REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, and Erasmus Medical Center, jointly announced a scientific collaboration using next-generation sequencing (NGS) for disease research.

A study has found that people in low and middle-income countries would be pushed to below the poverty line if they bought common medicines.

Three new genetic loci have been identified with involvement in subtle and quantitative variation of human eye color.

For the fifth time, ESA hosted this month the one-week CEMS kick-off seminar for students from leading European management schools to learn about technology transfer and what it takes to turn space technology breakthroughs into viable non-space businesses.

Vnus Medical Technologies, a provider of medical devices for the minimally invasive treatment of venous reflux disease, has appointed Guido Smeets as its new vice president of clinical research and chief medical officer.