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New Tool May Help With Early Detection Of Deadly Pancreatic Cancer (Medical News Today)
A new diagnostic tool developed by Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists has shown promising results when used with patients of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer due to the difficulty of diagnosing it in its early stages.
(Aug 4, 2009)
You Always Remember Your First (GenomeWeb News)
Jonathan Eisen shares the embarrassing story of his first conference talk at his blog The Tree of Life. Not only did he barely sleep the night before (his room lacked an alarm clock and his talk was an early one), but just before his talk, he sat in a puddle of water spilled from a pitcher.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Congrats to All (GenomeWeb News)
Among the 16 new US Medal of Freedom awardees are three academics , points out the Chronicle of Higher Education . They are: the University of Chicago's Janet Rowley, who discovered the role chromosomal translocations play in leukemia and other cancers; Florida International University's Pedro Greer, Jr., for his work to provide medical care to Miami's poor; and the University of Cambridge's ...
(Aug 4, 2009)
What's Your Favorite? (GenomeWeb News)
Nature Methods is now taking nominations and votes for the 2009 Method of the Year. Head on over here to submit your favorite method or class of methods for consideration.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Agricultural Research Is Key To Food Security (redOrbit)
Boosting agricultural research in the developing world is the key to ensuring food security for the world's poorest, says Adel el-Beltagy, Chair of the Global Form on Agricultural Research (GFAR), writing in the latest issue of the TWAS Newsletter, published last week.With nearly a billion people suffering from chronic hunger, global food security remains a major concern, despite being a key ...
(Aug 4, 2009)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals to Host Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call (Marketwire)
- Company to hold Conference Call Wednesday, August 5 at 11:00 am ET - Stellar has three consecutive quarters showing profit - Q2 2009 revenues increase 65.8% to $1.1 million
(Aug 4, 2009)
CapitalBio, VigeneTech to Co-market Instruments, Analysis Software as Integrated Array System (GenomeWeb News)
Beijing-based CapitalBio and Carlisle, Mass.-based VigeneTech have partnered to sell CapitalBio's scanners together with VigeneTech's analysis software as an integrated microarray platform, the companies said last week.
(Aug 4, 2009)
At Least 34 Research Jobs at Stanford Medical School from Stimulus Funds (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
STANFORD, Calif.----Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, has been studying the roots of pain in the brain, applying last year for a grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his imaging studies in the field.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Funding Update (GenomeWeb News)
Using rice as a model and approaches that include chromatin immunoprecipitation and DNA sequencing, this project will reveal the location of epigenetic marks, such as cytosine DNA methylation and histone modifications, associated with centromeric chromatin.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Q&A: MPI's Margret Hoehe on MHC Haplotype Sequencing by SOLiD (GenomeWeb News)
Margret Hoehe leads the Genetic Variation, Haplotypes and Genetics of Complex Disease group in the department of Vertebrate Genomics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Note to Subscribers (GenomeWeb News)
In Sequence will be on hiatus August 5 through August 11. The next issue of the newsletter will be sent to subscribers on August 18.
(Aug 4, 2009)
IP Roundup (GenomeWeb News)
Northwestern University has received US Patent No. 7,569,340, "Nanoarrays of single-virus particles, methods, and instrumentation for the fabrication and use thereof."
(Aug 4, 2009)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
PerkinElmer has named Lapo Paladini to the new position of chief marketing officer and to serve as senior vice president.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Clark Atlanta Starting Cancer Genomics Center with GT (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Clark Atlanta University tomorrow will publicly launch its Collaborative Cancer Genomics Center, a collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta that was funded with federal and regional public and private funds.
(Aug 4, 2009)
African village dogs are genetically much more diverse than modern breeds (EurekAlert!)
( Cornell University ) African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral African village dogs.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Celera Presents Data Replicating Its Immunodiagnostic Assay to Detect Lung Cancer from Blood Serum (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ALAMEDA, Calif.----Celera Corporation today announced the presentation of data replicating its novel mass spectrometry-based approach to identify and validate circulating protein biomarkers that detect non-small cell lung cancer in an independent cohort of individuals with lung cancer.
(Aug 4, 2009)
High-tech called key to healthcare savings (UPI)
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Dozens of U.S. entrepreneurs see new technologies as a way of transforming healthcare -- and saving money at the same time, The Wall Street Journal reports.
(Aug 4, 2009)
They Must've Narrowly Beaten Out Bush and Cheney (GenomeWeb News)
US News & World Report has a special feature on 18 of America's top leaders , and GTO was pleased to see that a number of scientists made the list. These include Harold Varmus , now at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (the profile was written by Bernadine Healy), Shirley Tilghman at Princeton, and William Foege at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
(Aug 4, 2009)
High-tech called key to healthcare savings (redOrbit)
Dozens of U.S. entrepreneurs see new technologies as a way of transforming healthcare -- and saving money at the same time, The Wall Street Journal reports. Triage Wireless Inc.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Moonbots Challenges Parent-Child Teams To Conduct Google Lunar X Prize Missions With Lego Robots (SpaceRef)
The X PRIZE Foundation, Google Inc., LEGO Systems, National Instruments, and Wired's GeekDad will announce "MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R) Challenge" today at National Instruments NIWeek 2009.
(Aug 4, 2009)
Finalist for UCR post champions diversity (The Press-Enterprise)
Dr. Jeanette Mladenovic, a finalist to be dean of the proposed UC Riverside medical school, stressed during a campus forum Tuesday that the school needs to reflect the Inland area's diversity.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Fuel and Oil: Related News (TruckingInfo.com)
8/5/2009 - Oregon B2 Requirement Effective Wednesday Oregon will start enforcing a 2 percent biodiesel requirement today, making it the third state mandating the fuel...
(Aug 5, 2009)
Agricultural research key to food security for world’s poorest (New Kerala)
Washington, August 5 : A new research paper has determined that boosting agricultural research in the developing world is the key to ensuring food security for the world’s poorest.
(Aug 5, 2009)
GenVault's GenSolve(TM) Reagents Enable State-of-the-Art Genomic Analysis of Dried Blood Spots (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
GenVault Corporation is pleased to report that their DNA recovery product, GenSolve, is enabling independent groups, from diverse research areas, to recover DNA from Guthrie cards and FTA paper for microarray based genomic analysis and Illumina iSelect based genotyping.
(Aug 5, 2009)
The NIAID-Supported Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center at the J. Craig Venter Institute Offers New ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & ROCKVILLE, Md.----Affymetrix, Inc. and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -supported Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center at the J.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Papers of Note (GenomeWeb News)
As the head of the Vertebrate Genomics Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute and a co-leader of the data flow group for the 1,000 Genomes Project, Paul Flicek is intimately familiar with the ongoing battle to make sense out of the endless stream of next-gen sequencing data.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research (EurekAlert!)
( DOE/US Department of Energy ) US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that more than $327 million in new funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go toward scientific research, instrumentation and laboratory infrastructure projects. Ten of DOE's national laboratories in six states will be receiving funds, along with researchers at institutions of higher ...
(Aug 5, 2009)
LifeScienceFest 2009 Brings Leading Medical Technology/Life Science Investors and Innovations Together in Silicon Valley (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MENLO PARK, Calif.----Top industry investors, innovators and executives will come together on September 9 at Investorfest Media's LifeScienceFest in Menlo Park, CA. The full-day conference will bring together leading investors with prior history and active focus on the medical and life sciences sector to hear directly from a broad range of entrepreneurs delivering medical devices, diagnostics, ...
(Aug 5, 2009)
Persistent Systems Announces Industry's First Independent Device Driver Portal (Marketwire)
DriverCentral.net Dedicated to Device Drivers for Analytical Instruments
(Aug 5, 2009)
CapitalBio Corporation and VigeneTech Inc. Have Announced the Launch of a Fully Integrated Microarray Solution Platform (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CapitalBio Corporation and VigeneTech Inc. have announced the launch of a fully integrated microarray solution platform. CapitalBio Corp., a developer and marketer of diagnostic biochips and advanced microarray instrument systems, in collaboration with VigeneTech, developers of novel image analysis, automation, and instrumentation software, now offers a platform that combines the superior ...
(Aug 5, 2009)
Genvault's Gensolve(TM) Reagents Enable State-Of-The-Art Genomic Analysis (CattleNetwork.com)
CARLSBAD, Calif.,
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Urbana, Illinois, USA August 5, 2009 (SeedQuest)
In a little over seven hours, University of Illinois weed scientist Patrick Tranel got more genetic information about waterhemp than in two years time in a lab.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides (EurekAlert!)
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) In a little over seven hours, University of Illinois weed scientist Patrick Tranel got more genetic information about waterhemp than in two years time in a lab. The genetic information was obtained using pyrosequencing technology in the Keck Center at the U of I. The genetic sequence will allow scientists to study herbicide resistance in waterhemp.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Ghostwriting Medicine (GenomeWeb News)
Twenty-six medical journals articles that supported the use of hormone replacement therapy in women were ghostwritten , reports the New York Times . The articles were initiated and paid for by Wyeth and did not disclose that connection.
(Aug 5, 2009)
GI Bill and More Scientists (GenomeWeb News)
US President Obama says that the new GI Bill may lead to new scientists and engineers , reports Science Insider.
(Aug 5, 2009)
A Whole Genome Mess (GenomeWeb News)
A whole-genome sequencing paper coming out in Genome Research used ABI's SOLiD platform to sequence the same person that the Illumina paper did, as Dan Koboldt points out . The SOLiD paper authors did not compare the sequences citing, in the comments to Koboldt's blog, the Illumina paper's lack of genotype information . And so in a guest post at Daniel MacArthur's blog, Luke Jostins embarks on ...
(Aug 5, 2009)
Our Summer Camp Only Taught Us How to Use Lanyard (GenomeWeb News)
In China, 30 children between the ages of 3 and 12 are being tested " to identify genetic gifts and predict the future ," reports CNN. For $880, parents can sign their children up for summer camps at Chongqing Children's Palace and the genetic test conducted by Shanghai Biochip Corporation.
(Aug 5, 2009)
PGI Visual Fortran 9.0 Adds Support for MPI Debugging on Windows HPC Server 2008 Clusters (redOrbit)
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Portland Group(R), a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, today announced the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran(R) (PVF(R)) Release 9.0 for Windows workstations, servers and clusters.
(Aug 5, 2009)
GenVault's GenSolve(TM) Reagents Enable State-of-the-Art Genomic Analysis of Dried Blood Spots (redOrbit)
CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Methods for gene transfer in stem cells featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (EurekAlert!)
( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) The August issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features two methods for gene transfer in stem cells.
(Aug 5, 2009)
This Week in Genome Research (GenomeWeb News)
In early online publication at Genome Research , a group of researchers led by McGill’s Tomi Pastinen and Elin Grundberg carried out a cell-type specific eQTL study of primary human osteoblasts, or bone cells, and combined it with publicly available GWAS data for bone mineral density.
(Aug 5, 2009)
CapitalBio Corporation and VigeneTech Inc. Have Announced the Launch of a Fully Integrated Microarray Solution Platform (redOrbit)
CARLISLE, Mass., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- CapitalBio Corporation and VigeneTech Inc. have announced the launch of a fully integrated microarray solution platform.
(Aug 5, 2009)
NIH to Fund Bioinformatics Small Business Grants (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health will fund research into biomedical informatics and computational biology through three new programs, including two small business-focused grants.
(Aug 5, 2009)
JDRF and GNF announce innovative diabetes drug discovery and development partnership (EurekAlert!)
( Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International ) Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation said today that it has entered into a novel collaborative research agreement with the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation to create a diabetes drug discovery and development platform. The four-year program is one of the largest and most comprehensive collaborations in the 40 year ...
(Aug 5, 2009)
Bruker, BUSM Mass Spec Center Collaborate on solariX Apps Development (GenomeWeb News)
In a bid to further build out applications for its mass spectrometers, in particular its recently launched high-end platforms, Bruker this week announced a collaboration with Catherine Costello, director of the Boston University School of Medicine Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Yes, U May Accurately Determine Protein Identification FDR with New Tool, Swiss Researchers Say (GenomeWeb News)
With the vast amount of data being generated by proteomics research, particularly shotgun proteomics, the ability to effectively determine the accuracy of protein identifications is gaining urgency.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Canada August 5, 2009 Wheat breeders that used to search through binders of data can now make genetic comparisons with ... (SeedQuest)
(WGRF) Endowment Fund. Daryl Somers, Director of Applied Genomics at the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in Vineland Station, Ontario, was working at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg when he led the project.
(Aug 5, 2009)
Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women and Men (New England Journal of Medicine)
Background Circulating sex hormone-binding globulin levels are inversely associated with insulin resistance, but whether these levels can predict the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is uncertain. Methods We performed ...
(Aug 5, 2009)
Browsing the Genome in Real-Time (GenomeWeb News)
Pierre Lindenbaum's blog, Yokofakun , points to Tim Yates's X:MAP , which is an interactive "genome browser that shows the location of individual exon probes with respect to their target genes, transcripts and exons."
(Aug 5, 2009)
Yes, You Really Have to Study; No, You Don't Have to Get Out of Your Jammies (GenomeWeb News)
Here's a good excuse to brush up on your bioinformatics skills while lounging at home in your PJs: The University of Manchester will be hosting distance learning classes in bioinformatics this coming March, and applications are now being accepted . Courses include Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, Introduction to Microarray Data Analysis, The Science of Proteomics, and many more.
(Aug 5, 2009)
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