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MAQC, LabCorp, Veridex, Qiagen, Epigenomics, NIH, Philips Life Sciences, Organon, 23andMe, Population Genomics ... (GenomeWeb News)
CARY, NC — The MicroArray Quality Control Consortium has expanded its scope by adding a new workgroup that will identify “best practices” for genome-wide association studies.
(May 2, 2009)
My Pharmiweb.com (PharmiWeb)
AnaSpec Inc. San Jose, CA – May 1, 2009 AnaSpec has announced the release of the newest addition to its Anti-MOG ELISA assay kit series – the SensoLyteÒ Anti-Human MOG (1-125) IgG Quantitation ELISA Kit. This kit, along with previously featured SensoLyteÒ Anti-Mouse MOG (1-125) and SensoLyteÒ Anti-Rat MOG (1-125) IgG ELISA assay kits are useful for determining the amount of anti-human MOG ...
(May 3, 2009)
Analyze This Proteome (GenomeWeb News)
Analyzing proteins is about trade-offs. Do you want to take a top-down approach or a bottom-up? Will you get the information you need from looking at the proteins or by looking at the peptides?
(May 3, 2009)
Medical Center Briefs: Few trainers follow protocol for asthma, OSU study shows (The Lantern)
OSU seeks to improve NCAA asthma care Very few athletic trainers associated with National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) programs said that they were following best practice standards for managing asthma among their athletes, according to a new study.
(May 4, 2009)
Collecting Sets of Genes (GenomeWeb News)
Many large-scale biology projects make use of a complete set of genes for one's favorite species. Working on such projects for a number of years, we're often reminded that the seemingly straightforward task of assembling a complete list of genes is not so easy, even for our favorite species — human.
(May 4, 2009)
Panasas And Dell Introduce Integrated, High-Performance Solution For Life Sciences Research (DataStorage-DataStorageConnection)
Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of storage for the world's most performance-intensive applications, recently announced that the company has partnered with Dell to deliver an integrated, high-performance, clustered computing solution for the life sciences research community.
(May 4, 2009)
Five UCSF Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Five UCSF faculty scientists are among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries elected recently to the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy has announced.
(May 4, 2009)
Five UCSF Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences (PRWeb)
Five UCSF faculty scientists are among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries elected recently to the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy has announced. (PRWeb May 4, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/UC
(May 4, 2009)
Lab models swine flu's spread; diagnostic chips being readied (Planet Analog)
PORTLAND, Ore. — Swine flu may have been caught early enough to prevent a serious U.S. epidemic, according to computer models developed by Virginia Tech's Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory (NDSSL).
(May 4, 2009)
Unlocking The Genetic Secrets Of The Date Palm Has Implications For Biomedical Research (Medical News Today)
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have mapped a draft version of the date palm genome, unlocking many of its genetic secrets. "We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm using the most advanced technology," says Joel Malek, director of the Genomics Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
(May 4, 2009)
Invitrogen Develops New Technology to Promote Safer Stem Cell Therapies (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CARLSBAD, Calif.----Invitrogen, a division of Life Technologies , today announced a new technology to enable the development of safer stem cell therapies. Dynabeads® SSEA-4, addresses a key challenge in translational research by separating undifferentiated stem cells from those that are differentiated.
(May 4, 2009)
Ocimum Biosolutions to Introduce New Test for the H1N1 Flu (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HYDERABAD, India----Ocimum Biosolutions announced the launch of a microarray-based test for the latest version of the H1N1 flu. The company reported that it updated its custom chip probes using sequence information from the latest strain of the swine flu from the NCBI site.
(May 4, 2009)
Health Discovery Corporation Names R. Scott Tobin as President and General Counsel (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAVANNAH, Ga.----Health Discovery Corporation , a molecular diagnostics company specializing in personalized medicine, today announced the appointment of R. Scott Tobin as President and General Counsel, effective April 15.
(May 4, 2009)
Swine flu research may spread to Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
As schools in West Michigan take precautions, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, an Arizona lab with a local alliance, is on the case.
(May 4, 2009)
With $60M, HHMI Funds HIV-TB Research Institute in South Africa (GenomeWeb News)
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute partnered with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, to build an international research center focused on fighting co-infection of tuberculosis and HIV, two diseases that are ravaging that area of the world.
(May 4, 2009)
Genetic Secrets Of Date Palm Unlocked By Researchers At Weill Cornell Medical College In Qatar (Medical News Today)
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have mapped a draft version of the date palm genome, unlocking many of its genetic secrets. "We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm using the most advanced technology," says Joel Malek, director of the Genomics Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
(May 4, 2009)
Ontario to award $100M for genomics research (CBC)
The Ontario government has announced $100 million in new funding for genomics research, an effort to attract top researchers from around the world and keep them in the province.
(May 4, 2009)
Clinical Data in Cancer PGx Alliance with Univ. of Pittsburgh (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Clinical Data today said that it has started a collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh to discover and validate genetic variants that could predict response to certain cancer treatments.
(May 4, 2009)
BD, Fujirebio Partner on Cancer Dx Assays (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Becton Dickinson and Fujirebio Diagnostics have inked a worldwide development and supply agreement for multiplex oncology diagnostic assays.
(May 4, 2009)
NIDDK, NHLBI Seek Non-invasive Disease Tests (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health will fund development of new non-invasive methods for diagnosis and monitoring of the progression of diabetes, kidney, urological, hematological, and digestive diseases and kidney disorders, with grants covering up to five years of research.
(May 4, 2009)
Protein analysis methods, viral vectors featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (EurekAlert!)
( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) The May issue of "Cold Spring Harbor Protocols" features a set of methods that can be used to analyze protein complexes. An additional featured article details the generation of viral vectors for gene transfer.
(May 4, 2009)
Big Data: SSD's, R, and Linked Data Streams (O'Reilly Media)
If you haven't seen it, I recommend you watch Andy Bechtolsheim's keynote at the recent Mysqlconf. We covered SSD's in our just published report on Big Data management technologies. Since then, we've gotten additional signals from our network of alpha geeks and our interest in them remains high. I had a chance to visit with Dataspora founder and blogger Mike Driscoll, an enthusiastic advocate ...
(May 4, 2009)
This Week in PLoS (GenomeWeb News)
In PLoS Computational Biology this week, scientists from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest describe a method to predict the disordered binding regions of intrinsically unstructured/disordered proteins.
(May 4, 2009)
Santaris Q1 Loss Narrows, Completes Phase I Trial of miRNA HCV Rx (GenomeWeb News)
Santaris Pharma last week issued its interim financial report for the first quarter of 2009, posting a more than 60 percent improvement in its quarterly loss on a surge in revenues.
(May 4, 2009)
The Online Information Source for the Medical Device Industry (Medical Device Link)
More point-of-care testing, more multiplexing, and more-automated sample preparation are the big innovations for in vitro diagnostics manufacturers working in detection.
(May 4, 2009)
Sequenom Shares Hammered, Affy's Shares Continue Rebound in April (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Stocks in the GenomeWeb Daily News Index continued their rebound for the second straight month, with Affymetrix rising sharply for the second time in as many months.
(May 4, 2009)
Shilatifard and colleagues clarify the enzymatic activity of factors involved in childhood leukemia (EurekAlert!)
The Stowers Institute's Shilatifard Lab and colleagues have provided new insight into the molecular basis for H3K4 methylation, an activity associated with the MLL protein found in chromosomal translocation-based aggressive infant acute leukemias. Studies describing these collaborative studies were published online by Molecular and Cellular Biology and Cell this week.
(May 4, 2009)
Ontario to award $100M for genomics research (CBC Toronto)
The Ontario government has announced $100 million in new funding for genomics research, an effort to attract top researchers from around the world and keep them in the province.
(May 4, 2009)
Cooke to retire from Canisius (Business First of Buffalo)
The president of Canisius College is stepping down next year, according to a release issued Monday by the college.
(May 4, 2009)
Q&A: Large-scale Study Explores Protein Changes that Persist in Cocaine Use, Even After Long Periods of Abstinence (GenomeWeb News)
In a study published March 17 in the online edition of Proteomics-Clinical Applications, a team of researchers looked at the protein changes in rats that had been exposed to cocaine.
(May 4, 2009)
ABI Cites Applied Markets, New Instruments for 'Good' MS Quarter; Analyst Says Bruker 'Key Beneficiary' of Stimulus ... (GenomeWeb News)
Life Technologies said last week that its mass spectrometry business, housed in its Applied Biosystems group, performed above expectations in the first quarter of 2009 due to shipments of new instruments during the quarter and growth in the applied markets.
(May 4, 2009)
NCI, Canary Seek Non-smoking Lung Cancer Causes (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Cancer Institute and the Canary Foundation are partnering to fund a number of studies aimed at understanding the genetic causes of lung cancer in non-smokers and developing early-stage diagnostics.
(May 4, 2009)
ARUP Licenses Ipsogen Leukemia MDx IP (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – French molecular diagnostics company Ipsogen has licensed rights to use gene variants for diagnosing leukemia to ARUP Laboratories, a reference lab that is part of the University' of Utah's Department of Pathology.
(May 4, 2009)
QIAGEN Reports First Quarter 2009 Results (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
VENLO, The Netherlands, May 4, 2009 -- QIAGEN N.V. today announced the results of operations for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009.
(May 4, 2009)
DJ HUGIN NEWS/QIAGEN Reports First Quarter 2009 -3- (Financial.de)
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(May 4, 2009)
Qiagen Posts 7 Percent Q1 Sales Gain; Profit Rises (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Qiagen reported after the close of the market on Monday that its first-quarter revenues rose 7 percent while its net income jumped around 22 percent year over year.
(May 4, 2009)
04.05.2009 - DJ HUGIN NEWS/QIAGEN Reports First Quarter 2009 Results (4investors)
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(May 4, 2009)
University of Colorado Licenses Flu Dx Tech to InDevR; Test May Help ID Swine Strain Faster (GenomeWeb News)
InDevR, a biotech firm founded in 2003 by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has licensed from the university an array-based diagnostic chip for identifying various strains of the flu virus, including the swine H1N1 virus, the company said last week.
(May 4, 2009)
New paradigm identifies gene responsible for acetaminophen-induced liver injury (EurekAlert!)
Acetaminophen (Tylenol and generics) is one of the most commonly used over-the-counter drugs in the United States. While generally safe, acetaminophen is known to cause severe liver injury if taken in high doses. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have found a genetic marker linked to the risk of acetaminophen-induced liver injury, using a strategy that will help develop ...
(May 4, 2009)
MDx Sales Drive 42 Percent Increase in Q3 Revenues for Myriad Genetics (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Myriad Genetics reported after the close of the market on Monday that its third-quarter revenues increased 42 percent, driven by a sharp uptick in molecular diagnostics sales.
(May 4, 2009)
Obama riles high-tech exec over outsourcing (San Francisco Chronicle)
Carl Guardino usually comes across as an amenable, mild-mannered Silicon Valley executive. But not on Monday. Not when he watched President Obama promising to end overseas tax breaks for U.S. companies that "create a job in Bangalore, India, (rather than) one...
(May 5, 2009)
Ocimum Biosolutions to introduce new test for H1N1 flu (New Kerala)
Hyderabad, May 4 (Business Wire India): Ocimum Biosolutions announced the launch of a microarray-based test (research use only) for the latest version of the H1N1 flu.
(May 5, 2009)
Obama riles high-tech exec over outsourcing (San Francisco Chronicle)
Carl Guardino usually comes across as an amenable, mild-mannered Silicon Valley executive. But not on Monday. Not when he watched President Obama promising to end overseas tax breaks for U.S. companies that "create a job in Bangalore, India, (rather than) one...
(May 5, 2009)
Gene grant just shuffling money: Critics (Toronto Sun)
Ontario's top gene scientists got a $100-million boost to conduct research yesterday -- just days after aspiring undergrads took a grant cut worth the same amount.
(May 5, 2009)
"Food mill" for proteins - new method improves protein analysis considerably (uniprotokolle)
Until now, extracting as many proteins as possible from biological samples has required a combination of several methods.
(May 5, 2009)
Ocimum to launch new test for swine flu (New Kerala)
Hyderabad, May 5 : Ocimum Biosolutions announced the launch of a microarray-based test (research use only) for the latest version of H1N1 flu (swine flu).
(May 5, 2009)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. Signs Licensing Agreement for Distribution and Sale of Uracyst(R) in Italy (Marketwire)
Expansion of Stellar's Global Strategy
(May 5, 2009)
Donors give Case Western medical school $8.7M (WKYC Cleveland)
CLEVELAND -- At a time when many colleges are struggling to pull in donations, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland has announced $8.7 million in new gifts for its medical school.
(May 5, 2009)
What Can You Do with XMPP? (O'Reilly Media)
XMPP: The Definitive Guide covers everything you need to know about Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight middleware, cloud computing, and more. This excerpt provides a high-level overview of the technology and introduces you to the ways it's being used. Read more about XMPP.
(May 5, 2009)
Ocimum Biosolutions B.V. Introduces Affymetrix Services in Europe (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
IJSSELSTEIN, Netherlands----In line with its strategic objective to build a global network of service centers in close proximity to leading genomics researchers, Ocimum Biosolutions B.V. today announced the launch of genomic services on Affymetrix platform from Europe.
(May 5, 2009)
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