Craig Venter publishes on swapping one bacterial genome for another; mainstream media jump into the fray.

A blogger muses on whether scientists are interested in open science.

Science reports on Africa, the 1% difference, and excising HIV from cells.

A study of feline DNA shows a lineage of domestic cats going back 10,000 years.

No Neandertal-European interbreeding, says the Genographic Project.

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Apparently, ICE is making good on its acronym, which actually stands for Integrated Compute Environment — SGI estimates that the platform can save customers up to $53,000 in annual energy costs for a 10 teraflop system.

Lavi Malhotra, formerly vice president of Informatics for P4 Healthcare, has been tapped as director of informatics for Oncology Metrics, a provider of data and services for the oncology community.   Prior to P4 Health

UB’s tech transfer office and Reichert last week announced a research partnership enabled by a $750,000 grant from New York State. The funds will be used to further develop and market the research tool maker’s cell volume cytometer. Beta-testing of the units will be done this summer.

Millipore and Burnham Institute To Run Stem Cell Workshops   Millipore this week announced the development of training workshops on human stem cell research in conjunction with the Burnham Institute for Medical Research.

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The University of California Board of Regents has been awarded US Patent 7,236,888, “Method to measure the activation state of signaling pathways in cells.”   The inventors listed on the patent are Nancy Allbritton

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At Windber Research Institute, the best organizational model may not always be clear, but the scientific goal is. Starting with breast cancer and relying on several partnerships, the institute aims to put translational medicine front and center.

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The new tool, which the researchers claim will be cheaper to buy and operate, and have a greater throughput than competing next-gen sequencers, will allow users to run any sequencing chemistry they choose.

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Network Topology in Cell Signaling. Start date: April 15, 2007. Expires: March 31, 2009. Amount: $291,820. Principal investigator: Norbert Perrimon. Institution: Harvard University Medical School.

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