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Aug 31, 2010
NCI to Break Ground Tomorrow on $200M Satellite Campus
The NCI campus will rise on a nine-acre portion of Johns Hopkins University's Montgomery County campus, and serve as a new home base for the agency, now housed in two facilities about seven miles apart.
Aug 31, 2010
SAIC, Geospiza Addressing Next-Gen Sequencing Data Demands
Under a collaboration, the two firms will integrate Geospiza software with Pacific Biosciences' PacBio RS platform.
Aug 31, 2010
A Dispassionate Look at Gene Patenting
One blogger urges debaters of the gene patenting issue to take emotion out the equation.
Aug 31, 2010
Do We Really Need Posters?
One blogger wonders what "the purpose of posters" really is.
Aug 31, 2010
Collins: 'Time to Accelerate hESC Research, Not Throw on the Brakes'
The New Yorker examines Francis Collins' faith and politics in the wake of the tenth anniversary of the human genome and the recent embryonic stem cell ruling.
Aug 31, 2010
Helicos Files Patent Infringement Suit against Pacific Biosciences
Helicos claims that PacBio is infringing four patents underlying its single-molecule sequencing technology.
Aug 31, 2010
Myriad Expands Stock Repurchase Program
The new repurchase program comes following the completion of a $100 million repurchase program launched earlier this year.
Aug 31, 2010
Golden Helix, CloudScientific Ink Chinese Distribution Deal
CloudScientific will distribute Golden Helix's analytical services and proprietary software in China.
Aug 31, 2010
Compendia Receives $1.3M SBIR Grant for miRNA Data Project
The company will use the grant to incorporate miRNA data and analyses into its Oncomine platform.
Aug 31, 2010
BGI, University of Copenhagen Sign Accord for Genetic Research Cooperation
BGI and the university have pledged to cooperate in future research about the role of genes in cancer, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, as well as create additional educational opportunities for Danish and Chinese students.
Aug 31, 2010
This Week in PNAS: Aug 31, 2010
In PNAS this week: nanopore sequencing with MspA, ancient DNA from extinct moa reveals evolutionary clues, RNA helicase A and EGFR-mediated transcriptional activation, and more.
Aug 31, 2010
Butter Carvings, Cotton Candy, and DNA Samples?
The University of Minnesota turns to the state fair to recruit study participants.
Aug 30, 2010
Biocept Looking to Redefine CTC Dx Market, Plans Product Launches
The company's first test, a FISH-based assay targeting breast cancer, is planned for October and would represent its first product introduction in its 13-year history.
Aug 30, 2010
SomaLogic, NEC Partner on Product Development
NEC also is making an equity investment in SomaLogic, which is developing molecular diagnostics based on aptamers.
Aug 30, 2010
NIH to Fund Research on Alcohol-related Biomarkers
A grant program will provide up to $3.5 million in 2011 to SBIR and STTR grant winners to develop biomarkers for alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and alcohol-related organ damages.
Aug 30, 2010
BioServe Starts Multi-Center Sample Network
The firm has started the BioServe Network with partners including Fox Chase, Windber, UMass, and the Fairbanks Institute for Healthy Communities.
Aug 30, 2010
Having extensive experience in both academic and industrial, as well as both basic and clinical research, Rebecca Anderson offers tips for investigators looking to break into a career in the clinic. (More.)
Aug 30, 2010
Six Degrees of Scientific Misconduct
Are 'superstar' scientists exempt from ethical rules?
Aug 30, 2010
In the Cards
A study out of Edinburgh University's ESRC Genomics Forum suggests that the public holds a positive view of the potential of synthetic biology.
Aug 30, 2010
The 'Arbimagical' Goal of the $1,000 Genome
Who will win the race to the $1,000 genome, asks one blogger.
Aug 30, 2010
This Week in PLoS: Aug 30, 2010
In PLoS this week: TRIM5 and SIV transmission across species, comparative genomics of Gardnerella vaginalis, the Campylobacter jejuni pan-genome, and more.