By Monica Heger This story was originally published Nov. 20.

By Monica Heger This story was originally published Nov. 22.

By Julia Karow Baylor College of Medicine's Cancer Genetics Laboratory is about to launch a sequencing-based test on the Ion Torrent PGM that uses the firm's Ion AmpliSeq Cancer Panel to target mutations in 46 cancer genes.

By Monica Heger This story was originally published Nov. 20.

By Julia Karow This story was originally published Nov. 18.

Cancer Research UK has launched the Genomics Initiative, a series of nine research projects that will use next-generation sequencing "to address specific research questions that until now were impossible to answer," the charity said last week.

Identification of a novel DLX5 mutation in a family with autosomal recessive split hand and foot malformation. Shamseldin HE, Faden MA, Alashram W, Alkuraya FS.

Knome has released KnomeBase, an informatics service that annotates, compares, and distills raw human sequence data in order to help geneticists in interpretation. It also enables multiple genomes to be compared and interpreted at once.

Originally published Nov. 18. By Turna Ray

This article has been updated to clarify the information Spartan Bioscience plans to announce on upcoming studies. By Molika Ashford

Originally published Nov. 29. By Turna Ray

Representative Leonard Lance (R-NJ) recently introduced a bill that includes proposals for enhancing the reimbursement system for diagnostic tests, as well as incentives for pharmaceutical firms to revive unapproved drugs in their pipelines as treatments for unmet medical need.

Originally published Nov. 29. Abbott and GlaxoSmithKline this week formally extended an existing drug/diagnostic codevelopment partnership in the cancer immunotherapy space, setting their sights on a new marker: the PRAME antigen.

A researcher chronicles his quest to set up a $500 molecular biology lab.

FierceBiotech presents its 2011 Women in Biotech picks.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Affymetrix today announced a definitive agreement to buy eBioscience, a flow cytometry and immunoassay reagent firm, for $330 million in cash.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Med BioGene today reported third-quarter revenues of C$1.7 million (US$1.7 million), compared to no revenues for the third quarter of 2010.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Almac said today that its Diagnostics business has received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists for its Craigavon, Northern Ireland facilities.

In Nucleic Acids Research this week: navigating FlyBase, alternative splicing/nonsense-mediated decay in Arabidopsis, SSRs and indel mutation rate, and more.

Marc Williams and Janet Williams have joined Geisinger Health System's Genomic Medicine Institute. Marc Williams will serve as senior director and director of the institute and Janet Williams will be an investigator.

The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses negotiating tactics for women in academia.

A blogger points out that people have many genomes that are "personal."

Pharmaceutical companies are on the move to biotech clusters.

This story was originally posted on Nov. 17. By Justin Petrone