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Like the Kevin Bacon Game, But More Depressing (GenomeWeb News)
With all the people, foundations, and their beneficiaries (PDF file) that have lost money to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, John Fossella at Genes to Brains to Mental Health wondered what his institution's exposure was . Using a relationship tracking tool from Muckety , Fossella found one connection between Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Madoff, a person who is a trustee and patron for both ...
(Apr 10, 2009)
Cloud computing brings cost of protein research down to Earth (PhysOrg)
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center in Milwaukee have just made the very expensive and promising area of protein research more accessible to scientists worldwide.
(Apr 10, 2009)
UC Santa Cruz team creates tool to view cancer research data (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
SANTA CRUZ -- Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have created a browser that provides a new way of seeing and studying data from some cancer studies.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Collaboration Leads to Success: Most Powerful Computer of its Kind in WNY Available World-Wide (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Local scientist Dr. Russ Miller is leading the rollout of "Magic," one of the most powerful computers in New York State to qualified users worldwide for solving computationally-demanding problems.
(Apr 10, 2009)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Navigenics has appointed Jack Lord to take over the office of president and CEO, which was vacated by Mari Baker , who has taken the CEO job at PlayFirst. Lord was chief innovation officer at Humana, and before that he was president of Health Dialog.
(Apr 10, 2009)
In Brief This Week: 454 Life Sciences; BioReference Laboratories; Sidmap; IDBS; GeneNews; and More (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Roche said this week that a paper published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Infectious Disease demonstrated that ultra-deep sequencing with 454 Life Sciences' sequencing system was able to identify low-frequency hepatitis B virus drug-resistant mutations in infected samples, including mutations that were undetected using standard direct PCR sequencing ...
(Apr 10, 2009)
Complete Genomics Cuts Wages, Other Costs as Financing Round is Delayed (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - In response to a delay in the closing of its Series D financing round, Complete Genomics has cut its costs, including staff salaries, GenomeWeb Daily News sister publication In Sequence reported today.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Bioinformatics Briefs (GenomeWeb News)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute said this week that it is opening a Center for Cancer Computational Biology that will offer researchers access to data-analysis and -interpretation services.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Downloads & Upgrades (GenomeWeb News)
BioDiscovery has launched Nexus Copy Number Version 4 , a platform-independent application for DNA copy-number analysis of microarray-derived data.
(Apr 10, 2009)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
The annual award is given to a scientist "who epitomizes the open-source values" espoused by Benjamin Franklin, Bioinformatics.Org said in a statement. Bourne will be presented with the award at the 2009 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston on April 28.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Funding Update (GenomeWeb News)
Yao and his team are focused on investigating the plasma membrane expression of CFTR, the critical gene linked to cystic fibrosis, using a specially designed mass spec assay developed through a partnership with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Complete Genomics Cuts Wages, Other Costs as it Seeks to Close Series D Financing Round (GenomeWeb News)
In response to a delay in the closing of its Series D financing round, Complete Genomics has cut its costs, including staff salaries, In Sequence has learned.
(Apr 10, 2009)
US Gov't Stimulus Package Could Be 'Boon' for Bioinformatics, NIH Officials Say (GenomeWeb News)
The US stimulus package has created numerous opportunities for bioinformaticists — through dedicated award opportunities as well as supporting capabilities on non-computational programs.
(Apr 10, 2009)
India's Persistent Systems Hopes Deal With Indiana U Will Bolster Its Bioinformatics Services (GenomeWeb News)
Persistent Systems, an IT services firm headquartered in Pune, India, is partnering with Indiana University's School of Informatics to ramp up its life sciences domain expertise.
(Apr 10, 2009)
Stanford Students Start Consultancy to Help Stimulus Recipients Fulfill Bioinformatics Needs (GenomeWeb News)
Looking to capitalize on new grants that the National Institutes of Health is offering through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a group of Stanford University PhD students has started a consulting company to help wet-lab biologists with the bioinformatics component of new projects.
(Apr 10, 2009)
B vitamins may offer migraine relief (Nutraingredients.com)
Daily vitamin supplements were found to produce a two-fold reduction in migraine disability, according to scientists from the Genomics Research Centre (GRC) at Griffith University in Brisbane.
(Apr 10, 2009)
U.S. medical industry a long way from being paperless (Detroit News)
Modernizing the nation's health records has become a big push of the Obama administration, with $19 billion tucked into the $787 billion stimulus package to help hospitals and doctors digitize paper charts and stem the skyrocketing cost of health care nationwide.
(Apr 11, 2009)
University Of Michigan Installs Second Genomatix Genome Analyzer (Medical News Today)
Genomatix Software, a leading provider of complete solutions for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, has announced that the CCDU Bioinformatics Core of the Center for Computational Medicine and Biology at the University of Michigan installed a Genomatix Genome Analyzer (GGA) at its labs in Ann Arbor, MI.
(Apr 11, 2009)
Because We're Nothing Without a Sense of Humor (GenomeWeb News)
Ever wonder what you could do with your genome (besides sequencing it, that is)? Here's a blog post of " 10 amusing things to do with your genome " from Nivair Gabriel at io9.
(Apr 11, 2009)
You Don't Often Hear the Pro-Obesity Health Argument (GenomeWeb News)
According to this wire story , scientists in Norway homed in on epigenetic markers that indicate which stem cells are best suited for regenerating tissue. The catch? The work has been performed on liposuctioned stem cells.
(Apr 11, 2009)
The Master of One Will Be the Master of Many (GenomeWeb News)
At Discovering Biology in a Digital World, Sandra Porter discusses what software biology students should be learning.
(Apr 11, 2009)
What a 'Previvor' Learned from Her Genome (GenomeWeb News)
The New York Times book reviews this weekend covers Blood Matters , a book by Moscow-based journalist Masha Gessen, who describes her experiences and the effect on her family of testing positive for the BRCA1 mutation . The Times calls the book very funny and liberating, and concludes that "it's also very lucid, even when the science gets complex."
(Apr 11, 2009)
Conference To Promote Cancer Awareness For Vast Navajo Nation (Medical News Today)
Outreach efforts by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) extend to the far corners of Arizona. For the second year, TGen will help organize a cancer awareness conference for northeastern Arizona's vast Navajo Nation. The 2nd annual Fort Defiance Cancer Awareness and Advocacy Conference, sponsored by the Arizona Myeloma Network, is planned 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
(Apr 11, 2009)
University Of Cincinnati Receives $22.7 Million To Launch New Center (Medical News Today)
The National Institutes of Health has announced that the University of Cincinnati will become the 39th member of its Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) consortium.
(Apr 11, 2009)
Connecting the Dots of Medicine and Data (New York Times)
The push for electronic health records is causing demand to surge for health informatics specialists.
(Apr 11, 2009)
COMMENTARY: No, future is in European style club sports system (The Sierra Vista Herald)
The dye has been cast. The days of American Exceptionalism are numbered.
(Apr 12, 2009)
Looks Like We Can't Sweep That Under the Rug (GenomeWeb News)
The BBC reports on a paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in which scientists from the Genographic Project report finding faint DNA traces "left by medieval crusaders in the Middle East," according to the article.
(Apr 12, 2009)
As Long as It Supports Your Conclusions (GenomeWeb News)
DrugMonkey is continuing on the NIH grant primer series with a revised edition on how to update your grant application -- if you do an update, make it count and have it show your commitment to the project, especially if you've submitted a relevant paper.
(Apr 12, 2009)
The Data Is Your Palette (GenomeWeb News)
While powerful compute muscle in the form of workstations, acceleration hardware, and sophisticated algorithms continues to help crunch data sets that seem to multiply at turbo-charged rates, it isn't becoming any easier for researchers to make sense of it all.
(Apr 12, 2009)
Mo. Senate vows to try again on tax-break bill (Jefferson City News Tribune)
Compromise has failed. So has a grueling late-night Senate session designed to wait out the opposition.
(Apr 12, 2009)
Locking Parasites In Host Cell Could Be New Way To Fight Malaria (Science Daily)
Researchers have discovered that parasites hijack host-cell proteins to ensure their survival and proliferation, suggesting new ways to control the diseases they cause.
(Apr 12, 2009)
Palm genome institute to help sector raise productivity (Business Times (Malaysia))
MALAYSIA will set up a research facility in Bangi, Selangor, to help boost the oil palm industry's productivity through a better understanding of the plant's genetic code.
(Apr 12, 2009)
Halcyon Molecular, Caliper Life Sciences, NHGRI, RainDance Technologies, National Center for Genome Resources, SAS, ... (GenomeWeb News)
Startup firm Halcyon Molecular is working on an electron microscopy-based DNA sequencing technology, In Sequence has learned.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Indian festival colors campus (Penn State Collegian)
Divya Sinha (senior-pre-medicine), right, gives Ravi Heerwani (senior-supply chain and information systems) his first touch of color during Holi.
(Apr 13, 2009)
COMMENTARY: No, future is in European style club sports system (The Sierra Vista Herald)
The dye has been cast. The days of American Exceptionalism are numbered.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Connecting the Dots of Medicine and Data (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
The push for electronic health records is causing demand to surge for "health informatics specialists."
(Apr 13, 2009)
Time to Keep a Closer Eye on Fifi (GenomeWeb News)
Soon there'll be a DNA database for anything you can imagine. Today's entry: an Israeli city near Tel Aviv is "setting up a special DNA database of local dogs," according to this BBC story . "They will use the data to match dogs' droppings to owners - and punish those who do not clean up after their pets."
(Apr 13, 2009)
At 17, We Were Worried About Our Prom Dates (GenomeWeb News)
Seventeen-year-old Shivani Sud, from North Carolina, won the Intel Science Talent Search and its $100,000 scholarship, according to an article in the Boston Globe . Using information publicly available (which included clinical samples), Sud identified genetic markers that predict recurrence of stage II colon cancer.
(Apr 13, 2009)
And That's Why They Call It Evolution (GenomeWeb News)
The Darwin Awards have been announced for 2006. These awards, begun in 1993, "salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it, thus ensuring that the next generation is one idiot smarter."
(Apr 13, 2009)
Prometheus and Rosetta Genomics Announce License and Collaboration Agreement (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
based Molecular Diagnostics to Mark Prometheus' Entry into Oncology Market; Rosetta to Receive Milestones and Research and Development Funding plus Future Royalties
(Apr 13, 2009)
Signature Genomic Laboratories Announces Appointment of New Laboratory Director (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SPOKANE, Wash.----Signature Genomic Laboratories has appointed Trilochan Sahoo, M.D., as a Laboratory Director.
(Apr 13, 2009)
City's 'shocking' gender pay gap revealed in equality report (Guardian Unlimited)
Women working full-time in the financial sector earn 55% less a year on average than their male counterparts, with those in some of the most lucrative areas, such as fund management and futures trading, suffering the greatest disparities, according to research published today. The report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) also contains further evidence that women struggle to ...
(Apr 13, 2009)
Verdezyne to Optimize Genes for Novozymes (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Verdezyne said that it will optimize selected genes that encode industrial enzymes for Novozymes, under a contract announced today.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals and Eureka Genomics Sign Merger Agreement (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Pinksheets: NNBP) and privately held Eureka Genomics announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement, which delineates the terms and conditions under which Nanobac proposes to merge with Eureka in a stock and cash transaction.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Prometheus to Sell Rosetta Genomics' Tests; Takes Equity Stake (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Prometheus Laboratories has licensed US rights to Rosetta Genomics' recently introduced microRNA-based tests and has taken an equity stake in the molecular diagnostics firm.
(Apr 13, 2009)
This Week in PLoS (GenomeWeb News)
In PLoS Biology , lead author Nikolay Ninov from the Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona reports on a study of cell cycle and growth in Drosophila abdominal cells.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals and Eureka Genomics Sign Merger Agreement (Marketwire)
Merger Will Create OTC-Pink Sheets-Listed Company Driving the Evolution of Next-Generation Genomics and Bioinformatics
(Apr 13, 2009)
Movers & Shakers: Monday's biggest gaining and losing stocks (Market Watch)
Among the companies whose shares made notable moves in the stock market Monday are Citigroup Inc., General Motors Corp., Express Scripts Inc. and Seagate Technology Inc.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Rosetta Grants Prometheus Rights to Sell Suite of microRNA Diagnostics in US (GenomeWeb News)
Rosetta Genomics today announced that it has granted the right to sell its three microRNA-based diagnostics in the US to drug and diagnostic firm Prometheus Laboratories.
(Apr 13, 2009)
John Maddox Dies (GenomeWeb News)
John Maddox, a Nature editor for 22 years, died, reports Edge. He was 84. John Brockman writes , "John Maddox was a dominant figure in a golden age of science.
(Apr 13, 2009)
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