The House spending subcommittee chair asks the US National Institutes of Health to investigate research he says may break lobbying rules.

In Science this week: cancer genomics and more.

Retraction Watch bloggers discuss scientific authorship in Lab Times.

Arthur Caplan and Robert Green discuss the ACMG recommendations during two different On The Takeaway segments.

Protein biomarker firm Applied Proteomics has decided to use multiple-reaction mass spectrometry as the platform for its clinical proteomic tests, John Blume, the company's chief science officer, told ProteoMonitor this week.

A research team led by Oxford Nanopore Technologies co-founder Hagan Bayley has devised a method for unfolding proteins and passing them through nanopores.

Name: Richard Laursen Position: Professor Emeritus of Bioorganic and Protein Chemistry, Boston University

A group led by Genome British Columbia, Genome Canada, and the Vancouver Island Health Authority is providing more than C$10 million ($9.8 million) to fund an omics-based effort to identify biomarkers that can diagnose transient ischemic attack, or minor stroke.

Recent Patents of Interest in Proteomics

Vermillion said this week that at its annual meeting on March 21, shareholders elected Robert Goggin to the company's board of directors.

Bruker last week introduced its benchtop Compact LC-QqTOF mass spectrometer.

A pair of studies illustrates the influence of the gut microbiome on weight.

This article has been updated to correct the previously reported name of the tool. Its the Clinical Genomicist Workstation not Workbench.

The results of the first Critical Assessment of Protein Function Annotation, or CAFA, experiment, which was designed to assess the performance of computational methods used to predict the functions of protein, have been published in this month's issue of

Armed with a $260,000 Small Business Innovation Grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute, SimulConsult is working with researchers at the University of California, San Diego, to develop, test, and validate new features for its Genome-Phenome Analyzer software.

Gonzalez MA, Lebrigio RF, et al. GEnomes Management Application (GEM.app): A New Software Tool for Large-Scale Collaborative Genome Analysis. Hum Mutat. 2013 Mar 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Elsevier has launched a web-based version of Pathway Studio that incorporates biological data from Elsevier's biology journals in addition to journals obtained through collaborations with third-party publishers.

GenoSpace has hired Daniel Meyer to serve as its chief financial officer.

GenomeWeb Daily News will publish one bulletin on Friday, March 29. We will resume publishing twice-daily bulletins on Monday, April 1.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Thermo Fisher Scientific said yesterday that it has formed a technology alliance with the University of Birmingham, UK.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research plans to award $1.5 million next year to fund researchers delving into the molecular and cell-level biology of cancer initiating cells (CICs), also called cancer stem cells, which may be involved in oral cancer

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Interleukin Genetics' fourth-quarter revenues dropped 41 percent year over year, the company reported after the close of the market on Thursday, adding it has enough financial resources to last only through next month.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – SynapDx this week said that it has received a "significant investment" from The Kraft Group that will support ongoing clinical development of its molecular diagnostic test for autism spectrum disorder.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics said this week that it has elected geneticist Gail Herman to be its new president, taking over the post from Wayne Grody, and that Gerald Feldman will serve as pres

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