Related News ItemsSeminars scheduled to spread awareness about bioinformaticsTue, 31 Jan 2012 18:07:48 -0800
BCBLab, a student-led consulting service in the bioinformatics and computational biology program, has invited big names in from the bioinformatics field for seminars this semester.
Read More... Looking to Build Life Science Business, Appistry Hires New VP, Inks Deal with UM Bioinformatics ArmFri, 27 Jan 2012 13:18:23 -0800
This article has been updated from an earlier version to correct previously reported pricing for Appistry's services and the capacity of its appliances.
Read More... Funding Update: NIH Bioinformatics Grants Awarded Dec. 7, 2011 — Feb. 9, 2012Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:33:23 -0800
RainDance's ThunderStorm System is a fully-automated and walkaway high-throughput targeted sequencing solution that enables researchers to process 96 samples per day run on a proven platform that generates higher-quality data faster than ever before.
Read More... On to ManagementFri, 03 Feb 2012 09:03:43 -0800
Ewan Birney, who will become an associate director at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute in April, tells Nature that his love of science "has helped me to get through some difficult times, when I've pushed myself and others perhaps too hard."
Read More... Genetic Rosetta Stone unveiled in NatureWed, 08 Feb 2012 10:16:35 -0800
Scientists have developed a new community resource that may act as a Rosetta stone for revealing the genetic basis of traits and disease.
Read More... Let the Games BeginWed, 08 Feb 2012 09:03:23 -0800
The success of games like Foldit has shown researchers how useful it can be to put a problem in front of a wide group of gamers and science buffs to get help in solving it.
Read More... Carnegie Mellon scientist wins international award for computational biologyMon, 30 Jan 2012 10:49:28 -0800
( Carnegie Mellon University ) The International Society for Computational Biology has awarded its Overton Prize for outstanding accomplishment to Ziv Bar-Joseph, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Lane Center for Computational Biology and Machine Learning Department. The Overton Prize is awarded annually to an early- to mid-career scientist who has made a significant ...
Read More... CAREERS: From the Bench to the BoardFri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:43 -0800
Bitesize Bio's Vicki Ronaldson this week says that "despite the temptation to play down past academic pursuits amongst more corporate peers, a look at the top level management, or even the board, of any global life science or technology company will reveal a high percentage of PhDs, all of whom started out at the bench ." But, she says, transitioning from academic research to the corporate world ...
Read More... A DiscrepancyFri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:33 -0800
A study published in Science this past August by the University of Kansas’s Donna Ginther and her colleagues concluded that African-American researchers are 10 percentage points less likely to be awarded NIH funding as white researchers.
Read More... From the Bench to the BoardFri, 10 Feb 2012 09:18:27 -0800
Bitesize Bio's Vicki Ronaldson this week says that "despite the temptation to play down past academic pursuits amongst more corporate peers, a look at the top level management, or even the board, of any global life science or technology company will reveal a high percentage of PhDs, all of whom started out at the bench ." But, she says, transitioning from academic research to the corporate world ...
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