The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.
Good egg – DNA of extinct birds found in ancient shells (BBC News)
March 10th, 2010 by adminDNA testing starts in hunt for killer (This is Hampshire)
March 10th, 2010 by adminA MASS DNA screening programme will get under way today as detectives continue the hunt for the killer of a Hampshire grandmother.
DNA taken from extinct birds (The Courier Mail)
March 10th, 2010 by adminIN a world first, scientists in Australia announced today they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.
Parliamentary committee doubts role of DNA database in crime fight (Yorkshire Post)
March 10th, 2010 by adminDNA matches from the national database help to solve as few as one crime in every 1,300, it is being claimed.
Namibia : DNA Tests Done Here Soon (AllAfrica.com)
March 10th, 2010 by adminAS from August this year, the long wait for the results of DNA tests should be something of the past for Namibians.
Scientists draw DNA from fossilised eggs (Brisbane Times)
March 10th, 2010 by adminAustralian scientists have, in a world first, extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including giants such as the moa and elephant bird.
Eggshells of extinct bird yields DNA (Daily Mirror)
March 10th, 2010 by adminScientists have extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds for the first time.
Stanford, IBM applying green chemistry to plastics (KGO-TV Bay Area)
March 10th, 2010 by adminStanford University and IBM are using green chemistry to solve the problem of environmentally hazardous plastic bottles.
Institute for Systems Biology Gets $6M Donation (GenomeWeb News)
March 10th, 2010 by adminNEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – An anonymous California venture capitalist and philanthropist has agreed to donate $6 million over five years to the Institute for Systems Biology toward a planned expansion and move, the hiring of additional faculty, and unrestricted research support.
Integromics Inks Two Licenses, Training Agreement for qPCR Analysis Software (GenomeWeb News)
March 10th, 2010 by adminSpanish bioinformatics firm Integromics in the past week inked three agreements expected to increase the number of users of RealTime StatMiner, its real-time quantitative PCR data-analysis tool.
GenomeQuest Opens API for Sequence Data Management (dBusinessNews.com)
March 10th, 2010 by adminCambridge, MA — At a gathering of life science researchers, bioinformatics developers, and computational biologists, GenomeQuest today announced a comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) to its fast-growing sequence data management (SDM) platform.
Evolutionary genetic relationships coming into focus (Science News)
March 10th, 2010 by adminWith the evolutionary tree of life nearly half done for birds and mammals, other vertebrates lag behind
New Products (GenomeWeb News)
March 10th, 2010 by adminFluidigm has released 5-kilobase and 10-kilobase long-range PCR protocols for its Access Array system, which allows users to amplify up to 48 samples per array for use in targeted resequencing.
American Oriental Bioengineering to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results on March 15, 2010 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
March 10th, 2010 by adminAmerican Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. , , a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving health through the development, manufacture and commercialization of a broad range of prescription and over the counter products, today announced that it plans to release fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results on Monday, March 15, 2010, before the market opens.
Aid organization, founded by grad students, teaches science to kids in the developing world (UC Berkeley NewsCenter)
March 10th, 2010 by adminA pair of Berkeley bioengineering students started the group Future Scientist, which teaches science and technical skills to young people in rural, developing regions. Members of the organization recently visited the Amazon with an introduction to pathogens, disease transmission, optics, and solar electricity.
Grey’s Anatomy Sneak Peeks: After Owen, Teddy Gets With…Mark? (E! Online)
March 10th, 2010 by adminOK, Grey’s Anatomy fans, we’ve got some good news and we’ve got some bad news. The good news is that Teddy (Kim Raver) seems to be detaching from Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd). The bad news…
Entest BioMedical Announces Creation Of Proprietary Adult Stem Cell Lines (Medical News Today)
March 9th, 2010 by adminEntest BioMedical Inc. (OTCBB: ENTB) announced the creation of 3 bone marrow derived stem cell lines useful for optimizing laser intensities and wavelengths in laser enhanced stem cell therapy. A stem cell line is a defined cell population that is derived from a single cell and has the capability to replicate for long periods of time in vitro. Proprietary stem cell lines are commonly licensed …
Campus Digest — March 9, 2010 (The Gateway Online)
March 9th, 2010 by adminSean Steels , Senior News Editor (Re)grow to show Professor Molly Shoichet will be speaking at the University of Alberta on the topic of regenerative medicine strategies in the central nervous system. Shoichet has worked at the University of Toronto as the Associate Director of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and is a Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering. read more
Springer enters into partnership with the Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine (EurekAlert!)
March 9th, 2010 by admin( Springer ) Beginning in 2010 Springer is adding Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging to its journals publishing program. The journal will be published quarterly on behalf of the Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine, which has been the publisher of the journal since 1967.
A Vision for Personalized Medicine (Technology Review)
March 9th, 2010 by adminGenomics pioneer Leroy Hood says a coming revolution in medicine will bring enormous new opportunities. Leroy Hood has been at the center of a number of paradigm shifts in biology. He helped to invent the first automated DNA sequencing machine in the 1980s, along with several other technologies that have changed the face of molecular biology. And in 2000, he founded the Institute for Systems …