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• Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud

  
  Wired Mods — Authority: 708
  Using DNA barcoding, scientists tested tuna at 31 sushi restaurants and discovered many of the restaurants were selling endangered species, or fish that wasnt tuna at all.
  9 hours ago

• Corn: 85% not corn, and missing big pieces

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 127
  So I’m all excited about the genome festival that I’m seeing, related to the publication of the new sequence version of corn. You can access the main paper in Science , and there’s a very neat diagram in figure 1 that is like looking across time at the sequence data and into the corn nebula.  But the thing ...
  13 hours ago

• Delft breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: More ethanol, less acetate and elimination of the major by-product glycerol This week the invention was ...
  13 hours ago

• After Re-Engineering Itself, Verdezyne Sets Course to Develop Biofuels and “Green” Industrial Chemicals

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Synthetic Biology , Industrial Chemicals , Biofuels Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: After Carlsbad, CA-based Verdezyne disclosed last month that it plans to raise more than $15 million in venture funding, I arranged to sit down with Damien Perriman, the company’s vice president of business development. As ...
  15 hours ago

• Four short links: 20 November 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 700
  Spokeo -- abysmal indictment of society, first prize in mankinds race to the bottom. Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets ... GUARANTEED! Spokeo deep searches within 48 major social networks to find truly mouth-watering news about friends and coworkers. PS, anybody who gives their gmail username and ...
  17 hours ago

• Big Energy Collaborations Seen to Jump-Start Emerging Biofuels Technologies

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biofuels , startups , Collaborations Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: As startups developing next-generation biofuels emerge in San Diego, Boston, and elsewhere, a business model for rapidly expanding to commercial-scale operations already can be found in the biotech industry, experts said yesterday. The ...
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• Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  A team of Princeton biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and tissues function. The new method offers a long-sought tool for studying stem cells, cancer and other problems of fundamental ...
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• Research indicates that babys sleep position is the major factor in flat-headedness

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  TEMPE, Ariz. -- A babys sleep position is the best predictor of a misshapen skull condition known as deformational plagiocephaly -- or the development of flat spots on an infants head -- according to findings reported by Arizona State University scientists in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics.
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• DeCode Genetics Files for Bankruptcy in the US – Iceland Facility Likely to Go On Option Block

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  This is sad and in August of 2008 it looked like the company was on their way. Decode Nearly Doubles Revenues in Q2 - Personalized Medicine As the article states it was not all the economy that lead to the bankruptcy filing, but it certainly didn’t help.  The tests and research did not end up being ...
  2 days ago

• High Beta Personalities?

  
  Tim Oren's Due Diligence — Authority: 464
  An interesting article in The Atlantic describes studies of a so-called orchid gene , believed to indirectly code for a tendency to ADHD as well as anti-social behavior, violence and externalizing (what wed have called acting up back in the day). The relevant evolutionary question is: If humans as both as groups ...
  2 days ago

• The Genomics Age: How Dna Technology Is Transforming Th

  
  Forums Web Business, Marketing & Advertising, Health & Travel Articles Online — Authority: 139
  Hey, check out these auctions: Information Technology Control and Audit, Third Edition US $103.44 End Date: Tuesday Nov-17-2009 21:14:37 PST Buy It Now for only: US $103.44 Buy it now | Add to watch list The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology Is Transforming th US $3.99 End Date: ...
  3 days ago

• Reviewing the clock, and phylogenomics

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 518
  After reading yesterdays penguin post , one of my readers thought Id given up the ghost on the molecular clock. But notice the bottom line of that message: those ancient penguins didnt tell us any thing new about the rate of mitochondrial changes over 10s of thousands of years. The rate, over at that time period, ...
  3 days ago

• Brother, can you spare a Krona?

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 413
  Dan and Daniel have all of the incisive analysis you need about the deCODE unraveling . Meanwhile, Steve invokes Sartre : Publicly owned companies shares are extremely liquid and can be crushed pretty easily, where as rich ol’ moneybags (SergeandMe) can keep throwing money into the kitty and outlast this ...
  3 days ago

• Warren DeLano Memorial Fund

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 127
  Some of you may be aware of the unexpected passing of Warren DeLano, developer of PyMOL , which is software for viewing molecular structures.  Warren was also heavily involved in other apsects of the open source movement. You can learn more about Warren at this In Memorium site, and read about the memories people ...
  3 days ago

• Eric Green new head of NHGRI

  
  PolITiGenomics — Authority: 115
  Eric Green , head of NHGRI Intramural Research and the NHGRI Intramural Sequencing Center, has been named as the new National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Director . A Washington University in St. Louis alum and former faculty member, Dr. Green has deep experience in genomics and will no doubt be a good ...
  3 days ago

• Liver proteome database resources

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 127
  So far at OpenHelix we’ve generally been focusing on the more broad tools that are of use to the largest cross-section of biomedical researchers.  Everybody needs genome browsers pretty much at some point in their research.  However, I’ve always had a soft spot for tissue-specific resources.  Since my PhD ...
  3 days ago

• (re)Funding Databases II

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 127
  So, I wrote about defunding resources and briefly mentioned a paper in Database about funding (or ‘re’funding) databases and resources . I’d like to discuss this a bit further. The paper, by Chandras et. al , discusses how databases and, to use their term, Biological Resource Centers (BRCs) are to maintain ...
  4 days ago

• Scientia Pro Publica #16: Us, Friends, and Society

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 502
  Welcome to the 16th edition  of Scientia Pro Publica , the blog carnival  that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days. What are some of the fascinating topics you can explore and discuss with this group of bloggers? Science & Us The ...
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• 23andMe Changes Prices and Splits on Ancestry and Health DNA Services

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  The Genomics business is getting more personalized too as time moves on and current marketing is also causing some restructuring and change to occur.  In a way you this is good as a patient can focus their interest in one direction or another, do you want more health or ancestry related information with your DNA ...
  4 days ago

• GINA Begins November 21st – Medical Histories And Financial Benefits Not Allowed

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  The provisions of the GINA law begins next week, right in the middle of open enrollment.  This interpretation was perhaps not meant to come through with the interpretation we have, but it is what it is now.  Medical history is now considered part of what could be analyzed and interpreted as GINA discrimination.  ...
  4 days ago

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