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Public Release: 7-Dec-2012
New MRI technology to provide even better images of the inside of the human body Over the past 30 years, magnetic resonance imaging has evolved into one of the most important imaging procedures in medical diagnostics. With a new approach based on the use of polarized gases and dissolved substances, in the future it will be possible to produce even better quality images of the inside of the human body. Contact: Werner Heil
Public Release: 6-Dec-2012
2012 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Molecular Cancer TherapeuticsTGen-US Oncology data guides treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer patients Genomic sequencing has revealed therapeutic drug targets for difficult-to-treat, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, according to an unprecedented study by the Translational Genomic Research Institute and US Oncology Research. 
Life Technologies Corporation
Contact: Steve Yozwiak
Public Release: 6-Dec-2012
American Journal of Human GeneticsNobody's perfect For the first time, researchers have measured how many damaging genetic variants each of us has and on average, we carry around 400 potentially damaging variants and two variants known to be associated with a disease. The authors raise the increasingly important ethical issues for medical geneticists, including should incidental findings (those not a specific goal of research or of a test, but uncovered during a study) be fed back to people who have volunteered their sample to a study?
Wellcome Trust, BIOBASE GmbH
Contact: Aileen Sheehy
Public Release: 4-Dec-2012
NatureHogging the spotlight: South Farms pig gets international attention A detailed annotation of the genome of T.J. Tabasco, a pig from the University of Illinois South Farms, is the outcome of over 10 years of work by an international consortium. It is expected to speed progress in both biomedical and agricultural research.
US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Susan Jongeneel
Public Release: 4-Dec-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesCrucial step in AIDS virus maturation simulated for first time Bioinformaticians at IMIM and UPF have used molecular simulation techniques to explain a specific step in the maturation of the HIV virions, i.e., how newly formed inert virus particles become infectious, which is essential in understanding how the virus replicates. These results, which have been published in the latest edition of PNAS, could be crucial to the design of future antiretrovirals. Contact: Marta Calsina
Public Release: 4-Dec-2012
GeneticsGenetics Society of America's Genetics journal highlights for December 2012 These are the selected highlights for the December 2012 issue of the Genetics Society of America's journal, Genetics. Contact: Phyllis Edelman
Public Release: 4-Dec-2012
GeneticsGenetic data shows that skin cancer risk includes more than UV exposure Published in the December 2012 issue of the journal Genetics, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have developed a more precise model for assessing skin cancer risk that includes numerous genetic factors such as family history, ethnicity, and genetic variations specific to each individual.
National Institutes of Health, Kraft Grant, Wisconsin Agriculture Experiment Station
Contact: Phyllis Edelman
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesMalaria parasite's masquerade ball could be coming to an end More than a million people die each year of malaria caused by different strains of the Plasmodium parasite transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito. By figuring out how the most dangerous strain evades the watchful eye of the immune system, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have now paved the way for the development of new approaches to cure this acute infection.
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Contact: Dov Smith
Public Release: 2-Dec-2012
Nature GeneticsInsights into the genetic causes of coronary artery disease and heart attacks By identifying a further 15 genetic regions and 104 independent genetic variants associated with coronary artery disease, one of the most common causes of death in the worldwith, researchers have identified some of the most prominent biological pathways that underlie the disease. These pathways that control CAD could be targets for the development of new drug treatments in the future. Contact: Aileen Sheehy
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
Big genomics data, big scientific impact: New challenges for further development of life science BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, today announced its latest advances in the analysis, management and dissemination of "Big Genomics Data" at their 3rd bioinformatics software and data release conference. Contact: Jia Liu
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
NatureTiny algae shed light on photosynthesis as a dynamic property Many of the world's most important photosynthetic eukaryotes such as plants got their light-harnessing organelles (chloroplasts) indirectly from other organisms through endosymbiosis. In some instances, this resulted in algae with multiple, distinct genomes, some in residual organelles (nucleomorphs). To better understand why nucleomorphs persist after endosymbiosis, an international team including researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute collaborated to sequence and analyze two tiny algae. Their report appeared online Nov. 29, 2012 in Nature. Contact: David Gilbert
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Human Molecular GeneticsResearchers find chemical 'switches' for neurodegenerative diseases By using a model, researchers at the University of Montreal have identified and "switched off" a chemical chain that causes neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementia. The findings could one day be of particular therapeutic benefit to Huntington's disease patients. Contact: William Raillant-Clark
Public Release: 25-Nov-2012
Nature GeneticsChinese scientists decode watermelon genome, possible future benefits for crop improvement An international team led by Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, BGI, and other institutes has completed the genomic sequence of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and the resequencing of 20 watermelon accessions. The genomic data presented in this study will shape future efforts on watermelon genetics and evolutionary research, and also provide an invaluable resource for other plants research and crop genetic improvement. Contact: Jia Liu
Public Release: 23-Nov-2012
An international competition reaffirms the potential of bioinformatics in the diagnosis of disease The biosciences are generating enormous amounts of data at unprecedented speeds. Making sense of these data and extracting reliable information from databases is an increasingly difficult and complex task. Backed by the scientific community, IBM Research and PMI R&D launched IMPROVER (Industrial Methodology for PROcess VErification in Research) with the aim of challenging the world's best computational researchers to demonstrate the power of their methods to exploit genomic information to extract predictive and clinical indicators that are reliable and verifiable. Contact: Sònia Armengou
Public Release: 21-Nov-2012
New public gut bacteria study expected to reach around world Ever wondered who is living in your gut, and what they're doing? The trillions of microbial partners in and on our bodies outnumber our own cells by as many as 10 to one and do all sorts of important jobs, from helping digest the food we eat this Thanksgiving to building up our immune systems.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Rob Knight
Public Release: 21-Nov-2012
Solving big research questions with statistics wins 2012 Victoria Prize Professor Terry Speed, a senior researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, was today awarded a 2012 Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation.
Victorian Government
Contact: Vanessa Solomon
Public Release: 19-Nov-2012
New Informatics and Bioimaging Center combines resources, expertise from UMD, UMB A new center that combines advanced computing resources at the University of Maryland, College Park with clinical data and biomedical expertise at the University of Maryland, Baltimore could soon revolutionize the efficiency and effectiveness of health care in the state of Maryland and beyond. Contact: Ellen Ternes
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation grants $100,000 to TGen The Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation has donated the funds to a research project led by Dr. Heather Cunliffe, head of TGen's Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Unit. The research will focus on a specific and difficult-to-treat type of cancer called primary Luminal B breast cancer -- one of at least five major subtypes of breast cancer.
Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation
Contact: Steve Yozwiak
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesStudy Tracks Brain Gene Response to Territorial Aggression With a mate and a nest to protect, the male threespined stickleback is a fierce fish, chasing and biting other males until they go away. Now researchers are mapping the genetic underpinnings of the stickleback's aggressive behavior. Armed with tools that allow them to see which genes are activated or deactivated in response to social encounters, a team from the University of Illinois has identified broad patterns of gene activity that correspond to aggression in this fish. Contact: Diana Yates
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
22 young group leaders recognized as European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigators European Molecular Biology Organization announced today the selection of 22 young researchers as EMBO Young Investigators.
European Molecular Biology Organization
Contact: Barry Whyte
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
Lancet Infectious DiseasesBacterial DNA sequence used to map an infection outbreak This study used DNA sequencing to examine an outbreak of MRSA in a hospital, to uncover new cases and, as the study developed, to intervene in the outbreak to end it more quickly. Sequencing illuminated each person infected and described the transmission of MRSA between people coming to the hospital and within the hospital. This is believed to be the first time that sequencing has been used to close an infectious outbreak and will be published in Lancet Infectious Diseases.
UKCRC Translational Infection Research Initiative, Wellcome Trust, Health Protection Agency
Contact: Aileen Sheehy
Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesStudy offers new tool for incorporating water impacts into policy decisions A new policy-making framework published in the Nov. 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides a tool for assessing and valuing the many services clean water provides -- from recreation and beauty to navigation and hydropower -- and incorporating them into policy decisions. Contact: Mary Hoff
Public Release: 7-Nov-2012
American Society of Human Genetics 2012 Annual MeetingCeGaT and Genomatix finalists of Boston Children's Hospital's CLARITY challenge CeGaT GmbH, the Department of Prostate Cancer Research at the University Hospital Bonn and Genomatix Software GmbH were announced as finalist of the CLARITY challenge today. CeGaT and Genomatix will now offer their complete genetic analysis service to another six families (six trios or 18 exomes) for free. Genomatix also announced the pre-release of GeneGrid, a tool designed to help medical researchers identifying pathogenic genomic variations in humans. Contact: Korbinian Grote
Public Release: 6-Nov-2012
Global metabolomic initiative announced Investigators at Washington University and The Scripps Research Institute have announced the launch of a "Global Metabolomic Initiative" to facilitate meta-analyses on studies of the metabolism of bacteria, yeast, plants, animals and people. Although metabolomics has existed as a discipline for only a decade, it has already provided insights into many difficult-to-treat diseases, including chronic pain. Many more are expected to fall out of the meta-analyses.
National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Contact: Diana Lutz
Public Release: 6-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesA new computational method for timing the tree of life Sudhir Kumar, director of the Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics at ASU's Biodesign Institute has developed a new method for calculating species divergence, delivering accurate results at 1,000 times the speed of conventional techniques. Contact: Richard Harth
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