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Invitrogen this week announced a pair of agreements involving human embryonic stem cells aimed at bolstering the company's already strong play in the stem cell research market.

Researchers from Merck have developed a homogenous, 3,456-well plate, fluorescence-based cellular assay for identifying inhibitors of D-amino acid oxidase (DAO), an enzyme whose activity is implicated in the development of schizophrenia.

GE Healthcare Integrates Spotfire's Data-Analysis Software with HCS Platform Spotfire and GE Healthcare have integrated their software products to offer a single high-content analysis product to customers, the companies said this week.

GenoLogics, which was founded in 2002 to develop proteomics data-management tools, said this week that it is extending its technology platform to encompass genomics and other applications in an effort to meet the informatics requirements of multi-disciplinary research groups.

Human Proteome Folding Project Enters Phase 2 The Human Proteome Folding Project -- a collaborative effort between New York University, the Institute for Systems Biology, and the University of Washington -- entered its second phase as of June 23.

DNA Print Genomics appointed Karen Surplus as the new chief financial officer, the company said

Development of the www.EcoliCommunity.org Information Resource. Start date: June 1, 2006. Expires: May 31, 2009. Amount: $1,077,550. Principal investigator: Barry Wanner. Institution: Purdue University West Lafayette. NIH institute: NIGMS.

Only four supercomputers dedicated to life science research rank among the fastest systems in the world, according to the most recent version of the Top500 list released this week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

California biotechnology firm BioSeek this week said it will profile certain respiratory compounds developed by Canadian drugmaker Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals.

Essen Instruments has been issued US Patent No. 7,067,046, "System for rapid chemical activation in high-throughput electrophysiological measurements." Kirk Schroeder is the sole inventor listed on the patent.

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Making good on a promise to "aggressively protect" its patent portfolio, biomarker-discovery firm Health Discovery Corp. this week filed patent-infringement lawsuits against Ciphergen Biosystems and Equbits in the United States District Court in Marshall, Texas.

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NEW YORK, June 29 (GenomeWeb News) - Proteome Sciences licensed its stroke biomarkers to "one of

As part of the ongoing quest to find effective delivery methods for RNAi drugs, a team of researchers at Duke University has combined aptamers with siRNAs to create a cell type-specific gene-silencing agent capable of inhibiting tumor growth and mediating tumor regres

GenoLogics, which was founded in 2002 to develop proteomics data-management tools, said last week that it is extending its technology platform to encompass genomics and other applications in an effort to meet the informatics requirements of multi-disciplinary research groups.

Benitec announced last week that it has shut down its US operations and placed its in-house hepatitis C clinical program on hold, raising serious questions about the future of the beleaguered RNAi drugs developer.

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