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IBM, Mayo Form Open-source Health IT Consortium (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open-source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information.
(Apr 2, 2009)
IBM, Mayo Form Open-source Health IT Consortium (PC World)
The new consortium focuses on natural language processing
(Apr 2, 2009)
There is more to learn from ‘bad plants’ in breeding programmes than one might think (SeedQuest)
There is more to learn from ‘bad plants’ in breeding programmes than one might think. New research into Aradopsis (thale cress) shows that many genotypic variations cannot be seen in the appearance of the plant – the phenotype – because the effects of the variation gradually die out.
(Apr 2, 2009)
ASBMB announces 2009 undergraduate award winners (EurekAlert!)
( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ) The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Undergraduate Affiliate Network (UAN) is a national organization comprised of university-based chapters dedicated to the advancement of undergraduate research, research-based undergraduate education, and K-12 outreach in biochemistry and molecular biology. This year the UAN ...
(Apr 2, 2009)
University explores stem cell research (Camarillo Acorn)
A new course of study at California State University Channel Islands this fall will train students to conduct research that could lead to cures for diabetes, spinal cord injuries or cancer. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine recently awarded the Camarillo-based university a threeyear, $1.
(Apr 2, 2009)
Markets in Brief (Haaretz Daily)
The companies listed on the TA-25 index posted a combined loss of at least NIS 2.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008 - not including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, said the research department of IBI Investment House.
(Apr 2, 2009)
New Strategy Developed To Diagnose Melanoma (Science Daily)
Scientists have 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 3, 2009)
Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service (ZDNet Asia)
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 3, 2009)
Cloud Computing Expo: Amazon Turns Numbers Cruncher (Linux World)
Amazon Thursday added Hadoop number crunching to its other cloud skills. It’s put out a public beta of a new Web Service called Elastic MapReduce for processing vast amounts of data using a hosted Hadoop framework running on its giant EC2/S3 infrastructure. It says the widgetry can instantly provision as much or as little capacity as the user wants to do data-intensive tasks for distributed ...
(Apr 3, 2009)
Bill to fund Mayo-UM genomics partnership advances (Post-Bulletin)
ST. PAUL -- A measure that would guarantee $16 million in funding for the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic's genomics partnership is advancing through the Legislature
(Apr 3, 2009)
NIH researchers identify gene that suppresses skin cancer (PharmaBiz)
National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a gene that suppresses tumour growth in melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Risk determination similar across fields (Montgomery Advertiser)
An expert on risk said the same methods used to evaluate and manage scientific risk can be applied to cope with other problems -- like the housing crisis that triggered the economic downturn.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Indian music to fill high school (Penn State Collegian)
What: Omkar music festival When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday Where: State College Area High School south gymnasium and auditorium Details: The event is free. There will be a bus to the high school leaving the HUB-Robeson Center at 5:30 p.m. Sunday for the concert.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Medical Language Initiative Hosted By Mayo Clinic And IBM (Medical News Today)
Biomedical informatics researchers at Mayo Clinic and IBM have 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 3, 2009)
New National Genome Center To Underpin Food Security And Animal Health (Medical News Today)
A new national centre to analyse plant, animal and microbial genomes has been announced by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
(Apr 3, 2009)
Amazon puts Hadoop data-crunching in the cloud (ZDNet UK)
Customers can use the new Amazon MapReduce to pay only for the capacity they use as they perform tasks such as indexing the web, mining data or conducting financial analysis
(Apr 3, 2009)
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Features Basic Guides To PCR, Labeling Neurons (Medical News Today)
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. From molecular biology researchers to law enforcement forensics laboratories, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the commonly used method for nucleic acid amplification.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Major Aspergillus Genomics Supplement Published By Journal Fungal Genetics And Biology (Medical News Today)
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. The supplement provides extensive studies based on the genome analysis of two Aspergillus species: Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus nidulans.
(Apr 3, 2009)
CapitalBio Tests Certified for Dx Use in China, Europe (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – CapitalBio has been cleared by the Chinese government to use its microarray-based diagnostic tests for autoimmine diseases and it has certified with the CE mark tests for tuberculosis testing in Europe, the company said today.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Company Profile for Nuvera Biosciences (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
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(Apr 3, 2009)
International Research Team Publishes qPCR Guidelines (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The American Association for Clinical Chemistry and ARUP Laboratories, a national reference lab owned by the University of Utah, this week announced the publication of new consensus guidelines for researchers reporting on quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction studies.
(Apr 3, 2009)
GEN highlights increasing use of digital gene expression profiling (EurekAlert!)
( Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News ) A novel technique for carrying out gene-expression profiling is set to challenge the market dominance of the current, widely used methodology, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. Some scientists believe that digital gene-expression profiling, a fully quantitative approach for gene-expression analysis, will eventually rival ...
(Apr 3, 2009)
Covaris Introduces DNA Shearing Service (Medical News Today)
Covaris Incorporated announced the introduction of DNA shearing service using Covaris instruments and technology. Over the past few years, Covaris instruments have become the gold standard for DNA shearing application, as a sample preparation step for next generation sequencing. The Covaris process is validated and compatible with all next-gen sequencing platforms.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Bioinformatics, Zebrafish at Focus During Cancer Control Month (Newswise)
During this National Cancer Control Month, New Jersey's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center is focusing on unique research efforts taking place at its facility. Biomedical informatics, work with zebrafish and study of circadian rhythms and survivorship issues are among the highlights experts can discuss.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Groundbreaking Research Begins for Pancreatic and Lung Cancers (Newswise)
Georgia Tech and Saint Joseph's Hospital begin the first regional research program to study the genetics and cell biology of pancreatic cancer. They also plan on expanding the collaborative research to lung cancers in April, as well as to prostate and colorectal cancers in the following months.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Bioinformatics Briefs (GenomeWeb News)
Software developer Persistent Systems, headquartered in Pune, India, said this week that it is partnering with Indiana University's School of Informatics to create a research and development center in the nearly completed incubator on the university's Bloomington campus.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Downloads and Upgrades (GenomeWeb News)
Symyx Technologies has released Symyx Notebook 6.2 , an electronic lab notebook system with new reaction chemistry capabilities to allow chemists to design and share synthesis plans.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Goldman School portal takes the worry out of 'experiments of concern' (UC Berkeley NewsCenter)
How concerned should we be about breakthroughs in synthetic biology that might also be useful to bioterrorists? An online advice portal developed at Berkeley may help to minimize those risks.
(Apr 3, 2009)
In Brief This Week: 454 Life Sciences; Waters; Agencourt; Illumina; Pathwork Diagnostics; and More (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Roche's 454 Life Sciences said this week that its Genome Sequencer FLX has been installed at the University of Barcelona in Spain.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Georgia Tech, Saint Joseph's Team on Cancer Studies (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Georgia Institute of Technology will partner with Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta to study the genetics and cell biology involved in pancreatic cancer.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Indiana U to Lead $8M NSF Plant Genomics Study (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Indiana University has been awarded an $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation that it will use in a four-year, multi-center study of the genetics and genomics of "economically important and evolutionarily interesting plants," IU said this week.
(Apr 3, 2009)
In Print (GenomeWeb News)
Antonov AV, Dietmann S, Wong P, Mewes HW. TICL — a web tool for network-based interpretation of compound lists inferred by high-throughput metabolomics . [ FEBS Journal 2009 Apr;276(7):2084-94]: Describes TICL, a web tool for automatically interpreting lists of compounds in metabolomic studies.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Translational Research Drives Demand for 'Virtual' Biobanks Built on caBIG Tools (GenomeWeb News)
As translational medicine efforts evolve , institutions are looking to build "virtual" biorepository management systems that combine open source tools from the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid with commercial software development and support.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Amazon Rides Google's Coattails (The Motley Fool)
Amazon takes a genuine Google technology and brings it to market before Big G. What's going on?
(Apr 3, 2009)
UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser Merges Large-Scale Data Sets from Clinical and Genomics Worlds (GenomeWeb News)
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz , have extended the widely used UCSC Genome Browser to allow cancer researchers to integrate and visualize genomics and clinical cancer data in an interactive fashion.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Agilent Adds WTCCC-Designed CNV Chip to Menu to Target Association Studies (GenomeWeb News)
Agilent Technologies will next week introduce the second catalog array in its growing menu of copy number variation-themed chips — an effort to reach customers who are interested in surveying CNVs in genome-wide association studies, a burgeoning subset of the GWAS market that Agilent describes as a "moving target."
(Apr 3, 2009)
Robot conducts genomics experiments, analyzes results (Newsday)
A robot programmed to study genomics has for the first time independently discovered new scientific knowledge, according to a report in the journal Science.
(Apr 3, 2009)
Patents approved for cancer treatment developed by Sanibel resident (Naples Daily News)
The patents for a cancer treatment that Sanibel Island resident John Kanzius applied for before his death have been approved. A chemo-related pneumonia infection claimed Kanzius’ life February 18. He had been diagnosed with a rare form of b-cell leukemia in 2002, and after seeing the faces of children in leukemia wards, he focused his life on developing a better treatment while battling the side ...
(Apr 4, 2009)
Bioinformatics, Zebrafish At Focus During Cancer Control Month (Medical News Today)
April marks National Cancer Control Awareness Month, which focuses on the importance of prevention, treatment, and research. Making significant contributions in all of these areas is The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), which is one of the nation's 40 Comprehensive Cancer Centers as designated by the National Cancer Institute and the only such center in New Jersey.
(Apr 4, 2009)
London biotech company wins innovation award (LondonTopic.ca)
London-based Cytognomix has been recognized by the Stiller Centre for Technology Commercialization and the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) for its development of DNA probes that can detect genetic mutations and diseases more effectively than other methods currently available.
(Apr 4, 2009)
'MPs' expenses need immediate review' (Guardian Unlimited)
David Cameron yesterday broke the all-party consensus on the need for an independent inquiry into MPs' expenses by demanding urgent talks by party leaders to resolve the issue. The Tory leader told Gordon Brown at prime minister's questions in the Commons: "We need a solution that is transparent, costs less than the current arrangements, and restores faith in the political process. "We cannot ...
(Apr 5, 2009)
ARCA Biopharma, Laboratory Corporation of America, Luminex, Becton Dickinson, Monogram Biosciences, Dana-Farber Cancer ... (GenomeWeb News)
The US Food and Drug Administration this week accepted ARCA Biopharma’s new drug application for its lead product candidate, bucindolol, an investigational, genetically targeted beta-blocker and mild vasodilator for chronic heart failure.
(Apr 5, 2009)
No Mention of a Consolation Prize for Navigenics (GenomeWeb News)
This should quash any hopes you had that the 23andMe hype was dying down. Time magazine named the company's genome scan service as the 2008 Invention of the Year , crediting the firm with "pioneering retail genomics."
(Apr 5, 2009)
Study hints at new addiction therapy (The Buffalo News)
A new nanotechnology treatment for drug addiction may be on the horizon, according to a study by University at Buffalo researchers.
(Apr 5, 2009)
Health Care Industry Moves Slowly Onto the Internet (New York Times)
The health care industry, a well-known laggard in information technology, is where most of corporate America was a decade or more ago in adopting Internet-style computing. There are innovators, intriguing experiments and lots of interest, but the technology hasn’t yet gone mainstream.
(Apr 5, 2009)
Health Care Industry Moves Slowly Onto the Internet (New York Times)
The health care industry, a well-known laggard in information technology, is where most of corporate America was a decade or more ago in adopting Internet-style computing. There are innovators, intriguing experiments and lots of interest, but the technology hasn’t yet gone mainstream.
(Apr 5, 2009)
Poison: It's What's for Dinner (Thanks to Packrat Genes) (Newswise)
As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer from 18,700 to 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, robbing packrats of their favorite food. Now, University of Utah biologists have narrowed the hunt for detoxification genes that let the rodents eat toxic creosote bushes that replaced juniper. They have identified 24 candidate genes.
(Apr 6, 2009)
New research to study genetics and cell biology of pancreatic cancer (News-Medical-Net)
The Georgia Institute of Technology 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.
(Apr 6, 2009)
Homology: Genealogy for Genes (GenomeWeb News)
The great power of model systems in molecular biology has been apparent ever since early researchers used bacteria, yeast, worms, and flies to learn about the human body.
(Apr 6, 2009)
Credit Check (GenomeWeb News)
I enjoyed reading your article on Genaissance Pharmaceuticals and your comparison of it with Variagenics (“Happy Days at the HAP Factory,” March 2001).
(Apr 6, 2009)
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