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Pronota Receives $2M to Further Development of Cardiovascular Biomarkers (GenomeWeb News)
Belgian biomarker firm Pronota this week announced it has been awarded €1.4 million ($2 million) to further validate and develop novel cardiovascular protein biomarkers.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Genome sequencing shows past genetic events made soybeans rich in versatile gene families (EurekAlert!)
( University of North Carolina at Charlotte ) The soybean is also a virtual chemical factory, rich in proteins and oils. Now, the first complete sequencing of the soybean genome shows the fine details of an unusually productive genetic code and reveals an unusual evolutionary history that led to chemical versatility. In particular, researchers found evidence of two separate ancient accidents ...
(Jan 13, 2010)
Power of genomics cracks soybean code (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Scientists on Wednesday unveiled the genome of the soybean, saying it was an achievement that should deepen understanding of one of the world's most important crops, help to boost yields and defend the plant against pests.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Power of genomics cracks soybean code (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Scientists on Wednesday unveiled the genome of the soybean, saying it was an achievement that should deepen understanding of one of the world's most important crops, help to boost yields and defend the plant against pests.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Mt. Sinai to Install Agilent Mass Spectrometer (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Mount Sinai School of Medicine will install an Agilent 6460 triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer for use by members of the Academy for Medical Development and Collaboration, or AMDeC, the academy said today.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Will 2009 Be Remembered as the Year Personalized Medicine Went Mainstream? (GenomeWeb News)
"Pharmacogenomics" may still not be a word that is commonly heard around most kitchen tables, but "personalized medicine" certainly became a familiar term in 2009.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Rosetta Genomics Stock Surges on Lung Cancer Dx Findings (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Rosetta Genomics' stock soared 72 percent in mid-afternoon trading on Nasdaq after announcing a successful clinical study on one of its lung cancer diagnostic tests.
(Jan 13, 2010)
BioInformatics, LLC New Report - The Contract Research Market for Drug Discovery Technologies: Opportunities for Life ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
BioInformatics, LLC announces the pending release of its newest report, The Contract Research Market for Drug Discovery Technologies: Â Opportunities for Life Science Suppliers. As lab budgets remain constricted, pharmaceutical and biotech labs are outsourcing pre-clinical and drug discovery services to create efficiency and offload the need to maintain staff, instruments and consumables for ...
(Jan 13, 2010)
Oz virus may be spreading in Tamil Nadu (The Times of India)
The 'mysterious fever' being reported from Tamil Nadu could be Ross River fever, caused by a virus of that name hitherto confined to Australia, scientists suspect.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Rosetta Genomics Ltd. to Raise $5.1 Million in Registered Direct Offering (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PHILADELPHIA & REHOVOT, Israel----Rosetta Genomics Ltd. , a leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, today announced that it has received commitments from certain institutional investors to purchase approximately $5.1 million of securities in a registered direct offering.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Power of genomics cracks soybean code (BigPond News)
Scientists unveiled the genome of the soybean which will deepen understanding of the crop.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Nature Biotechnology ponders the cloud (GenomeWeb News)
In case you missed it, there is an editorial in Nature Biotechnology that gives some lip service to cloud computing as a viable option for dealing with the "sequencing storm" of data from next-gen sequencing platforms.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Complete Genomics Nears Commercial Launch; Eyes Thousands of Genomes in 2010 (GenomeWeb News)
SAN FRANCISCO (GenomeWeb News) - Complete Genomics is on the cusp of launching its commercial operations and is aiming to sequence several thousand human genomes this year — and potentially up to a million human genomes over the next five years — company officials told investors Wednesday at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.
(Jan 13, 2010)
Pathway Genomics Launches New Online Tool To Educate Consumers About Genetic Testing Services (Medical News Today)
Pathway Genomics™, a privately held, venture-backed company, today launched a new campaign designed to facilitate discussions around consumer genetic testing services. Called 'DNA Conversation Starters,' Pathway will address a range of topics about genetic testing, further educating members of the media, the genetic testing community, and consumers about the benefits of genetic testing services ...
(Jan 14, 2010)
Sunflower genome holds the promise of sustainable agriculture (Science Daily)
The sunflower family includes a number of valuable food crops. Yet the sunflower family is the only one of a handful of economically important plant families where a reference genome is not available to enable the breeding of crops better suited to their growing environment or consumers tastes. A new research project will create a reference genome for the sunflower family.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Science News Goes Visual with “Grab More Science” Graph from LabGrab.com (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Labgrab.com is announcing the release of a data visualization tool that graphs the current volume of science news by discipline. The colorful chart shows various sized boxes based on the volume of article headlines published by universities, journals, science news aggregators, and science blogs.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Kinaxo Extends Its Collaboration With Roche (BioresearchOnline)
KINAXO Biotechnologies GmbH announced today that it has entered into a second collaboration with Roche Diagnostics GmbH in Penzberg, Germany.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Accelerate Your Cell Migration Research (BioresearchOnline)
AMSBIO has announced the addition of the Oris Pro Cell Migration Assay to its range of 96-well cell exclusion zone assays for performing cell migration and cell invasion experiments.
(Jan 14, 2010)
This Week in Science (GenomeWeb News)
Although the NIH’s budget has been expanding each year , the increases are not keeping pace with inflation rates , this news article says . Researchers are facing grant cuts, if those grants are even approved—only 7 percent of established investigators received funding on their first try in 2006. Grant reviewers, says a short accompanying piece , also feel the strain since the number of ...
(Jan 14, 2010)
Labranche, Rosetta Genomics: Early Volume Plays (TheStreet.com)
Several stocks trading near $5 were poised to move on above-average volume during Thursday's session.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Tesla Bio Workbench Enables Scientists to Achieve New Breakthroughs in Biosciences (Marketwire)
New GPU-Optimized Applications, Community Site and Pre-Configured NVIDIA Tesla-Based Systems Now Available for Computational Scientists and Biophysicists
(Jan 14, 2010)
MDRNA, Inc. Raises $5.5 Million in Registered Direct Offering (Marketwire)
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - January 14, 2010) - MDRNA, Inc. ( NASDAQ : MRNA ) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with investors to raise gross proceeds of $5.5 million through a registered direct offering. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will sell 5,385,557 shares of its common stock at $1.02125 per share. As part of the transaction, the investors also ...
(Jan 14, 2010)
Alcon, Panasonic, Rosetta Genomics, Tyson: U.S. Equity Preview (Bloomberg)
Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies may have unusual moves in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 7:45 a.m. in New York.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Rosetta Genomics to Raise $4.5M Through Direct Offering (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Rosetta Genomics said today that institutional investors have agreed to around $5.1 million in securities through a direct share offering.
(Jan 14, 2010)
GenoCAD Goes Open Source (Dr. Dobb's Journal)
Virginia Tech licenses GenoCAD source code to International Society for Computational Biology Source code - Open source - Programming - Languages - C
(Jan 14, 2010)
Genome Sequencing Shows Past Genetic Events Made Soybeans Rich in Versatile Gene Families (Newswise)
The sequencing of the soybean genome will be announced in a paper forthcoming in the January 14 issue of the journal Nature. Authored by Jeremy Schmutz of the Joint Genome Institute and the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center and 43 other researchers from 18 institutions, the paper details results pointing to key evolutionary events that may be responsible for the plant's unusual capabilities.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Marshall University Announces Addition of Internet2 (WOWK-TV West Virginia)
The Internet2 network links Marshall with people, equipment and information at partner institutions around the world.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Sword Diagnostics Announces Availability of Proprietary Detection Technology for Ultrasensitive Immunoassays. (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Sword Diagnostics announced today the launch of its proprietary Raman detection system for ultrasensitive immunoassays. Â The system provides researchers with greater sensitivity which enables more accurate testing of low abundance markers. Â These increases in performance could aid researchers in basic and clinical science research, drug discovery, and clinical diagnostics development.
(Jan 14, 2010)
NVIDIA Launches Community Website Aimed at Biotech (GenomeWeb News)
Today NVIDIA is singing from the rooftops about it's new "Tesla Bio Workbench," a community website aimed at spreading the GPU gospel to the life sciences community.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Rosetta Genomics raises capital after share price jump (Globes Online)
The share price has retreated in today's trading.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Damon Runyon Funds High-Risk Cancer Studies (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has awarded three grants totaling more than $1.3 million to researchers pursuing high-risk cancer research involving genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, the foundation said today.
(Jan 14, 2010)
MabCure Begins Clinical Trial for Antibody Technology for Use as Cancer Diagnostic (GenomeWeb News)
Startup antibody biotech firm MabCure has begun a clinical trial for a monoclonal antibody-based diagnostic it has developed for ovarian cancer.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Luminex Corporation Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Earnings Release Scheduled for February 4, 2010 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Luminex Corporation today announced that it expects to report fourth quarter and full year 2009 results on Thursday, February 4, 2010. Results are scheduled for release after the close of trading.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Luminex Corporation Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Earnings Release Scheduled for February 4, 2010 (redOrbit)
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX) today announced that it expects to report fourth quarter and full year 2009 results on Thursday, February 4, 2010.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Illumina Introduces Genome AnalyzerIIe Sequencing System (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Illumina, Inc. today announced the Genome AnalyzerIIe sequencing system, designed to provide a lower-priced entry point into next-generation sequencing. Priced at $250,000 USD, the new system leverages the architecture of Illumina’s widely-adopted Genome AnalyzerIIx and its proven sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry to generate approximately 200 million paired-end reads and 20 ...
(Jan 14, 2010)
Complete Genomics Delays Start of Commercial Operations to Q2; Cuts Target to 5,000 Genomes in 2010 (GenomeWeb News)
Complete Genomics has delayed the start of its commercial operations by about three months and, as a result, has cut in half the number of human genomes it plans to sequence this year.
(Jan 14, 2010)
Illumina Introduces Genome AnalyzerIIe Sequencing System (Finanzen.net)
Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the Genome Analyzer IIe ...
(Jan 14, 2010)
OSU student spent holiday in war zone (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Jessica Campbell went to Gaza to mark anniversary of bloody conflict
(Jan 15, 2010)
infoQuant joins Microsoft's BioIT Alliance (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
infoQuant, a London based provider of Bioinformatics software for Cytogenetics, announced that it joined Microsoft's BioIT Alliance today.
(Jan 15, 2010)
Gene Fusions and Transcriptome Sequencing (GenomeWeb News)
For Christopher Maher, an innovative undergraduate program at Cornell University made all the difference in shaping his scientific career.
(Jan 15, 2010)
Q&A: Researchers Propose 'Housekeeping RNAs' for Real-Time PCR Studies of Noncoding RNAs (GenomeWeb News)
A team of researchers in Germany has proposed a set of non-protein-coding RNAs that can serve as stable internal controls for data normalization in real-time PCR for studies involving these molecules.
(Jan 15, 2010)
Regulus Therapeutics Present New Pre-clinical Data from Multiple Therapeutic Programs at Keystone Symposium (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CARLSBAD, Calif.----Regulus Therapeutics Inc. today announced that new pre-clinical data from multiple therapeutic programs were presented at the “RNA Silencing: Mechanism, Biology and Application” Keystone Symposium held January 14 – 19, 2010 in Keystone, Colorado.
(Jan 15, 2010)
Parasitic wasps' newly sequenced genomes reveal new avenues for pest control (EurekAlert!)
( Swiss Institute of Bioinoformatics ) Researchers from the University of Geneva and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics led an analysis of the sequenced genomes of parasitic wasps. Harnessing the full potential of those wasps would be preferable to chemical pesticides. Professor Evgeny Zdobnov from the University of Geneva Medical School and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ...
(Jan 15, 2010)
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
Proteome Software this week introduced its mass spectrometry quality control web-based tool, MassQC , to help researchers achieve more reproducible LC-MS/MS experiments.
(Jan 15, 2010)
Thermo Fisher 'Ruthlessly' Focused on Winning in Mass-Spec Space, CEO Tells Investors (GenomeWeb News)
Thermo Fisher Scientific's chief executive, speaking at the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference this week, challenged his competitors in the mass-spec space to better his company's technology and to capture more market share, and said Danaher's recent entry into the market is a non-factor.
(Jan 15, 2010)
New Mock 510(k) Submission Guides Aim to Help Navigate FDA's Protein IVDMIA Review Process (GenomeWeb News)
A consortium of researchers that includes representatives from the National Cancer Institute and the US Food and Drug Administration has published two mock submission guides designed to help researchers in the translational proteomics community submit for regulatory approval protein-based in vitro diagnostic multivariate index assays.
(Jan 15, 2010)
Novel personalized medicine trial launched for metastatic colorectal cancer (EurekAlert!)
( George Mason University ) Imagine if treatments for disease could be based not on a patient's diagnosis but instead on the characteristics of their tissue. By identifying and decoding the cryptic messages hidden deep inside the human proteome, scientists and physicians who study personalized medicine are seeking more effective treatments and disease management for patients.
(Jan 15, 2010)
Eyeing a Growing Market, Nvidia Launches Portal to Aggregate GPU-Enabled Life Science Applications (GenomeWeb News)
GPU provider Nvidia has launched a web portal that it hopes will serve as a home base for researchers looking to access bioinformatics applications that have been optimized for graphics processing units.
(Jan 15, 2010)
InfoQuant Joins BioIT Alliance (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Microarray software developer InfoQuant has joined the Microsoft’s BioIT Alliance. The London-based company provides DNA microarray data analysis solutions used by cytogeneticists to make DNA array information useful in their diagnostics workflows.
(Jan 15, 2010)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Klaus Lindpaintner has been hired by Strategic Diagnostics as VP of research and development and CSO.
(Jan 15, 2010)
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