A researcher argues that it is time to recalibrate the Bayh-Dole Act.

Science funding cuts are hitting the US research enterprise, even turning some eyes abroad.

Due to the Labor Day holiday in the US, GenomeWeb Daily News will not publish on Monday, Sept. 2. We will resume twice daily bulletins on Tuesday, Sept. 3.

According to a study led by researchers at Technical University Munich, the addition of an inexpensive solvent to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry runs could offer a significant improvement in peptide identification by LC-MS/MS.

Researchers from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative have identified an association between four cerebrospinal fluid protein markers and clinical features in patients with early Parkinson's disease.

Recent NSF Awards in Proteomics and Protein Research

Shimadzu has launched its new LCMS-8050 triple quadrupole.

Waters said this week that Douglas Berthiaume plans to retire from his position as CEO of the company sometime in the next two years.

Decreased mTOR expression leads to an average 20 percent increase in lifespan, in mice.

Researchers are taking a look at the microbiomes of fetuses.

In Science this week: for better collaborations.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Genetic Technologies today said that New York has issued a Clinical Laboratory Permit to the firm, allowing GTG to offer its BREVAGen test to residents of the state.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health is planning to fund research into the genetic and epigenetic factors that may promote alcohol and drug co-addiction, according to a funding announcement published this week.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Foundation Medicine's supply, service, and support agreement with Illumina inked in July is for five years and approximately $6.1 million, the Cambridge, Mass.-based firm said in an amended Form S-1 filed this week.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Waters said this week that Douglas Berthiaume plans to retire from his position as CEO of the company sometime in the next two years.

This week, the Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium that supports the Linux operating system, announced that the publicly available version of Selventa's Biological Expression Language, OpenBEL, is now one of its collaborative projects.

Desktop Genetics, a UK-based bioinformatics company, said this week that it will use £375,000 ($582,000) in funding to further develop and commercialize AutoClone, its flagship software product for designing, constructing, managing, and exchanging DNA constructs.

Researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin, China's University of Science and Technology, and Zhejiang University have developed cancer sequence analysis software that they claim improves on existing methods for identifying driver mutations — genetic changes that promote t

DNAStar said this week that the University of Giessen has licensed its Lasergene genomics suite to handle its next-generation sequence assembly and analysis needs.

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Certara has released version 13 of the Simcyp Simulator, its software for quantitative prediction of drug-drug-interactions and pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic outcomes in virtual populations.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – OncoDNA today said that it will collaborate with the Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg to provide physicians in Luxembourg with access to next-generation sequencing-based testing for cancer.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Thermo Fisher Scientific and the Technical University of Denmark's Department of System Biology today announced a collaboration to elucidate the process by which protein networks drive diseases.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – In Cell this week, researchers led by the Broad Institute's Stuart Schreiber presented a resource that correlates the genetic characteristics of a few hundred cancer cell lines to

Four Brazilian scientific journals were caught trying to 'citation stack.'