Latest Metabolomics Stories

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, has selected Biodiagnostics as its new distributor of IPA® in Greece, Turkey and the Balkan countries. IPA is the leading software application to model, analyze, and understand the complex biological and chemical systems at the core of life science research. "Biodiagnostics is recognized as the premier distributor of life science instruments,...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo announces the release of the first set of tools and content to come out of its industry-FDA MetaTox(TM) partnership program. The MetaTox partnership is developing a unique comprehensive systems toxicology suite designed for compound safety assessment in chemical and pharmaceutical R&D. ToxHunter will be made available as an add-on to existing licenses of GeneGo's MetaCore(TM) and/or MetaDrug(TM) systems biology and systems pharmacology...

An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist is helping to sort through the jumbled genetics of Echinacea, the coneflower known for its blossoms"”and its potential for treating infections, inflammation, and other human ailments.Only a few Echinacea species are currently cultivated as botanical remedies, and plant breeders would like to know whether other types also possess commercially useful traits. ARS horticulturist Mark Widrlechner, who works at the ARS North Central Regional Plant...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that the Medical Biochemistry group at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam will join the MetaMiner Metabolic Diseases project from GeneGo. The MetaMiner program is focused on the fundamental understanding of human diseases at the level of disease pathways and causative gene-disease associations supported by a repository of OMICs data. Ongoing MetaMiner...

Tiny bits of molecular "trash" found in circulating blood appear to be good predictors of cardiovascular disease and untimely death, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.The discovery, published online in the April issue of the journal Circulation Genetics, comes from the largest study of its kind for cardiovascular disease, and is the first to identify specific metabolic profiles associated with coronary artery disease, heart attacks and death among patients who have...

New Tel Aviv University research investigates anti-fungal agents in the sticky "pitchers" of carnivorous plantsIn the tropics, carnivorous plants trap unsuspecting prey in a cavity filled with liquid known as a "pitcher."The moment insects like flies, ants and beetles fall into a pitcher, the plant's enzymes are activated and begin dissolving their new meal, obtaining nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen which are difficult to extract from certain soils. Carnivorous...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity® Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today announced the addition of dynamic reports, new weekly content updates, and metabolomics workflow support in the latest release of IPA® software. Life science researchers need to keep up with increasingly complex developments in the diagnosis, treatment, and etiology of diseases. Through the new IPA reports, researchers now have a...

LONDON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Biomarker analysis market has excellent growth potential. The 'omics' revolution of the last decade has ensured that the field of biomarker research will test the frontiers of biomedical research in the coming years. Biomarkers have a multitude of applications such as early disease detection, identifying potential drug targets, predicting patient response to medication and accelerating clinical trials. Along with its role in making personalised medicine a...

The Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, long prized as a savory meal at a summer party or seafood restaurant, is a multi-million dollar source of income for those who harvest, process and market the crustacean along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Unfortunately, the blue crab population has been declining in recent years under the assault of viruses, bacteria and man-made contaminants. The signs of the attack often are subtle, so researchers from the National Institute of Standards...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., a leading provider of software and databases for systems biology, today announced that the University of Maryland School of Nursing has licensed its pathway analysis and knowledge mining suite MetaCore. The latest version, MetaCore 6.0 includes a new easy to use interface, with unique interactome analysis tools, simple searching of GeneGo's high quality manually curated content and direct links from the drug detail pages to Sigma...