WATCHUNG Anne Maxwell, a biology teacher at Mount Saint Mary Academy, Route 22 West, was one of only 19 teachers worldwide selected to attend a special institute at Princeton University this summer.
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Mount St. Mary biology teacher excited by Princeton program
August 14th, 2010 by adminReaction Biology Wins $1.2M SBIR Grant for Screening Platform
August 14th, 2010 by adminNEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) Reaction Biology has reeled in a $1.2 million small business innovation research grant from the National Cancer Institute that it will use to expand an epigenetics-related drug discovery screening platform, the company said today.
Riverside teachers hailed as Unsung Heroes by ING
August 14th, 2010 by adminPhilip Baioni, biology teacher at Riverside High School, along with Patti Weinstein, school literacy consultant, have been honored as “Unsung Heroes .”
Drake professor who welcomed freshman students for 50 years dies
August 14th, 2010 by adminRodney Rogers, a Drake University biology professor who spent half a century teaching students about the nature of life, died Thursday. He was 83. Family and colleagues said the cause of death was complications from Alzheimers disease.
Hellgate biology teacher Dave Oberbillig accepts Einstein Fellowship
August 14th, 2010 by adminHes an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator, but DaveOberbillig is no mathematician or particle physicist.
Cancer Research UK PhD Studentship in Cancer Biology
August 14th, 2010 by admin: 06-Aug-10 Cancer Research UK PhD Studentship in Cancer Biology Imperial College London Applications are invited from motivated individuals for a Cancer Research UK PhD studentship in Cancer Biology, focussing on resistance of cancer cells to Death Receptor (DR)-induced apoptosis.
Qiagen Touts SABiosciences’ Bioinformatics Prowess as Key to Biomarker Discovery
August 14th, 2010 by adminQiagen this week said that its recent acquisition of SABiosciences brought more than just a line of PCR assay panels, but also contributed bioinformatics know-how and expertise that will help it advance its biomarker discovery efforts.
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August 12th, 2010 by adminUB Alert: Emergency text, e-mail messages. Sign up > Lawrence Wrabetz, head of the myelin biology unit at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, has been appointed director of the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute (HJKRI) at UB.
Steve Wozniak to Deliver Keynote Address at Flash Memory Summit 2010
August 12th, 2010 by adminThe Only Conference Dedicated Entirely to Flash and Its Applications
Revolution Analytics targets R language, platform at growing need to handle ‘big data’ crunching
August 12th, 2010 by adminThe company is betting its new big data scalability platform will help R transition from a research and prototyping tool to a production-ready platform for such enterprise applications as quantitative finance and risk management, social media , bioinformatics , and telecommunications data analysis.
A Look at GATK
August 12th, 2010 by adminDan Koboldt at MassGenomics says next-gen sequencing has presented some problems for the bioinformatics community in terms of the sheer amount of data being generated. Tools for sequencing data analysis are under demand for efficiency, flexibility, and scalability, he says.
Bioinformatics Papers with Mapreduce and Hadoop
August 12th, 2010 by adminAbhishek Tiwari, a self described “blogger on the street,” entrepreneur, and PhD Student in bioengineering at the University of Auckland, has a list of bioinformatics papers that use Mapreduce and Hadoop , two software frameworks used for distributed computing applications such as cloud computing.
Animal shelters full, county seeks options
August 12th, 2010 by adminBiology and economy have combined to fill Santa Barbara Countyanimal shelters to the bursting point, according to shelterofficials.
Oregon Architecture and Biology Researchers to Probe Indoors
August 12th, 2010 by adminTwo University of Oregon biologists and a professor of architecture will lead a scientific journey into what may be the most underexplored frontier on the planet — the closed, indoor environment where people in industrialized countries spend an estimated 90 percent of their time.
Pacific Biosciences to Co-Host New Biology Summit in Beijing on August 19, 2010
August 12th, 2010 by adminMENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pacific Biosciences is co-sponsoring a summit on New Biology along with Sage Bionetworks, the Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology (SCBIT), and Tsinghua University in Beijing on August 19.
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Possible State Aid Lifts China Pharma Stocks
August 12th, 2010 by adminChinas drugmakers rose in Shenzhen trading after a newspaper reported that the nation may spend more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) to support biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, biosensing
August 12th, 2010 by admin( Tufts University ) Researchers have fabricated and characterized the first large-area metamaterial structures patterned on implantable, bio-compatible silk substrates. The antenna-like devices can monitor the “fingerprints” of chemical and biological agents and might be implanted to signal changes in the body. Metamaterials are artificial electromagnetic composites whose structures respond to …
Mini-Microscope May Be Big in Developing World
August 12th, 2010 by adminA new $240 microscope that runs on AA batteries is as effective for diagnosing tuberculosis as $40,000 professional laboratory models.
Bioinformatics Papers with Mapreduce and Hadoop
August 12th, 2010 by adminAbhishek Tiwari, a self described “blogger on the street,” entrepreneur, and PhD Student in bioengineering at the University of Auckland, has a list of bioinformatics papers that use Mapreduce and Hadoop , two software frameworks used for distributed computing applications such as cloud computing.