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University of Liverpool awarded £2.2 million for genomics hub (News-Medical-Net)
The University of Liverpool has been awarded £2.2 million to establish a high-throughput genomic analysis hub for the North of England.
(May 13, 2009)
MAUI Product Suite Application Notes Enable Superior Hybridization Results Across Multiple Microarray Platforms (Marketwire)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - May 13, 2009) - BioMicro® Systems and its partners have demonstrated compatibility between the MAUI® Product Suite and a wide variety of applications including gene expression, array CGH, miRNA and more. Newly released application notes/protocols are now available at biomicro.com, enabling researchers to expand and optimize their microarray experiments using the ...
(May 13, 2009)
GeneCards(R) Version 3.0 Beta Released (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Xennex, Inc. announced today a major leap for GeneCards® with the release of Version 3.0 beta, available at http://www.genecards.org/v3.
(May 13, 2009)
Lawsuit by Former Officer Dismissed; GeneLink and GeneWize Poised for Growth (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ORLANDO, Fla.----GeneLink, Inc. , a leading consumer genomics biotech company, is pleased to report that the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has dismissed the lawsuit brought by the Company's former CEO and President, John DePhillipo, and his wife against the Company, its subsidiary GeneWize Life Sciences, Inc. , and several of the Company's officers, directors and advisors.
(May 13, 2009)
May 13th (Business Weekly)
The University of Cambridge will host one of just three genetic research hubs created by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to provide scientists access to cutting-edge resources for DNA sequencing.
(May 13, 2009)
AnaSpec Launches Z-Fish™ Antibodies (Medical News Today)
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as an experimental model has gained widespread use since the pioneering days of Dr. George Streisinger. In the year 1980, there were 18 publications, 72 in 1990, 540 in 2000 and 1159 in 2008.1 To date, there are more than 13,200 publications.
(May 13, 2009)
University of Liverpool awarded $3.3 million for genomics hub (EurekAlert!)
( University of Liverpool ) The University of Liverpool has been awarded £2.2 ($3.3) million to establish a high-throughput genomic analysis hub for the North of England.
(May 13, 2009)
WellGen, Inc. Launches Te Ame(TM) Nutritional Supplements With Proven Health Benefits of Proprietary Black Tea Extract (redOrbit)
Natural Compound Enhances Exercise Recovery and Stress Management, Supports Natural Immune Function and Joint Health NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- WellGen, Inc., a life science company at the crossroads of food and pharmaceuticals, today announced the launch of its first consumer products, a line of nutritional supplements under the brand name Te Ame.
(May 13, 2009)
UK Grants Nearly $6M for North/East England High-throughput Hubs (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — The United Kingdom has granted a total of £3.9 million ($5.8 million) to the University of Liverpool and to the Babraham Institute to start two high-throughput genomics hubs as part of a three-prong program to enhance the country's DNA sequencing resources.
(May 13, 2009)
Grads to Number 1,370 at UALR Spring Commencement (KARK Little Rock)
UALR expects to graduate 1,370 seniors and graduate students this spring and summer, including hundreds planning to walk across the stage at the Jack Stephens Center on Saturday, May 17, to receive their degrees.
(May 13, 2009)
Genomes Go Green! (GenomeWeb News)
Ryan Gregory takes a page out of Jonathan Eisen's book (Eisen of the recent New Yorker fame ) and points out a paper that is "overselling genomics." The paper, published in The Plant Genome , is entitled "A Genome May Reduce Your Carbon Footprint" and the abstract says that the "article will consider more closely the impact of very cheap sequence data (approximately 1USD per genome) on ...
(May 13, 2009)
CombiMatrix Corporation's Comprehensive Cancer Array Presentation Available On Website (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
MUKILTEO, Wash., May 13, 2009 -- CombiMatrix Corporation today announced that Dr. Amit Kumar's presentation at the DxRx Summit: Nucleic Acid Diagnostics & Therapeutics in Boston, Massachusetts, held on May 13, 2009 is now available on its website.
(May 13, 2009)
Student Uses Computers Against Hepatitis C (Newswise)
University of Saskatchewan graduate student has been selected as inaugural recipient of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship--one of the most sought-after scholarships for graduate students.
(May 13, 2009)
NIDA Awards Case Western Reserve $3M to Use Proteomics to Study Effects of Drug Abuse on HIV/AIDS (GenomeWeb News)
Aiming to gain a clearer understanding of the effects of drug abuse on the progression of HIV/AIDS, the US National Institute of Drug Abuse awarded researchers at Case Western Reserve University a three-year, $3 million grant to develop protein and epigenetic biomarkers and new technology to track progression of the disease, the school announced last week.
(May 13, 2009)
Bioinformatics Study Finds 88 Protein Sequences with Vaccine Potential Conserved in West Nile Virus (GenomeWeb News)
A large-scale bioinformatics analysis of the West Nile virus proteome has identified 88 protein sequences that researchers said could provide the basis for the development of treatments for the disease, for which no vaccine or therapy currently exists.
(May 13, 2009)
LI-COR Biosciences Offers $1.75 Million in Matching Funds for Genomics Education (Marketwire)
LINCOLN, NE--(Marketwire - May 13, 2009) - LI-COR® Biosciences announces an enhanced matching funds program to support undergraduate and high school hands-on education in Genomics. $1.75 million in matching funds is available with LI-COR providing 60% of the funding to each qualifying institution in the United States. The Genomics Education Matching Funds (GEMF) program now features a ...
(May 13, 2009)
School notes: Some opportunities to learn about teaching (Walnut Creek Journal)
n County offers career camps this summer
(May 13, 2009)
A new focus on stem-cell vision (UB Reporter)
Over the past decade, UB’s stem cell research has brought together a score of investigators to explore, understand and translate the promise of stem cells into effective clinical therapies and treatments for diseases from Parkinson’s to muscular dystrophy, cardiovascular to diabetes.
(May 13, 2009)
Baylor Research Institute receives multi-million dollar grant to develop flu vaccine (News-Medical-Net)
Scientists at Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR) in Dallas, part of Baylor Research Institute (BRI) and the Baylor Health Care System, announced today that they received a renewal of a multi-million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design new vaccines to prevent influenza - including swine flu (H1N1).
(May 14, 2009)
Scanning Science (GenomeWeb News)
The latest issue of Science lays out tasty morsels for researchers from all realms of systems biology. If comparative genomics is your thing, check out Byrappa Venkatesh's paper on conserved noncoding elements in the human genome, discovered through a project that generated a draft sequence of the elephant shark genome and used that as a comparison for the human sequence.
(May 14, 2009)
Vox HHS: The Personalized Medicine White Paper (GenomeWeb News)
The Health Populi blog has a post on personalized medicine, focusing on a white paper published this month by the US Department of Health and Human Services and last week's issue of Science . The HHS paper, entitled Personalized Health Care: Opportunities, Pathways, Resources, "provides a straightforward primer on genomics and health IT as the dual foundations of personalized health care," ...
(May 14, 2009)
Baylor Research Institute Receives Multi-Million Dollar Grant to Develop Flu Vaccine (Newswise)
Scientists at Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR) in Dallas, part of Baylor Research Institute (BRI) and the Baylor Health Care System, announced today that they received a renewal of a multi-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design new vaccines to prevent influenza--including swine flu (H1N1).
(May 14, 2009)
Mayo-UM genomics partnership spared from state budget cuts (Post-Bulletin)
ST. PAUL -- Lawmakers spared the genomics partnership and Mayo Medical Foundation from cuts as part of a higher education bill passed on Wednesday
(May 14, 2009)
$3.3 Million Awarded To University Of Liverpool, UK, For Genomics Hub (Medical News Today)
The University of Liverpool has been awarded £2.2 million to establish a high-throughput genomic analysis hub for the North of England.
(May 14, 2009)
Biosystems International SAS Initiates Development of a Diagnostic Blood Test for Lung Cancer (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PARIS----Biosystems International a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel monoclonal antibody-based cancer diagnostics has initiated the development of an in vitro diagnostic blood test for lung cancer.
(May 14, 2009)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
Thermo Fisher Scientific this week launched the LTQ Velos and LTQ Orbitrap Velos mass spectrometers.
(May 14, 2009)
The Tip of the Legal Iceberg, Folks (GenomeWeb News)
Here's a lawsuit raising interesting questions in the field of personal genomics. Kamel at BayBlab talks about the case of a girl born with Fragile X syndrome who "is suing a sperm bank after genetic tests showed the genetic condition was carried on the father's X chromosome," he writes.
(May 14, 2009)
Stem cell transplant in mouse embryo yields heart protection in adulthood (EurekAlert!)
( Wiley-Blackwell ) Stem cells play a role in heart muscle rejuvenation by attracting cells from the body that develop into heart muscle cells. They have been successfully used to halt or reverse cardiac injury following heart attack, but not to prevent injury before it occurs.
(May 14, 2009)
NIH to Grant $3M for Muscular Dystrophy Centers (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health will grant $3 million in 2010 to fund three muscular dystrophy research centers that will conduct cooperative studies to address development of therapeutics for muscular dystrophy and will include genomics and biomarker research.
(May 14, 2009)
Minnesota Senate Passes $16M for Medical Genomics, Biotech (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — The Minnesota State Legislature has approved $16 million in funding for a biomedical research partnership between the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Foundation.
(May 14, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2009 Financial Results (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
MDRNA, Inc. today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.
(May 14, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2009 Financial Results (Marketwire)
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - May 14, 2009) - MDRNA, Inc. ( NASDAQ : MRNA ) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. "The first quarter of 2009 was a period of significant accomplishment for the Company," stated J. Michael French, President and Chief Executive Officer. "With the sale of our intranasal contract manufacturing operations in Hauppauge, N.Y. on March ...
(May 14, 2009)
MRC Boosts UK's Sequencing Capacity with More than $10M for Three New Hubs (GenomeWeb News)
The UK's Medical Research Council said yesterday that it has granted more than £7 million ($10.7 million) in funding to create three new high-throughput sequencing hubs in England and Scotland.
(May 14, 2009)
Determining success or failure in cholesterol-controlling drugs (EurekAlert!)
( University of California - San Diego ) Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a complex network of interactions between drugs and the proteins with which they bind can explain adverse drug effects. Their findings suggest that adverse drug effects might be minimized by using single or multiple drug therapies in order to fine-tune multiple off-target ...
(May 15, 2009)
If Privacy Is an Illusion, Why Aren't We Making This Public Already? (GenomeWeb News)
Simon Lin at Retail Genomics posts a summary of a talk from George Church , who told attendees that the future of genomics will hinge on people's willingness to share data and keep instrumentation open-source.
(May 15, 2009)
Exiqon Announces New Grant Program for MicroRNA Research (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen: "EXQ") today announced the launch of a new research grant program, open to researchers from academic and non-profit institutions across North America.
(May 15, 2009)
New Online Tutorial for DAVID (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Comprehensive tutorial on DAVID enable researchers to quickly and effectively use this invaluable resource.
(May 15, 2009)
Exiqon Announces New Grant Program for MicroRNA Research (PRWeb)
Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen: "EXQ") today announced the launch of a new research grant program, open to researchers from academic and non-profit institutions across North America. (PRWeb May 15, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/20
(May 15, 2009)
Determining success or failure in cholesterol-controlling drugs (News-Medical-Net)
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a complex network of interactions between drugs and the proteins with which they bind can explain adverse drug effects. Their findings suggest that adverse drug effects might be minimized by using single or multiple drug therapies in order to fine-tune multiple off-target interactions.
(May 15, 2009)
Cloud Computing Brings Cost Of Protein Research Down-to-earth (Medical News Today)
The amazingly powerful computers at Amazon.com - where online customers order books, CDs, and other products - are giving scientists an inexpensive tool to crunch massive amounts of data being generated by efforts to understand proteins. Termed proteomics, the large-scale study of all the proteins in an organism, promises new ways of diagnosing and treating hundreds of diseases.
(May 15, 2009)
ZyGEM Strengthens Its Worldwide Presence with New Distribution Agreements in Asia Pacific Markets (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SOLANA BEACH, Calif. & HAMILTON, New Zealand----ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., a provider of innovative enzyme-based products for DNA extraction and other life sciences applications, today announced it has entered into a number of new agreements that strengthen its market presence in the Asia Pacific region.
(May 15, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Appoints Beverly L. Davidson, Ph.D. and Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D., to Its Scientific Advisory Board (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
MDRNA, Inc. announced today the appointment of Beverly L. Davidson, Ph.D., and Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board.
(May 15, 2009)
2009 BIO International Convention Exhibitor Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ATLANTA----The 2009 BIO International Convention takes place May 18, 2009 - May 21, 2009 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
(May 15, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Appoints Beverly L. Davidson, Ph.D. and Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D., to Its Scientific Advisory Board (Marketwire)
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - May 15, 2009) - MDRNA, Inc. ( NASDAQ : MRNA ) announced today the appointment of Beverly L. Davidson, Ph.D., and Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). "The appointment of these outstanding scientists and opinion leaders to our Scientific Advisory Board reflects our strong commitment to scientific excellence as a premier RNAi therapeutics ...
(May 15, 2009)
InterMed Discovery Hosts Session "Science for Better Food" at the BIO International Convention in Atlanta (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DORTMUND, Germany----InterMed Discovery , an emerging world class natural product lead-discovery company, announced today that it will host a breakout session at the BIO International Convention in Altlanta, USA.
(May 15, 2009)
Cambridge Healthtech Institute to Organize Two Life Science Conferences at BIOTECHNICA 2009 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HANNOVER, Germany & NEEDHAM, Mass.----Cambridge Healthtech Institute , a leading organizer of biomedical conferences in the USA, will organize two important Life science conferences at BIOTECHNICA 2009.
(May 15, 2009)
Time Challenges – Challenging Times for Future Information Search (D-Lib Magazine)
It is hard to predict what the major challenge in search will be 100 years from now.
(May 15, 2009)
Low Coverage Mammal Sequence Hints At Genome Function (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A large multi-institution consortium is identifying functional regions in mammalian genomes using low coverage genome sequencing and comparative genomics.
(May 15, 2009)
Determining success or failure in cholesterol-controlling drugs (PhysOrg)
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a complex network of interactions between drugs and the proteins with which they bind can explain adverse drug effects. Their findings suggest that adverse drug effects might be minimized by using single or multiple drug therapies in order to fine-tune multiple off-target interactions.
(May 15, 2009)
Research and Markets: U.S. MicroRNA Markets Report: Fast and Furious Pace of MicroRNA Research Triggers Tremendous ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "U.S. MicroRNA Markets" to their offering.
(May 15, 2009)
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