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German researchers study target-oriented methods for children with brain tumor (News-Medical-Net)
Brain tumors are the primary cause of cancer mortality in children. Even if a cure is possible, young patients often suffer tremendously from the stressful treatment which can be harmful to the developing brain.
(Dec 10, 2009)
New And Faster Test For Detecting Sepsis-Causing Bacteria (Medical News Today)
An article published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet reports that identification of sepsis-causing bacteria using a new microarray platform is highly accurate and delivers results an average of eighteen hours faster than the current gold-standard system. It uses techniques based on detecting inhibition of growth of bacteria through antibiotics. Microarray platform is a ...
(Dec 10, 2009)
Arrayit Diagnostics Announces Sponsored Research Agreement With Wayne State University and Arrayit Corporation (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
HOUSTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrayit Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ARYC - News ), today announced that it has executed a sponsored research agreement with Wayne State University and Arrayit Corporation, which encompasses continuing research and development of a microarray-based diagnostic test for the early detection of ...
(Dec 10, 2009)
Diabetes Research To Benefit From Recovery Act Dollars (Medical News Today)
It's a $1.8 million shot in the arm to the largest grant the Medical College of Georgia has ever received. The two-year stimulus funding, provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is expediting two national diabetes research initiatives managed by MCG: one developing animal models to study diabetes complications, the other offering an array of sophisticated animal tests and ...
(Dec 10, 2009)
Kids' Tech University introduces STEM teacher training workshops (The Staunton News Leader)
BLACKSBURG — A groundbreaking program at Virginia Tech designed to introduce children to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines is offering a new program component to help teachers bring STEM topics to the classroom while providing an opportunity for professional career development.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Thursday, December 10, 2009: ARYC -- Arrayit Diagnostics Announces Research to ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
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(Dec 10, 2009)
Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Thursday, December 10, 2009: ARYC -- Arrayit Diagnostics Announces Research to ... (Marketwire)
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(Dec 10, 2009)
Market Pulse Announces Its Hot Stock Alerts for Thursday, December 10, 2009: ARYC, RNWK, JAZZ, BAC (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - 12/10/09) - Market Pulse is pleased to introduce our featured stock, Arrayit Corporation (OTC.BB: ARYC - News ), to the investment community! Arrayit Corporation is new to Market Pulse and is poised to become a significant player in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and health care markets! Arrayit Corporation just had excellent news out in a press release before today's ...
(Dec 10, 2009)
Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered (EurekAlert!)
( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ) In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, researchers have identified cardiac myosin-binding protein C as a potential new diagnostic biomarker for heart attacks, one that may be particularly valuable for mild attacks in which traditional diagnostic proteins may not be abundant enough.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered (Science Daily)
Researchers have identified cardiac myosin-binding protein C as a potential new diagnostic biomarker for heart attacks, one that may be particularly valuable for mild attacks in which traditional diagnostic proteins may not be abundant enough.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered (PhysOrg)
Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, researchers have identified cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C) as a potential new diagnostic biomarker for heart attacks, one that may be particularly valuable for ...
(Dec 10, 2009)
Alcohol consumption increases risk of breast cancer recurrence (PhysOrg)
Moderate to heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages (at least three to four drinks per week) is associated with a 1.3-fold increased risk of breast cancer recurrence. Women who are post-menopausal or overweight may be most susceptible to the effects of alcohol on recurrence. Drinking less than three drinks per week was not associated with an increased risk.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Successful Stem Cell Therapy for Treatment of Eye Disease (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute in the journal STEM CELLS reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" using the patients' own stem cells without the need of suppressing their immunity.
(Dec 10, 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 10, 2009)
Potential New Heart Attack Biomarker Uncovered (redOrbit)
Appearing in the December issue of MCPThough they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Penn, Georgia Get $14.6M for Pathogen Database (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The University of Pennsylvania and the University of Georgia have won a $14.6 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to expand a pathogen genomic database that serves as a resource for scientists studying infectious diseases, Penn said today.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Collaborators Sequence Cassava Genome (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A multi-partner research initiative has completed a draft sequence of the cassava genome and now plans to use funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue genomics studies aimed at improving the plant and protecting it from disease.
(Dec 10, 2009)
UCLA researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel (EurekAlert!)
( University of California - Los Angeles ) Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels.In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce a liquid fuel precursor to ...
(Dec 10, 2009)
Genomics to Play Key Role in New UK Research Center (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The British medical research partnership planning to build a roughly £500 million ($812 million) interdisciplinary laboratory campus in central London says genomic technologies will play a key role in the array of research its partners plan to pursue there.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Febit to Launch HybSelector Instrument in Q2 of 2010 for Processing Sequence Capture Chips (GenomeWeb News)
German microarray company Febit plans to launch a dedicated instrument next year for targeted enrichment of DNA for sequencing, In Sequence has learned.
(Dec 10, 2009)
The Biomarkers That Could: How Five Biomarkers Might Be the Key to Vermillion's Turnaround (GenomeWeb News)
When Vermillion filed its 510(k) application with the US Food and Drug Administration for its ovarian cancer diagnostic in June 2008, the company was facing two daunting obstacles.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The genetically modified cyanobacterium consumes carbon dioxide and produces the liquid fuel isobutanol by using energy from sunlight.
(Dec 10, 2009)
New DNA Test Could Speed Time to Sepsis Diagnosis (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
THURSDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- A new DNA test for sepsis-causing bacteria provides results much sooner than the current gold-standard blood-culture method, a new study shows.
(Dec 10, 2009)
Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel (Science Daily)
Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. In a new approach, researchers have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce a liquid fuel precursor to isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative. The reaction is powered directly by energy from ...
(Dec 10, 2009)
New DNA Test Could Speed Time to Sepsis Diagnosis (Forbes)
Method saves an average 18 hours over conventional blood culture, research shows
(Dec 10, 2009)
UCLA Researchers Engineer Bacteria To Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel (redOrbit)
Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels.In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline ...
(Dec 11, 2009)
Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into fuel (UC Newsroom)
Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ISIS) Chairman, President, CEO Stanley T Crooke sells 50,000 Shares (Guru Focus)
By insider. Chairman, President, CEO of Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. ( ISIS ) Stanley T Crooke sells 50,000 shares of ISIS on 12/09/2009 at an average price of $10.42 a share. Read more » »
(Dec 11, 2009)
Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ISIS) Director, COO B Lynne Parshall sells 30,000 Shares (Guru Focus)
By insider. Director, COO of Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. ( ISIS ) B Lynne Parshall sells 30,000 shares of ISIS on 12/09/2009 at an average price of $10.44 a share. Read more » »
(Dec 11, 2009)
Cardiac myosin-binding protein C identified as potential new diagnostic biomarker for heart attacks (News-Medical-Net)
Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, researchers have identified cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C) as a potential new diagnostic biomarker for heart attacks, one that may be particularly valuable for ...
(Dec 11, 2009)
Winners of the 2010 ASBMB-Merck Award (News-Medical-Net)
James A. Wells, professor and chairman of the department pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of UCSF's small molecule discovery center, has been named the winner of the 2010 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-Merck Award for his pioneering studies in the field of protein engineering.
(Dec 11, 2009)
NIH awards $14.6M for Eukaryotic Pathogen Genome Database Resource expansion (News-Medical-Net)
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Georgia have been awarded a five-year, $14.6 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the US National Institutes of Health, to expand and extend work on the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genome Database Resource, http://EuPathDB.org.
(Dec 11, 2009)
New data suggests bisphosphonate drug may play a role in reducing recurrent breast cancer (News-Medical-Net)
Bisphosphonates are routinely given to women with postmenopausal breast cancer, but new data suggests that these agents may play a role in reducing recurrent breast cancer as well.
(Dec 11, 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 11, 2009)
Potential new heart attack biomarker identified (New Kerala)
Washington, Dec 11 : Researchers in the UK have identified a potential new diagnostic biomarker for heart attacks.
(Dec 11, 2009)
CLC bio selected as software partner for EU project Techgene (PharmaBiz)
The EU project, Techgene, that focuses on developing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) diagnostic tools for genetic disorders, announced that CLC bio has been selected as the software partner for this project.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Germany Starts Its Part In The International Cancer Genome Project (Medical News Today)
Brain tumors are the primary cause of cancer mortality in children. Even if a cure is possible, young patients often suffer tremendously from the stressful treatment which can be harmful to the developing brain. Therefore, there is an urgent need for target-oriented, gentle treatment methods. The most important childhood brain tumors are medulloblastoma, which is diagnosed in approximately one ...
(Dec 11, 2009)
Successful Stem Cell Therapy For Treatment Of Eye Disease (Medical News Today)
Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) in the journal STEM CELLS reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" (LSCD) using the patients' own stem cells without the need of suppressing their immunity. LSCD is a painful, blinding disease that requires long-term, costly treatment with frequent ...
(Dec 11, 2009)
UI akan Gelar Konferensi Komputer International (ANTARA)
Fakultas Ilmu Komputer (Fasilkom) Universitas Indonesia (UI) akan menyelenggarakan International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS) 2009 pada 7 dan 8 Desember 2009 di Pusat Studi Jepang Kampus UI, Depok.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Scottsdale Healthcare opens 2 new cancer drug trials (The Arizona Republic)
A drug identified as NMS-1286937 is designed to halt cancer cell division in solid tumors such as lung, head and neck, colorectal, breast, thyroid and ovarian cancer.
(Dec 11, 2009)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
Ceiba Solutions, a software development and IT services company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., has hired eight former employees of Rosetta Biosoftware to help expand its bioinformatics team (see related story, this issue).
(Dec 11, 2009)
In Print (GenomeWeb News)
Blouin C, Perry S, Lavell A, Susko E, Roger AJ. Reproducing the manual annotation of multiple sequence alignments using a SVM classifier . [ Bioinformatics . 2009 Dec 1;25(23):3093-3098)]: Aligning protein sequences presents a challenge because some sites do not "respect the assumption of positional homology," which leads to the need for manual editing, according to the paper's abstract.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Downloads & Upgrades (GenomeWeb News)
DNAStar has launched Lasergene 8.1 . New features in sequence-analysis software package include automated virtual multi-site gateway cloning capability and the ability to simultaneously analyze SNPs from multiple sources.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Addressing Pharma Demand, Almac Dx Opens Doors of New UK Bioinformatics Facility (GenomeWeb News)
Almac Diagnostics, a Craigavon, UK-based developer of diagnostics for personalized medicine, has opened a new facility dedicated to bioinformatics in Manchester, UK.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Scientists Near Compromise in Debate over Quality of Curated Protein-Protein Interaction DBs (GenomeWeb News)
A heated debate over the quality of literature-curated protein-protein interaction databases may be nearing a compromise as scientists on both sides of the issue are working together on a forthcoming joint commentary in Nature Methods that aims to bridge the differences between the two camps, BioInform has learned.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Ceiba Hires Former Rosetta Biosoftware Staffers After Landing Support Contract for Its Customers (GenomeWeb News)
IT services firm Ceiba Solutions this week said that it has hired eight former Rosetta Biosoftware staffers in an effort to bolster its bioinformatics offerings, particularly in the area of translational research.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Aebersold and Colleagues Develop Cheaper, Easier Way to Develop SRM Assays (GenomeWeb News)
A team of German and Swiss researchers led by Ruedi Aebersold has devised a new method for developing single-reaction monitoring assays that they said eliminates a significant bottleneck associated with the process.
(Dec 11, 2009)
New heart attack biomarker found (UPI)
LONDON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A binding protein released within minutes of a heart attack could help rapidly diagnose a problem even in weak attacks, British scientists said.
(Dec 11, 2009)
People In The News (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Former Monogram Biosciences CEO and Chairman William Young will become chairman of Biogen Idec at the beginning of 2010, when he will take over the job from Bruce Ross . Ross plans to complete his current term as director and then retire.
(Dec 11, 2009)
Arrayit Partners with WSU to Develop Array-Based Ovarian Cancer Screen (GenomeWeb News)
Arrayit Diagnostics has obtained an exclusive license to use ovarian cancer biomarkers identified at Wayne State University in a future test.
(Dec 11, 2009)
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