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Activx Biosciences Head Receives Distinguished Scientist Award (Marketwire)
LA JOLLA, CA--(Marketwire - January 4, 2010) - Dr. John W. Kozarich, Chairman & President of Activx Biosciences, Inc. (La Jolla, CA), has received the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award from the San Diego Section of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes his outstanding contributions spanning a variety of scientific endeavors including academic and industrial research, teaching ...
(Jan 4, 2010)
Reportlinker Adds Global Biochip Markets: Microarrays and Lab-on-a-Chip (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
(Jan 4, 2010)
Funding Update (GenomeWeb News)
The project will demonstrate the "scientific and technical feasibility of an optical microscope accessory for electron and ion microscopes to enable in situ brightfield and fluorescence microscopy simultaneously with electron or ion imaging/processing," according to the abstract.
(Jan 4, 2010)
CSHL Researcher's STAR Performs Speedy Splice Junction Detection for RNA-Seq Data (GenomeWeb News)
As researchers increasingly turn to RNA-seq for transcriptome analysis, the bioinformatics community is meeting the demand for new software tools to process the data from RNA-seq experiments.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Annual Report by NCI's Proteomics Division Outlines Progress in 2009 (GenomeWeb News)
The year 2009 was a watershed for the National Cancer Institute's proteomics division as projects begun at the inception of the program three years ago began bearing fruit, according to a report released last month by the division.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Putting Down the Odds (GenomeWeb News)
Steve Murphy at Gene Sherpas predicts that Complete Genomic will win the Archon X Prize for Genomics this year , but in the comments, Keith Robison is doubtful . "Complete Genomics is impressive, but the X-prize criteria are pretty onerous — I doubt they or PacBio will be gunning for it for at least 2 years," Robison writes.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Proteomics Firms Will Remember 2009 for Acquisitions and Renewed Fortunes (GenomeWeb News)
If 2008 was the year when the global recession dragged proteomics firms and mass spec vendors down a rabbit hole, 2009 may be remembered as the year when some of these firms went on a buying spree, and a year when one company close to death got a new lease on life.
(Jan 4, 2010)
RTI: Short-term closures of schools won’t halt spread of an influenza epidemic (Local Tech Wire)
Get the latest news alerts: Follow LTW at Twitter. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Schools would have to be closed at least eight weeks in order to reduce the spread of infection in the event of an influenza epidemic, according to a study from RTI International.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Q&A: Harold 'Skip' Garner, New Director at VBI, Outlines the Institute's Portfolio Expansion (GenomeWeb News)
Harold Ray "Skip" Garner — an experimental research physicist, a biomedical researcher, and founder of several companies — was named executive director of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech in October 2009.
(Jan 4, 2010)
IP Update (GenomeWeb News)
US Patent 7,640,256. Data collection cataloguing and searching method and system. Inventor: Stuart John Inglis. Assignee: Real Time Genomics.
(Jan 4, 2010)
In Print (GenomeWeb News)
Title: Effect of physicochemical anomalies of soda-lime silicate slides on biomolecule immobilization.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Analysis of microbes, immune response featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (EurekAlert!)
( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) Freely accessible articles in the January 2010 issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols describe a method for identifying microbes for metagenomic analyses and a method for analyzing the immune response.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Aushon BioSystems Extends 21,500 SF Lease In Billerica (Banker & Tradesman)
Aushon BioSystems Inc., which provides microarray instrumentation and laboratory services for biomarker discovery, development and analysis, has renewed a 21,500-square-foot lease for its headquarters at 43 Manning Road in Billerica.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Top 10 Most-Read 'PGx Reporter' Stories of 2009: ACLU/Myriad Suit, BRCA Testing, DTC Genomics, FDA Relabeling Figure Big (GenomeWeb News)
In May 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the constitutionality of gene patenting in the US in an ambitious case that took on the exclusive licensee of BRCA gene patents Myriad Genetics, patent holder University of Utah Research Foundation, and the US Patent and Trademark Office.
(Jan 4, 2010)
Personal genomics on PBS [Gene Expression] (ScienceBlogs)
Apparently there'll be a new Skip Gates documentary on personal genomics on PBS , Faces of America . Read the comments on this post...
(Jan 4, 2010)
VELCADE sNDA receives FDA approval (News-Medical-Net)
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for VELCADE, which expands the label to include long-term (median follow-up 36.7 months) overall survival (OS) data from the landmark VISTA trial and provides specific dosing recommendations for patients with hepatic impairment. The ...
(Jan 5, 2010)
Queensborough College gains major research partner (YourNabe.com)
Bayside’s Queensborough Community College has become the first community college in the nation to be selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an associate member of its Science Education Alliance research initiative.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Illumina Announces Upcoming Webcasts in the Month of January (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Illumina, Inc. announced today that the company will webcast its presentation at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, California, on January 12, 2010.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Compugen Discovers Drug Target For Treatment Of Epithelial Tumors (Medical News Today)
Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) announced the discovery and experimental validation of CGEN-671, a new drug target for multiple epithelial tumors. CGEN-671 is a membrane splice variant of CD55, a known drug target for gastric cancer for which monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics are in clinical development by others. The potential application of CGEN-671 as a drug target was initially predicted ...
(Jan 5, 2010)
GeneGo to Sell Omicsoft Products (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that they will be selling Omicsoft products Array Studio and Array Server globally except for Japan. Â Array Studio is a software package which provides state of the art statistics and visualization for the analysis of high dimensional quantification data .
(Jan 5, 2010)
Research and Markets: Development of Newer Therapies to Treat Lifestyle Disorders Critical to Advancing the European ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "European Lifestyle Disorders Therapeutics Market" to their offering.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Queensborough College gains major research partner (YourNabe.com)
Bayside’s Queensborough Community College has become the first community college in the nation to be selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an associate member of its Science Education Alliance research initiative.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Report on European lifestyle disorders therapeutics market from Research and Markets (News-Medical-Net)
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.co has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "European Lifestyle Disorders Therapeutics Market" to their offering.
(Jan 5, 2010)
World Class Leaders From NCI/OBBR, NIH/OBA, Schering Plough, Merck,deCode Genetics, Biobusiness Consulting, National ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----IQPC announces the 2010 Biobanking conference to be held at The Ritz Carlton, January 20-22nd, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.
(Jan 5, 2010)
UNCC hosts emergency drill today (The Charlotte Observer)
Don't be alarmed if you see police, fire and emergency medical vehicles and personnel convergin
(Jan 5, 2010)
With New EUA, Cepheid's Xpert Flu A Panel Opens Door to Moderate-Complexity Use (GenomeWeb News)
Cepheid on Monday said its 2009 H1N1 influenza test became the latest in a grab-bag of assays to win emergency use authorization from the FDA for the indication.
(Jan 5, 2010)
In America's next decade, change and challenges (USA Today)
A new decade finds Americans in an uncomfortable and yet familiar position: running scared.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Queensborough College gains major research partner (YourNabe.com)
Bayside’s Queensborough Community College has become the first community college in the nation to be selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an associate member of its Science Education Alliance research initiative.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Virginia Tech licenses GenoCAD source code to ISCB (EurekAlert!)
( Virginia Tech ) The source code for a Web site that allows users to design synthetic genetic systems for biological research has been licensed to the International Society for Computational Biology with the aim of developing open source tools for the synthetic biology community.
(Jan 5, 2010)
GeneGo to Market Omicsoft’s Array Software (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – GeneGo said today that it will sell Omicsoft’s array software as a bundled offering with its data mining suites. The agreement covers Omicsoft’s Array Studio software and its Array Server solution, which will be marketed along with GeneGo’s Metacore and Metadrug suites.
(Jan 5, 2010)
What Is a Bioinformaticist? [Mike the Mad Biologist] (ScienceBlogs)
ScienceBlogling Sandra Porter asks a bunch of questions, including: What do you call a biologist who uses bioinformatics tools to do research, but doesn't program? My snarky answer is: a biologist . Since I work at a genome center where I'm up to my eyeballs in computational biologists, bioinformaticists, and computational engineers (this is a good thing), I was going to write a lengthy response ...
(Jan 5, 2010)
'Junk DNA' could spotlight breast and bowel cancer (EurekAlert!)
( University of Nottingham ) Scientists at The University of Nottingham have found that a group of genetic rogue elements, produced by DNA sequences commonly known as "junk DNA," could help diagnose breast and bowel cancer. Their research, funded by Cancer Research UK, is published in this month's Genomics journal.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Paired Ends (GenomeWeb News)
Consumer genomics company GeneLink BioSciences has appointed David Macdonald as interim CEO, effective Dec. 28, 2009. Axel Nielsen , COO of Decode Genetics , has resigned from the company, effective Jan. 1. The firm disclosed the resignation in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing, but did not say whether it intends to search for a replacement.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Papers of Note (GenomeWeb News)
High-throughput sequencing of retrotransposon integration provides a saturated profile of target activity in Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Guo Y, Levin HL.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Genedata Lands R&D Knowledge Management Contract with Bayer Schering Pharma (GenomeWeb News)
Genedata announced today that it is supporting Bayer Schering Pharma's biologics research through a multi-year contract to develop and deploy a Biologics Data Platform. No financial details were released.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Researchers study microbes in cattle to unlock metabolic disease mysteries (EurekAlert!)
( Texas A&M AgriLife Communications ) Switching from warm-season grasses to cool-season forages can give livestock a belly ache, in some cases a deadly one, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists.Dr. Bill Pinchak, Texas AgriLife Research animal nutritionist at Vernon, is leading a team of scientists who are using state-of-the-art technology -- metagenomics -- to determine how changes in ...
(Jan 5, 2010)
GenoCAD Goes Open Source (Developer.com)
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, an affiliated corporation of Virginia Tech, announced today that the International Society for Computational Biology has been granted an open source license to the GenoCAD source code.
(Jan 5, 2010)
New Product Watch (GenomeWeb News)
GeneGo said this week that it will now sell Omicsoft products Array Studio and Array Server worldwide, excluding Japan.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Researchers study microbes in cattle to unlock metabolic disease mysteries (PhysOrg)
Switching from warm-season grasses to cool-season forages can give livestock a belly ache, in some cases a deadly one, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists.
(Jan 5, 2010)
IP Roundup (GenomeWeb News)
Samsung Electronics has received US Patent No. 7,638,274, "Polynucleotide associated with a colon cancer comprising single nucleotide polymorphism, microarray and diagnostic kit comprising the same and method for diagnosing a colon cancer using the polynucleotide."
(Jan 5, 2010)
Short-Term School Closures Ineffective for Controlling Influenza Epidemics (Newswise)
Closing schools for less than two weeks during an influenza epidemic has no effect on infection rates, according to a study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, RTI International and the Allegheny County Health Department.
(Jan 5, 2010)
BU Spinout AllegroDx to Launch Array-Based Lung Cancer Test This Year (GenomeWeb News)
Allegro Diagnostics later this year plans to begin marketing a microarray-based test for early-stage lung cancer, according to CEO Dan Rippy.
(Jan 5, 2010)
Canada's Med BioGene Files for US IPO; Plans to Launch RT qPCR-based Lung Cancer Test This Year (GenomeWeb News)
Med BioGene, a diagnostic developer based in Vancouver, BC, filed in late December for an initial public offering in the US.
(Jan 6, 2010)
Study suggests why circumcised men are less likely to become infected with HIV (EurekAlert!)
( The Translational Genomics Research Institute ) Circumcision, which substantially lowers HIV risk in men, also dramatically changes the bacterial communities of the penis, according to a study led by scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Johns Hopkins University, and published Jan. 6 in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
(Jan 6, 2010)
Pittsburgh Female Athlete of the Week (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Avonworth senior basketball player Tara Gallupe has been named the Pittsburgh Female Athlete of the Week.
(Jan 6, 2010)
Researchers Study Microbes In Cattle To Unlock Metabolic Disease Mysteries (redOrbit)
Switching from warm-season grasses to cool-season forages can give livestock a belly ache, in some cases a deadly one, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists.Dr.
(Jan 6, 2010)
Encyclopedia Proteomics, Incyte Genomics, Gene Network Sciences (GenomeWeb News)
Encyclopedia Proteomics , a spinoff from the San Diego Supercomputer Center , is now taking orders for its Custom Proteome Annotation service, derived from the SDSC’s Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project.
(Jan 6, 2010)
Circumcision lowers HIV risk; changes bacterial community on penis microbiome (News-Medical-Net)
Circumcision, which substantially lowers HIV risk in men, also dramatically changes the bacterial communities of the penis, according to a study led by scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Johns Hopkins University and published Jan. 6 in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
(Jan 6, 2010)
Queensborough College gains major research partner (YourNabe.com)
Bayside’s Queensborough Community College has become the first community college in the nation to be selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an associate member of its Science Education Alliance research initiative.
(Jan 6, 2010)
UC San Diego bioengineering professor receives 2009 Presidential Science Prize (News-Medical-Net)
For Shu Chien - a pioneer in the growing field of bioengineering - understanding and learning the marvels of how the human body works has been the foundation of his decades-long quest to advance science and technology worldwide. The UC San Diego bioengineering professor's significant scientific endeavors have paved the way for recognition of his renowned work at the university's Jacobs School of ...
(Jan 6, 2010)
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