Genomics

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• Gregory Benford of Genescient Talks at the HPlus Summit

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 620
  Bryan Bishop posted transcripts of the talks at the Hplus Summit Gregory Benford of Genescient talked about their latest work. They have methuselah fruit flies that live 4-5 times longer. They believe that they have products that could increase human lifespan 10-30% or more. * a product that we will deploy ...
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• Stem Cells Could Hold the Answer for HIV Vaccine

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 547
  We have the proof of principle but more work is needed.  As noted below this type of treatment could be expanded into other area of chronic diseases.  The testing so far has been with mice but a big step forward.  BD  AIDS researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be ...
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• Social learning, or is it learning socially?

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 125
  Deepak asks the question in his latest post,  Questions and information streams : Will we ever be in a situation where we might be at our bench and need to look up something. Today we’d search. Tomorrow will we search, or will we ask, and the appropriate response would be delivered to you, whether it be a search ...
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• Researchers finds hidden sensory system in the skin

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  December 15, 2009 -- (Albany, N.Y., USA) The human sensory experience is far more complex and nuanced than previously thought, according to a groundbreaking new study published in the December 15 issue of the journal Pain ( http://www.painjournalonline.com/article/S0304-3 ...
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• TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare is firs...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  (The Translational Genomics Research Institute) TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare is the worlds first clinical trials site for a new drug designed to halt cancer cell division.
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• DNA Methylation Profiling

  
  Bench Marks — Authority: 109
  With the recent progress in understanding epigenetic mechanisms , methods for profiling patterns of DNA modification have become important tools for analysis of gene regulation. DNA methylation, in which cytosine is modified to form 5-methylcytosine, is a well-characterized epigenetic modification essential for ...
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• Type 2 diabetes gene predisposes children to obesity

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Pediatric researchers have found that a gene already implicated in the development of type 2 diabetes in adults also raises the risk of being overweight during childhood. The finding sheds light on the genetic origins of diabetes and may present an avenue for developing drugs to counteract the disease, which has been ...
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• Finding the missing heritability

  
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• Why some monkeys don’t get AIDS when infected with SIV

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 5 (ANI): Researchers have taken a step towards understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green monkeys do not get AIDS when infected with SIV, the simian equivalent of HIV.In two different studies, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, ...
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• Videos on sequencing

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 117
  A few cool vids on sequencing. Company infomercials, but still entertaining and informative. Thanks to my student, David Ream, for finding these. Pyrosequencing: Helicos: SOLiD: BASE TM nanopore sequencing:
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• Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics by Sandy B. Primrose

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 165
  Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics,Seventh Edition | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 2006-02-17 | 672 Pages | ISBN: 140513544 | PDF | Written by the best-selling author team of Sandy Primrose and Richard Twyman, Gene and Genome Technology reflects the rapid progress in recombinant DNA technology over the last ...
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• Fred Hassan: Genomics Will Revive Pharma

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 423
  Fred Hassan, former CEO of the former Schering-Plough, believes that genomics will revive pharma. His cheerleading prediction for how the study of the human genome will invigorate a flagging industry, personalize healthcare, and extend lives is available at the HuffPo. Its not an original...
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• VAI researchers find long awaited key to creating drought resistant crops

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Grand Rapids, Mich. (Dec. 3, 2009) -- Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold.
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• Researchers Unveil Two Genetic Mutations Associated with Early-onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  
  MediNEWS.Direct! — Authority: 109
  A collaborative study by an international group including researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Hannover Medical School, and University College London, has identified mutations in two genes, interleukin-10 receptor 1 (IL10R1) and interleukin-10 receptor 2 (IL10R2), that cause inflammatory bowel disease ...
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• RT: UCSC Browser moves to new assembly this week

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 125
  Ok, so if it’s a blog post it’s not so much of a retweet.  But here’s what I put out with my TweetDeck a little while ago. For those of you who don’t use or follow twitter, what I have done is posted a quick note about a change that will affect UCSC Genome Browser users.  The default setting of the human ...
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• One year of ENCODE data

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 125
  We’ve talked about the ENCODE data before, and you can see a number of entries about the project with the ENCODE tag.  But last week I came across the ENCODE paper in the Nucleic Acids Research Advanced Access collection, so it seemed like a good time to review some of the information about this project. ENCODE ...
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• Pathway Genomics Adds Executive

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 487
  San Diego-based Pathway Genomics has added Sidney Stolz as Chief Growth Officer, the firm said this morning. According to Pathway Genomics, Stoltz joins the firm from Healthcare Solutions, where he was Executive Vice President. Stolz has also served at Towers Perrin, UnitedHealth Group, and AdvancedPCS. Pathway ...
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• Buyouts Hopes Dim at Human Genome (HGSI)

  
  BioHealth Investor — Authority: 129
  Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI) looks to be dwindling as a takeover candidate.  There have been rumors surrounding the name for months and months, yet the shelf filing for it to raise capital dampened that hope for at least many investors.  Today after the close came word that the company was selling up ...
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• A Wait and See Approach to privacy in Genomics

  
  IP Osgoode — Authority: 469
  Virgil Cojocaru is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.deCODE Genetics, an Icelandic firm that offers customers private DNA tests has filed for bankruptcy. Customers would typically take a genetic sample from the inside of their cheek and would mail it to the address provided.  deCODE Genetics would calculate ...
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