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ICRI, Cranfield Univ, UK open admissions for PG course in clinical research (PharmaBiz)
Institute of Clinical Research (India), ICRI in collaboration with Cranfield University, UK has called for applications for its two year full time course, MSc in Clinical Research. The course will start on August 3 at all its campuses in Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad & Hyderabad.
(Apr 1, 2009)
2009 Signature Genomic Laboratories Travel Award winner announced (EurekAlert!)
( American College of Medical Genetics ) Kathy M. Chun, Ph.D., FACMG was honored as the 2009 recipient of the Signature Genomic Laboratories Travel Award at the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) 2009 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting in Tampa, Fla. Dr. Chun is Director, Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics at the North York General Hospital in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Chun received her Ph.D. ...
(Apr 1, 2009)
Rosetta Debuts First miRNA Test, Adds Lung Cancer to Blood-Based Dx Pipeline (GenomeWeb News)
Rosetta Genomics this week said that it has begun marketing its first microRNA-based diagnostic, miRview Squamous, designed to differentiate squamous from non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer, and that it has finished building a new lab facility in Pennsylvania that will perform tissue analysis for the test.
(Apr 1, 2009)
BioDiscovery Releases Nexus Copy Number Version 4 for DNA Copy Number Analysis and Visualization (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
BioDiscovery, Inc. the pioneering developer of integrated software solutions for microarray-based research, announced today the release of Nexus Copy Number Version 4, a platform independent and efficient application for DNA copy number analysis of microarray derived data.
(Apr 1, 2009)
American Museum of Natural History Licenses Geneious Sequence Analysis Software From Biomatters, Ltd. (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Biomatters, Ltd., a global provider of bioinformatics software for the management, visualization and interpretation of sequence data for laboratory scientists, announced today that the American Museum of Natural History in New York City has chosen Geneious software to support research at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. "The Institute will use Geneious to support ongoing research ...
(Apr 1, 2009)
American Museum of Natural History Licenses Geneious Sequence Analysis Software From Biomatters, Ltd. (Marketwire)
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND--(Marketwire - April 1, 2009) - Biomatters, Ltd., a global provider of bioinformatics software for the management, visualization and interpretation of sequence data for laboratory scientists, announced today that the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has chosen Geneious software to support research at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics ...
(Apr 1, 2009)
Maguire falls at first hurdle in China (Guardian Unlimited)
• 'I don't know how to sum it up without swearing' • Higgins forced to mount comeback for 5-4 win Defending champion and world number two Stephen Maguire was sent crashing out of the China Open at the first hurdle today by Dave Harold, ranked 28th in the world. With only one ranking title to his name, Harold raced to a two-hour, 5-0 victory over Maguire in their first-round encounter. Despite ...
(Apr 1, 2009)
Pressure on to scrap Afghan women's law (Guardian Unlimited)
Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, came under intense western pressure yesterday to scrap a new law that the UN said legalised rape within marriage and severely limited the rights of women. At a conference on Afghanistan in The Hague, Scandinavian foreign ministers publicly challenged the Afghan leader to respond to a report on the new law in yesterday's Guardian, and the US secretary of ...
(Apr 1, 2009)
MonetaSuite(TM) Debuts at ABA TECHSHOW 2009 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Bottom Line Time today announced the launch of MonetaSuite at the ABA TECHSHOW® 2009. MonetaSuite is the Company's flagship software product family that intuitively and seamlessly track, tag and report the time high-value workers spend in email and other productivity applications.
(Apr 1, 2009)
The genomic atheneum (Columbia Daily Spectator)
Two thousand years ago, there stood near the mouth of the River Nile an edifice of unparalleled worth. It housed within its walls a collection of nearly half a million scrolls, and its wealth was measured not in coin or bullion but in the words of scholars and philosophers.
(Apr 1, 2009)
A Powerful New Tool For Researchers: Cancer Genomics Browser (Medical News Today)
A Cancer Genomics Browser developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, provides a new way to visualize and analyze data from studies aimed at improving cancer treatment by unraveling the complex genetic roots of the disease.
(Apr 1, 2009)
ACHEMA Trade Fair Highlight: e-Learning with Real Equipment (uniprotokolle)
FIZ CHEMIE Berlin and the University of Applied Sciences Wildau are a highlight of ACHEMA 2009 with their innovative trade fair concept "New Paths through the Training Jungle".
(Apr 1, 2009)
New Strategy Developed To Diagnose Melanoma (Medical News Today)
A UCSF research team has developed a technique to distinguish benign moles from malignant melanomas by measuring differences in levels of genetic markers. Standard microscopic examinations of biopsied tissue can be ambiguous and somewhat subjective, the researchers say, and supplementing standard practice with the new technique is expected to help clarify difficult-to-diagnose cases.
(Apr 1, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Sells Contract Manufacturing Operation (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
MDRNA, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. under which Par will acquire the Company's manufacturing facilities in Hauppauge, New York as well as the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application for generic calcitonin-salmon nasal spray.
(Apr 1, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Sells Contract Manufacturing Operation (Marketwire)
Company Eliminates Cash Burn Related to Non-RNAi Operations
(Apr 1, 2009)
Research Will Allow Identification Of Numerous Potential Cancer And Other Treatments (Medical News Today)
Understanding the tens of thousands of proteins that compose the human proteome has emerged as a key challenge of this century, and research efforts to date have already enabled major advances in drug discovery and understanding basic biology. But many potential avenues have been blocked by lack of information about how the majority of these proteins function.
(Apr 1, 2009)
Study IDs Chromosomal Instabilities Linked to Poor Colorectal Cancer Outcomes (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – In a paper scheduled to appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers from Israel and the US began characterizing the chromosomal instabilities associated with the transition from normal tissue to colorectal cancer.
(Apr 1, 2009)
Vermillion Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Vermillion has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying the current "global liquidity crisis" has made it impossible to identify and raise necessary sources of capital.
(Apr 1, 2009)
Cancer, Text Mining, Synthetic Biology, and Early Days of Consumer Genomics (GenomeWeb News)
In April of last year, we featured our fourth annual special issue devoted to cancer research. We highlighted the growing use of profiling miRNAs in tumors for possible use as biomarkers or in therapeutics.
(Apr 1, 2009)
Viral outbreak in China tests government efforts (Nature)
Researchers call for greater focus on surveillance and genomics.
(Apr 1, 2009)
U.S. Court of Appeals (CAFC) Rejects ThirdWave/Hologic's Anti-Trust Claims Against QIAGEN (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 1, 2009 -- QIAGEN Gaithersburg Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of QIAGEN N.V. today announced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied an appeal by ThirdWave Technologies Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hologic, Inc. and affirmed a lower court decision which was favorable for QIAGEN.
(Apr 1, 2009)
People Transfer (GenomeWeb News)
James Reecy , associate professor of animal science at Iowa State University, will become director of the university's Office of Biotechnology on July 1, ISU said last week.
(Apr 1, 2009)
Affymetrix, Nanosphere Lead the Way as Stocks Rebound in March (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Affymetrix and Nanosphere were the two greatest beneficiaries of a rebound in March for stocks in the GenomeWeb Daily News Index.
(Apr 1, 2009)
Basic guides to PCR, labeling neurons featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (EurekAlert!)
( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) Along with new cutting-edge methods, "Cold Spring Harbor Protocols" is home to an in-depth library of basic laboratory methods. The April issue features two of these standard techniques.
(Apr 1, 2009)
New life for stem cell research (Ventura County Reporter)
New life for stem cell research
(Apr 1, 2009)
New national genome center to underpin food security and animal health (EurekAlert!)
( Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ) A new national centre to analyse plant, animal and microbial genomes has been announced today by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The Genome Analysis Centre will be based on the Norwich Research Park and will provide genome sequencing to underpin advances to improve food security, to protect UK agriculture from ...
(Apr 1, 2009)
Polyclone invests around Rs 75 lakh for 2 labs, to focus on genotyping in diagnostic research (PharmaBiz)
In a bid to strengthen its research activities, Polyclone Bioservcies a molecular biology and genomics company has invested Rs 75.87 lakh (US $150,000) in setting up two labs. The funds have been sourced from internal accruals.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Mayo Clinic and IBM Host Medical Language Initiative (Newswise)
Biomedical informatics researchers at Mayo Clinic and IBM today launched a Web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium. The consortium is establishing the open-source space to promote past and current development efforts, including participation in information extraction from electronic medical records.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Genomics vs. Cancer (GenomeWeb News)
While cancer research never stays still for long, the past year saw major shifts in the application of genomic tools to the field.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Amazon Web Services Launches Amazon Elastic MapReduce - a Web Service for Processing Vast Amounts of Data (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SEATTLE----Amazon Web Services LLC , a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. , today announced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Evolutionary Origin Of Bacterial Chromosomes Revealed (Science Daily)
Researchers have unveiled the evolutionary origin of the different chromosomal architectures found in three species of Agrobacterium. A comprehensive comparison of the Agrobacterium sequence information with the genome sequences of other bacteria suggests a general model for how second chromosomes are formed in bacteria.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service (ZDNet)
Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying to conduct data intensive number crunching (statement). Hadoop, which is used by companies like Google and Yahoo, is trying to be pushed into the enterprise data ...
(Apr 2, 2009)
Sihoun Hahn, M.D., Ph.D., FACMG Is The 2009-2010 Luminex/ACMGF Award Recipient (Medical News Today)
The American College of Medical Genetics Foundation (ACMGF) recently awarded Dr. Sihoun Hahn of Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington School of Medicine the 2009-2010 Luminex/ACMGF Award at the American College of Medical Genetics 2009 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting in Tampa, FL.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Amazon's cost effective soln for processing vast data (CIOL)
SEATTLE, USA: Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., today announced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Quantum Genomics Gets 1 Million $ (740 K) From Oseo to Finance the Regulatory Preclinical Development of QGC 001 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MASSY, France----Quantum Genomics SAS, a privately held company, announced today that it has received a Research financing worth 1 million dollars from the French agency Oseo, to perform a preclinical evaluation of QGC 001, the first drug to treat hypertension by targeting Aminopeptidase A, and has initiated the preclinical studies required for the submission of an Investigational Medicinal ...
(Apr 2, 2009)
454 Sequencing Boosts Genomics Research in Spain: Genome Sequencer FLX System Installed at University of Barcelona (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PENZBERG, Germany----454 Sequencing is now boosting genomics research at the University of Barcelona . UB has recently acquired a Genome Sequencer FLX System that will be installed at the Genomics Unit of the Scientific and Technical Services .
(Apr 2, 2009)
Monsanto 2Q Net Rises 3.3% On Strong Seeds, Genomics Business (Nasdaq)
Monsanto Co.'s (MON) fiscal second-quarter net income rose 3.3% as strength in its seeds and genomics business offset weaker sales at its agricultural productivity unit.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Roche NimbleGen CGH Microarrays Further Our Understanding Of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Medical News Today)
The most commonly diagnosed form of childhood leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often responds well to biologically-targeted therapeutic treatments, but also carries a 25% risk for relapse.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service (CNET)
Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Amazon Introduces Elastic MapReduce (WebProNews)
Amazon Web Services has introduced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a cloud computing service that allows businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to process large amounts of data. Amazon Elastic MapReduce uses Hadoop, a free Java software framework that runs on the company's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3). Customers can use MapReduce to ...
(Apr 2, 2009)
Major aspergillus genomics supplement published by journal Fungal Genetics and Biology (EurekAlert!)
( Elsevier ) A major effort from within the Aspergillus community has resulted in the publication of an exceptional supplement by the Elsevier journal Fungal Genetics and Biology.
(Apr 2, 2009)
UK Plans Livestock, Agriculture Genome Center (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has launched a center that will use genomics to support food security and animal health research.
(Apr 2, 2009)
The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences Names New Director (dBusinessNews.com)
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK , N.C.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Groundbreaking Research Begins For Pancreatic And Lung Cancers (Medical News Today)
Georgia Tech and Saint Joseph's Hospital have joined together to begin the first regional research program to study the genetics and cell biology of pancreatic cancer. Tissue and serum samples from patients with cancer are being scrutinized to identify the differences in genetic and cellular features between normal and tumor cells.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Clinical Data sells genomics unit for $17M (BizJournals)
Drug developer Clinical Data Inc. has agreed to sell its outsourced-genomics division to biotechnology giant Beckman Coulter Inc. for $17 million. (BEC)
(Apr 2, 2009)
Public Beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce Announced (Dr. Dobb's Journal)
A web service for processing huge amounts of data
(Apr 2, 2009)
Covaris Introduces DNA Shearing Service (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Covaris Incorporated today announced the introduction of DNA shearing service using Covaris instruments and technology.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Movers & Shakers (GenomeWeb News)
Proteros biostructures last week announced Dirk Ullmann has joined the company as chief scientific officer.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Mayo Clinic and IBM Host Medical Language Initiative (Marketwire)
Launch Open-Source Consortium
(Apr 2, 2009)
Protein Sequencers, ABRF PSRG Wants You (GenomeWeb News)
The Protein Sequence Research Group of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities said last week it is seeking scientists interested in using new technologies to sequence protein termini.
(Apr 2, 2009)
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