NEW YORK, March 30 – USDA scientists who were supposed to test animals in the UK for foot-and-mouth disease with Cepheid’s Smart Cycler DNA detection system have instead postponed their trip, a scientist at Cepheid said Friday. “They’re

Eric Lander, director of the Whitehead/MIT Genome Sequencing Center, sharply criticized Celera s whole genome sequencing method last week, saying there is no evidence the approach worked.

As the head of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center s Laboratory of Computational Genomics, Jeff Skolnick is finding plenty of work for one of the most powerful computer systems in the world: He s well on his way to predicting the structure for every protein in an entire genome.

In a sign of India s commitment to genomics and biotechnology, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has dedicated $12 million towards the establishment of a new School of Biosciences and Bioengineering.

Vincent Kazmer, formerly executive vice president and chief financial officer of NetGenics, has joined Phase-1 Molecular Toxicology of Santa Fe, N.M., as chief executive officer.

NEW YORK, March 30 – Executives at early-stage genomics companies seeking startup capital will have to reduce their expectations regarding the valuations they can expect to command for their companies, given the sharp downturn in the stock markets, venture cap

Edinburgh Biocomputing Systems has found the first customer for its MPSRCH 4 sequence analysis system. The company recently finished installing a full system at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK.

Bioinformatics at the Cornell Theory Center is hitting its stride now, following a $160 million collaboration announced in July between the CTC, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Rockefeller University.

NEW YORK, March 30 – Celera said Friday it has signed Emory University and the Van Andel Institute as subscribers to its database, and has extended its subscription agreement with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to include the University of Texa

Variagenics of Cambridge, Mass., has developed a computational method to predict which SNPs are most likely to affect the function or stability of a target protein.

Physiome Sciences of Princeton, NJ, has launched the PACE (Physiome Academic Centers of Excellence) Program to make its biological simulation software freely available to academic collaborators.

This article has been updated from a previous version. NEW YORK, March 30 – Nanostream, a Pasadena, Calif.-based microfluidics startup is planning to infuse its product development efforts with $10 million the com

HERE WE are peeking out from the bunker and all we see is biowreckage. The AMEX Biotechnology Index is down about 30% since the beginning of the year and last year’s high-flying genomic stocks are lying there smoldering with the likes of Amgen and Immunex. What’s a CEO to do?

AT A GLANCE: BS in population genetics, MS in computer science. Prior to joining GCI, began the pathoinformatics group at Massachusetts General Hospital and served as its director. Interests include mountaineering, rock climbing, and competitive sailing.

Genomica of Boulder, Colo., has released Discovery Manager 3.0. Enhancements to the latest version of the genetic analysis product suite include the ability to integrate SNP data from Orchid BioSciences’ SNPstream 25K genotyping platform.

WASHINGTON, March 30 – Under mounting pressure to fill key science positions, President George W.

GeneticXchange says it has developed a way to look at the problem of integrating data through a different lens, an approach that has reaped the company rewards in the form of corporate and academic partnerships and a recently announced extension of a previous deal.

GeneData, a Basel, Switzerland-based developer of bioinformatics tools that analyze various types of genomics data, is currently planning to step up its marketing efforts to expand its customer base in the United States and Japan.

NEW YORK, March 29 – MiraiBio and BioSource International said Thursday they have agreed to jointly develop biological assays for use in drug discovery using Luminex’s LabMAP technology. BioSource, based in Camarillo, Calif., w

NEW YORK, March 29 – Packard Biosciences has indefinitely postponed a planned follow-on offering of 10 million shares of its common stock, the company said Thursday. The offering, which the company had announced in early February, is be

NEW YORK, March 29 – Hybrigenics has assembled the first HIV protein interaction map, linking 132 interactions between 87 cellular proteins and the proteins in HIV-type 1, the company said Thursday. The database, called PIMRider HIV, co

NEW YORK, March 29 - Protein interaction networks are a lot like the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game, where any celebrity can be directly linked to the actor by six or fewer degrees of separation, according to Edward Marcotte, a scientific co-founder of Los Ang

WASHINGTON, March 29 – Eric Lander, director of the Center for Genome Research at MIT's Whitehead Institute, on Thursday defended the Human Genome Project's assertion that a few hundred genes appearing in the human genome were horizontally transferred from bacteria to a vertebrate a

NEW YORK, March 29 – Invitrogen said Thursday it has settled pending patent infringement suits against Promega and two other competitors, New England Biolabs and Display Systems Biotech, in which Invitrogen alleged that its competitors had infringed on its p

NEW YORK, March 29 – Cepheid said Thursday that USDA scientists would take the company’s PCR-based DNA detection system to the UK to help test animals for foot-and-mouth disease. The system, called Smart Cycler, is a battery-operat