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NEW YORK, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Drug Discovery Technologies - A Global Update of Market Trends & Opportunities http://www.reportlinker.com/p0164246/Drug-Discovery-Technologies---A-Global-Update-of-Market-Trends--Opportunities.html Drug discovery has become an integral and ongoing element of every pharmaceutical company's business strategy. There are a number of new technologies that are...

An international consortium of scientists is proposing to generate whole genome sequences for 10,000 vertebrate species using technology so new it hasn't yet been invented. Known as the Genome 10K Project, the new plan is the most comprehensive study of animal evolution ever attempted.Launched in April 2009 during a three-day meeting at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Genome 10K project now involves more than 68 scientists, who refer to themselves as the Genome 10K Community of...

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Proteomics: Technologies and Global Markets http://www.reportlinker.com/p0132719/Proteomics-Technologies-and-Global-Markets.html REPORT HIGHLIGHTS * The global market for proteomics is expected to increase from $6.7 billion in 2008 to an estimated $7.9 billion in 2009 and $19.4 billion in 2014, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.7%. * Proteomics...

CALGARY, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ - Building on the success of their send-a-gene feature on Facebook, Genome Alberta has launched a new GenOmics Facebook application built on the NewsCloud Social Media Toolkit. The new site at http://apps.facebook.com/genomics will be a one stop source for genomics and other related 'omics' news including nutrigenomics, metabolomics, and metagenomics. With a few mouse clicks users can post stories from around the web, write their own stories or blogs, check out...

Microbes contribute to manifold human endeavors ranging from bioenergy to agriculture to medicine. Moreover, they make the Earth's biogeochemical cycles go round, a prerequisite for all life on the planet. Exceedingly numerous, they are also extremely diverse, encompassing most of Earth's total biodiversity. So it should come as no surprise to find that two-thirds of the nearly 5,000 genome projects reported in the Genomes OnLine Database involve microbes. But far more could be done with...

The emerging field of nutrigenomics, which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression, is explored in a series of provocative, interdisciplinary reports and analyses in the December 2008 Special Issue (Volume 12, number 4) of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This compendium of papers describing the innovative new...

Simon Chin, founder, chairman, & CEO of Iris BioTechnologies (OTCBB: IRSB), a theranostics company focused on providing patients, doctors, and clinicians with improved methods of identifying effective treatment solutions, gave his acceptance speech for Frost & Sullivan's 2008 North American Technology Innovation Award in the field of Pharmacogenomics at the Growth Excellence Awards Banquet. The event was held Monday, September 15th at the Park 55 Hotel in San Francisco, CA. This award has...

A global team of legal, scientific and ethics experts have put forward eight key recommendations to establish much needed guidelines for conducting human-genome sequencing research. Timothy Caulfield, professor and research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta in Canada, led a consensus workshop to develop rigorous guideline recommendations for research ethics boards. The results appear in the current issue of PLOS Biology (March 2008). Researchers met to develop...

WASHINGTON -- The people who spurred private spaceflight with a $10 million prize are doing the same for personalized medicine. The X Prize Foundation is offering $10 million to the first company that can process the genetic codes of 100 people in just 10 days - an advancement that experts say is still at least five years away."We need new and better technology to get down the road to individualized medicine," said genome mapping pioneer J. Craig Venter, co-chair of the Archon X...

Rockville, MD -- Ever since the genomics revolution took off, scientists have been busily deciphering vast numbers of genomes. Cataloging. Analyzing. Comparing. Public databases hold 239 complete bacterial genomes alone. But scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) have come to a startling conclusion. Armed with the powerful tools of comparative genomics and mathematics, TIGR scientists have concluded that researchers might never fully describe some bacteria and...