Helicos, Agencourt, Illumina, RainDance Technologies, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, VWR International, ZyGem, University of Queensland, University of Michigan, Genomatix

Fluidigm SlingShot, Thermo Fisher Scientific PCR and RT-PCR Kits, NuGen WT-Ovation One-Direct RNA Amplification System

Greg Porreca, Adam Cohen, David Cumming, Michael Deem, Jim Lupski, Amy McGuire, Antoine van Oijen, Ian Ratcliffe

The company will conduct mass spec studies of cancer proteins and peptides for use in diagnostics.

The UK company will use the Seegene DPO technology to develop diagnostic screening panels.

The firm also is in the final stages of developing a colorectal cancer molecular assay that will run on an Abbott instrument platform.

Pressure Bio's revenues rose primarily due to an increase in installed PCT Sample Preparation Systems during the year.

NSF Microarray Grants Awarded Jan. 1 — March 31

Illumina, Samsung Electronics, Cargill, MetaMorphix, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Soheil Shams, Anton Petrov

Baylor College of Medicine, Illumina, Aushon Biosystems, SciGene, Invitrogen

Affymetrix, AltheaDx

Joshua Sharfstein, Barack Obama, Margaret Hamburg, Frank Torti, Henry Waxman, Karen Eastham

This week, PNAS reports on protein-protein interactions with small-molecule drugs, systems biology techniques in cancer, the Notch pathway, and more.

The all-seeing search firm launches Google Ventures.

Elias Zerhouni returns to Johns Hopkins.

The Onion perfects writing about delicate topics.

British researchers use stem cells to treat women with breast deformities after cancer and, controversially, for cosmetic augmentation.

Helicos reported product revenues for the first time for its fourth quarter. It expects to recognize revenues from instrument sales this year, and believes that it has sufficient funds to support its operations into the first quarter of 2010.

Cepheid's new assay is the 10th Xpert molecular test to receive the CE-IVD Mark.

The lab will use the sequence assembly platform in its Heidelberg facility.

A team of researchers from the University of Queensland and the J. Craig Venter Institute have reported that human body lice — and some other sucking lice species — carry their mitochondrial genome on multiple mini-circular chromosomes rather than a lone circular chromosome as in chewing lice and most other animals.

The supply and co-marketing pact covers Sigma-Aldrich's oligonucleotides for use with the GeneIOS software.

Texas drops its "strengths and weaknesses" clause from its science curriculum standards in favor of telling students to "analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence."

The state's program provides tax credits equal to 50 percent of an eligible investment, and requires investors make an equal match. Maryland currently sets aside $6 million, though the state House wants it cut to $4 million.

CEO Christian Kopfli made his comments not long after the firm finished a $4.2 million, 9,000-square-foot expansion within the Technology Centre of New Jersey, where it moved into the Biotechnology Development Center.