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Adding More SNPs to Breast Cancer Risk Models Doesn't Help
In the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the National Cancer Institute say breast cancer risk assessment models don't perform any better when they include common inherited genetic variants linked to the disease.The study's senior investigator...
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NIH Creating Genetic Testing Registry
The National Institutes of Health is creating a genetic testing registry: a public database that researchers, consumers, healthcare providers and others can use to search for information submitted by genetic testing providers.The NIH says its aim is to...
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Non-Profits, Investors Worry About Proposed Washington State Tax Surcharge Increase
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) Washington state lawmakers are considering more-than-doubling the business and occupation tax surcharge imposed on non-profit research institutes engaged in R&D, as well as their startup spinouts and other biotech businesses part...
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Open Bioinformatics Foundation Selected as Mentor Organization for Google Summer of Code
Google has named OBF among 150 mentoring organizations for the 2010 Google Summe Open Bioinformatics Foundation Selected as Mentor Organization for Google Summer of Code.
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Q&A: Indra Neil Sarkar Sees Many Roles for Biomedical Informaticians in Translational Medicine
For translational medicine to succeed, biomedical informaticians need to be part of the team, Indra Neil Sarkar from the University of Vermont's College of Medicine wrote in a paper published in the Journal of Translational Medicine in late February.Sarkar,...
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Cycle Computing Aims to Make Cloud-Based Life Science Computing 'Just Like Using Gmail'
Cycle Computing, an IT vendor specializing in cluster, grid, and cloud computing, this week launched CycleCloud for Life Sciences, its first offering targeted at a vertical market.The platform offers researchers web-based access to cloud-based CPU clusters...
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TAIR Eyes Corporate Sponsorship Program as Other Model-Organism Databases Focus on Sustainability
The Arabidopsis Information Resource is about to launch a corporate sponsorship program in order to remain afloat after the National Science Foundation decided to phase out its funding.TAIR principal investigator Eva Huala told BioInform that she and her...
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Q&A: Team Uses Dynamic Proteomics to Study How Multi-Drug Combinations Affect Proteins
Position: PhD student, biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, thesis subject, "System-level analysis of response-networks to drugs in human individual living cells," 2005 to present Background: MSc, biology, 2002 to 2005 In the current issue of Cell,...
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Kinexus to Launch Peptide Microarray Services in Coming Months for Protein Kinase Analyses
After lying low for the past number of years, Kinexus Bioinformatics is readying to launch two peptide arrays that its chief executive said would together provide a new level of information about which protein kinases should be targeted for therapeutic...
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NCI to Fund Molecular Research into Cancer-Fighting Foods
The research may use genomic, proteomic, and other methods to understand the mol NCI to Fund Molecular Research into Cancer-Fighting Foods.
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