technology, a number of them unveiled a host of new tools this week they claim offer greater mass accuracy and resolution, depth of coverage, and sensitivity.
(Mar 1, 2009)
Sreelatha Menon: Researchers sans borders (Business Standard India)
A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money. Call it Science 2.0 or merely science without borders.
(Mar 1, 2009)
Sreelatha Menon: Researchers sans borders (Business Standard India)
A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money. Call it Science 2.0 or merely science without borders.
(Mar 1, 2009)
Sreelatha Menon: Researchers sans borders (Business Standard India)
A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money. Call it Science 2.0 or merely science without borders.
(Mar 1, 2009)
FE Editorial : Poll vaults (Express India)
A Politically-savvy Martian arriving in India last week would have known elections must be due; such was the extraordinary energy the government displayed in making decisions, and announcing and clearing projects.
(Mar 1, 2009)
At Scripps Meeting, Speakers See Optimistic Future for Genomic Medicine Despite Challenges Ahead (GenomeWeb News)
SAN DIEGO (GenomeWeb News) – Genomic information is already having an impact on medical practice, and advances in technologies such as next-generation sequencing will only accelerate the advance of genomic medicine, according to speakers at a conference here this week.
(Mar 1, 2009)
Apple gives up a little Internet usage share (CNET)
Use of the Mac operating system to access the Web slides a little, but Apple's iPhone "dominates" the mobile browsing market, new reports indicate.
(Mar 1, 2009)
Sreelatha Menon: Researchers sans borders (Business Standard India)
A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money. Call it Science 2.0 or merely science without borders.
(Mar 1, 2009)
CollabRx Launches Personal Genomics Service to Target 'Long Tail' of Disease (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – CollabRx last week threw its hat in the personal genomics market with the launch of a new service designed to provide cancer patients with information about specific treatment options that their physicians might otherwise overlook.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Make your own shoe phone online (WA Today)
Aussie computer scientist develops a real version of Maxwell Smart's phone.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Malaria Parasite Zeroes In On Molecule To Enhance Its Survival (Science Daily)
Scientists have found that the parasite that causes malaria breaks down an important amino acid in its quest to adapt and thrive within the human body. By depleting this substance called arginine, the parasite may trigger a more critical and deadlier phase of the disease. The work may point the way to better treatments.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Genome Sequencing Of Fungus With Biotechnological Applications (BioresearchOnline)
Researchers Antonio G. Pisabarro (Professor of Microbiology) as well as José Luis Lavín and José Antonio Oguiza, from the Genetic and Microbiology Group at the Public University of Navarre, have taken part in the international project for the sequencing of the genome of the Postia placenta fungus.
(Mar 2, 2009)
BioScience tip sheet, March 2009 (EurekAlert!)
( American Institute of Biological Sciences ) The press release provides a listing of peer-reviewed research articles published in the March 2009 issue of BioScience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. The journal's tag line is "Organisms from Molecules to the Environment."
(Mar 2, 2009)
Mining MIT for Neurotechnical Know-How (Newswise)
Where do innovative ideas come from and how can we accelerate them? That's the challenge and mandate of MIT's McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program. MINT supports innovative new projects that can drive the future development of neuroscience.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Researchers fear 'stagnation' under Tories (The Globe and Mail)
Warn that Ottawa's approach will make it tough for Canada to recruit or retain top talent
(Mar 2, 2009)
Epistem Announces Research and Development Collaboration With a Major Pharmaceutical Company (ITNews)
MANCHESTER, England, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Epistem Plc (LSE:EHP) the UK biotechnology and research services company announced today that they have signed a research and development collaboration with Novartis to identify new drug targets and therapeutics across a variety of disease areas.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Report: Intel, TSMC tie-up targets Atom chip (CNET)
Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will collaborate on Atom chip manufacturing, according to reports.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Aussie boffin cobbles together Get Smart shoe phone (Sydney Morning Herald)
Forty years after clumsy agent Maxwell Smart immortalised the shoe phone, an Australian computer scientist has developed a real-life version.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Dr. Fox: Dog's mornings are gut-wrenching (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
DEAR DR. FOX: I hope you can shed some light on a perplexing problem we have with our 3-year-old neutered Westie. When Remy came to us, the Animal Rescue League sent him with a bag of Nutra brand lamb and rice dry food, but he wouldn't touch it.
(Mar 2, 2009)
The Einstein Center for Epigenomics, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Signs Site License Agreement with CLC bio (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
AARHUS, Denmark----The Einstein Center for Epigenomics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, has entered into an agreement with CLC bio to put the company's full suite of bioinformatics tools into the hands of epigenomics researchers and other investigators at the College.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Biotechnological Applications For Genome Sequencing Of Fungus (Medical News Today)
Researchers Antonio G. Pisabarro (Professor of Microbiology) as well as José Luis LavÃn and José Antonio Oguiza, from the Genetic and Microbiology Group at the Public University of Navarre, have taken part in the international project for the sequencing of the genome of the Postia placenta fungus.
(Mar 2, 2009)
The Einstein Center for Epigenomics, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Signs Site License Agreement with CLC bio (Centre Daily Times)
The Einstein Center for Epigenomics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, has entered into an agreement with CLC bio to put the company's full suite of bioinformatics tools into the hands of epigenomics researchers and other investigators at the College. The suite includes CLC bio’s premier solutions for handling high-throughput sequencing data, CLC Genomics Workbench ...
(Mar 2, 2009)
EmTech Spl: Customized medicine to be a reality? (CIOL)
NEW DELHI, INDIA: “Development of biological sciences –genomics, proteomics and systemic biology and their integration with allied sciences is what is going to drive the future,” these were the words with which Dr M.K.Bhan, secretary, Department of Biotechnology opened the session titled 'Advances in Biotechnology' at the first day of EmTech India 2009 organized jointly by MIT and CyberMedia in ...
(Mar 2, 2009)
Obama: 'A cure for cancer in our time' (Chicago Tribune)
Echoing the words of former President Richard Nixon almost 40 years earlier, President Barack Obama last week expressed his commitment to launching a new effort to find "a cure for cancer in our time."
(Mar 2, 2009)
Facebook investor talks about why Twitter bid failed (CNET)
Peter Thiel of Clarium Capital said a few words to BusinessWeek about why a deal between the two companies wasn't going to work out. Hint: it involves Facebook's cloudy valuation.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Microsoft and FathomDB target 'relational' clouds (CNET)
Two seemingly unconnected pieces of news signal an interesting market test: can standard relational-database software be effectively delivered from the cloud?
(Mar 2, 2009)
New antivirus software looks at behaviors, not signatures (CNET)
In the war with online scammers, security vendors like AVG and Damballa are increasingly turning to software that monitors behavior of code rather than its signature.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Are passwords our best security option? (CNET)
When even the most careful and security-minded PC users fall prey to password thieves, you have to think that there must be a better way.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Einstein College Licenses CLC Bio Packages (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine will use two CLC Bio software platforms in its epigenomics and other research programs under a new site license agreement, the Danish company said today.
(Mar 2, 2009)
FlexGen Closes New Round of Financing (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
FlexGen, a Dutch Life Sciences company, is active in the genetic research market with a proprietary custom microarray synthesis instrument. The financing will allow FlexGen to speed up the development and global commercialization of its FlexArrayer, an instrument that provides researchers with unprecedented freedom in the production of custom microarrays.
(Mar 2, 2009)
FlexGen Closes New Round of Financing (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
FlexGen, a Dutch Life Sciences company, is active in the genetic research market with a proprietary custom microarray synthesis instrument. The financing will allow FlexGen to speed up the development and global commercialization of its FlexArrayer, an instrument that provides researchers with unprecedented freedom in the production of custom microarrays.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Opinions Wanted (GenomeWeb News)
Russ Altman blogs that he's giving a talk "highlighting some of the most important papers in our field of translational bioinformatics" and he's looking for input . Nominate papers from the last 15 months that include molecular and clinical data with bioinformatics tools.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Initial reactions to my Kindle 2 (CNET)
The Kindle 2 still has growing up to do, but this iteration is still a convenient way to read when on the go. It offers a qualitatively different experience from reading on a laptop or a phone.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Open standards aid intracompany collaboration (CNET)
Open standards aren't simply a tool with which to club competitors; they also help companies get their own product lines working together.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Melinda Gates admits to having iPhone envy (CNET)
In a recent interview with Vogue, Melinda Gates says that the Gates children aren't allowed to have iPods or iPhones--but she "acknowledges the inevitable lure of the forbidden fruit."
(Mar 2, 2009)
Melinda Gates admits to having iPhone envy (CNET)
In a recent interview with Vogue, Melinda Gates says that the Gates children aren't allowed to have iPods or iPhones--but she "acknowledges the inevitable lure of the forbidden fruit."
(Mar 2, 2009)
Verdezyne Names VP (socalTech.com)
Carlsbad-based Verdezyne, which was formerly known as CODA Genomics, said Thursday it has named Damien Perriman as Vice President of Business Development. Verdezyne said that Perriman joins the firm from The Dow Chemical Company, and has previously served as Deputy Trade Commissioner to the Americas for the Queensland Government of Australia, along with working at Miritone. Verdezyne is ...
(Mar 2, 2009)
TiVo partnerships target cable market (CNET)
TiVo announced a couple of partnerships Monday that will help it win business cable operators.
(Mar 2, 2009)
TiVo partnerships target cable market (CNET)
Company announces a couple of deals to help make the next generation of TiVo HD products more cable friendly.
(Mar 2, 2009)
JCVI program trains USDA scientists on eukaryotic genome analysis (EurekAlert!)
( J. Craig Venter Institute ) As part of the ongoing mission to train and educate scientists on the latest tools, methods and advances in genomics, the J. Craig Venter Institute's Eukaryotic Genome Annotation and Analysis Team will travel to Lubbock, Texas, March 3-5 to train 40 US Department of Agriculture scientists at the Agricultural Research Service.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Microsoft to start testing 'Kumo' search service (CNET)
Beginning this week, some of Redmond's employees will get access to the new look for Microsoft's Live Search, CNET News has learned.
(Mar 2, 2009)
USDA Grants $11M for Livestock Genomics (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Universities and research centers in 15 states will receive a total of $11 million from the US Department of Agriculture for livestock genomics research projects and the development of technologies under a Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service program.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Microsoft enthusiasts atwitter at MVP summit (CNET)
The gathering with tech enthusiasts is closed to the press, but there are hundreds of tweets an hour discussing everything from the food to the allegedly secret content.
(Mar 2, 2009)
Researchers discover gene variant associated with cocaine dependence, cocaine induced paranoia (EurekAlert!)
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have discovered that variants in the a-endomannosidase gene are associated with cocaine addiction and cocaine-induced paranoia in European American and African American populations. These findings appear in the March issue of the Archives of General ...
(Mar 2, 2009)
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