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Microarray Binding Sensors Using Carbon Nanotube Transistors (Pharmalicencing)
Unique distinctions of this design over other CNT based methods: complete isolation of the CNTs from chemical reactions concomitant with probe immobilization and target capture, and the CNTs functioning only as charge sensors.
(Mar 5, 2010)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
Rodrigo takes over from Kathleen Smith, a professor of biology at Duke University . He will also have a joint appointment in the Duke's biology department, according to the release.
(Mar 5, 2010)
IBM Puts its Muscle Behind Information-Based Medicine, But Will IT Be Enough? (GenomeWeb News)
Formalizing an initiative that has been at the “exploratory” stage for the last few years, IBM last week said that it is launching a new information-based medicine business unit to address the IT infrastructure needs of personalized healthcare.
(Mar 6, 2010)
Deltagen, Dharmacon, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Pfizer, Chiron, TCAG, McGill, Spotfire, Daylight, AstraZeneca, KineMatix (GenomeWeb News)
Online auction house AuctioNet last week said that it will be hosting a live webcast auction of Deltagen’s “surplus IT infrastructure” as part of a broader auction of the company’s lab equipment on Oct. 15 and 16.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Life, Liberty, and...Personal Genomics? (GenomeWeb News)
Seems many are speaking up about the attempt of New York and California to restrict personal genetic testing. Over at The Personal Genome, Jason Bobe calls the cease-and-desist letters a form of " biocensorship ," while an editorial in Nature Biotechnology wonders how personalized medicine is to advance if the current state of medicine isn't changed.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Forbes praises free markets at Richmond Forum (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Free markets work, governments, not so well, two-time presidential hopeful Steve Forbes told The Richmond Forum last night. Joking that he planned to bore the sell-out crowd at the Landmark Theater with monetary policy, accounting issues and the importance of the rule of law, Forbes said capitalism and free markets are the answer to the nation’s current troubles.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Gene test claims to show what diet works best (Asbury Park Press)
Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan.
(Mar 7, 2010)
DNA Identification Evidence in Criminal Prosecutions (LLRX.com)
In criminal cases, there have been challenges on sufficiency grounds and concerns over the use of forensic DNA evidence as the sole or primary proof of guilt. Uncorroborated DNA matching might not be enough to satisfy the burden of establishing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Genome sequenced for amoeba that flips into free-swimming cell (UC Berkeley NewsCenter)
Scientists have sequenced the genome of a weird creature that exists as an amoeba until the food runs out, then turns into a two-tailed swimmer to find new hunting grounds. The organism, called Naegleria, is an early eurkaryote – a cell with a nucleus and internal organs – and could shed light on the origin of complex cells like those in humans. With video
(Mar 7, 2010)
Farming confronting technical conundrums (Otago Daily Times)
New Zealand's traditional pasture-based farming system faces a conundrum, a leading scientist has warned.
(Mar 7, 2010)
GM trial caution as debate evolves (Otago Daily Times)
AgResearch will undertake field evaluation trials of genetically modified drought-tolerant forage in the United States and possibly on Australia's East Coast before seeking approval for field trials in New Zealand.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Gene site found for children's food allergy (EurekAlert!)
( Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ) Pediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). In this disease, which may cause weight loss, vomiting, heartburn and swallowing difficulties, a patient may be unable to eat a wide variety of foods. A genome-wide association study found EoE was ...
(Mar 7, 2010)
Gene Site Found for a Children's Food Allergy (Newswise)
Pediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). In this disease, which may cause weight loss, vomiting, heartburn and swallowing difficulties, a patient may be unable to eat a wide variety of foods.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Mathematical innovation turns blood draw into information gold mine in Stanford study (EurekAlert!)
( Stanford University Medical Center ) Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically important gene-activity changes specific to any one of those cell types.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Gene test claims to show what diet works best (KLTV 7 Tyler)
Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan.
(Mar 7, 2010)
On finding folks you know: 23andMe reveals some unexpected cousins [Genetic Future] (ScienceBlogs)
A colleague just pointed me to an entry on Brad Templeton's blog where Templeton reveals some bizarre connections between people he has met as distant cousins via 23andMe 's Relative Finder algorithm. Nothing too spooky, but a precursor of things to come if (as I hope and expect) 23andMe manages to ride out the current troubles besetting personal genomics and continue building its genetic ...
(Mar 7, 2010)
IBM ‘collaboratory’ (University of Melbourne University News)
IBM and the University of Melbourne are partnering in a new ‘collaboratory’ which has the potential to fast-track research into major health conditions.
(Mar 7, 2010)
Tips on keeping food uncontaminated (EARTHtimes.org)
Berlin - It is invisible to the naked eye and has no particular smell. Listeria monocytogenes, commonly called listeria, is a bacterium that can be harmful to health. Lothar Jaensch, head of the research group for proteomics at the Helmholtz Centre f...
(Mar 8, 2010)
Rating Core Labs (GenomeWeb News)
Core labs might be the overlooked, underappreciated sidekick in the research world, but this survey of 841 Genome Technology readers says that users are happy overall with their cores.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Mathematical innovation turns blood draw into information gold mine (Science Daily)
Scientists have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically important gene-activity changes specific to any one of those cell types.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Pediatrics researchers identify major gene location responsible for EoE (News-Medical-Net)
Pediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). In this disease, which may cause weight loss, vomiting, heartburn and swallowing difficulties, a patient may be unable to eat a wide variety of foods.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Trial launched to test new treatment for pre-invasive breast cancer (Science Daily)
Can a drug that has been used to treat malaria for years possibly be used to treat breast cancer before it becomes invasive? That's what researchers are now trying to prove.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Stickleback genomes shining bright light on evolution (Science Daily)
Twenty billion pieces of DNA in 100 small fish have opened the eyes of biologists studying evolution. After combining new technologies, researchers now know many of the genomic regions that allowed an ocean-dwelling fish to adapt to fresh water in several independently evolved populations.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Sigma(R) Life Science Introduces World's First Suite of Knockout Rats for ADME/Tox Applications (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Sigma® Life Science, an innovative brand of Sigma-Aldrich® , today extended its portfolio of knockout rat models with the announcement of a new suite of models designed to facilitate more predictive absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity studies.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Scientists devise software algorithm to detect medically useful information from whole-blood samples (News-Medical-Net)
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically important gene-activity changes specific to any one of those cell types.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Gene site linked to food allergy identified (New Kerala)
London, March 8 : Scientists have discovered the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).
(Mar 8, 2010)
Importance of genomics for critical care (CIOL)
BANGALORE, INDIA: At the Plenary Session, Innovative Diagnosis, held as part of EmTech 2010 here today, Dr. BV Ravikumar, MD, Xcyton Diagstics talked about the importance of Genomics for Critical Care.
(Mar 8, 2010)
'Evolutionary Biologist' Studies The Co-Evolution Of Humans And Diseases (Medical News Today)
Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., an evolutionary biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has received the 2010 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. He received the honor, which carries a $25,000 cash prize, for his research on the co-evolution of humans and diseases. The annual Vilcek Foundation awards celebrate "immigrant achievement in biomedical science and arts ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
CONSERVE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, SAYS KURUP (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysians have a huge national responsibility to conserve the country's biological resources, Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister Tan Sri Joseph Kurup said.
(Mar 8, 2010)
First-Of-Its-Kind Project Will Sequence Difficult Breast Cancers To Provide Insight Into Treatment Strategies (Medical News Today)
Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) has announced that it is collaborating with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and US Oncology to sequence the genomes of 14 patients afflicted with triple negative breast cancer whose tumors have progressed despite multiple other therapies. The goal of this first-of-its-kind research collaboration is to demonstrate whether genomic ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
GeneGo Releases Content and Tools From Industry-FDA Driven MetaTox Partnership Via ToxHunter(TM) (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
GeneGo announces the release of the first set of tools and content to come out of its industry-FDA MetaTox⢠partnership program. The MetaTox partnership is developing a unique comprehensive systems toxicology suite designed for compound safety assessment in chemical and pharmaceutical R&D.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Algorithm to separate blood sample into different cell types and detect changes (Sify News)
A newly software could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically important gene-activity changes
(Mar 8, 2010)
Bringing Statistics to Biologists - New Genedata Analyst Launches at Society of Toxicology 49th Annual Meeting (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Supporting Billions of Data Points and Up to Hundreds of Users, Technology-agnostic Data-mining Platform Integrates a Variety of Data Streams into One Easy-to-use Analysis System
(Mar 8, 2010)
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Allowed Uracyst(R) Patent in China (Marketwire)
LONDON, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 8, 2010) - Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB:SLXCF) ("Stellar" or "the Company"), a Canadian pharmaceutical developer and marketer of high quality, cost-effective products for select health care markets, today announced that it has been informed by the Chinese Patent Office that a patent has been allowed for one of its lead products, Uracyst® (a sterile ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
Gene test claims to show best diet (The Daily Commercial)
MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people w ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
MDRNA, Inc. Announces Upcoming Investor Conference Presentations (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - 03/08/10) - MDRNA, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA - News ), a leading RNAi-based drug discovery and development company, today announced that J. Michael French, MDRNA's President and Chief Executive Officer, will provide an overview of the Company and its progress in key programs at the following upcoming conferences: -- The ROTH 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference, on Monday ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
MDRNA, Inc. Announces Upcoming Investor Conference Presentations (Marketwire)
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - March 8, 2010) - MDRNA, Inc. ( NASDAQ : MRNA ), a leading RNAi-based drug discovery and development company, today announced that J. Michael French, MDRNA's President and Chief Executive Officer, will provide an overview of the Company and its progress in key programs at the following upcoming conferences:
(Mar 8, 2010)
Gene Site Found For A Children's Food Allergy (Medical News Today)
Pediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). In this disease, which may cause weight loss, vomiting, heartburn and swallowing difficulties, a patient may be unable to eat a wide variety of foods. After performing a genome-wide association study, the study team found EoE was ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
New approach to immune cell analysis seen as first step to better distinguish health and disease (EurekAlert!)
( NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ) Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells. This approach, when combined with well-established techniques, readily identifies changes in small samples of human whole blood, and has the potential to distinguish between health and disease states.
(Mar 8, 2010)
ExonHit, BioMerieux Call off Colon Cancer Collaboration (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – ExonHit Therapeutics and BioMerieux are discontinuing their collaboration aimed at identifying biomarkers and developing tests for colon cancer, ExonHit announced today.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Gene Site Found For Children's Food Allergy (redOrbit)
Gene linked to eosinophilic esophagitis plays key role in inflammationPediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).
(Mar 8, 2010)
Algorithm Turns Blood Draw Into Information Gold Mine (redOrbit)
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically important gene-activity changes specific to any one of those cell types.In a study to be published online March 7 in Nature Methods, the scientists reported that they ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
Life Technologies, TGen And US Oncology Partner On Groundbreaking Breast Cancer Sequencing Research (Medical News Today)
Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) announced that it is collaborating with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and US Oncology to sequence the genomes of 14 patients afflicted with triple negative breast cancer whose tumors have progressed despite multiple other therapies. The goal of this first-of-its-kind research collaboration is to demonstrate whether genomic ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
New Approach to Immune Cell Analysis Seen as First Step to Better Distinguish Health and Disease (National Institutes of Health)
Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Biochips in Bangkok: Thailand's Sole Array Lab Plows Ahead with Ag-Bio Projects (GenomeWeb News)
BANGKOK, Thailand — Minimum input, maximum output. That's the credo of the microarray lab at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, or BIOTEC, the biotechnology arm of Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency.
(Mar 8, 2010)
New Virginia Tech Institute to Focus on Neuroscience with Molecular Genetics, Informatics Components (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The newly-named founding executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute said it will begin operations this fall by ramping up a program in neuroscience — his longtime research focus, and a specialty of the university — to be followed over the first two years by programs in cardiovascular science and cancer.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Genome Canada Marked for $73M in New Budget (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Genome Canada has been tabbed to receive C$75 million ($73 million) under the national 2010 budget proposal from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's administration.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Annual San Diego Science Festival to Host Countywide "Excite Your Mind" Events March 20-27, 2010 (Newswise)
The largest celebration of science on the West Coast, held annually in San Diego, promises to once again "excite the minds" of thousands of students and their families March 20-27. In 2010, the San Diego Science Festival (SDSF) will continue to raise awareness on the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education among San Diego's youth to inspire them to pursue ...
(Mar 8, 2010)
New Approach To Immune Cell Analysis Seen As First Step To better Distinguish Health And Disease (redOrbit)
Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells.
(Mar 8, 2010)
Gene Test Claims To Show What Diet Works Best (The Huffington Post)
What's Your Reaction? Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan.
(Mar 8, 2010)
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