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Public Release: 12-Feb-2013
International biodiversity data symposium to mark the kickoff of the EU BON project The International Symposium "Nature and Governance -- Biodiversity Data, Science, and the Policy Interface" took place on Feb. 11-12, just before the official kickoff of the EU-funded research project EU BON. The symposium discussed the landscape of collection, monitoring and integration of biodiversity data, as well as the main objectives of the EU BON project. Contact: Anke Hofmann
Public Release: 8-Feb-2013
Essential informatics methods and tools for analyzing the explosion of NGS data Next-generation DNA sequencing technology has revolutionized biomedical research, making complete genome sequencing an affordable and frequently used tool for a wide variety of research applications. Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Informatics, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, is the first book of its kind to address the informatics needs of scientists who wish to take advantage of the explosion of research opportunities offered by new DNA sequencing technologies. Contact: Elizabeth Powers
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
 ScienceORNL scientists solve mercury mystery, Science reports By identifying two genes required for transforming inorganic into organic mercury, which is far more toxic, scientists today have taken a significant step toward protecting human health. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Nature BiotechnologyScientists team with business innovators to solve 'big data' bottleneck Researchers have demonstrated that a crowdsourcing platform pioneered in the commercial sector can solve a complex biological problem more quickly than conventional approaches--and at a fraction of the cost. 
Harvard Business School's Division of Research and Faculty Development, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Tournament Lab
Contact: David Cameron
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society International Special Topic ConferencePersonalized health care will revolutionize 21st century medicine, says NJIT professor A closer look at personalized or point-of-care health care was the focus of a recent international conference in India organized and chaired by NJIT Distinguished Professor Atam Dhawan. The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society International Special Topic Conference in point-of-care health-care technologies, broadcast around the world, focused on topics ranging from 21st century medicine with new smart cross-and trans-disciplinary technologies to how wireless communications will change how physicians care for patients. Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
PLOS ONEUMass Amherst biostatisticians identify genes linked to heart disease "This new approach to data analysis provides opportunities for developing new treatments. It also advances approaches to identifying people at greatest risk for heart disease. Another important point is that our method is straightforward to use with freely available computer software and can be applied broadly to advance genetic knowledge of many diseases. We hope this moves us toward greater understanding of common disorders and improving overall health in our society."
NIH/Health National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Cancer DiscoveryStudy finds potential to match tumors with known cancer drugs Researchers have found a new way to match potential cancer treatments with an individual tumor: assess the landscape of kinases and find a kinase inhibitor that goes after the highest-expressing kinases in that tumor.
NIH/National Cancer Institute, US Department of Defense, Rich Rogel Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Contact: Nicole Fawcett
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Geneviève Almouzni to receive the 2013 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Geneviève Almouzni, deputy director of the Institut Curie in Paris, France, as the winner of the 2013 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.
EMBO, Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Contact: Barry Whyte
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
ZooKeysBiodiversity exploration in the 3-D era A group of marine biologists from the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Crete are testing computed tomography as a tool to accurately document the anatomy of biological specimens. The resulting 3-D models can be instantly accessed and interactively manipulated by other researchers, thus promoting rapid dissemination of morphological data useful to biodiversity research. Data are freely downloadable from the Dryad data Repository. The study was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys. Contact: Sarah Faulwetter
Public Release: 31-Jan-2013
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismPersonalized medicine eliminates need for drug in 2 children Using genome-wide analysis, investigators at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center and the University of Montreal have potentially eliminated a lifetime drug prescription that two children with a previously unknown type of adrenal insufficiency had been receiving for 14 years.
Consortium sur les maladies pédiatriques rares
Contact: William Raillant-Clark
Public Release: 31-Jan-2013
Cell ReportsStudy finds hormones can change the breast's genetic material Melbourne scientists have discovered how female steroid hormones can make dramatic changes to the genetic material in breast cells, changes that could potentially lead to breast cancer. Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, have identified how pregnancy hormones send signals to critical molecules on the DNA to make changes in the epigenome. The epigenome is a series of chemical tags that modify DNA, controlling which genes are switched on and off.
National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation, ACRF
Contact: Liz Williams
Public Release: 30-Jan-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesResearchers harness nature to produce the fuel of the future A Princeton-led team has moved a step closer to designing bio-inspired synthetic catalysts to produce hydrogen from water.
Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Contact: Catherine Zandonella
Public Release: 30-Jan-2013
Aging CellAging cells lose their grip on DNA rogues Transposable elements are mobile strands of DNA that insert themselves into chromosomes with mostly harmful consequences. Cells try to keep them locked down, but in a new study, Brown University researchers report that aging cells lose their ability to maintain this control. The result may be a further decline in the health of senescent cells and of the aging bodies they compose.
NIH/National Institute on Aging, Glenn Medical Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 28-Jan-2013
New online, open access journal focuses on microbial genome announcements The American Society for Microbiology has published the first issue of its new online-only, open access journal, Genome AnnouncementsTM, focusing exclusively on reports of microbial genome sequences. Contact: Jim Sliwa
Public Release: 24-Jan-2013
New supercomputer coming to EMSL this summer, supplied by Atipa Technologies A new supercomputer expected to rank among the world's fastest machines will be ready to run computationally intense climate and biological simulations along with other scientific programs this summer. Atipa Technologies in Lawrence, Kan., will provide the machine to EMSL. The new supercomputer's capacity and speed are expected to rank it among the world's top 20 fastest machines when it comes online.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 24-Jan-2013
2012 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and BiomedicineVirginia Tech computer scientists develop new way to study molecular networks Computer scientists at Virginia Tech developed a new approach to address the shortcomings in the computational analysis of the multiple ways interactions can occur within cells. Their award winning work may lead to further understanding of the interactions between molecules.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Lynn Nystrom
Public Release: 23-Jan-2013
NatureEMBL-EBI researchers make DNA storage a reality Researchers at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have created a way to store data in the form of DNA – a material that lasts for tens of thousands of years. The new method, published today in the journal Nature, makes it possible to store at least 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA. Contact: Mary Todd-Bergman
Public Release: 20-Jan-2013
Nature BiotechnologyGenes and their regulatory 'tags' conspire to promote rheumatoid arthritis In one of the first genome-wide studies to hunt for both genes and their regulatory "tags" in patients suffering from a common disease, researchers have found a clear role for the tags in mediating genetic risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). By teasing apart the tagging events that result from RA from those that help cause it, the scientists say they were able to spot tagged DNA sequences that may be important for the development of RA.
NIH/Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science, Swedish Research Council, Swedish COMBINE project, and others
Contact: Catherine Kolf
Public Release: 17-Jan-2013
Nature Reviews GeneticsThe new age of proteomics: An integrative vision of the cellular world The head of CNIO's Proteomics Core Unit, Javier Muñoz, working alongside Dutch researchers, revises the technology of the post-‐genomic age and its contributions to the advance of biomedicine. Contact: Nuria Noriega
Public Release: 16-Jan-2013
European Journal of Human GeneticsDeveloped new method to diagnose hereditary breast and ovarian cancer Researchers of the Catalan Institute of Oncology at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute have developed and validated a new method to diagnose hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome based on mass sequencing of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The model is based on a genetic and bioinformatic analysis which has been proved very effective. The new protocol has been described in an article published in the European Journal of Human Genetics. Contact: Raül Toran
Public Release: 16-Jan-2013
NatureScientists identify new 'social' chromosome in the red fire ant Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ant, and could offer new solutions for dealing with this pest. Contact: Neha Okhandiar
Public Release: 15-Jan-2013
Chronic disease research awarded funding The Medical Research Council have awarded the African Partnership for Chronic Disease Research five years funding. This funding will allow researchers from the partnership to develop a sustainable platform to share resources and skills.
Medical Research Council
Contact: Aileen Sheehy
Public Release: 13-Jan-2013
Nature GeneticsThe genome of diamondback moth provides new clues for sustainable pest management Chinese scientists decode the first genome of diamondback moth, providing new clues for sustainable pest management. Contact: Jia Liu
Public Release: 10-Jan-2013
UMMS experts seek better flu vaccines The University of Massachusetts Medical School is working to develop new ways of predicting how the influenza virus changes and evolves in response to anti-viral drugs and the human immune system. This approach has promise for becoming a pivotal tool in creating a more effective vaccine against the virus.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Jim Fessenden
Public Release: 10-Jan-2013
AgriLife Research gets grant to crack biofuel production waste issue A scientist with Texas A&M AgriLife Research has begun work on a way to "engineer" a microbe to break lignin into lipid which can then be used to make more fuel.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Kathleen Phillips
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