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Wellcome Trust Launches Effort to Sequence 10,000 Human Genomes
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) The Wellcome Trust announced today that is undertaking a three-year project to sequence whole genomes or exomes from 10,000 individuals in the UK with an eye towards finding genetic variants including rare variants involved in disease.
(Jun 24, 2010)
An 'omics' for databases in the life sciences
A searchable directory of the countless biological databases on the web produced in the wake of genomic and post-genomic research could be generated automatically, according to new research.
(Jun 24, 2010)
Camp Provides Students With Genomics Experience
Hunched over science tables observing glow-in-the-dark microorganisms in Petri dishes, GO GIRL campers, decked out in floor-length white lab coats and sky blue latex gloves, created artwork with genetically transformed bacteria.
(Jun 24, 2010)
CPGR Using Peptide Arrays to ID Antibodies for Use in Influenza Biomarker Panel
South Africa's Centre for Proteomic and Genomic Research is developing high-density arrays of synthetic peptides in an effort to identify influenza antibodies that could serve as a biomarker panel for vaccine development.
(Jun 24, 2010)
Team led by LA BioMed scientist develops novel approach to study neurological disorders
( Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) ) A team led by a LA BioMed researcher developed a novel approach to efficiently identify disease relevant genes in human complex neurological disorders and demonstrated the effectiveness of this method by applying it to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
(Jun 24, 2010)
Exploding graphs and seeing stars [Discovering Biology in a Digital World]
One of my hobbies lately has been to get either RNA seq or microarray data from GEO and do quick analyses. Not only is this fun, I can find good examples to use for teaching biology. One of these fun examples comes from some Arabidopsis data. In this experiment, some poor little seedlings were taken out of their happy semi-liquid culture tubes and allowed to dry out. This simulated drought ...
(Jun 24, 2010)
Vaccinomics: Scientists Are Devising Your Personal Vaccine
Our bodies defeat infections in part because our immune system's genes are many and diverse. This genetic heterogeneity, however, has a downside: it means that we each respond differently to vaccines. For example, compared with women men routinely produce fewer pathogen-fighting antibodies after vaccination, and in the last large U.S. measles outbreak in 1989 10 percent of previously vaccinated ...
(Jun 24, 2010)
Malaysian Researchers Develop Multiplex PCR Method to Characterize hESCs and Progeny
Scientists from Malaysian stem cell firm Stempeutics and Malaysia's Institute for Medical Research have developed a multiplex PCR method for characterizing human embryonic stem cells and their differentiated progenies.
(Jun 24, 2010)
Studies Offer Clues to Role of Mobile Elements in Human Diversity and Disease
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) A trio of new papers in Cell are highlighting the frequency and functional consequences of transposon insertions in the human genome.
(Jun 24, 2010)
23andMe novel, Web-based/participant-driven GWAS replicates genetic associations
( 23andMe Inc. ) 23andMe Inc., a leading personal genetics company, has published the first data to come out of its novel participant-driven research program in the journal PLoS Genetics which replicates known genetic associations, validating 23andMe's methodology and unleashing more efficient genetic research. In addition several novel SNP associations were revealed. Over 9,000 people ...
(Jun 24, 2010)
Events hope to convince people to move
Buffalo boosters will be out in big numbers this weekend, talkin' proud about a city that has a lot to celebrate.
(Jun 24, 2010)
I'm damned if they're going to deny me access to my DNA
WIRED:Its time to consider saving a copy of your DNA data to your hard drive before regulators try to create obstacles, writesDANNY O'BRIEN
(Jun 24, 2010)
New and Exciting in PLoS this week [A Blog Around The Clock]
There are new articles in four PLoS journals today. As always, you should rate the articles , post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites ...
(Jun 24, 2010)
Ronin recruits protein 'allies' to sustain embryonic stem cell growth
( Baylor College of Medicine ) Ronin, crucial to the self-renewal of embryonic stem cells, and a co-regulator called Hcf-1, binds to a small strand of DNA called a hyperconserved enhancer element to control a gene "program" that stimulates growth of the stem cells and may even play a role in cancer, said a group of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in a current report in the journal ...
(Jun 24, 2010)
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