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Good News for Cancer Patients (the Ones in Boston, Anyway) (GenomeWeb News)
This article from the Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts General Hospital will begin to routinely perform genetic screens on "nearly all new patients' tumors, a novel strategy designed to customize treatment."
(Mar 4, 2009)
Sequenom Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sequenom today said that its board of directors has approved the adoption of a share purchase rights plan, under which shareholders of record at the close of business on March 20, will receive rights to purchase shares of a new series of preferred stock.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Rutgers to Build $55M Proteomics Building (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Rutgers University plans to use a portion of money from a recent capital campaign to fund construction of a $55 million proteomics research center it has been planning to build since 2006.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Removing the Guesswork (GenomeWeb News)
A paper published this week in PNAS from scientists at the Broad Institute looks at how to better identify the proteins to which small molecules and drugs bind to effect their mechanism of action.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Mar 04th (Business Weekly)
As production of one of the world’s most important food crops fails to keep up with demand, threatened by droughts and new diseases, a team of British scientists is undertaking important genetic research on wheat that is hoped will help underpin food security in the UK.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Safeway gives $685,000 to TGen for breast cancer research (EurekAlert!)
( The Translational Genomics Research Institute ) Despite a down economy, Safeway Inc. presented a $685,236 check this week for breast cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).Dan Valenzuela, President of Safeway's Phoenix Division, which includes 116 stores throughout Arizona, thanked the grocery chain's customers and employees for stepping up for scientific ...
(Mar 4, 2009)
Rosetta Genomics to Hold Fourth Quarter Conference Call on March 26 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
REHOVOT, Israel & PHILADELPHIA----Rosetta Genomics today announced it will release financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 on March 26, 2009 before the opening of NASDAQ trading, and will host a conference call and webcast to discuss those results and answer questions beginning at 8:30 a.m.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Rosetta Genomics to Hold Fourth Quarter Conference Call on March 26 (Centre Daily Times)
Rosetta Genomics (NASDAQ: ROSG) today announced it will release financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 on March 26, 2009 before the opening of NASDAQ trading, and will host a conference call and webcast to discuss those results and answer questions beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time that same day.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Luminex Unveils Keynote Speakers for Planet xMAP USA 2009 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
AUSTIN, Texas----Luminex Corporation , the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, today unveiled the keynote speakers for its sixth annual Planet xMAP USA 2009 multiplexing symposium.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Protein Function And Chromatin Structure Methods Featured In Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (Medical News Today)
Two new methods for analyzing the roles played by proteins in cells are featured in the March issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Thomas J. Wandless and colleagues from Stanford University provide detailed instructions for Regulating Protein Stability in Mammalian Cells Using Small Molecules.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Luminex Unveils Keynote Speakers for Planet xMAP USA 2009 (Centre Daily Times)
Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, today unveiled the keynote speakers for its sixth annual Planet xMAP USA 2009 multiplexing symposium. Planet xMAP USA 2009 will feature keynote addresses from Dr. Mark McClellan, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez. The Luminex hosted symposium will be held May 4-6, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency ...
(Mar 4, 2009)
UPVCC needs P490M for bldg. on SRP lot (Sun Star)
THE University of the Philippines in the Visayas Cebu College (UPVCC), who received from the Cebu City Government five hectares of the South Road Properties (SRP) for its graduate school campus, needs P490.1 million in financial requirements for Phase I alone.
(Mar 4, 2009)
People Transfer (GenomeWeb News)
Fate Therapeutics, a company founded in late 2007 to commercialize stem-cell technology from several US academic institutions, said this week that it has added Dan Shoemaker as its chief technology officer.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Researchers at Signature Characterize Previously Unrecognized DNA Gains on Human Chromosome 22 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SPOKANE, Wash.----Researchers at Signature Genomic Laboratories recently characterized 18 individuals with submicroscopic gains of DNA on chromosome 22 and suggest that duplication alone may not account for the clinical features in those individuals.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Grocer Gives TGen $685K for Breast Cancer Research (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Translational Genomics Research Institute today said that it has received a gift of $685,236 from the supermarket chain Safeway for its breast cancer research programs.
(Mar 4, 2009)
GeneLink Raises $2.4M in Private Placements (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – GeneLink today said that it has raised $2.4 million through two private placements of its stock.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Genescient Teams with Kronos on Alzheimer’s Research (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Genescient and Kronos Science Laboratory will collaborate to identify genes that may be involved in Alzheimer’s disease, Genescient said today.
(Mar 4, 2009)
200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation (EurekAlert!)
( Virginia Tech ) Researchers have estimated the number of different rice mutants needed to have a mutant for every gene as somewhere between 180,698 and 460,000. Two hundred thousand rice mutants are now available and have been mapped.
(Mar 4, 2009)
CombiMatrix Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Financial Results (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
MUKILTEO, Wash., March 4, 2009 -- CombiMatrix Corporation today reported financial results for the three and 12 months ended December 31, 2008. Key highlights for the fourth quarter and through the date of this release include:
(Mar 4, 2009)
Affymetrix to Webcast Presentations at Two March Financial Conferences (Centre Daily Times)
Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced that company management will provide a corporate overview at two upcoming financial conferences.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Pressure BioSciences' Q4 Revenues Nearly Double (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Pressure BioSciences today reported that its fourth-quarter revenues nearly doubled and its net loss declined 8 percent year over year, amid a restructuring that included the firm cutting its workforce by 40 percent.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Barcelona Genomics Center Buys Genomatix Analyzer (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A Barcelona biomedical research center focused on genomic studies has bought a Genomatix Genome Analyzer for use in its disease and epigenetics studies, Genomatix said today.
(Mar 4, 2009)
CombiMatrix Presents Preliminary Data on Comprehensive Cancer Array Test (GenomeWeb News)
An investigational microarray test that measures miRNA expression patterns to detect the presence of cancer and distinguish between cancers has yielded promising preliminary data, according to CombiMatrix.
(Mar 4, 2009)
ICx Wins Mass Spec Contract for South Korea (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – ICx Technologies has been awarded a multi-year contract worth up to $40 million to work with partners to develop a biological and chemical mass spectrometer for use by the South Korean military.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Helicos Co-Founder Says He Sequenced Own Genome on Company's Platform (GenomeWeb News)
Helicos BioSciences co-founder Steve Quake has sequenced his own genome using the Helicos Genetic Analysis System, the first human genome reported to be sequenced using the company's single-molecule platform.
(Mar 4, 2009)
200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation (SeedQuest)
Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa.
(Mar 4, 2009)
Wonder If There's Johnnie Walker, Too (GenomeWeb News)
In a festive Thanksgiving mood , Sandra Porter decided to find out more about turkeys. After looking up wild turkeys in NCBI, she found a lot of interesting taxonomic information, including pictures of different species.
(Mar 5, 2009)
This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)
Nature hits the newsstands today, which means we hit the books to bring you our weekly round-up of articles worth reading. In news this week, the magazine checks in on metabolomics.
(Mar 5, 2009)
That Would Explain the Zebra Fish Boom in Home Aquariums (GenomeWeb News)
Hey, zebra fish researchers: you've got a new set of admirers. The New York Times offers this Q&A with biologist Steven Farber , who in his spare time heads up a nonprofit group that brings zebra fish to inner-city classrooms in an attempt to teach kids about genetics and the scientific approach in general.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Top 10 Innovations for 2008 (GenomeWeb News)
Bitesize Bio's Nick points readers to The Scientist magazine's list of the top 10 innovations in the life sciences in 2008. While you have to subscribe to view the list in its entirety, Nick rounds up the highlights: an in vivo multispectral imaging system that can view molecular movement in small animals in nearly real time; a Fucci (fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator)-based ...
(Mar 5, 2009)
Einstein Center for Epigenomics signs site license agreement with CLC bio (PharmaBiz)
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 5, 2009)
Research and Markets: New Opportunities for Novel Diagnostic Approaches and Therapies within Neural Signaling (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Neural Signaling: Opportunities for Novel Diagnostic Approaches and Therapies" to their offering.
(Mar 5, 2009)
5th Biomarker Workshop at the NMI in Reutlingen another Success (uniprotokolle)
The Biomarker Workshop held at the NMI has become a fixed date for many researchers from a number of countries. This year, the one-day workshop took place on 4th March and welcomed about 80 guests and eight speakers.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Spikes In Nitrite Can Have Heart Benefits (Medical News Today)
A new study provides insight into how a short burst in nitrite can exert lasting beneficial effects on the heart, protecting it from stress and assaults such as heart attacks.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Bruker Daltonics Announces Opening of maXis U.S. Demonstration Facility and Installations in Top-tier Laboratories ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BILLERICA, Mass.----Bruker Daltonics today announced the opening of its Massachusetts demonstration facility for the ultra-high resolution time-of-flight maXis™ mass spectrometer, as well as several maXis installations in top-tier U.S. life-science research laboratories.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Children at Kids' Tech University learn why computer programs can be so frustrating (The Staunton News Leader)
BLACKSBURG — Saturday, about 400 children descended on the Haymarket Theater in Virginia Tech's Squires Student Center to take part in Kids' Tech University.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Bruker Daltonics Announces Opening of maXis™ U.S. Demonstration Facility and Installations in Top-tier Laboratories ... (Centre Daily Times)
Bruker Daltonics today announced the opening of its Massachusetts demonstration facility for the ultra-high resolution time-of-flight (UHR-TOF) maXis™ mass spectrometer , as well as several maXis installations in top-tier U.S. life-science research laboratories. The revolutionary maXis , which Bruker will exhibit at PITTCON 2009 next week in Chicago, is the only high-performance mass ...
(Mar 5, 2009)
Breast Cancer Research: Safeway Gives $685,000 To TGen (Medical News Today)
Despite a down economy, Safeway Inc. presented a $685,236 check this week for breast cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Dan Valenzuela, President of Safeway's Phoenix Division, which includes 116 stores throughout Arizona, thanked the grocery chain's customers and employees for stepping up for scientific research.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Bruker Daltonics Announces Opening Of maXis™ U.S. Demonstration Facility And Installations In Top-tier Laboratories ... (PharmaceuticalOnline)
Bruker Daltonics today announced the opening of its Massachusetts demonstration facility for the ultra-high resolution time-of-flight (UHR-TOF) maXisT mass spectrometer, as well as several maXis installations in top-tier U.S. life-science research laboratories.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Bruker Opens Mass Spec Demo Facility (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Bruker said today that its Bruker Daltonics business has opened a demonstration facility in Massachusetts for its ultra-high resolution time-of-flight maXis mass spectrometer.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Promega GoTaq® Goes Green with Latest Hot Start Offer (Centre Daily Times)
Promega Corporation, a global leader in DNA and RNA Analysis, will plant a tree for each GoTaq ® Hot Start product purchased through May 31st. This green initiative is designed to compliment the mission of life scientists around the world – to improve the lives of others now and for generations to come. The benefits of planting trees bring a long lasting impact much like the work and ...
(Mar 5, 2009)
Shanghai Team Analyzes Mechanism That Enables Adult Cells to Behave Like Embryonic Stem Cells (Centre Daily Times)
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced its collaboration with a team from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences and Tongi University that has achieved new insight into how adult cells can be induced to act like embryonic stem cells (ESC), with the ability to form any type of tissue known as “pluripotency.”
(Mar 5, 2009)
You May Have to Build Your Own Desk, But It's Worth It (GenomeWeb News)
At Discovering Biology in a Digital World, Sandra Porter blogs about the excitement, adventure, and stomach-churning nerves that go along with starting a new company . Her startup aims "to develop instructional materials that help students and researchers use biological data," she writes, noting that a principal concern is getting people to pay for these materials.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Just What You Needed: More Stats to Learn (GenomeWeb News)
A post from blogger Agnostic at Gene Expression asks whether the use of information criteria -- that is, how well an observation fits a statistical model with given hypotheses -- is beginning to replace p-values . While the community leans heavily on p-values, Agnostic notes that these measures are limited by their connection to a null hypothesis: "They do not allow us to decide which of a ...
(Mar 5, 2009)
This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)
Harold Varmus has published an autobiography, which, according to a review, "shows why he is one of Barack Obama's top science advisers in Washington DC," explains Iain Mattaj, director general of EMBL. "His ability to connect basic research to medical application is frequently evident elsewhere in the book.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Fingers Crossed, But We're Not Holding Our Breath (GenomeWeb News)
Derek Lowe has a post at In the Pipeline about Merck's new venture in open access . Sage, which will be headed up by Stephen Friend, is meant to "bring together genomic studies from all sorts of laboratories into a common format and database," Lowe writes.
(Mar 5, 2009)
"Ouch" Just About Covers It (GenomeWeb News)
The Guardian reports on university angst in the UK as budgets were revealed to show tough hits for research . "Top universities including Imperial College London, University College London and Cambridge face substantial cuts this year after losing out in the allocation of £1.6bn of research funding," the story says.
(Mar 5, 2009)
IP Update (GenomeWeb News)
Julius Brennecke is studying small RNA pathways in Drosophila using DNA sequencing technologies, genetics, bioinformatics, and cell biology.
(Mar 5, 2009)
Products & Services (GenomeWeb News)
GeneCopoeia has recently launched a collection of microRNA functional analysis reagents and tools.
(Mar 5, 2009)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
Eksigent last week introduced the cHIPLC-nanoflex system for proteomics research.
(Mar 5, 2009)
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