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MILFORD, Mass. and NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) and Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd. have entered into an agreement to co-develop a new analytical solution that derives information from complex data sets generated by large-scale proteomics and metabolomics experiments. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110707/NE31586LOGO ) Waters and Nonlinear Dynamics collaborated on the development of the Waters Omics Research...

A University of Sheffield academic is helping a team of citizen scientists to carry out crucial research into European genetic heritage. Citizen Scientists are not required to have a scientific background or training, but instead they possess a passion for the subject and are increasingly being empowered by the scientific community to get involved in research. Dr Andy Grierson, from the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), has helped a team of...

BioInformatics LLC announces the July 31, 2012 release of their newest market report: Mobile Marketing to Life Scientists (12-004) Arlington, VA (PRWEB) July 24, 2012 This worldwide primary research study of the academic and pharma/biotech sectors provides a 2012 best practices guide for life science suppliers who want to maximize the impact of their mobile marketing strategies. The report was designed to help suppliers understand how scientists are using mobile devices, what applications...

Atigeo’s xPatterns PubMed explorer provides advanced capability to search 11 gigabytes of unstructured PubMed data. Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) July 24, 2012 Atigeo™, a compassionate technology company delivering a revolutionary big data cloud software platform, announced today the launch of its xPatterns™ PubMed explorer, which uses xPatterns semantic search to analyze the United States National Institutes of Health’s PubMed body of medical research. Containing information about...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Life Technologies Corporation announced it plans to compete for the $10 million X PRIZE by being the first to rapidly and accurately sequence 100 whole human genomes at $1,000 a pop. The healthy competition will help jump start the world's first clinical standard that will transform genome sequencing into usable medical information to improve diagnostics and treatments. The team competing will use the company's new bench top Ion...

A new technique will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence of that crop. The technique, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, links important agronomic traits in crop plants with active regions of the genome. Instead of requiring knowledge of the crop's complete genome, it identifies only expressed genes. "For many crop plants, markers are still lacking because of the complexity of some plants' genomes and the...

Great Point Partners, LLC today announced the sale of Caprion Proteomics, Inc., a Great Point Partners I portfolio company. GREENWICH, CT and MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC (PRWEB) July 20, 2012 Great Point Partners, LLC today announced the sale of Caprion Proteomics, Inc., a Great Point Partners I portfolio company. Caprion is a leading provider of proteomic services to the pharmaceutical industry that include: (i) biomarker discovery, (ii) biomarker validation, (iii) drug target discovery, (iv)...

The research provides insights into programmed cell death and opens door to new approaches to cancer treatment Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have simultaneously mapped two of the most important types of protein-modification in cells, revealing their extensive cooperation during an essential cellular process. Phosphorylation, the attachment of a phosphate group to a protein, and proteolysis, the cleavage of a protein, had almost always been studied independently. The new...

Researchers address great uncertainties in number of species and emphasize the use of technology to accelerate the rate of species discovery Most of the world's species are still unknown to science although many researchers grappled to address the question of how many species there are on Earth over the recent decades. Estimates of non-microbial diversity on Earth provided by researchers range from 2 million to over 50 million species, with great uncertainties in numbers of insects, fungi,...

Tune in to Discovery Channel to learn how breakthroughs in molecular biology are helping to advance the detection of genetic abnormalities. Belmont, CA (PRWEB) July 16, 2012 Phalanx Biotech Group announced today that they would be featured in an upcoming episode of Health Heroes. Founded in 2002 by several leaders from the highly regarded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan, Phalanx Biotech Group has emerged as a leading manufacturer of DNA microarrays for basic...