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GenomeWeb Daily News

  • White House Unveils Permanent R&D Tax Credit Proposal
  • NIH Gives $15M to PGx Knowledge Resource
  • NIH Offers $1.5M for PSI:Biology Respository
  • $20M NSF Grant Designed to Promote Marine Research at URI, Partner Institutions
  • FDA to Use Ariana for Genomic Data Tools
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BioArray News

  • UCSF Researchers Win $900K NIH Grant to Create Array-Based Portable Pathogen-Detection System
  • BlueGnome Spinout Sure Laboratories Aims to Serve Growing IVF Screening Market
  • Ocimum, Refocusing on Pharma Services, to Discontinue Catalog OciChips
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BioInform

  • CLC Bio, Roche, Partners to Develop MDx Informatics Platform
  • NIH Awards $15M to Expand Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base
  • Complete Genomics to Sequence and Analyze 100 Genomes for NCI Pediatric Cancer Study
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Gene Silencing News

  • IP Update
  • Tekmira Cleared to Begin Phase I Testing of Cancer Drug
  • Silence Says It Is In Talks Over Potential Sale
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In Sequence

  • NCGR, Aiming to Diversify Platforms, Acquires Five SOLiD 4 Instruments
  • Gene Prediction and Targeted Sequencing Detect Causal Mutations in Complex Mitochondrial Disease
  • Q&A: Pfizer's Mao Mao on Using Next-Generation Sequencing in Drug Development
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PCR Insider

  • Cepheid's TB, Drug-Resistance Assay Shines as POC Test in Developing World
  • FDA, NIH Team IDs Murine Leukemia Virus Genes in Blood of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients
  • Q&A: UNCs Webster-Cyriaque Discusses qPCR Assay for Common HPV Types in Genital, Oral Tissue
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Pharmacogenomics Reporter

  • NIH's $15M to PharmGKB Will Improve Curation Capabilities, Facilitate Annotation of Whole Genomes
  • NIH Invests $161M in 14 New Pharmacogenomics Research Network Projects
  • FDA to Use Ariana's Data-Mining Tool to Analyze Gene Targets in VXDS Program
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ProteoMonitor

  • Thermo Fisher Planning New Products to Further Integrate Proxeon Nano-LC Platform
  • NIAAA Provides $2.5M in SBIR and STTR Funding for Research Into Biomarkers of Alcohol Use
  • Joining LabCorp, Quest Files Objection to Correlogic's Motion to Reject OvaCheck Licensing Agreements
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  1. GenomeWeb Daily News
    International Team Sequences Turkey Genome
  2. GenomeWeb Daily News
    CLC Bio Partners with Hoffmann-La Roche, Others on MDx Platform Using FFPE
  3. GenomeWeb Daily News
    NIH Gives $15M to PGx Knowledge Resource
  4. GenomeWeb Daily News
    NIH to Pump $161M into PGx Research
  5. GenomeWeb Daily News
    FDA to Use Ariana for Genomic Data Tools
  1. GenomeWeb Daily News
    NIH to Pump $161M into PGx Research
  2. GenomeWeb Daily News
    Beckman Coulter's Garrett Steps Down
  3. GenomeWeb Daily News
    International Team Sequences Turkey Genome
  4. GenomeWeb Daily News
    CLC Bio Partners with Hoffmann-La Roche, Others on MDx Platform Using FFPE
  5. GenomeWeb Daily News
    U of Arizona Wins $9.9M Grant for Rice Genomics
  1. The Daily Scan
    The Irish Genome and the End of an Era
  2. The Daily Scan
    One Gene to Rule Them All
  3. The Daily Scan
    "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times..."
  4. The Daily Scan
    Tokyo Versus the Superbug
  5. The Sample
    Vermillion's OVA1 Fumble May be a Lesson for Intrepid CLIA Labs
  • Young Investigator Profile

    Ipsita Banerjee

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
    University of Pittsburgh

    Regeneration Research

    Ipsita Banerjee is working at understand the differentiation and lineage commitment of pluripotent cells in order to shift paradigms in regenerative medicine and stem cell bioengineering. Using a system of embryonic stem cells differentiating to pancreatic islets, her lab is currently aiming to answer questions regarding the role that transcription factors play in controlling and deciding on a cell lineage and the influence of environmental perturbations on these networks toward desired lineage.

  • Blog

    For LabCorp, It's Sue and Be Sued

    Over the past few weeks, the reference lab has been embroiled in two suits: In one it accused Cardinal Health Systems of breaching a non-compete agreement, and in the other it has been accused by Aetna for issuing misleading reimbursement information.

    September 08, 2010

    Get On Your Hip-Boots: The Plavix-CYP2C19 Quagmire Has Just Gotten Thicker

    Now comes news that could cause cardiologists to shelve Plavix altogether -- and with it any CYP2C19 testing that might have tagged along. But don't count it out just yet.

    September 08, 2010

    Lineagen to Launch Autism Test Nationwide in Q1 2011

    The so-called FirstStep Dx test, which uses whole-genome chromosomal microarrays and Fragile X testing, is being performed by an undisclosed national CLIA lab.

    September 08, 2010

    Cloud Computing Tool for RNA Sequence Analysis

    John Hopkins University researchers develop RNA sequence analysis tool for cloud computing.

    September 08, 2010
  • Papers of Note

    Genetic Basis for Cyanobacteria Sunscreen Biosynthesis
    Balskus and Walsh, Science
    Emily Balskus and Christopher Walsh at Harvard Medical School describe the "genetic and molecular basis for sunscreen biosynthesis in cyanobacteria." They show that a mycosporine-like amino acid biosynthetic gene cluster generates four enzymes in vitro. "In addition to clarifying the origin of the MAAs, these efforts have revealed two unprecedented enzymatic strategies for imine formation," Balskus and Walsh write.

    Database of Predicted Protein Phosphorylation Sites
    Schwartz and Church, Science Signaling
    The University of Connecticut's Daniel Schwartz and George Church of Harvard describe "the viral post-translational modification database, which contains a comprehensive list of 329 accurately localized phosphorylation sites in proteins from 52 human viruses published between 1986 and the present." The team also used the scan-x tool to make thousands of phosphorylation predictions in more than 200 human viruses. Using scan-x, Schwartz and Church found "at least 4,000 as yet unidentified phosphorylation sites on hundreds of viral proteins," they write.

  • People on the Move

    The National Human Genome Research Institute said this week that it has chosen Daniel Kastner to be its new scientific director. Kastner, who will join NHGRI in October, currently is clinical director and director of translational research at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.


    Former Genome Canada President and CEO Martin Godbout has been appointed chairman of MethylGene's board of directors. Godbout, who held the top post at Genome Canada between 2000 and 2009, has served as a member of MethylGene's board since 2002. He also has been senior VP of BioCapital and president and GM of Société Innovatech Québec.


    Emergent Biosolutions has appointed former National Cancer Institute Director John Niederhuber to serve on its board of directors.

    Niederhuber was director at NCI from 2005 to 2010, and he recently joined Inova Health System as executive VP and CEO of the Inova Institute for Translational Research and Personalized Medicine. He also still works as an adjunct investigator at NCI’s Center for Cancer Research.

  • Upcoming Events

    Conferences, Meetings & Deadlines

    4th CPTC Annual Meeting: Establishing the Standards in Clinical Proteomics
    Sep. 8-9 / Bethesda, MD
    NCI

    Quantitative and Systems Pharmacology Workshop II
    Sep. 9-10 / Bethesda, MD
    NIGMS

    Global Biomarker Conference
    Sep. 10 / Vancouver, Canada
    GBC

    Personal Genomes
    Sep. 10-12 / Cold Spring Harbor, NY
    CSHL

    50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Meeting
    Sep. 12-15 / Boston, MA
    American Society for Microbiology

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  • Science

    Members of the International HapMap 3 Consortium reported that they have genetically characterized individuals from 11 different populations, genotyping nearly 1,200 individuals and re-sequencing specific genomic regions in almost 700 individuals from 10 of the populations, comparing SNP and copy number variation patterns across the populations tested.
  • Business

    Roche announced a cost-cutting initiative, dubbed a "Group-wide Operational Excellence initiative," that will be implemented in 2011-2012. It said that the initiative, which "aims to adapt cost structures and accelerate productivity improvements Group-wide," is in response to "mounting pressures to curb healthcare costs," particularly in the US and Europe.
  • Funding

    The NIH will provide $161.3 million in funding to expand a nationwide effort to advance personalized medicine through the use of pharmacogenomics. The Pharmacogenomics Research Network program will support research into genetic variants linked to responses to a range of medicines for cancer, heart disease, asthma, and addiction.
  • Genome Technology Magazine

    Many researchers are switching over to RNA-seq from microarrays for their transcriptomic studies. But RNA-seq is still a young technique and researchers are struggling to handle all the data it generates.

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