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Saving the Trouble (GenomeWeb News)
Bora Zivkovic rounds up a discussion he sparked the other day after posting an article that said in the Canadian grant system, the cost of preparing a grant application (C$40,000) outweighed the amount of an average grant (C$30,000). The article then suggested to give "every qualified investigator a direct baseline discovery grant of $30,000." Zivkovic discusses where the quality control would ...
(Apr 13, 2009)
Scaling Up (GenomeWeb News)
Deepak Singh writes that big science will, "out of sheer necessity," need to use scalable designs for computing. From reading James Hamilton's blog , Singh writes that scaling comes from partitioning and redundancy while from Dan Reed's blog , Singh finds that the degree of parallel systems needed will be a challenge.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Fort Detrick scientist honored for bioinformatics (WTOP Radio Washington, DC)
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - A civilian computer scientist at Fort Detrick in Frederick is being honored for work that has dramatically accelerated the pace of biodefense research.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Nanobac Pharmaceutical advances merger with Eureka Genomics (BizJournals)
Nanobac Pharmaceutical Inc. and Eureka Genomics signed a definitive merger agreement.
(Apr 13, 2009)
The Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network Selects GenoLogics' Proteomics Lab and Data Management Solution (T-Net British Columbia)
Vancouver, BC, April 13, 2009--(T-Net)--GenoLogics, a leading developer of informatics solutions for translational research, announced it is working with the Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network to deploy its lab and proteomics data management system.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Fort Detrick scientist honored for bioinformatics (The Frederick News-Post)
A civilian computer scientist at Fort Detrick is being honored for work that has dramatically accelerated the pace of biodefense research
(Apr 13, 2009)
Papers of Note (GenomeWeb News)
Experimental Brain Research , March 4, 2009; epub ahead of print Islamov et al. Journal of General Virology , March 4, 2009; epub ahead of print Xia et al.
(Apr 13, 2009)
NHLBI to Start Third Proteomics Program (GenomeWeb News)
With its two major proteomics programs winding down, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is embarking on its next major program, which calls for researchers to develop proteomics technologies and apply them to solve clinical puzzles.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Cloud Computing Brings Cost Of Protein Research Down To Earth (Science Daily)
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, to put this very expensive and promising field within reach of scientists everywhere.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Nanobac, Eureka Genomics Ink Definitive Merger Deal (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Nanobac Pharmaceuticals and Eureka Genomics have inked a definitive merger pact, under which Eureka shareholders will own 85 percent of the merged firm.
(Apr 13, 2009)
NIH to Fund Biomarker Research for Alternative Medicine (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine wants researchers to develop new tools to study complementary and alternative medical (CAM) approaches, including new biomarkers that are linked to well-being and stress.
(Apr 13, 2009)
NICHD Starts New PGx Program (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - The National Institutes of Health will support pharmacogenomics research aimed at understanding drug effects on, and targeting drugs for, children and pregnant women under a new program.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Q&A: Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker 'Compendium' Foreshadows Future Web Portal (GenomeWeb News)
In a step toward a web-based database of all molecular alterations in pancreatic cancer, a team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins University's Akhilesh Pandey has mined the scientific literature to create of a "compendium" of potential biomarkers for pancreatic cancer.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Cash Positive for 2008 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Canadian pharmaceutical developer and marketer of high quality, cost-effective products for select health care markets, today announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2008.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Prometheus puts $8m into Rosetta (Haaretz Daily)
Specialty pharmaceuticals maker Prometheus Laboratories is investing $8 million in Rosetta Genomics, at a premium of 42% over the Israeli company's share price.
(Apr 13, 2009)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Cash Positive for 2008 (Marketwire)
LONDON, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 13, 2009) - Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB:SLXCF) ("Stellar" or "the Company"), a Canadian pharmaceutical developer and marketer of high quality, cost-effective products for select health care markets, today announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2008. This is the second consecutive year that the company has generated positive cash ...
(Apr 13, 2009)
April 14, 2009 ENMU briefs (Portales News-Tribune)
ENMU student Noel Hunt has been named Mrs. New Mexico and is running for Mrs. United States. Michael R. Elrod, president of ENMU-Ruidoso, has announced that he will retire next January.
(Apr 14, 2009)
Medical College Of Wisconsin's Data Analysis Cluster Makes Proteomics Research More Accessible To Scientists Worldwide (Medical News Today)
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 14, 2009)
Bioinformatics Tool-Related Papers of Note, July and August 2007 (GenomeWeb News)
Bhave SV, Hornbaker C, Phang TL, Saba L, Lapadat R, Kechris K, Gaydos J, McGoldrick D, Dolbey A, Leach S, Soriano B, Ellington A, Ellington E, Jones K, Mangion J, Belknap JK, Williams RW, Hunter LE, Hoffman PL, Tabakoff B.
(Apr 14, 2009)
Complete Genomics wants to sequence thousands of human genomes (About.com)
The BBC reports that Complete Genomics, a biotech research firm in California, says that it will sequence one thousand complete human genomes between June 2009 and the end of the...
(Apr 14, 2009)
In Print (GenomeWeb News)
Journal: Bioinformatics . 2009 Mar 15;25(6):751-7. Title: Statistical methods of background correction for Illumina BeadArray data. Authors: Y Xie; X Wang; M Story
(Apr 14, 2009)
More Work Needed to Standardize Consumer Genomics Offerings, Top US Health Official Says (GenomeWeb News)
Although players in the burgeoning consumer genomics industry have agreed to standardize certain parts of their genetic risk screening offerings, they have yet to agree on clinical validation issues critical to protecting the public health, according to a top US government health official.
(Apr 14, 2009)
Clinical Data, Inc. Completes Sale of Cogenics Genomics Services Division to Beckman Coulter, Inc. (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEWTON, Mass.----Clinical Data, Inc. announced today that it has completed the sale of Cogenics, the Company's genomics services division, to Beckman Coulter, Inc. for $17.0 million.
(Apr 14, 2009)
Backed by New Investors, LightSpeed Genomics Plans to Test its Detection Tech for Sequencing (GenomeWeb News)
After going through a restructuring phase at the end of last year in which it temporarily laid off its entire staff, LightSpeed Genomics has secured new investors and continues to develop its optical-detection technology, which it plans to integrate with a new sequencing chemistry this year, In Sequence has learned.
(Apr 14, 2009)
Q&A: Method Developed by Burnham Institute Team IDs 95 Percent of Fission Yeast Proteome (GenomeWeb News)
Name : Dieter Wolf Position : Director, NCI Cancer Center Proteomics Facility, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, 2007 to present; professor of signal transduction program, Burnham Institute, 2007 to present.
(Apr 14, 2009)
Science Magazine to Host Webinar on Advances in Cancer Genomics (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The business office of Science, the world's leading peer-reviewed research journal, is partnering with Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation, to produce a webinar on Advances in Cancer Genomics to be broadcast live online at 12 noon ET (4:00 GMT) April 30, 2009.
(Apr 15, 2009)
Recent Patents of Interest in Proteomics (GenomeWeb News)
US Patent 7,519,514. Systems and methods for removing noise from spectral data. Inventor: Randy Keith Roushall. Assignee: Agilent Technologies
(Apr 15, 2009)
A bright future for biological sensors (News-Medical-Net)
In the future, explained Peter Ghazal, Chair of Edinburgh University's Department of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, biological sensors, the product of the integration of biology and electronics will be used to detect infections and prescribe personalized treatments.
(Apr 16, 2009)
BioTek Instruments And Promega Simplify The Determination Of Cell-Based Mechanisms Of Toxicity With Automated Solutions (BioresearchOnline)
BioTek Instruments along with Madison, Wisconsin based Promega Corporation, demonstrate the use of Promega's microwell cell-based assays in a triplex format to generate more biologically relevant data per single well with straightforward and cost-effective automated systems such as BioTek's Precision™ Automated Microplate Pipetting Systems.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Essential Resources for Modern Biology (uniprotokolle)
3rd Biocuration Conference in Berlin on April 16-19 - Introducing a new International Society for Biocuration (ISB) Life is data. Lots of data. The findings of biologists are presented in the scientific literature and in very large data sets stemming from experiments.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Creativity Awards From Prostate Cancer Foundation For BIDMC Scientists (Medical News Today)
Two projects led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have received funding from the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) as part of their 2009 Creativity Awards program, which supports innovative ideas to improve the detection and treatment of prostate cancer. The one-year awards were made to 10 projects at nine institutions throughout the U.S.
(Apr 16, 2009)
German Gov’t Grants Cellzome $4.9M to Expand Kinobeads Into New Rx Classes (GenomeWeb News)
Cellzome last week said it plans to use a €3.5 million ($4.9 million) grant from the German government to broaden its proteomics technology for use in epigenetics-based drug discovery, and to “miniaturize” the platform for use on patient biopsies.
(Apr 16, 2009)
BioAdvance Names Dr. Philip P. Gerbino Chair and Elects Dr. John M. Daly to Board of Directors (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PHILADELPHIA----BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Greenhouse Corporation of Southeastern Pennsylvania, today announced that Philip P. Gerbino, PharmD., has been elected as Chair of the organization's Board of Directors effective April 2009.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Biological Sensors Are The Future Of Personalized Treatment (Medical News Today)
Informatics is the foundation of research into biomedicine and nanomedicine In the future, explained Peter Ghazal, Chair of Edinburgh University's Department of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, biological sensors, the product of the integration of biology and electronics will be used to detect infections and prescribe personalized treatments.
(Apr 16, 2009)
OHSU to Start NIAID Center (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Oregon Health and Science University will use funding from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to form a regional research center that will conduct a variety of studies on infectious diseases, including genomics research.
(Apr 16, 2009)
This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)
In Nature early online this week, scientists used an RNAi screen in Drosophila to study the Notch signaling pathway during external sensory organ development. Their work identified six new genes involved in asymmetric cell division and 23 novel genes regulating the Notch pathway.
(Apr 16, 2009)
JAMA Drama Continues (GenomeWeb News)
The drama at JAMA that began with Jonathan Leo asking the journal to look into Robert Robinson's ties to Forest Laboratories (Robinson published a paper in JAMA saying that Lexapro helped prevent depression in stroke victims) is continuing.
(Apr 16, 2009)
What to Do With the GWAS (GenomeWeb News)
In three commentaries in the New England Journal of Medicine , Children's Hospital's Joel Hirschhorn, Duke's David Goldstein, and Harvard's Peter Kraft and David Hunter discuss the complexity basis of common genetic diseases.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Smurf Genes Help Cells Find the Path Ahead (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
One sign that cells cannot tell front from back is disruption of the orderly hair cells inside the inner ear. In a normal embryonic mouse, hair cells are lined up in an orderly way so they can vibrate in response to sounds (left).
(Apr 16, 2009)
Hair Metal Lives (GenomeWeb News)
What do power ballads and cell monitoring have in common? Check out this new viral marketing video from Roche. Hold on, we're looking for a lighter.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Star with Darwin (GenomeWeb News)
If your on-camera persona is up to snuff, you could appear in a film about Charles Darwin , reports the Guardian . The Darwin Aloud project is calling for videos of people reading an excerpt from On the Origin of Species in their native language in front of a landmark, a scientifically important site, or other scenery.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Why don't we share data? (The Scientist)
There are so, so many reasons--and they make a lot of sense
(Apr 16, 2009)
Olink, Abnova Ink Co-marketing Pact (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Olink Bioscience and Abnova have agreed to a co-development and co-marketing partnership for protein assays, Olink said today.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre Launches Free Database To Help Speed The Path To New Treatments (Medical News Today)
Breakthrough Breast Cancer has today launched the world's most comprehensive breast cancer database - bringing scientific research and clinical data together in one place. The Rock database is a free resource which allows scientists easy access to an enormous amount of published data on breast cancer.
(Apr 16, 2009)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
Santaris Pharma has appointed Arthur Levin , its chief development officer, as president of its new California-based subsidiary.
(Apr 16, 2009)
As Long as the Camel Doesn't Spit on the Date (GenomeWeb News)
Researchers at Cornell's campus in Qatar have mapped the date palm genome , according to the Gulf Times . "We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm," Joel Malek says, a project that involved using next-gen sequencers.
(Apr 16, 2009)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
Ludesi this week launched Redfin Solo , its new 2D gel image-analysis software with a payment model that allows users to pay only for analyses they believe is of value to them.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Movers & Shakers (GenomeWeb News)
Witney joins Dionex from Affymetrix where he was executive vice president and chief commercial officer. Prior to that he was president and CEO of Panomics from July 2002 until it was acquired by Affymetrix in December 2008.
(Apr 16, 2009)
Analyst Speculates on Potential Thermo Fisher Acquisition (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Leerink Swann analyst Isaac Ro said in a research report published today that he believes a major acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific is "likely in the near term, with possible targets coming in the areas of Bioprocess tools, HPLC, or Diagnostics."
(Apr 16, 2009)
Satoris, RayBiotech to Co-develop Alzheimer's Test (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Satoris will collaborate with RayBiotech to develop array-based test kits for Alzheimer's disease, the firms said today.
(Apr 16, 2009)
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