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From Raising Problems to Forcing Solutions, Genomics Does It All (GenomeWeb News)
The latest issue of the Economist has an article on the impact of genomics in the more practical side of medicine -- health insurance and genetic privacy. It's a good overview of the main challenges in these areas.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Cell Pathway May Be Key to Lung Cancer's Spread (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Cell Pathway May Be Key to Lung Cancer's Spread Category: Health News Created: 7/4/2009 7:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/6/2009
(Jul 7, 2009)
Illumina to Announce Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Illumina, Inc. today announced that it will issue results for second quarter 2009 following the close of market on Tuesday, July 21, 2009.
(Jul 7, 2009)
CLC bio launches desktop application CLC Genomics Workbench to support researchers (PharmaBiz)
CLC bio announced the release of new versions of the desktop application CLC Genomics Workbench, version 3.6 and the award-winning enterprise platform CLC Genomics Server, version 1.6. With this release, CLC bio's platform is taking yet another major step towards full support for researchers preferring Digital Gene Expression analysis compared to traditional analogue Expression Array analysis.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Could Animal Surveillance Have Seen Swine Flu Coming? (Scientific American)
Less than 24 hours after a commercial jet took a sudden detour into the Hudson River this past January, security camera video of the event from multiple vantage points began surfacing. In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, the public has come to assume that someone or something is always watching, ready to spot trouble as it is happening. Yet a novel strain of the influenza A (H1N1) virus jumped ...
(Jul 7, 2009)
Server features 2 Tesla graphics processing units. (ThomasNet)
Offering full non-blocking architecture, 2-Teraflop 1U SuperServer 6016GT-TF-TM2 supports dual Nehalem CPUs and features 2 NVIDIA Tesla M1060 GPUs via 2 Gen2 PCI-Express x16 connections. Unit is suited for wide range of graphics and computationally intensive applications in fields such as medical imaging, oil and gas exploration, quantum chemistry, financial simulation, genomics, and ...
(Jul 7, 2009)
Petascale Computer Modeling Capabilities To Be Developed At Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (Medical News Today)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a four-year, $1,450,000 grant to the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory (NDSSL) at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and partners to develop petascale computing environments that model billions of individuals in extremely large social and information networks.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Crosslinks Leverages TIBCO Spotfire Enterprise Analytics to Power Bioinformatics Research Analysis Across Europe (Marketwire)
SOMERVILLE, MA--(Marketwire - July 7, 2009) - TIBCO Software Inc. ( NASDAQ : TIBX ) today announced that Crosslinks, a provider of services, solutions and technology in the field of new advanced visual informatics software, has selected the TIBCO Spotfire® enterprise analytics platform to power research analysis advancements across Europe in the field of bioinformatics. The new partnership ...
(Jul 7, 2009)
Launch Of New National Genome Centre (Medical News Today)
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) will further the UK's capacity in genomics - the science of understanding the genetic makeup of organisms and the genetic differences that exist between individuals.
(Jul 7, 2009)
UK Committee Urges NHS to Incorporate Genomic Medicine (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The UK should begin taking steps to prepare for the "potential impact of genomic medicine" on health care, and begin taking steps to ensure that new genomic technologies and knowledge are integrated into the national health system, according to a government committee that has completed a review of the field.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Helicos BioSciences Announces Publication in Nature Biotechnology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Helicos BioSciences Corporation , a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which single molecule sequencing was used to provide a digital expression profile of a eukaryotic transcriptome.
(Jul 7, 2009)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
CLC Bio has released version 3.6 of its CLC Genomics Workbench desktop application and version 1.6 of its CLC Genomics Server enterprise platform. The new versions offer better support for digital gene expression analysis.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Q&A: LBNL's Sue Celniker on Sequencing for the modENCODE Project (GenomeWeb News)
Sue Celniker heads one of 10 research groups that participate in the Model Organism Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, or modENCODE , project. The effort, launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute in 2007 and funded with $57 million over four years, aims to identify all functional elements in the genomes of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster , and the round worm, Caenorhabditis ...
(Jul 7, 2009)
IP Roundup (GenomeWeb News)
Clontech Laboratories of Mountain View, Calif., has received US Patent No. 7,556,919, "Long oligonucleotide arrays." The patent describes methods for the preparation and use of long oligonucleotide arrays in hybridization assays.
(Jul 7, 2009)
International Stem Cell Conference for Researchers Opens in Barcelona, July 8-11 (Newswise)
The International Society for Stem Cell Research, together with co-sponsors the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMRB), prepare for the opening of what is considered the largest conference specifically for stem cell professionals at the ISSCR 7th Annual Meeting to be held at the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB) in ...
(Jul 7, 2009)
Recent Patents of Interest in Proteomics (GenomeWeb News)
US Patent 7,555,393. Evaluating the probability that MS/MS spectral data matches candidate sequence data . Inventors: Rovshan Goumbatoglu Sadygov; Andreas Huhmer.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Not Your Typical Registry (GenomeWeb News)
In Public Health Genomics , researchers from Johns Hopkins University's Genetics and Public Policy Center propose a blueprint for a national genetic test registry . They say that the registry should be mandatory and that it should contain information so that the analytic validity, clinical validity, and clinical utility may be assessed.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Research Pinpoints Antibodies That May Prevent Disease (redOrbit)
Antibodies to a wide range of substances that can aggregate to form plaques, such as those found in Alzheimer's patients, have been identified in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of healthy people.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Education Center (CattleNetwork.com)
Middleton, Wis. (June 30, 2009) – Genetic Visions, Inc. announced recently that it has successfully completed Illumina CSPro™ certification for Infinium Whole-Genome Genotyping, gaining entry to an elite group of Illumina genomics service providers globally.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Illumina launches multi-sample indexing for GoldenGate assay - New indexing technology offers optimal combination of ... (SeedQuest)
Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today launched GoldenGate Indexing, a high-throughput genotyping solution that utilizes multi-sample indexing technology.
(Jul 7, 2009)
New national genome centre launched in the United Kingdom (SeedQuest)
A new UK national genome centre is being officially opened today by Nobel Laureate and genome pioneer Prof Sir John Sulston and the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Novel Infrared (IR)-Transparent Hydrophilic Membrane That Can be Used for Filtration, Printing or Microarrays, and ... (Pharmalicencing)
A novel, disposable infrared (IR)-transparent membrane and methods for making and using this membrane to identify bacterial and other microorganism impurities in food using IR spectroscopy.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Crosslinks Licenses Tibco's Software (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Dutch software services company Crosslinks has licensed Tibco Software's Spotfire analytics platform, and will distribute it across Europe, Tibco said today.
(Jul 7, 2009)
JCSG Scripps Collaborates with Rigaku (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Joint Center for Structural Genomics has acquired a crystal imaging system from Rigaku Americas, and is using it in a collaboration with the Desktop Minstrel UV system it acquired in 2008, Rigaku said today.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Korean CDC and Macrogen Partner with Roche NimbleGen for CNV-Association Study (GenomeWeb News)
The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Macrogen, a Seoul-based genomic tool and service provider, will use Roche NimbleGen arrays in a forthcoming copy number variation-association study, Roche said last week.
(Jul 7, 2009)
UVic lab gets new body mapping tool (Kelowna Capital News)
Liz Clemis, a University of Victoria masters student in biochemistry, and Leanne Ohlund, a research technician at UVic's Genome B.C. Proteomics centre, use the lab's new MALDI imaging equipment to map the molecules in a mouse brain.
(Jul 7, 2009)
UVic lab gets new body mapping tool (Parksville Qualicum Beach News)
Liz Clemis, a University of Victoria masters student in biochemistry, and Leanne Ohlund, a research technician at UVic's Genome B.C. Proteomics centre, use the lab's new MALDI imaging equipment to map the molecules in a mouse brain.
(Jul 7, 2009)
EPO Upholds Revocation of 'Important' Affy Patent in Europe, Despite Appeal (GenomeWeb News)
The board of appeals of the European Patent Office recently upheld the revocation of an Affymetrix patent that covers the making of high-density arrays, BioArray News has learned.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Complete Genomics Raises $14.5M as Part of Series D Financing (GenomeWeb News)
Complete Genomics said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week that it has sold $14.49 million in securities.
(Jul 7, 2009)
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Tubular Diskectomy vs Conventional Microdiskectomy for Sciatica: A Randomized Controlled Trial (Journal of the American Medical Association)
Context Conventional microdiskectomy is the most frequently performed surgery for patients with sciatica due to lumbar disk herniation. Transmuscular tubular diskectomy has been introduced to increase the rate of recovery, although evidence is lacking of its efficacy. Objective To determine outcomes and time to recovery in patients treated with tubular diskectomy compared with conventional ...
(Jul 7, 2009)
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Contributes Compute Capacity, Genomics Tools to UK's National Grid Service (GenomeWeb News)
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has joined the UK's National Grid Service, which serves as a computational and data resource for the academic research community, NGS said.
(Jul 7, 2009)
Antibodies That May Prevent Disease (Medical News Today)
Antibodies to a wide range of substances that can aggregate to form plaques, such as those found in Alzheimer's patients, have been identified in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of healthy people. Levels of these antibodies decline with age and, in Alzheimer's patients, with increasing progression of the disease.
(Jul 8, 2009)
Research and Markets: Strategic Analysis of U.S. MicroRNA Services Markets (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Strategic Analysis of U.S. MicroRNA Services Markets" to their offering.
(Jul 8, 2009)
Action Needed To Realise The Potential Of New Genetic Studies (Medical News Today)
New studies that analyse genetic differences across thousands of human genomes are profoundly changing our understanding of common disease.
(Jul 8, 2009)
NCI-Led Study Demonstrates Reproducibility of SID-MRM-MS for Protein Biomarker Verification (GenomeWeb News)
Addressing one of the most formidable bottlenecks in proteomics, a team of researchers put together by the National Cancer Institute three years ago has demonstrated for the first time that a relatively new verification method is reproducible across different laboratories.
(Jul 8, 2009)
Mass Spec Firms Among Best Performers in GWDN Index (GenomeWeb News)
This week GWDN calculated that its Index of 36 firms in the molecular biology tools and molecular diagnostics space rose 16 percent for the first six months of the year with a handful of companies' stock skyrocketing nearly 400 percent.
(Jul 8, 2009)
Mitrionics Offers Parallel Programming Tutorial for FPGA-Based Hybrid Computing at SAAHPC'09 (Marketwire)
Co-Founder Stefan Möhl Also to Present Vision for "Golden Triangle of Hybrid Computing"
(Jul 8, 2009)
Research and Markets: Medaka: Biology, Management, and Experimental Protocols Delivers Definitive Reference on the ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Medaka: Biology, Management, and Experimental Protocols" to their offering.
(Jul 8, 2009)
UAB Helps Birmingham Librarians Launch Computer Programming Classes (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
The UAB Department of Computer and Information Sciences is training librarians from the Birmingham Public Library and teachers from some city schools on the newest computer programming technology this week.
(Jul 8, 2009)
Blog - Britain Calls for A Genomic Health Roadmap (Technology Review)
The plan would introduce a comprehensive link between genomics and health care. Should the U.S. follow Britain's lead?
(Jul 8, 2009)
A highly annotated whole-genome sequence of a Korean individual (Nature)
Recent advances in sequencing technologies have initiated an era of personal genome sequences. To date, human genome sequences have been reported for individuals with ancestry in three distinct geographical regions: a Yoruba African, two individuals of northwest European origin, and a person from China. Here we provide a highly annotated, whole-genome sequence for a Korean individual, known as ...
(Jul 8, 2009)
Microsoft Stops Sale of Rosetta Biosoftware Tools, Will End Support by 2011 (GenomeWeb News)
Several days after Microsoft completed its acquisition of Rosetta Biosoftware on June 26, the software giant sent a letter to Rosetta customers explaining that it has stopped selling the Rosetta Resolver, Syllego, and Elucidator software and will cease support of the tools in July 2011.
(Jul 8, 2009)
Method for detecting minority genomes in viral quasispecies (Pharmalicencing)
The invention incorporates a method for the detection of minority memory genomes in viral quasispecies. Such genomes contain, at least, one mutation with respect to the majority genomes and include those involved in resistance to antiviral drugs and viral
(Jul 8, 2009)
GPPC's Plan for Mandatory Genetic Test Registry Includes All Health-related Diagnostics (GenomeWeb News)
The Genetics and Public Policy Center at John's Hopkins University has put forth a plan for developing a mandatory, online registry for genetic tests that would list all health-related genetic tests and their providers, including laboratories, in vitro diagnostics developers, and direct-to-consumer personal genomics firms.
(Jul 8, 2009)
NIH Supports Buck Institute's Innovative Alzheimer's Research with "Eureka" Grant (Newswise)
The Buck Institute for Age Research has received a $1.6 million dollar "Eureka" grant from the National Institutes of Health to further its innovative research in Alzheimer's disease. The highly competitive grant was awarded to Buck faculty member and founding CEO Dale Bredesen, MD. Research in the Bredesen lab focuses on Alzheimer's as a potential "prionic" brain signaling disorder that impacts ...
(Jul 8, 2009)
Scientists lay out gene map of Korean male (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Scientists have sequenced the entire gene map of a Korean male and linked DNA variations unique to him to possible susceptibility to various cancers and other diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
(Jul 8, 2009)
Researchers Combine Sequencing, CGH Arrays to Analyze and Annotate a Korean Genome (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — An international team led by researchers at Seoul National University has sequenced and annotated the genome of a Korean individual — the second Korean genome to be sequenced in recent months and the seventh complete human genome to be published in the past two years.
(Jul 8, 2009)
IU School of Informatics adds ‘Computing’ to name (Indiana Daily Student)
After a change in direction, a change of name was also in order to reflect the expansion of study at the IU School of Informatics, which has been renamed the School of Informatics and Computing.
(Jul 9, 2009)
Pick to Lead Health Agency Draws Praise and Some Concern (New York Times)
President Obama on Wednesday nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, a pioneering geneticist, as head of the National Institutes of Health.
(Jul 9, 2009)
Scum Can Save the World, Well, Pond Scum Anyway (GenomeWeb News)
We do love awards here at GTO and Jonathan Eisen keeps them coming. This time the Overselling Genomics Award goes to a news release out of Rutgers University that advertises a new project to sequence the duckweed genome, funded by the Department of Energy and the Joint Genome Institute.
(Jul 9, 2009)
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