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Public Release: 1-May-2012
UC Santa Cruz builds national data center for cancer genome research
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has established a large-scale data repository and user portal for the National Cancer Institute's cancer genome research programs. The Cancer Genomics Hub is providing cancer researchers with efficient access to a large and rapidly growing store of valuable biomedical data to advance the field of "personalized" or "precision" care, in which doctors design treatments to target specific genetic changes found in a patient's cancer cells.

NIH/National Cancer Institute

Public Release: 27-Apr-2012
Genomatix wins the 'INDUSTRIEPREIS 2012' in the biotech category at Hannover Messe
Genomatix is proud to announce that it has been awarded the "INDUSTRIEPREIS 2012" in the biotech category at Hannover Messe, the world's biggest technology trade show. The INDUSTRIEPREIS is awarded in 14 categories to companies for products of a high technological, economic, ecological or social value. Nominees and winners are chosen by a panel of 30 experts including professors and specialized journalists. Genomatix has received the INDUSTRIEPREIS for its data analysis and interpretation platform Genomatix Genome Analyzer.

Public Release: 26-Apr-2012
Spanish researcher releases a video showing a beetle from the inside
This film has been awarded a prize at the SkyScan Micro CT Meeting, an international conference of computed microtomography recently celebrated in Brussels, Belgium.

Public Release: 25-Apr-2012
UT Dallas bioengineering head to be inducted as Fellow of Royal Society
Dr. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, an internationally known expert in control and system theory, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society, the oldest continuously operating scientific society in the world.

Public Release: 25-Apr-2012

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
Researchers announce GenomeSpace environment to connect genomic tools
Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced that GenomeSpace, a software environment that seamlessly connects genomic analysis tools, is now available to the scientific community. During her keynote address at Bio-IT World Conference and Expo on Tuesday, Jill Mesirov, director of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Broad Institute, invited biomedical researchers and tool developers to explore this beta release of the new resource and to use it in their work.

National Human Genome Research Institute, Amazon Web Services

Public Release: 25-Apr-2012
Genetic markers for tracking species
At the supermarket checkout, hardly anybody enters prices manually anymore. Using scanners that can read the barcodes is much faster. Biologists now want to use a similar procedure for identifying domestic animal and plant species more efficiently. German Barcode of Life is the name of an initiative on which zoologists and botanists are collaborating in Germany. Botanists from the University of Bonn have taken the lead for the flora.

German Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Public Release: 25-Apr-2012
BGI and Aspera collaborate on high-speed data exchange to advance genome research
BGI and Aspera collaborate on high-speed data exchange to advance genome research.

Public Release: 25-Apr-2012

PLOS ONE
Identified 115 proteins that would allow designing new generation anti-cancer drugs
Researchers have identified 115 proteins in silico that could be highly relevant to treat colon-rectal cancer, since they would make it possible to define the strategy to design new generation anti-cancer drugs. During the last years, it has been proven that drugs are not as selective as it was thought, and that they actually have an affinity for multiple biological targets. For this reason it is important to develop multi-target drugs, able to attack several targets simultaneously.

Public Release: 24-Apr-2012
BGI debuts 'EasyGenomics' cloud-based bioinformatics solution for omics-related research
BGI debuts 'EasyGenomics' cloud-based bioinformatics solution for omics-related research.

Public Release: 24-Apr-2012
ICRISAT and BGI seal research partnership on molecular crop breeding
ICRISAT and BGI seal research partnership on molecular crop breeding.

Public Release: 23-Apr-2012

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
Immunosignaturing: An accurate, affordable and stable diagnostic
A new technique known as immunosignaturing harnesses the human immune system as an early warning sentry -- one acutely sensitive to changes in the body that may be harbingers of illness.

Public Release: 23-Apr-2012
GBIF Annual Report for 2011 published
GBIF has published its annual report for 2011, ten years after it was created as an intergovernmental initiative to facilitate universal access to data about life on Earth. A particular emphasis of this year's report is the growing use of the data mobilized by GBIF's global network of participant countries and organizations, in a wide range of peer-reviewed scientific studies.

Public Release: 23-Apr-2012

Nature
A matter of priorities
Bacteria evolved 'risk management' strategy to protect key genes from mutation, scientists at EMBL-EBI have found. The work is published today in Nature.

Public Release: 18-Apr-2012

Journal of the American Chemical Society
First description of a triple DNA helix in a vacuum
A team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center have managed for the first time to extract trustworthy structural information from a triple helix DNA in gas phase, that is to say in conditions in which DNA is practically in a vacuum. The study appears today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, one of the journals with greatest impact in chemistry.

Public Release: 18-Apr-2012

Conservation Letters
Saving forests? Take a leaf from insurance industry's book
A group of environmental scientists say a problem-ridden economic model designed to slow deforestation can be improved by applying key concepts from the insurance industry.

Public Release: 17-Apr-2012
Saliva test could dramatically increase detection of oral cancer
A Michigan State University surgeon is teaming up with a Lansing-area dental benefits firm on a clinical trial to create a simple, cost-effective saliva test to detect oral cancer, a breakthrough that would drastically improve screening and result in fewer people dying of the world's sixth most common cancer.

Delta Dental of Michigan

Public Release: 17-Apr-2012

JAMA
Study: Helicopter transport improves trauma patient survival compared to ground transport
A new study, led by a University of Maryland researcher, concludes a helicopter flight to a top-level trauma center boosts the chance of survival over ground transport.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2012
Copernicus Award 2012 for German-Polish collaboration in business information systems
Experts in business information systems professor Erwin Pesch from Siegen and professor Jacek Blazewicz from Poznan have been awarded the Copernicus Award by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Foundation for Polish Science in recognition of their achievements in German-Polish scientific collaboration.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2012

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Study dusts sugar coating off little-known regulation in cells
In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. In a study released online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition this week, the team at least doubled the number of proteins found to be subject to a type of regulation.

National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy

Public Release: 12-Apr-2012

American Journal of Human Genetics
Genetic adaptation of fat metabolism key to development of human brain
About 300,000 years ago humans adapted genetically to be able to produce larger amounts of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. This adaptation may have been crucial to the development of the unique brain capacity in modern humans. In today's life situation, this genetic adaptation contributes instead to a higher risk of developing disorders like cardiovascular disease.

Public Release: 9-Apr-2012

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
MU researchers find identical DNA codes in different plant species
A multi-disciplinary team of University of Missouri researchers solved a major biological question by using a groundbreaking computer algorithm to find identical DNA sequences in different plant and animal species.

Public Release: 5-Apr-2012

Science
Notre Dame researchers using novel method to combat malaria drug resistance
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health developed a "gene chip" to contribute to the identification of malaria drug resistance, an effort that will allow for real-time response in modified treatment strategies for this devastating disease.

Public Release: 4-Apr-2012

mBio
A University of Tennessee professor's hypothesis may be game changer for evolutionary theory
A new hypothesis posed by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, associate professor and colleagues could be a game changer in the evolution arena. The hypothesis suggests some species are surviving by discarding genes and depending on other species to play their hand.

Public Release: 4-Apr-2012
Linking and lightening: New partnership connects and reveals dark data
Sharing and reuse of data has become a vital part of modern scientific research. Having access to datasets ensures that the pace of scientific discovery is not unnecessarily hindered by data being kept under lock and key or hidden away in lab drawers.

Public Release: 4-Apr-2012

Nature
Scientists uncover multiple faces of deadly breast cancer
An international team of scientists, including four at Simon Fraser University, has made a discovery that will change the way the most deadly form of breast cancer is treated. The journal Nature has just published the team's findings online in the paper The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple negative breast cancers. The study is the largest genetic analysis of what were thought to be triple negative breast cancer tumors.

BC Cancer Foundation, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Alberta Cancer Foundation, Alberta Cancer Prevention Legacy Fund and Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Cancer Research UK


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