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Aussie study challenges claims for hi-tech running shoes (PhysOrg)
Australian researchers have admitted they had found no scientific proof that hi-tech running shoes improve athletic performance or limit injury.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Here's the way to copy e-mails to save on CDs (PhysOrg)
Q. I have a lot of e-mails in separate folders of my Microsoft Outlook program, and I want to take some of them off my Windows XP computer and save them on CDs. How can I do that?
(Mar 12, 2009)
Roche Announces Sequence Capture Services for Genomic Enrichment Available through Service Partner SeqWright (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MADISON, Wis.----Roche NimbleGen announces Sequence Capture services now available through a partnership with SeqWright, a world-wide leader in custom genomic and molecular biology services.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Roche Announces Sequence Capture Services for Genomic Enrichment Available through Service Partner SeqWright (Centre Daily Times)
Roche NimbleGen announces Sequence Capture services now available through a partnership with SeqWright, a world-wide leader in custom genomic and molecular biology services. SeqWright will provide targeted resequencing services which couple Roche NimbleGen’s Sequence Capture microarray technology with SeqWright’s existing 454 Sequencing services on the Genome Sequencer FLX system. The addition ...
(Mar 12, 2009)
CombiMatrix Nabs New NASA Contract (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – CombiMatrix announced today that it has received a four-year contract from NASA's Ames Research Center to design and test a microfluidic system using the company's semiconductor microarray that can be integrated into an automated genetic analysis platform suitable for use in satellites.
(Mar 12, 2009)
BioPike to Distribute AnaSpec Products in China (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – BioPike has inked a non-exclusive agreement to distribute AnaSpec's catalog and custom products in China, the companies announced yesterday.
(Mar 12, 2009)
As Long as It's Bad for Disease (GenomeWeb News)
Paul Stoffels, company group chairman for Global R&D Pharmaceuticals at Johnson & Johnson, has a guest blog at CNBC about how "recent advances in science, genomics technologies, biomarkers, and drug development" have coalesced to offer the potential for personalized medicine.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Reportlinker Adds Global Drug Discovery Technologies Market Analysis (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Major NSF grant boosts UNH research on hormonal genomics (EurekAlert!)
( University of New Hampshire ) Stacia Sower, professor of biochemistry and director of the Center for Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology at the University of New Hampshire, has received a $420,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on brain and pituitary hormones and receptors. With the four-year grant, Sower will build upon her decades of NSF-funded research in the ...
(Mar 12, 2009)
Genomatix gets patent for comparative genomics method (EurekAlert!)
( Genomatix Software GmbH ) The patent relates to a sophisticated method for identification of networks of functionally related regulatory DNA sequences in different eukaryotic species.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Redesigned STR System Provides Most Complete DNA Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MADISON, Wis.----Promega announces a new 16-locus STR system that makes it possible to get complete profiles from inhibited DNA samples. Forensic samples are very often compromised by substances like dirt, fabric dyes or blood.
(Mar 12, 2009)
UB's research haul up 7.7% (Business First of Buffalo)
The University at Buffalo was included in a national survey for total research dollars, which increased last year to a record $348.2 million.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Carper, Kaufman and Castle outline state stimulus projects (Dover Post)
The Delaware congressional delegation — Sens. Tom Carper and Ted Kaufman (both D-Del.) and Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) — on March 12 issued the total list of projects Delaware received in the 2009 omnibus appropriations bill signed into law by President Obama on Wednesday.
(Mar 12, 2009)
DNA Topography Hints At Functional Regions in Human Genome (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The three-dimensional structure of DNA can provide new clues about which regions of the genome are functional and evolutionarily conserved, according to a paper appearing in Science Express today.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Industry Briefs (GenomeWeb News)
Under a partnership announced this week, Gentel Biosciences and Eprogen will create products for the discovery of new autoantibody biomarkers using whole proteome microarrays.
(Mar 12, 2009)
SeqWright Adds NimbleGen Arrays to Services Offering (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – SeqWright has added Roche NimbleGen's Sequence Capture microarray technology to its offering of services using 454's Genome Sequencer FLX platform.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Proteomics Set to Benefit from Congress's Stimulus Funding to NIH (GenomeWeb News)
Scientists, including proteomics researchers , stand to gain from the recently passed stimulus package.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Bruker Unveils MS Technology for Protein Sequencing Amid Quiet Pittcon for Proteomics (GenomeWeb News)
CHICAGO – Where was the proteomics? This year, mass-spec vendors at Pittcon were unusually light on proteomics technology development or news.
(Mar 12, 2009)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
At Pittcon this week, Waters launched the Empower 2 Business Intelligence Manager software for the analysis of chromatography analysis.
(Mar 12, 2009)
Aging: Worms, Flies & Yeast Are More Like Us than Previously Expected (Newswise)
When it comes to the aging process, yeast, nematode worms and fruit flies have more in common with humans than previously expected. In addition to highlighting the similarities between species, a large-scale human protein network reveals a complex web of interactions among the human equivalents of the many longevity genes found in simple-animals.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Louisville's share of the Omnibus bill (WHAS TV11 Louisville)
(WHAS11) - “Stimulus,” “omnibus,” call it what you want because it’s all the same thing – money. Taxpayer money. The president signed an omnibus bill that approves millions of dollars earmarked for very specific projects in Louisville.
(Mar 13, 2009)
CombiMatrix Receives New Contract from NASA (SpaceRef)
CombiMatrix Receives New Contract from NASA
(Mar 13, 2009)
Second-Generation Sequencing Stayed In The Bioinformatics Driver’s Seat in 2008 (GenomeWeb News)
As second-generation sequencing advanced in 2008, the technology took center stage in the field of bioinformatics as well.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Leukemia Genome Project Highlights Second-Gen Sequencing Software Needs (GenomeWeb News)
The first effort to sequence a complete cancer genome has underscored the power of second-generation sequencing while further establishing the lack of a “killer software app” in the field.
(Mar 13, 2009)
SRM holds seminar on Bioinformatics (New Kerala)
Chennai, Mar 13 : Globally competitive basic research, without too much concern about impact on Indian technology, was the kind of R and D the country needed in the field of biotech and bio-informatics, an expert said today.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Proteomics Study Reveals That Genes Involved in Invertebrate Longevity Have Surprising Parallels in Humans. (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Prolexys Pharmaceuticals announced today the publication of the discovery of genes that are likely to have a role in the aging process of humans.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Hybrigenics' Positive Meeting With FDA On US Clinical Development Of Inecalcitol - Prostate Cancer (Medical News Today)
Hybrigenics, a bio-pharmaceutical company with a focus on research and development of new cancer treatments and specialized in protein interactions, announced today the comprehensive review by the American Food and Drug Administration of the pharmaceutical, preclinical and clinical information on inecalcitol.
(Mar 13, 2009)
UNH Research On Hormonal Genomics Boosted By Major NSF Grant (Medical News Today)
Stacia Sower, professor of biochemistry and director of the Center for Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology at the University of New Hampshire, has received a $420,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on brain and pituitary hormones and receptors.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Comparative Genomics Method Patented By Genomatix (Medical News Today)
Genomatix Software, a company with an outstanding track record in the analysis of genomic data generated by high throughput technologies, has announced that it was issued patent No. EP 1 800 232 B1, "Identification and assignment of functionally corresponding regulatory sequences for orthologous loci in eukaryotic genomes" by the European Patent Office.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Could UB-CTG Project Yield Jobs With Stimulus $$$? (WGRZ-TV Buffalo)
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown says a joint project involving UB's Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and the Computer Task Group (CTG) firm may produce hundreds of jobs in the Buffalo area as they seek federal stimulus funding for digital medical records.
(Mar 13, 2009)
NIH Working on DTC Genomics Public Resource (GenomeWeb News)
WASHINGTON, DC (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health is developing a website to be a consumer-level resource for the general public about direct-to-consumer marketed genetic tests, according Larry Thompson of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Secretion System May Not Be Culprit in Rickettsia Pathogenesis (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – New research suggests a molecular secretion system that contributes to the virulence of some bacterial species, including the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens , is evolutionarily conserved in Rickettsia species.
(Mar 13, 2009)
A PI Who Knows What He Wants (GenomeWeb News)
After bouncing between a few different jobs and work environments, a blogger has found what suits him best, and it's not the "super-relaxed atmosphere" of a lab with no work criteria.
(Mar 13, 2009)
For a Good Cause (GenomeWeb News)
23andme is expanding its 23andWe initiative, which aims to acquire detailed health and trait data from existing customers, by recruiting 10,000 Parkinson's disease patients for a targeted analysis of the genetic and environmental causes of this disease.
(Mar 13, 2009)
This Week in Science (GenomeWeb News)
In news, Science discusses the impact of President Obama's executive order that lifts federal stem cell research restrictions. The order will encourage more scientists to perform hES cell research, though others say with the advent of iPS cells, the move may have "value as primarily symbolic."
(Mar 13, 2009)
Parroting virus (The Scientist)
A bornavirus previously thought to infect only mammals shows up in birds
(Mar 13, 2009)
A matter of chow (The Scientist)
Is arsenic in laboratory mouse food affecting the results of thousands of experiments?
(Mar 13, 2009)
Suprise Findings for Inbred Populations (GenomeWeb News)
Scientists have used microarrays to look at the broad genetic changes that accompany reproductive declines in inbred populations. Their study, published in Conservation Biology , is the first to look at genome-wide gene expression differences in inbred populations, small populations of closely related plants or animals that are likely to suffer from low reproductive success.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Georgia's State Senate Approves Bill Restricting Embryonic Stem Cell Research (GenomeWeb News)
Four days after President Obama lifted federal restrictions on creating new human embryonic stem-cell lines, Georgia's state Senate voted last night to approve a similar restriction governing research institutions and life-sciences companies doing business in the state.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Canadian MDx Firm Gets Investment from OGI (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Ontario Genomics Institute today said that it has invested an undisclosed amount in Cytognomix, a London, Ontario-based developer of cytogenetic DNA probes for potential use in diagnostics.
(Mar 13, 2009)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
The International Society for Computational Biology has named Webb Miller , a researcher at Pennsylvania State University , as the winner of its Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award for 2009.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Funding Update (GenomeWeb News)
Julius Brennecke is studying small RNA pathways in Drosophila using DNA sequencing technologies, genetics, bioinformatics, and cell biology.
(Mar 13, 2009)
Bioinformatics Briefs (GenomeWeb News)
GeneGo said this week that it will use Entelos’ DrugMatrix toxicogenomic database of gene expression data to further develop its Functional Descriptor predictive toxicology models.
(Mar 13, 2009)
NCGR, Kognitio Adapt WX2 Database for Rapidly Expanding Second-Gen Sequencing Data (GenomeWeb News)
Data warehousing firm Kognitio is partnering with the National Center for Genome Resources to optimize its WX2 database for the life sciences market.
(Mar 13, 2009)
23andMe Launches Parkinson's Disease Genetics Initiative (dBusinessNews.com)
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- 23andMe, Inc., an industry leader in personal genetics, announced today that it has launched a Parkinson's disease initiative in collaboration with The Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center ("PI") and The Michael J. Fox Foundation ("MJFF"). The first-of-its-kind program will focus on enrolling 10,000 individuals with Parkinson's disease ("PD") in the 23andMe Personal Genome ...
(Mar 13, 2009)
25 Ways to Jump-Start the Auto Business (Fast Company Magazine)
Photograph by Fisker Karma Life-saving ideas from genomics whiz J. Craig Venter, Pimp My Ride star Xzibit, the GEICO gecko guy, the founder of Zipcar, Cisco's smart-garage guru, and more. 1. Let President Obama Take the Wheel $4 Gas Giorgio Rizzoni, director, Ohio State University's Center for Automotive Research "Impose a floor on gas prices, a flexible tax that keeps the price at ...
(Mar 13, 2009)
NASA Spaceline 13 February 2009 Current Space Life Science Awareness (SpaceRef)
NASA Spaceline 13 February 2009 Current Space Life Science Awareness
(Mar 14, 2009)
The Extra-Early Edition (GenomeWeb News)
In this month's issue of the Journal of Mass Spectrometry , John F. J. Todd and colleagues describe the development of an ion trap for a miniature GC/MS system for space.
(Mar 14, 2009)
Who Doesn't Want More Laws? (GenomeWeb News)
PredictER blogs that there's more to GINA than what's being discussed. The post points to the overlooked Title II, Section 208, Subsection (b). That part provides for a Genetic Nondiscrimination Study Commission to be enacted six years after GINA was passed.
(Mar 14, 2009)
Critical Growth Factor That Stimulates Sperm Stem Cells To Thrive Identified (Science Daily)
Researchers have identified for the first time a specific "niche factor" in the mouse testes called colony stimulating factor 1, Csf1, that has a direct effect on sperm stem cell self-renewal.
(Mar 14, 2009)
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