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OncQuest Labs novel tests covering grey areas in cancer biology (PharmaBiz)
OncQuest Laboratories Ltd, a pioneer and the leader in the Indian Oncology clinical testing market, has expanded its test-range covering grey areas of cancer biology.
(Apr 9, 2009)
College course to focus on stem cells (The 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 9, 2009)
Latest Developments In Microplate Technology (ChemicalOnline)
Porvair Sciences has announced that it will showcase its latest developments in microplate technology at the forthcoming Achema 2009 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany.
(Apr 9, 2009)
We've changed our look! (Ireland Business World)
Welcome to our brand new look. We've redesigned our site to give you quicker and clearer access to the information you need. Let us know if you like it, and even more so if you'd like us to fine tune it further.
(Apr 9, 2009)
BioTek Instruments Awarded Best Large Company In VBM's 2009 Best Places To Work (BioresearchOnline)
As a first-time participant, BioTek Instruments, Inc., recently secured top honors in the Best Places to Work Awards, Large Companies category.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Rhythmic Genomics -- The Yeast Metronome And The Walk Of Life (Medical News Today)
New genome sequence information from the humble baker's yeast has revealed surprising variation in a set of genes that can be thought of as nature's oldest clock. In a paper published in Genome Research scientists show how ribosomal RNA genes that are essential to all Earth's organisms provide insight into how genomes maintain their integrity on their evolutionary journey.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Agilent Tech Bets New Array-Analysis Software Will Woo Systems Biologists (GenomeWeb News)
Agilent Technologies this week launched GeneSpring GX 10.0, the next generation of its gene-expression bioinformatics platform. GeneSpring GX 10 offers tools for systems-level data interpretation and pathway analysis and was designed with systems biologists in mind, company officials said.
(Apr 9, 2009)
So Snoopy Couldn't Run (At Least He Could Fly) (GenomeWeb News)
In whippets, a type of racing dog, a single copy of a mutated gene for myostatin helps them be the fastest sprinters on the track, report researchers led by Elaine Ostrander from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Tough Times for GWAS (GenomeWeb News)
Here's a post from the Annals of Neurology blog reacting to the problems that arose as scientists realized they could identify individuals even from seemingly "anonymized" pooled DNA samples.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Genetic Links for Lupus (GenomeWeb News)
The Wall Street Journal covers news from Genentech , which tracked two genes related to lupus, "raising hopes of earlier diagnosis and better targeted treatment of the auto-immune disease," the article says.
(Apr 9, 2009)
This Week in PLoS (GenomeWeb News)
Princeton researchers report in PLoS Computational Biology that they developed a model of cellular growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that's based on the expression levels of a set of small genes.
(Apr 9, 2009)
TcLand Expression, Leader in Gene Expression Biomarkers in Immunology, Strengthens Its Board of Directors (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NANTES, France----TcLand Expression, a world-leading company in the field of gene expression biomarkers in immunology, is honoured to announce the appointment of Mr Patrick F. Terry as new member of its Board of Directors.
(Apr 9, 2009)
New Genomics Tools from Applied Biosystems Broaden Applications of RNA Expression Analysis (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CARLSBAD, Calif.----Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation , today announced the release of a new set of genomic analysis tools to aid disease research and agricultural studies.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Jivan Focuses on Solutions for Transcriptome Sequencing (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Jivan announced today that it will provide bioinformatics solutions for high-throughput transcriptome sequencing and expression. Leveraging Jivan's industry-leading bioinformatics infrastructure for analysis of mRNA in biological samples, Jivan will provide
(Apr 9, 2009)
NIAID Funding Malaria Genomics, Field Studies (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will give $13.8 million in grants in the next year to support the creation of centers that will use molecular, clinical, and field research approaches to develop greater knowledge about malaria.
(Apr 9, 2009)
GenoLogics Integrates Lab Software with ABI's SOLiD (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – GenoLogics and Applied Biosystems have struck a partnership to integrate GenoLogics' lab and data management solution with the ABI SOLiD System.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Cell Biosciences Raises $10M in Private Financing (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Cell Biosciences has raised $10 million through a Series C private financing, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm said today.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Cell Biosciences raises $10M in 3rd round (BizJournals)
Cell Biosciences Inc., a provider of nanoproteomic analysis systems to life science researchers, said Thursday it closed a third round of funding with $10 million.
(Apr 9, 2009)
7th [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference (EurekAlert!)
( Swiss Institute of Bioinoformatics ) The seventh Basel Computational Biology Conference 2009 "Molecular Evolution" celebrates Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species."
(Apr 9, 2009)
This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)
HHMI researcher Vivian Cheung led a study that looked at gene expression differences among people in response to exposure to radiation . In performing genetic linkage and association studies to map regulators of different gene expression phenotypes, the researchers found that for more than 1,200 of these, there was linkage to a specific chromosome region and that nearly all of the regulators are ...
(Apr 9, 2009)
Final Results Year Ended 31 October 2008 (Marketwire)
ANTNANO PLC FINAL RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2008 AntNano Plc ("AntNano", or "the Company"), the specialist developer of highly-advanced equipment for detecting biochemicals and chemicals with applications in the industrial hygiene, medical and homeland security sectors, announces its Consolidated Annual Results for the year end 31 October 2008. Financial Highlights (compared to ...
(Apr 9, 2009)
Products & Services (GenomeWeb News)
According to the company, the assays can be used to evaluate levels of RNA expression in model organisms including cows, chickens, horses, pigs, rabbits, and rice.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Q&A: Johns Hopkins' Joshua Mendell on Global Activation of miRNA Biogenesis (GenomeWeb News)
Johns Hopkins researcher Joshua Mendell and colleagues have published new data showing that when a diversity of cell lines are grown to increasing density, microRNA biogenesis is globally activated, driving up levels of mature miRNAs and enhancing the suppression of their targets.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Jury acquits US marine of Iraq detainee's murder (Guardian Unlimited)
A military jury has acquitted a US marine sergeant on charges of murdering an unarmed detainee during battle in Fallujah, Iraq. The jury at Camp Pendleton, California, also acquitted Sergeant Ryan Weemer today of dereliction of duty in the November 2004 death.
(Apr 9, 2009)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
Also called protein transduction domains, the peptides are carriers with small peptide domains that can "freely cross cell membranes," the company said in a statement. Such functionality is needed to deliver the functional domain of a selected protein from the outside to the inside of intact cells.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Recent Research Papers of Note (GenomeWeb News)
In previous work, authors determined that methanol-assisted solubilization facilitates the identification of both hydrophobic and hydrophilic membrane proteins compared to Brij-58 solubilization. The method was particularly effective for leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases, they said.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Q&A: Mass Spec Study Says Nicotine May Affect Cell Interactions More Broadly Than Thought (GenomeWeb News)
The alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is an established high-affinity alpha bungarotoxin-binding protein in mammalian brain associated with learning and memory.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Majority of Proteomic Stimulus Winners Not Likely to Buy Equipment, Analyst Report Finds (GenomeWeb News)
Proteomic tool vendors may not see much benefit from the $10.4 billion stimulus package passed by the US government in February, according to a report from an investment firm.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Mo. Senate stalls again on tax-break legislation (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Gridlock prevailed over compromise in the Missouri Senate early Thursday, resulting in another failed effort to pass job-creation incentives supported by Gov. Jay Nixon and legislative leaders.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Fisher Scientific Inks Supply Deal with Mass Bio Council (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council has inked a five-year deal with Fisher Scientific to be the primary supplier for the MBC Purchasing Consortium.
(Apr 9, 2009)
Golden Helix Hires Distributor for India (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Golden Helix said today that it has tapped Spinco Biotech to distribute its genetic analysis software in India.
(Apr 9, 2009)
New funding allows UC Davis researchers to develop simple diagnostic test for kidney cancer (UC Newsroom)
"We want to be able to find these tumors as early as possible by quickly screening for them in primary care clinics."
(Apr 10, 2009)
One Year After Roche Acquisition, NimbleGen Forges Ahead with New Business Initiatives (GenomeWeb News)
One year after Roche acquired NimbleGen Systems — the same year that unfavorable market conditions drove Applied Biosystems, Nanogen, and GE Healthcare to abandon the array space — Roche NimbleGen continues to expand.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Tailored to You (GenomeWeb News)
In this segment , NPR's Morning Edition discusses personalized medicine.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Changing the Definition of Extinct (GenomeWeb News)
MD Anderson scientists have put the DNA of the extinct Tasmanian tiger back into transgenic mice to see how it would function, according to a paper published in PLoS ONE . Finding that thylacine Col2A1 enhancer directed chondrocyte-specific expression in the tiger the same way it does in mice, this is the first time that DNA from an extinct species has been used to examine function in a living ...
(Apr 10, 2009)
Meanwhile, the Pricing Folks at Nature and Science Rejoice (GenomeWeb News)
Peter Suber, who spends his days thinking about open access issues, posted this entry on his blog -- it's an excerpt from a press release issued by Yale explaining its libraries' decision to stop supporting BioMed Central's Open Access publishing effort.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Array Firms Scramble to Make New Chips As Sanger’s MicroRNA Database Expands (GenomeWeb News)
Within hours of the twelfth version of the miRBase database of published miRNA sequences and annotation going online Sept. 1, a host of array companies began pledging to update their miRNA offerings to reflect the most up-to-date content available.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Opportunistic Investor's Moat Philosophy (Morningstar.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Look for growing moats instead of wide moats.
(Apr 10, 2009)
6th Annual World Congress Of IBMISPS To Be Co-Hosted By Elsevier And Brain Mapping Foundation (Medical News Today)
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services and Brain Mapping Foundation, has announced that it will Co-host the 6th Annual World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, August 26-29, 2009 at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
(Apr 10, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Complies With NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4350(b)(1)(B) (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
MDRNA, Inc. announced today that the Company's independent registered public accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph in their opinion on the Company's financial statements included in the recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, relating to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.
(Apr 10, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Complies With NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4350(b)(1)(B) (Marketwire)
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - April 10, 2009) - MDRNA, Inc. ( NASDAQ : MRNA ) announced today that the Company's independent registered public accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph in their opinion on the Company's financial statements included in the recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, relating to the Company's ability to continue as a going ...
(Apr 10, 2009)
Cloud computing brings cost of protein research down to Earth (EurekAlert!)
( Medical College of Wisconsin ) Medical College of Wisconsin researchers have developed a set of free tools called ViPDAC (virtual proteomics data analysis cluster), for use in combination with Amazon's inexpensive "cloud computing" service, providing the option to rent processing time on its powerful servers; and free software from the NIH and the University of Manitoba, to put this very ...
(Apr 10, 2009)
NIH Outlines Stimulus Challenge Grants for Genomics (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Some of the $200 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding that has been marked for the National Institutes of Health's Challenge Grants program will go for research areas that generally come under the National Human Genome Research Institute's domain.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Helicos Updates Filing for Selling Shareholders (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Helicos BioSciences has filed a new preliminary prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the sale of around 9.6 million shares by shareholders of the firm.
(Apr 10, 2009)
NIAID's HIV-1 Program Funds Genetics (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will give grants to investigators who will use various methods to understand HIV-1 persistence in patients using anti-retroviral therapy, and to generate information that can be used to develop new assays or treatments.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Beckman Coulter Buys Genomics Unit (Bio-IT World)
Boston Business Journal | Clinical Data has sold its outsourced genomics division, Cogenics, to Beckman Coulter for $17 million.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Economics of Personal Genomics (Bio-IT World)
MSN Money | Would you pay $99,000 to know your past and your future? That's what Knome charges for full genetic mapping.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Venture Capital on The Table (GenomeWeb News)
An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal says venture capital firms don't need to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested.
(Apr 10, 2009)
This Week in Science (GenomeWeb News)
A special section on protein dynamics presents several review articles exploring how protein-protein interactions and protein conformation relate to function.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Just Keep Bidding (GenomeWeb News)
If you're feeling a bit low on funds to keep your lab running, try taking David Ng's approach . He was looking into whether a layman could set up a molecular biology lab -- and it appears to be fairly straightforward, if you use eBay: a microcentrifuge for $45.99, an agarose gel box for $99.99, or a PCR thermal cycler for $149.99. All in all, Ng finds it would take less than $1,000 to get much ...
(Apr 10, 2009)
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