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Rosetta Genomics and Warnex Medical Laboratories Announce Exclusive Distribution Agreement for Rosetta???s ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
REHOVOT, Israel & PHILADELPHIA & LAVAL, Quebec----Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. , the leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, and Warnex Medical Laboratories, a division of Warnex Inc. , announced today they have signed an exclusive distribution agreement in Canada for three currently-available diagnostic tests.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Warnex and Rosetta Genomics Announce Exclusive Distribution Agreement for Rosetta's microRNA-Based Assays in Canada (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
LAVAL, QUEBEC AND REHOVOT, ISRAEL AND PHILADELPHIA, USA-- - Warnex Medical Laboratories, a division of Warnex Inc. , and Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. , the leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announced today they have signed an exclusive distribution agreement in Canada for three currently-available diagnostic tests.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Warnex and Rosetta Genomics Announce Exclusive Distribution Agreement for Rosetta's microRNA-Based Assays in Canada (Marketwire)
Warnex will distribute Rosetta Genomics' three recently launched miRview(TM) tests in Canada
(Aug 10, 2009)
The National Center for Genome Resources Studies Childhood Diseases Using febit's DNA Capture Method (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The National Center for Genome Resources has selected febit's DNA-capture method, HybSelect, to re-sequence the exons of genes involved in over 400 of the most devastating childhood diseases with the ultimate goal of developing genetic tests to detect carrier status for recessive genetic diseases in prospective parents.
(Aug 10, 2009)
U of L researches find key protein to kidney disease (The Louisville Cardinal)
Three U of L researchers have helped identify a key protein in the middle of membranous nephropathy. The breakthrough will help the more than 60,000 Americans who suffer from the condition, where the body's immune system attacks its own kidneys.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Warnex Becomes Canadian Distributor for Rosetta Diagnostic Tests (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Life sciences company Warnex and microRNA-based molecular diagnostics developer Rosetta Genomics announced today that Warnex Medical Laboratories has signed an exclusive agreement to distribute three of Rosetta's currently available diagnostic tests in Canada.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Olink Inks Finland Distribution Pact (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb news) – Olink Bioscience said today that it has signed up Immuno Diagnostic to distribute its in situ protein detection systems in Finland.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Life Technologies Closes LIMS Unit Sale (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb news) – Life Technologies has completed the sale of its SQL*LIMS business to LabVantage Solutions for an undisclosed sum, finalizing a deal the companies struck at the end of June.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Time to Speak Up (GenomeWeb News)
If you've got a few free minutes and a desire to share how you feel about direct-to-consumer genomic testing, head on over here for a survey that's part of Sudeepa Abeysinghe's doctoral research at the Australian National University.
(Aug 10, 2009)
A Summary of Scifoo (GenomeWeb News)
Now that Scifoo is over and done with for this year, Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll sums up the event and his coverage of it. In one post, he talks about a session he helped organize on how virtual worlds can be useful for science and medicine.
(Aug 10, 2009)
United Kingdom August 10, 2009 Over 160 years since potato blight wreaked havoc in Ireland and other northern European ... (SeedQuest)
(BBSRC) finally have the blight-causing pathogen in their sights and are working to accelerate breeding of more durable, disease resistant potato varieties.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Clinical Data's Q1 Revenues Rise 81 Percent on PGx Test Sales (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Clinical Data today reported that its first-quarter revenues increased 81 percent year over year, due to sales growth for its Familion genetic tests.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Millipore Acquires BioAnaLab (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Millipore has acquired Oxford, UK-based BioAnaLab in a bid to expand its biopharmaceutical services offerings into the European market.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Well, That Sounds Easy Enough (GenomeWeb News)
Over at In the Pipeline, Derek Lowe's reaction to a new McKinsey report on pharma's return on investment elicits this succinct response: "Yikes." According to the report, ROI from small-molecule drug research has dropped from 12 percent in the late '90s to about 7.5 percent this decade.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Rosetta Licenses Canadian Rights to miRNA Diagnostics to Warnex (GenomeWeb News)
Rosetta Genomics said today that it has signed a deal making Warnex Medical Laboratories the exclusive distributor of Rosetta's three microRNA-based diagnostics in Canada.
(Aug 10, 2009)
UC Santa Barbara and Burnham Institute for Medical Research Announce Director of New Joint Research Center for ... (Newswise)
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California, Santa Barbara have named leading biomedical researcher Jamey D. Marth director of a new joint Center for Nanomedicine that will be established at UCSB.
(Aug 10, 2009)
David Kronenberg awarded grant for summer research (Woburn Daily Times Chronicle)
Burlington, VT - President of the rugby club and a computer science enthusiast! That’s the beauty of a liberal arts college where both of these passions can be nurtured and developed. David Kronenberg, a Saint Michael's College senior computer science major from Winchester, Mass., was awarded a $3,500 SMC Vice President for Academic Affairs Student Summer Research Grant for an eight-week ...
(Aug 10, 2009)
Rosetta Genomics in deal with Warnex (BizJournals)
Rosetta Genomics Ltd. signed an exclusive distribution agreement in Canada for three of its microRNA-based molecular diagnostics with Warnex Medical Laboratories.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Recent Research Papers of Note (GenomeWeb News)
Described is a novel approach for identifying and quantifying two differentially labeled states using MS/MS spectra. The authors call the approach isobaric peptide termini labeling.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Potato Blight Plight Is Promising For Food Security (redOrbit)
Using pathogen genomics, Professor Paul Birch from the Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee (at Scottish Crop Research Institute - SCRI), alongside researchers from Warwick HRI and the University of Aberdeen, is looking at how the most significant potato pathogen, Phytopthora infestans causes disease and identifying essential pathogen virulence genes that may be durable targets for ...
(Aug 10, 2009)
Busselton Health Study Turns to Proteomics to Discover 'Diabesity' Biomarkers (GenomeWeb News)
A landmark study begun in Australia more than 40 years ago has entered the proteomics age, as work has begun to discover protein biomarkers predictive of the early onset of diabetes in people with obesity.
(Aug 10, 2009)
NCI's caBIG Plans to Award $3.5M to Five In Silico Research Centers (GenomeWeb News)
Columbia University , Emory University, Georgetown University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute have been notified they are "contingent" awardees under the National Cancer Institute's "In Silico Research Centers of Excellence" program.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Fluorotechnics Seeks to Raise $861K (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb news) – Fluorotechnics plans to raise just over A$1 million ($861,000) by issuing shares at a price of A$.28 a share, and it will use the funds to strengthen its balance sheet and for sales and marketing costs, the company said on Friday.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Scripps Starts Genomics Study of Breast Cancer Variants (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb news) – Scripps Genomic Medicine will work with Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla to conduct genomic studies of women for known variants of breast cancer in order to correlate the presence of variants with diagnosis of the disease, Scripps Genomic Medicine said.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Lab21 to Distribute AdnaGen's Assays in UK, Ireland (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Lab21 will serve as exclusive distributor of AdnaGen's circulating tumor cell diagnostic assays in the UK and Ireland under an alliance announced today.
(Aug 10, 2009)
Pressure BioSciences' Revenues Up in Q2 (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Pressure BioSciences today reported that its second-quarter 2009 revenues more than doubled year over year, while the firm trimmed its net loss in half.
(Aug 10, 2009)
10.08.2009 - PRESS RELEASE: QIAGEN Reports Strong Second Quarter 2009 Results And Increases Full Year 2009 Guidance (4investors)
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(Aug 10, 2009)
Life Bioscience Enters 'Competitive' Slide Market with 3D Glass Microarrays (GenomeWeb News)
Life Bioscience, a three-year-old startup based in Albuquerque, NM, last week launched a menu of slides to meet the needs of the growing protein array market.
(Aug 10, 2009)
DST allocates Rs 30 cr to set up 5 incubation centres in leading research centres (PharmaBiz)
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), government of India, has allocated Rs 30 crore for the setting up of five incubation centres across the country within the next five years.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Labcyte Expands Presence in Chinese Market Selects Tekon as Exclusive Distributor (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Labcyte, the developer of acoustic liquid transfer, with systems in all top 10 pharmaceutical companies, today announced the selection of Tekon Biotech as its exclusive distributor in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan.
(Aug 11, 2009)
David Kronenberg awarded grant for summer research (Woburn Daily Times Chronicle)
Burlington, VT - President of the rugby club and a computer science enthusiast! That’s the beauty of a liberal arts college where both of these passions can be nurtured and developed. David Kronenberg, a Saint Michael's College senior computer science major from Winchester, Mass., was awarded a $3,500 SMC Vice President for Academic Affairs Student Summer Research Grant for an eight-week ...
(Aug 11, 2009)
Three minutes to a clearer understanding of university research (University of Queensland)
When The University of Queensland PhD student Mike Imelfort explains his research in a complicated field of DNA to friends at a party, he can do it in very few words.
(Aug 11, 2009)
David Kronenberg awarded grant for summer research (Woburn Daily Times Chronicle)
Burlington, VT - President of the rugby club and a computer science enthusiast! That’s the beauty of a liberal arts college where both of these passions can be nurtured and developed. David Kronenberg, a Saint Michael's College senior computer science major from Winchester, Mass., was awarded a $3,500 SMC Vice President for Academic Affairs Student Summer Research Grant for an eight-week ...
(Aug 11, 2009)
UI gets five-year grant from NIH (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
The University of Iowa has received a $598,500, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health that will enable doctoral students in 22 existing UI doctoral programs to receive an interdisciplinary certificate in bioinformatics along with a traditional disciplinary doctoral degree, beginning with the fall 2009 semester.
(Aug 11, 2009)
My Pharmiweb.com (PharmiWeb)
AnaSpec Inc. Thiol compounds, such as glutathione (GSH), cysteine, and homocysteine, are a natural reservoir of the reductive capacity of a cell.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Febit's DNA-capture method selected by NCGR to re-sequence 400 genes involved in childhood diseases (News-Medical-Net)
The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) has selected febit's DNA-capture method, HybSelect, to re-sequence the exons of genes involved in over 400 of the most devastating childhood diseases with the ultimate goal of developing genetic tests to detect carrier status for recessive genetic diseases in prospective parents.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Function Of Potential Cancer-Causing Gene Product Uncovered By Conaway Lab (Medical News Today)
The Stowers Institute's Conaway Lab has uncovered a previously unknown function of a gene product called Amplified in Liver Cancer 1 (Alc1), which may play a role in the onset of cancer. The work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Early Edition.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Lung Cancer Research Advances Announced At Conference (Medical News Today)
Dr. Glen Weiss of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare has announced two significant advances in treating lung cancer at an international cancer research conference. Dr. Weiss, M.D.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Launch of the first standard graphical notation for biology (EurekAlert!)
( European Molecular Biology Laboratory ) Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute and their colleagues in 30 labs worldwide have released a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information -- the biology equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics. The new standard, called the Systems Biology Graphical Notation, is ...
(Aug 11, 2009)
How Does Playing Solitaire Fit In? (GenomeWeb News)
The American Scientist conducted a poll to see how scientists really use computers . Nearly 2,000 people responded and they said they work about 48 hours a week, spending 30 percent of that time developing software and 40 percent using.
(Aug 11, 2009)
This Week in PNAS (GenomeWeb News)
In the early online edition of PNAS , scientists from Imperial College London and Pfizer report a successful application of metabolic profiling . Using NMR to profile the urine of 99 men who were given acetaminophen, they found that those with higher initial levels of p -cresol sulfate metabolized the drug less effectively than those with lower levels.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Launch of the first standard graphical notation for biology (PhysOrg)
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and their colleagues in 30 labs worldwide have released a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information - the biology equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics. This visual language should make it easier to exchange complex information, so that models are ...
(Aug 11, 2009)
Just Getting By (GenomeWeb News)
At Genetic Future, Daniel MacArthur points out a press release from Decode Genetics on their second quarter financials. According to the release, the company brought in $3.5 million for 2009 as compared to $9.0 million for the same quarter last year.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Harris Is on a Roll (GenomeWeb News)
Sam Harris apparently didn't have enough space in the New York Times to discuss what he sees as Francis Collins' failings , so he continues on in this article at the Online Journal . In this, he says Collins' The Language of God is "nothing less than an intellectual suicide" and goes on to discuss scientific illiteracy in the United States and the role that religion plays in that illiteracy.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Proteomic profiling (The Scientist)
"Kinobeads" draw out new drug targets
(Aug 11, 2009)
IP Update (GenomeWeb News)
"The invention provides methods of preparing nucleic acids, such as RNA molecules, of a defined size or range of sizes," the patent application's abstract states.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Beleaguered Arrowhead 'Cautiously Optimistic' About RNAi Deal, Closes Calando's Lab (GenomeWeb News)
Arrowhead Research's top official this week said that the firm's Calando Pharmaceuticals subsidiary continues to look for a partner for its RNAi drug-delivery system and clinical candidate, and that he is "cautiously optimistic" that pending phase I data on the drug will help drive a deal.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Promega - SABiosciences Agreement Enables the Most Sensitive Tools for Pathway Analysis (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MADISON, Wis.----Promega and SABiosciences will combine their offerings to provide the most sensitive tools for interrogating specific cellular pathways via transcription factor reporters.
(Aug 11, 2009)
Launch Of The First Standard Graphical Notation For Biology (redOrbit)
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and their colleagues in 30 labs worldwide have released a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information – the biology equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics.
(Aug 11, 2009)
AHRQ to Issue Draft Proposal on ‘Quality, Regulation and Clinical Utility’ of LDTs Aug. 18 (GenomeWeb News)
The University of Rochester's David Mathews is building algorithms to predict secondary structures of RNA and applying that knowledge to finding novel, noncoding RNA in the genome and uncovering what those RNAs do.
(Aug 11, 2009)
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