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The Path To New Antibiotics (Medical News Today)
Researchers at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Maryland have demonstrated that an enzyme that is essential to many bacteria can be targeted to kill dangerous pathogens. In addition, investigators discovered chemical compounds that can inhibit this enzyme and suppress the growth of pathogenic bacteria.
(Aug 29, 2009)
Meat Industry Tries to Turn Itself Green (Newsweek)
Vilified as an environmental disaster, the meat industry, abetted by science, is now trying to change its ways.
(Aug 29, 2009)
Chemotherapy Resistance: Checkpoint Protein Provides Armor Against Cancer Drugs (Medical News Today)
Cell cycle checkpoints act like molecular tripwires for damaged cells, forcing them to pause and take stock. Leave the tripwire in place for too long, though, and cancer cells will press on regardless, making them resistant to the lethal effects of certain types of chemotherapy, according to researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their findings, published in the Aug.
(Aug 29, 2009)
Warren Stephens sees ‘headwinds’ for stock market (Arkansas News Bureau)
Stephens Inc. CEO Warren Stephens told CNBC that he sees “headwinds” in the second half of 2009 for the financial markets.
(Aug 30, 2009)
Lessons from a Legend (GenomeWeb News)
Ari Patrinos began as a mechanical and electrical engineer, never imagining that one day he'd rise to be the leader of the US Department of Energy's involvement in the Human Genome Project and, later, its Genomes to Life initiative.
(Aug 30, 2009)
Rs 31,000 cr to upgrade higher education sector (Business Standard India)
The Centre will spend around Rs 31,000 crore to support the state universities across the country to improve the quality of higher education, said the Union minister for Human Resources Development (HRD), Kapil Sibal.
(Aug 30, 2009)
Researchers identify protein involved in causing gum disease, osteoporosis, arthritis (EurekAlert!)
( Hospital for Special Surgery ) Investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery, collaborating with researchers from other institutions, have contributed to the discovery that a gene called interferon regulator factor-8 is involved in the development of diseases such as periodontitis, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. The study, which will be published online Aug. 30, ahead of print, in the ...
(Aug 30, 2009)
Researchers identify protein involved in causing gum disease, osteoporosis, arthritis (PhysOrg)
Investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery, collaborating with researchers from other institutions, have contributed to the discovery that a gene called interferon regulator factor-8 (IRF-8) is involved in the development of diseases such as periodontitis (gum disease), rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. The study, which will be published online August 30, ahead of print, in the journal ...
(Aug 30, 2009)
Protein Identified Involved In Gum Disease, Osteoporosis, Arthritis (redOrbit)
Investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery, collaborating with researchers from other institutions, have contributed to the discovery that a gene called interferon regulator factor-8 (IRF-8) is involved in the development of diseases such as periodontitis (gum disease), rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.
(Aug 30, 2009)
H1N1 Confirmed Case Summary: Two Vaccines This Year (Lake Superior News)
THUNDER BAY, ON --- August 30, 2009 ---- One New Case of the H1N1 Flu Virus in the Thunder Bay District.The Health Unit is confirming 1 new case of the H1N1 flu virus in the District of Thunder Bay. The case involved a child from an outlying community.
(Aug 30, 2009)
Beauty: Gene-ie of youth (The New Straits Times)
ZUHAILA SEDEK learns from a researcher how reactivation of ‘youth genes’ in skin cells was used to produce a skincare product.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Protein Involved In Causing Gum Disease, Osteoporosis, Arthritis Identified (Science Daily)
Investigators have discovered that a gene called interferon regulator factor-8 is involved in the development of diseases such as periodontitis, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. The study could lead to new treatments in the future.
(Aug 31, 2009)
MEDICAL CORRIDOR PROVES A MIXED BLESSING FOR FRUIT BELT (The Buffalo News)
Mention the name Fruit Belt, and watch the reaction. People are still afraid of this East Side neighborhood that was riddled by drugs, violence and demolition.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Study reveals that downregulation of IRF-8 gene causes gum diseases, arthritis and osteoporosis (News-Medical-Net)
Investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery, collaborating with researchers from other institutions, have contributed to the discovery that a gene called interferon regulator factor-8 (IRF-8) is involved in the development of diseases such as periodontitis (gum disease), rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. The study, which will be published online August 30, ahead of print, in the journal ...
(Aug 31, 2009)
North Bay Business Journal (North Bay Business Journal)
BioMarin Pharmaceutical and Dominican University have partnered to offer research-based master’s of science degrees administered by the college. Last year, Dominican and the Buck Institute created a similar program.
(Aug 31, 2009)
ABI Blames Soft Pharma Market for Weak Mass-Spec Sales in Fiscal Q3 (GenomeWeb News)
Applied Biosystems continued to see a slowdown in the sales of its mass spectrometers, saying last week that weak pharmaceutical demand caused sales of the instruments to rise less than 1 percent during its fiscal third quarter.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Revealing The Anti-Diabetic Effects Of Sodium Tungstate (Medical News Today)
The molecular mechanisms of tungstate activity in diabetes have been uncovered. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have identified the pathways through which sodium tungstate improves pancreatic function and beta cell proliferation.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Researchers describe the polar body analysis reproduction technique in a journal (News-Medical-Net)
Three out of ten women who undergo polar body diagnosis go on to have a child. The extensive technique of polar body analysis (PBA) is described by researchers in reproductive medicine at Lübeck in an article in the current edition of Deutsches Ärtzeblatt International, in which they present three successful cases and one failure.
(Aug 31, 2009)
PsychoGenics and AstraZeneca Enter Agreement to Identify New Treatments for Central Nervous System Disorders (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
TARRYTOWN, N.Y.----PsychoGenics Inc. and AstraZeneca have entered into a drug discovery and development agreement to identify compounds that are likely to be useful for the treatment of certain Central Nervous System disorders.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Biomatters and GenomeQuest Announce Interoperability Alliance (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
New Zealand-based scientific software company Biomatters Ltd, creators of Geneious Pro, and GenomeQuest, the leader in sequence data management (SDM), announce an alliance to offer researchers a landmark “top-down” discovery methodology for next generation sequencing (NGS) projects.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Avesthagen gets RCGM nod for biosimilar, AVDESP (PharmaBiz)
Avesthagen has received clearance from the Review Committee for Genetic Manipulation (RCGM) to carry out clinical trials of Darbepoetin alfa (AVDESP). Now the company has to approach the Drugs Control General of India (DCGI) to conduct the human studies.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Psychogenics and Astrazeneca sign agreement to identify new compounds for treating Central Nervous System disorders (News-Medical-Net)
PsychoGenics Inc. and AstraZeneca have entered into a drug discovery and development agreement to identify compounds that are likely to be useful for the treatment of certain Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Illumina Announces Delivery of the First Genome Through Its Individual Genome Sequencing Service (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Illumina, Inc. today announced that it has delivered Hermann Hauser’s genome sequence. Dr. Hauser, Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, is the first consumer to purchase Illumina’s individual genome sequencing service working with his physician, Michael Nova, MD, of Pathway Genomics.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Illumina delivers its first individual genome sequence to Dr. Hermann Hauser (News-Medical-Net)
Illumina, Inc. today announced that it has delivered Hermann Hauser’s genome sequence. Dr. Hauser, Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, is the first consumer to purchase Illumina’s individual genome sequencing service working with his physician, Michael Nova, MD, of Pathway Genomics.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Rhode Island Hospital awarded $11 million, 5-year renewal (EurekAlert!)
( Lifespan ) Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million renewal of a National Institutes of Health grant to fund its Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Center for Cancer Research Development. Rhode Island Hospital's COBRE CCRD offers cancer researchers access to the latest technologies in molecular pathology and the emerging field of proteomics. The 5-year grant from the NIH's ...
(Aug 31, 2009)
Illumina Delivers First Genome Under Personal Genome-Sequencing Service (GenomeWeb News)
Illumina said today that it delivered to a customer earlier this month the first human genome sequenced under its recently launched personal genome-sequencing service.
(Aug 31, 2009)
This Week in PLoS (GenomeWeb News)
Stanford's Keyan Salari writes in PLoS Medicine that clinician training needs to change so that physicians are prepared to handle practice in personalized medicine and handle results from consumer genetic tests.
(Aug 31, 2009)
RIH receives $11M to continue research (Providence Business News)
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital has been awarded a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the continuation of the hospital’s COBRE Center for Cancer Research Development.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Donor Pledges $20-Million for U. of Miami Medical Institute (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Donor pledges $20-million for U. of Miami medical institute
(Aug 31, 2009)
Hidden diversity in key environmental cleanup microbes found by systems biology assessment (EurekAlert!)
( Georgia Institute of Technology Research News ) Researchers analyzed the gene sequences, proteins expressed and physiology of 10 strains of bioremediation microbes called Shewanella. Results showed surprising diversity not seen using traditional microbiology approaches.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Gene mutation responsible for premature skin aging disease identified (EurekAlert!)
( Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore ) In Nature Genetics, scientists in Singapore and Germany report that mutations in the PYCR1 gene cause the rare genetic condition that results in premature skin aging and that is known as "wrinkly skin syndrome."
(Aug 31, 2009)
Systems Biology Reveals Diversity in Key Environmental Cleanup Microbe (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have completed the first thorough, system-level assessment of the diversity of an environmentally important genus of microbes known as Shewanella. Microbes belonging to that genus frequently participate in bioremediation by confining and cleaning up contaminated areas in the environment.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Researchers Develop Algorithm to Map Copy Number, Segmental Duplications Using Sequence Data (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – In a paper appearing in yesterday's advanced, online edition of Nature Genetics, a group of researchers from the University of Washington and elsewhere reported that they have developed and tested a read-mapping algorithm to map copy number variation in the genome from short read sequence data.
(Aug 31, 2009)
NIH Funds Einstein for Aging Genomics Studies (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University will use a five-year, $11.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a study of the role damage to DNA may play in aging and disease.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Rhode Island Hospital Gets $11M NIH Grant for Cancer Core (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Center for Research Resources has granted Rhode Island Hospital $11 million to renew the hospital's status as a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Center for Cancer Research and Development, the hospital said today.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Researchers Study Factors that Regulate Vaccination Efficiency (PhysOrg)
Using vaccination to induce a robust immune response has been an effective strategy for managing infectious diseases in humans and animals for more than a century. Now, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and colleagues have found that a concurrent parasite infection significantly compromises the effectiveness of a commonly administered vaccine in swine.
(Aug 31, 2009)
National Science Foundation awards $1.4 million for GenoCAD development (EurekAlert!)
( Virginia Tech ) An NSF award supports development of a web-based Computer Assisted Design environment for synthetic biology, which applies methods developed in engineering to design artificial biological systems that meet user-defined specifications. It has also been used to redesign natural systems to better understand the fundamental properties of living organisms.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Gene mutation responsible for premature skin aging disease identified (PhysOrg)
In the new print issue of Nature Genetics, scientists in Singapore and Germany report that mutations in the PYCR1 gene cause the rare genetic condition that results in premature skin aging and that is known as "wrinkly skin syndrome."
(Aug 31, 2009)
VBI researcher receives NIH Recovery Act funding for infectious disease modeling (EurekAlert!)
( Virginia Tech ) A researcher from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support ongoing work to develop high-performance computer models for the study of very large networks. Simulations of large networks on high-performance computers can be used to study the emergence and spread of ...
(Aug 31, 2009)
Genome Research publishes special issue: Personal Genomes and Variation (EurekAlert!)
( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) The September 2009 issue of Genome Research, entitled "Personal Genomes and Variation," is a special issue dedicated to the burgeoning field of personal genomics.
(Aug 31, 2009)
Gene Mutation Responsible For Premature Skin Aging Disease Identified (redOrbit)
In the new print issue of Nature Genetics, scientists in Singapore and Germany report that mutations in the PYCR1 gene cause the rare genetic condition that results in premature skin aging and that is known as "wrinkly skin syndrome."Their findings not only suggest that increasing levels of the PYCR1 protein could reverse conditions that cause fast aging and wrinkly skin but also provide insight ...
(Aug 31, 2009)
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