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Chinese CVs are often the story of difficult lives and bright hope (People's Daily)
As a foreigner, I always thought that "egalitarianism" meant a society where everybody is entitled to equal rights. Only recently did I learn that in Chinese translation egalitarianism can have a different meaning – equal pay and benefits for the same job, even if one worker is productive and the other is a lazy goof-off. I learned these distinctions not in a language textbook, but while reading ...
(Dec 1, 2009)
Arrayit Corporation Perfects Simple Blood Tests To Diagnose Early Stage Cancers And Communicable Diseases (OfficialWire)
Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC ) is pleased to join the federal government in their efforts to help control health care costs by leveraging Arrayit’s leading edge healthcare platform.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Analyticbridge's Comprehensive News Feeds Now Deliver Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0 ... (PRWeb)
AnalyticBridge just launched the most comprehensive analytics news feed, featuring thousands of news article pertaining to state-of-the-art developments in the fields of analytics, business intelligence, cloud computing, data mining, web 2.0, social networks, semantic web, biostatistics, econometrics, computational finance, high frequency trading, artificial intelligence, knowledge discovery ...
(Dec 1, 2009)
$2.6M NIH grant for survey of in situ protein-protein interaction networks (News-Medical-Net)
Our brain is composed of over one trillion cells called neurons. Each neuron contains millions of proteins. Exactly how individual proteins interact with one another and together form complex signaling networks within neurons has never been examined directly in live animals.
(Dec 1, 2009)
China’s GMO Rice, Corn Approval May Boost Food Supply (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s biggest grain producer, has approved strains of genetically modified rice and corn that may help ensure food supplies in a country facing shortages of water and farmland.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Global challenges & opportunities in the gene therapy market (News-Medical-Net)
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Gene Therapy - Worldwide Market Challenges & Opportunities
(Dec 1, 2009)
Akonni Awarded $3.2M NIH Grant to Combine Gel-drop Microarray and PCR Technology for Rapid, Low-cost Influenza Detection (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
FREDERICK, Md.----Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics company focused on providing rapid and highly scalable solutions for infectious disease testing, today announced receipt of a $3.2M Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health .
(Dec 1, 2009)
Comprehensive report on molecular diagnostics and gene detection systems (News-Medical-Net)
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.co has announced the addition of the "Molecular Diagnostics - A World Market Review" report to their offering.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Genetic Analysis introduces GA-map microarray test for screening of infant gut microbiota (News-Medical-Net)
Genetic Analysis AS, the molecular diagnostics company, has launched its GA-map™ microarray test for high throughput screening of infant gut microbiota. At the recent Sackler Colloquium on Microbes and Health in the US, the company presented data from evaluation screens that show its potential as a tool for probing the mechanisms of disease in conditions associated with the gut flora.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Glutamatergic nerve cells regularly generated in the brain (News-Medical-Net)
Until only a few years ago, neurogenesis - the process of nerve cell development - was considered to be impossible in the adult brain. The textbooks asserted that dead nerve cells could not be replaced. Then researchers discovered regions in the forebrain in humans in which new nerve cells can be generated throughout life. These so-called GABAergic cells use gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a ...
(Dec 1, 2009)
Reportlinker offers a new market research report on inflammatory disorders (News-Medical-Net)
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Inflammatory Disorders: Therapies That Suppress or Balance the Immune Response
(Dec 1, 2009)
FORMA Therapeutics closes Series B financing to a total of $25.5 million (News-Medical-Net)
FORMA Therapeutics today announced that it has closed on a Series B financing that raised a total of $25.5 million. The round was led by new investor Lilly Ventures, with participation from existing investors Novartis Option Fund and Bio*One Capital of Singapore.
(Dec 1, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Presents to International Webinar Audience on Innovations in Oncology Drug Discovery, Development & Delivery (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - 12/01/09) - MDRNA, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA - News ), a leading RNAi-based drug discovery and development company, today announced a webinar presentation related to its RNAi oncology programs at the Innovations in Oncology Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery Webinar Series to be presented on December 1, at 1:00 pm EST. Roger Adami, Ph.D., Director, Molecular ...
(Dec 1, 2009)
Computable Genomix Announces GeneIndexer Purchased by National Institutes of Health Library (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MEMPHIS, Tenn.----Memphis-based Computable Genomix today announced that the National Institutes of Health Library has purchased a subscription to its premier product, GeneIndexer, an online genomics research tool.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Medicare Administrator Establishes Reimbursement Coding Policy for Agendia's Breast Cancer Recurrence Test MammaPrint(R) (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, announced today that Palmetto GBA, California's Part B Medicare administrator, has established coding guidelines for the company's MammaPrint test.
(Dec 1, 2009)
MDRNA, Inc. Presents to International Webinar Audience on Innovations in Oncology Drug Discovery, Development & Delivery (Marketwire)
Presentation Highlights Versatility and Breadth of Its Proprietary siRNA Drug Discovery and Delivery Platform
(Dec 1, 2009)
Pathway Genomics Appoints Sidney Stolz as Chief Growth Officer (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Pathway Genomics™, a privately held, venture-backed company today announced the appointment of Sidney Stolz as Chief Growth Officer. In this position, Sid will focus on the strategic expansion of Pathway’s direct-to-consumer genetic testing services.
(Dec 1, 2009)
NIH Library subscribes to Computable Genomix' GeneIndexer (News-Medical-Net)
Memphis-based Computable Genomix today announced that the National Institutes of Health Library has purchased a subscription to its premier product, GeneIndexer, an online genomics research tool.
(Dec 1, 2009)
NIAID Awards Akonni $3.2M to Combine PCR, Microarray Tech for Low-Cost, Rapid Flu Detection (GenomeWeb News)
Molecular diagnostics developer Akonni Biosystems has been awarded a $3.2 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to integrate PCR amplification with its existing TruArray gel-drop microarray in a single-chamber system.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Pathway Genomics Adds Executive (socalTech.com)
San Diego-based Pathway Genomics has added Sidney Stolz as Chief Growth Officer, the firm said this morning. According to Pathway Genomics, Stoltz joins the firm from Healthcare Solutions, where he was Executive Vice President. Stolz has also served at Towers Perrin, UnitedHealth Group, and AdvancedPCS. Pathway Genomics offers genetic ancestry and health testing services, and is venture backed ...
(Dec 1, 2009)
CRi Announces Results of Signaling Pathway Protein Study (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WOBURN, Mass.----Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. , a leader in biomedical imaging, today announced the results of a study demonstrating for the first time the capability to detect and automatically measure key activity indicators of cancer cell signal transduction pathways in intact tissue.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Ocimum Biosolutions Announces the Launch of Biotracker Lite LIMS (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HYDERABAD, India & GAITHERSBURG, Md.----Ocimum Biosolutions today announced the launch of Biotracker™ Lite, a general purpose version of its Life Sciences Specialty LIMS solution, Biotracker™.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University to Study Genomics Using febit's Sequence Capture and microRNA ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Cancer Genomic Microarray Facility at the Kimmel Cancer Center of the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, selected febit's Geniom® RT Analyzer to advance its biomedical research by proceeding targeted Next-Generation Sequencing , genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism and microRNA analysis.
(Dec 1, 2009)
BioInformatics, LLC New Report - The Market Outlook for Research Products in FY2010 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
BioInformatics, LLC announces the release of its newest report, The Market Outlook for Research Products in FY2010. The 8.2 billion dollars appropriated to the NIH Scientific Research program by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being earmarked for lab renovations, Challenge Grants, the Shared Instrumentation Program and research that spans multiple public and non-profit institutions ...
(Dec 1, 2009)
GATC Biotech, Complete Genomics Ink Sequencing Pact (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – GATC Biotech and Complete Genomics said today that they are collaborating to sequence several human genomes from samples provided by GATC.
(Dec 1, 2009)
NIH Library to use Computable Genomix Online Research Tool (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health Library will use Computable Genomix's GeneIndexer online genomics research tool, the company said today.
(Dec 1, 2009)
TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Appoints Fasteris First European Certified-Service Provider for Agilent's Next ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & GENEVA----Agilent Technologies Inc. and Fasteris SA today announced that Fasteris has been named the first European Certified-Service Provider for Agilent’s SureSelect Target Enrichment System for next-generation sequencing.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Atheist student groups flower on college campuses (Park Hills Daily Journal)
AMES, Iowa (AP) — The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: “Ask an Atheist.”
(Dec 1, 2009)
National Institutes of Health Library to Use Computable Genomix' GeneIndexer (GenomeWeb News)
Computable Genomix of Memphis, Tenn., said this week that the National Institutes of Health Library has bought a subscription to its online genomics research tool GeneIndexer.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Top 10 innovations of 2009 (The Scientist)
The ten most exciting tools to hit the life sciences this year
(Dec 1, 2009)
GATC Biotech Evaluates Complete Genomics' Human Genome Sequencing Service (GenomeWeb News)
German sequencing service provider GATC Biotech said this week that it has signed up for a pilot project to evaluate Complete Genomics' human genome sequencing service.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Q&A: UCSD's Olivier Harismendy Compares Enrichment Methods for Targeted Sequencing (GenomeWeb News)
Recently, he and his colleagues explored two methods for targeted enrichment of DNA — Agilent's HybSelect in-solution hybridization probes and RainDance Technologies' microdroplet PCR — and published their results last month in Genome Biology and Nature Biotechnology , respectively.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Vermillion Awaits Decision by Bankruptcy Court After Filing Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan (GenomeWeb News)
Moving one step closer to regaining solvency, Vermillion last week filed a plan of reorganization that would allow it to emerge from bankruptcy.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Gene 'Signature' May Point to Lung Cancer (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that could lead to a simple blood test to screen for lung cancer, U.S. researchers have identified immune system markers that indicate early-stage lung tumors in people at high risk for lung cancer.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Atheist student groups flower on college campuses (Park Hills Daily Journal)
AMES, Iowa (AP) — The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: “Ask an Atheist.”
(Dec 1, 2009)
Fasteris to Provide Agilent's SureSelect in Europe (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Agilent Technologies said today that Swiss genomics services company Fasteris will provide Agilent's target enrichment services for next-generation sequencing.
(Dec 1, 2009)
In Print (GenomeWeb News)
Title: Genomic dissection of population substructure of Han Chinese and its implication in association studies.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Live cell imaging comes into focus in December's Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (EurekAlert!)
( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) Two articles in the December issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols present techniques for live cell imaging.
(Dec 1, 2009)
With $1M in VC Cash, Ligon Discovery Gets Set to Commercialize Small-Molecule Microarrays (GenomeWeb News)
Ligon Discovery, a 6-month-old spinout from Harvard University, will spend a recently closed $1 million round of venture capital financing to help it launch its small-molecule microarray platform; continue ongoing internal drug-discovery programs; and invest in R&D, according to a company official.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Norwegian Startup Genetic Analysis to Offer Array-Based Microbiota Screening (GenomeWeb News)
Genetic Analysis, a one-year-old molecular diagnostics company, this week launched its high-throughput GA-map microarray test, which is designed to screen the gut microbiota of infants.
(Dec 1, 2009)
The Great Cloud Debate Continues (GenomeWeb News)
Gary Stiehr is getting down and dirty with a dissection of some benchmarking numbers from a recent Genome Biology paper by Steven Salzberg 's group entitled "Searching for SNPs with cloud computing," which makes an argument for Crossbow and presents comparisons of "conventional computer" clusters versus Amazon EC2 instances analyzing data comprising 38-fold coverage of the human genome.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 (GenomeWeb News)
With next-generation sequencing technology becoming more affordable, there's been a near-explosion of sequencing projects for plants and animals.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Updated CGH microrray software can process 100+ samples (EE Times Asia)
Agilent Technologies Inc. presents Agilent DNA Analytics 4.0 software for visually exploring, detecting and analyzing patterns in microarray data.
(Dec 1, 2009)
Reportlinker Adds Advances in the Use of Biomarkers in Biochip and Microarray Testing: Innovative technologies, growth ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
(Dec 1, 2009)
Reportlinker Adds HPLC Systems & Accessories - A World Market Review (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
(Dec 1, 2009)
454 genome sequencer to make first run (The Shorthorn)
More than a month after installation, the university’s state-of-the-art genome sequencer will finally have its first official run in two weeks. The biology department’s Core Genomics Research Facility received the $600,000 454 genome sequencer on Oct. 27 and will start allowing usage Dec. 14. The instrument will allow microbiologists and other researchers to extract sequences of DNA base pairs ...
(Dec 1, 2009)
National meet on ‘Emerging and Merging Areas of Biology’ from Dec 7 to 9 (PharmaBiz)
The Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility Centre of the Department of Biotechnology functioning at the Presidency College in Chennai, along with Indian Society of Life Sciences (ISLS) and Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), are organizing a National Conference on ‘Emerging and Merging Areas of Biology’ from December 7 to 9 in Chennai.
(Dec 2, 2009)
Cancer Genomic Microarray Facility selects febit's Geniom RT Analyzer to advance its biomedical research (News-Medical-Net)
The Cancer Genomic Microarray Facility at the Kimmel Cancer Center of the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, selected febit's Geniom® RT Analyzer to advance its biomedical research by proceeding targeted Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and microRNA (miRNA) analysis.
(Dec 2, 2009)
CRi announces study results of imaging and analysis platform for drug and molecular diagnostic development (News-Medical-Net)
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi), a leader in biomedical imaging, today announced the results of a study demonstrating for the first time the capability to detect and automatically measure key activity indicators of cancer cell signal transduction pathways in intact tissue.
(Dec 2, 2009)
Future likely to witness improved therapies and novel drugs to treat lifestyle disorders (News-Medical-Net)
Increasing genomic knowledge will lead to the development of improved therapies to treat lifestyle disorders. In the near future, the European lifestyle disorders therapeutics market is set to witness enhanced therapies and novel drugs to treat such conditions and reduce the risk of co-morbidities.
(Dec 2, 2009)
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