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VisualSonics Appoints New President and CEO (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
VisualSonics Inc., a leader in real time, in vivo, high-resolution micro imaging systems, today announced that the Board of Directors has permanently appointed Anil Amlani, as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
(Nov 3, 2009)
New study to assess preventative brain radiation therapy for lung cancer patients (News-Medical-Net)
A new study is taking a closer look at the benefits versus risks for lung cancer patients to undergo preventative brain radiation therapy as a means to stop cancer from spreading to the brain.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Akonni Biosystems announces worldwide launch of their TruTip product line (News-Medical-Net)
Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostic (MDx) company focused on providing rapid and highly scalable solutions for research and infectious disease testing, today announced the worldwide launch of their TruTip product line for extracting DNA and RNA from samples with volumes ranging from 100 µl to 1000 µl or more.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Local Tech Wire (Local Tech Wire)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are part of a federally funded team that will conduct a pilot study to assess the feasibility and scalability of a project that aims to measure all of the proteins in the human body.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Idera Pharmaceuticals Presents Preclinical Data on IMO-2125, its Lead Drug Candidate for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today presents preclinical data on the mechanism by which IMO-2125 was shown to induce immune activation through Toll-like Receptor 9 .
(Nov 3, 2009)
Roche NimbleGen Arrays Help Unveil the Secrets of Insidious Potato Blight (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MADISON, Wis.----A large international team of researchers recently published the 240-megabase DNA sequence of Phytophthora infestans, a robust parasitic water mold responsible for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, in Nature .
(Nov 3, 2009)
Affy Supplying Its 500K Arrays to Public Gene Variant Study (GenomeWeb News)
BOSTON, May 5 (GenomeWeb News) - Affymetrix is providing its 500K mapping arrays to an international consortium that is cataloging large-scale gene variants, a consortium leader told GenomeWeb News today.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Imaging: A Long Time Coming (GenomeWeb News)
I think it must’ve been about fifth grade when my class went on a field trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York to see a fancy new microscope.
(Nov 3, 2009)
GATC Biotech opens London sequencing lab (Business Weekly)
Bioinformatics services company, GATC Biotech is to open a sequencing lab at the London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC).
(Nov 3, 2009)
Sigma(R) Life Science Appoints Impress Public Relations as Agency of Record (Marketwire)
PHOENIX, AZ--(Marketwire - November 3, 2009) - Impress Public Relations, Inc. today announced that it has been appointed as public relations agency of record by Sigma Life Science , part of the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation and a world leader in innovative products and services serving the global Life Science market. With a global customer base covering pharmaceutical companies, university and ...
(Nov 3, 2009)
Sigma-Aldrich Licenses Polyplus-transfection's ZNA Technology (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sigma-Aldrich said today that it will make and market oligonucleotides developed by Polyplus-transfection, a Strasbourg, France-based firm, under a new worldwide license agreement.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Reportlinker Adds Preventive Healthcare Technologies, Products and Markets (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Taking It High-Throughput (GenomeWeb News)
The University of Indiana's Howard Edenberg and Yunlong Liu discuss methods for high-throughput genotyping in the November issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols . Their article is excerpted from the Genetics of Complex Human Diseases laboratory manual and, in it, they discuss candidate gene approaches, linkage studies, GWAS, and their follow-up studies.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Talking Cuts (GenomeWeb News)
Johnson and Johnson executives discussed the company's plan to cut six to seven percent of its workforce and Jacob Goldstein at the Wall Street Journal 's Health Blog blogged it live . The cuts, once all in place, are estimated to save the company $1.4 to $1.7 billion a year.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Choice A or Choice B? (GenomeWeb News)
The inaugural post at the Personalized Medicine Coalition's new blog discusses the interplay of personalized medicine and comparative effectiveness . Amy Miller at The Age of Personalized Medicine writes that if "done right, CER could do more to advance personalized medicine than any other policy under consideration right now" but if "done wrong" could set the field back.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Incyte Genomics (New Ratings)
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(Nov 3, 2009)
Free and Open Source Bioinformatics Software for Linux (Linux Today)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Bioinformatics, as defined by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (BCBI), is the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge into a single discipline."
(Nov 3, 2009)
Novartis to Build Largest Pharmaceutical Research & Development Institute in China (ChemPoint)
BEIJING, China, November 3, 2009 -- Novartis announced today a USD 1 billion investment over the next five years, increasing R&D activities in China and confirming Novartis' long term commitment to China's further economic development, health reform and improving the health care of the Chinese people.
(Nov 3, 2009)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
Agilent Technologies' SureSelect Human All Exon Kit is now available for use with the Applied Biosystems SOLiD system. The kit enables target enrichment of all human exons and is available in sizes appropriate for studies ranging from few to several thousand samples.
(Nov 3, 2009)
BGI-Led Project Uses Mix of Illumina and Sanger Sequencing to Assemble Cucumber Genome (GenomeWeb News)
Using a combination of Sanger capillary and Illumina sequencing technologies, researchers led by the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing have sequenced and assembled the genome of the cucumber at a sequencing cost of approximately $3.3 million.
(Nov 3, 2009)
GATC Biotech to Open UK Sequencing Lab in 2010 (GenomeWeb News)
Sequencing service provider GATC Biotech of Constance, Germany, said this week that it plans to open a sequencing laboratory in London early next year in order to provide its customers in the UK and in Ireland with single-sample sequencing services.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Miami or Bust (GenomeWeb News)
The story of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine actually began at Duke University, where the institute's director, Margaret Pericak-Vance, was formerly the director of Duke's Center for Human Genetics.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Biotech breathes new life (Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society)
Manufacturing takes on a whole new meaning when speaking of biotechnology; it is a different game with a new book of rules than traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing.
(Nov 3, 2009)
UK, Germany, Netherlands Give $2.5M for Plant Systems Biology Effort (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers at universities in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands will use €1.7 million ($2.5 million) to conduct systems biology and informatics-based studies of plant seed germination, according to the University of Freiburg.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Link Technologies Inks Licensing Deal with RiboTask (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Reagents maker Link Technologies said today that it will sell RiboTask's nucleic acid monomers, under a new license agreement.
(Nov 3, 2009)
NIH Awards $67M in EUREKA Grants (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health has granted $67.4 million in funding for trailblazing research that could reap great benefits but which are not guaranteeing immediate results, including genomics and proteomics studies, NIH said Monday.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Bio-Rad Reports Third-Quarter Currency-Neutral Revenue Growth of 11 Percent (Marketwire)
HERCULES, CA--(Marketwire - November 3, 2009) - Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. ( NYSE : BIO ) and ( NYSE : BIO.B ), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, announced financial results today for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Third-quarter reported revenues were $461.1 million, up 4.4% compared to $441.8 million reported for ...
(Nov 3, 2009)
IP Roundup (GenomeWeb News)
Sandia Corp. of Livermore, Calif., a contractor that manages Sandia National Laboratories, has received US Patent No. 7,611,834, "Methods and devices for protein assays." The patent claims methods and devices for protein assays based on Edman degradation in microfluidic channels.
(Nov 3, 2009)
New Product Watch (GenomeWeb News)
Akonni Biosystems this week launched TruTip , a tool for extracting DNA and RNA from samples with volumes ranging from 100 µl to 1000 µl or more.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Progenika Inks Companion-Dx Deal with AMT, Service Pact with ARUP Labs (GenomeWeb News)
Spanish biotech firm Progenika Biopharma recently announced two separate deals to make its array technology and expertise available to partners.
(Nov 3, 2009)
In Print (GenomeWeb News)
Title: Integrated analysis of copy number alterations and gene expression: a bivariate assessment of equally directed abnormalities.
(Nov 3, 2009)
FDA Clears SQI Diagnostics' Array-Based RA Test for Sale in US (GenomeWeb News)
SQI Diagnostics said this week that the US Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing its SQiDworks multiplex diagnostics platform and IgXPlex rheumatoid arthritis assay.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Illumina Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Affymetrix (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Illumina has filed a lawsuit against Affymetrix alleging that a variety of its GeneChip products infringe a patent that was issued to Illumina today.
(Nov 3, 2009)
Monsanto Biotechnology Research Center established in China (News-Medical-Net)
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) announced today that it is opening its first research center in China, further demonstrating its commitment to forming technology collaborations in the country.
(Nov 4, 2009)
The Clinical Case for Array CGH (GenomeWeb News)
Clinicians have known for years that chromosomal structural changes can be related to disease, and thanks to high-resolution microarrays for probing SNPs and CNVs across the genome, scientists have been able to catalog more and more of these.
(Nov 4, 2009)
CombiMatrix Corporation to Release Third Quarter Financial Results on November 11, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
MUKILTEO, Wash. -- CombiMatrix Corporation announced today that it will release its third quarter 2009 financial results on Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Results will be released at the close of trading on that day.
(Nov 4, 2009)
Turning research into practicality is focus of Roswell Park workshop (The Buffalo News)
About 100 research scientists and life science industry professionals gathered Tuesday in Roswell Park Cancer Institute to take another step in the quest to help researchers bring medical discoveries out of the academic realm and into real-world application.
(Nov 4, 2009)
Genetic Privacy, BioAnalytics Group, BioSoftware Systems, Genomatica, Jubilant Biosys, Strand Genomics, Compugen, Gene ... (GenomeWeb News)
In a Policy Forum article in the July 9 issue of Science , Russ Altman and colleagues at Stanford University argued that unencumbered access to genomic data raises unforeseen privacy issues, and that current attempts to protect genetic data are inadequate.
(Nov 4, 2009)
BioArray Software Environment (BASE) (GenomeWeb News)
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons have been working on a web-based platform for storing, sharing, and analyzing array data, which they have named BioArray Software Environment (BASE) . The group, including Lao Saal, Carl Troein, and Johan Vallon-Christersson, is planning to make BASE available and free to academics, with open ...
(Nov 4, 2009)
$400 Million? Drop in the Bucket (GenomeWeb News)
The Broad Institute's big announcement this morning is that Eli and Edythe Broad will be giving the institute $400 million and will be making its 10-year experiment as a genomic research center permanent.
(Nov 4, 2009)
A Fight Worth Watching: Systems Biology vs. Metastates (GenomeWeb News)
MIT broke ground on a new cancer center last week, the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research , which will bring scientists and engineers together to study cancer metastates.
(Nov 4, 2009)
Biosearch Technologies Licenses H1N1 Flu IP from CDC (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Biosearch Technologies said today that it has licensed H1N1 influenza signatures and the influenza A sub-typing panel signatures from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
(Nov 4, 2009)
Mayo's Cortese stays focused on health (Post-Bulletin)
The departing national CEO of Mayo Clinic does not plan to rest on his laurels when he retires later this month
(Nov 4, 2009)
Grain News (Grainnet.com)
St. Louis and Beijing— Monsanto Company announced Nov. 4 that it is opening its first research center in China, further demonstrating its commitment to forming technology collaborations in the country.
(Nov 4, 2009)
Minding the Gate (GenomeWeb News)
In an open letter to physicians, brought on by an email exchange with Steve Murphy, regarding direct-to-consumer genomics and personalized medicine, blogger William Gunn says that many laws regarding regulation of medical tests were written when people didn't want to see raw data and when tests weren't so accurate.
(Nov 4, 2009)
NSF awards $20 million to SDSC to develop 'Gordon' (EurekAlert!)
( University of California - San Diego ) The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.
(Nov 4, 2009)
More on return of research data to participants from Genomics Law Report [Genetic Future] (ScienceBlogs)
Yesterday I posted a brief rant about the need for researchers to think about the best way to return genetic research data to participants, spinning off an equally brief opinion piece I wrote for the ongoing ELSI series at Genomics Law Report . Today Dan Vorhaus has posted an excellent piece on the same topic over at GLR, triggered by an exchange between 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki and Kaiser ...
(Nov 4, 2009)
NSF Awards $20 Million to SDSC to Develop "Gordon" Supercomputer (Dr. Dobb's Journal)
Supercomputer will use flash to solve data-intensive problems 10 times faster than current solutions National Science Foundation - San Diego Supercomputer Center - United States - Government - Senate
(Nov 4, 2009)
Monsanto Opening Beijing Genomics, Biotech Center (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Monsanto said today that it will open a research center in Beijing that will focus on collaborations with Chinese research institutions in plant biotechnology and genomics research.
(Nov 4, 2009)
GIS-Led Team Publishes Method for Mapping Genome-Wide Chromatin Interactions (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers from Singapore and the Netherlands reported in Nature today that they successfully used their ChIA-PET method to map the estrogen receptor alpha-related chromatin interactome in human breast cancer cells.
(Nov 4, 2009)
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