Broad Institute

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Name: Broad Institute

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Human geneticist dies

Finnish-born geneticist and physician Leena Peltonen-Palotie, who uncovered numerous genetic mutations behind various human diseases, passed away last week at the age of 57.Leena Peltonen-Palotie (1952-2010)Image: Academy of FinlandPeltonen-Palotie helped ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by The Scientist]

Entities: Genetics, Geneticist, Mark Daly, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Broad Institute

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

New Finding Puts Dog Origins in Middle East

Borrowing methods developed to probe the genetics of human disease, researchers have concluded that dogs were probably first domesticated from wolves somewhere in the Middle East, in contrast to an earlier survey suggesting dogs originated in East As ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by New York Times]

Entities: Genome, DNA, Broad Institute, Mitochondrial DNA

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT biochemist joins Thomson Reuters’ annual ‘Top 12’ list

The world's "hottest" researcher is biochemist Rudolf Jaenisch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is joined by scientists scattered from Ann Arbor to Osaka on the annual Thomson Reuters list of the world's 12 hottest researchers.In its ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by News-Medical.Net]

Entities: Biochemist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Broad Institute, Rudolf Jaenisch

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

The World's HOTTEST Researchers

This year's list of the world's "hottest" researchers include a biologist from MIT, a doctor from Ohio State and the scientists who discovered graphene. The researchers are ranked not by looks, but by how often their papers are cited ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by The Huffington Post | Full News Feed]

Entities: Rudolf Jaenisch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sickle-cell Anemia, Broad Institute

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Rudolf Jaenisch

U.S. stem cell expert is "hottest" researcher (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Rudolf Jaenisch, whose stem cell lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has consistently broken new barriers in the field, is the world's "hottest" researcher, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.The annual hot list ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Yahoo! News]

Entities: Rudolf Jaenisch, Stem Cell, Christopher King

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 4 Documents

David Botstein

U.S. public servants sacrifice cash prizes

President Barack Obama had to give up his $1.4 million Nobel Peace prize award, but at least he got to choose which charities would benefit — he named 10, with the largest share going to Fisher House, which houses families of wounded veterans while they ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by Global News Blog]

Entities: Francis Collins, David Botstein, United States, Eric Lander

First Reported Mar 08 2010 - Updated Mar 08 2010 - 1 Documents

Ira Flatow

And the Winners of Our Blogging Contest Are ...

Winning bloggers. (pictured left to right) Jennifer Leslie, Benjamin Young Landis, and Daniel Stolte.Last month, Science reporters traveled to San Diego, California, to cover the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ... [Published Mar 08 2010 by Science Magazine]

Entities: Ira Flatow, Broad Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Sci..., Molecular Biology, University of Arizona

First Reported Mar 04 2010 - Updated Mar 04 2010 - 1 Documents

Pacific BioScience Has A $1000 Genome Test That Could Save Your Life -- and the Industry.

Last week, Pacific BioSciences, which claims it will map a genome in 15 minutes for less than $1000 by 2013, announced several new partnerships which they say will help customers "rapidly and easily adopt" their sequencing technology. That's big news, ... [Published Mar 04 2010 by BNET]

Entities: Genome, Genetics, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute

First Reported Feb 28 2010 - Updated Feb 28 2010 - 1 Documents

Ion Torrent Systems Presents $50,000 Electronic Sequencer at AGBT

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — Ion Torrent Systems today unveiled an electronic sequencer that reads DNA on a semiconductor chip by measuring the release of protons as nucleotides get incorporated by DNA polymerase.The instrument will cost $50,000 and generate ... [Published Feb 28 2010 by GenomeWeb]

Entities: Jonathan Rothberg, Ion, Genome

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 1 Documents

Pacific Biosciences Unveils Early-Access Customers

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Pacific Biosciences today announced the 10 institutions that have purchased its Single Molecule Real Time DNA sequencing system as part of its early access program in North America.The early access customers are Baylor College ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by GenomeWeb]

Entities: Stein Mart Inc, Genome, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Hugh Martin, SAIC-Frederick Inc

First Reported Feb 23 2010 - Updated Feb 23 2010 - 1 Documents

PacBio Names First 10 Customers for $695,000 Single-Molecule Sequencer; First Shipments Slated for Q2

Pacific Biosciences this week disclosed the first 10 early-access customers for its single-molecule real-time sequencer, which include genome centers and other academic institutes in North America as well as PacBio investor Monsanto.The customers, who ... [Published Feb 23 2010 by GenomeWeb]

Entities: Genome, Broad Institute, Genome Sequencing

First Reported Feb 22 2010 - Updated Feb 23 2010 - 2 Documents

Novel Genomic Alterations Not Seen Before Revealed By Melanoma Transcriptome

Melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, afflicts more than 50,000 people in the United States annually and the incidence rate continues to rise. In a study published online in Genome Research (http://www.genome.org), scientists have delved deeper ... [Published Feb 23 2010 by Medical News Today]

Entities: melanoma, Genome, RNA, Chimeric, Tumor

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"Our study shows that billions of broiler chickens worldwide carry a mutant form of the TBC1D1 gene and we are now very eager to identify the causative mutation at this locus and to reveal the molecular mechanism by which it impacts growth" says Carl-Johan Rubin who was responsible for the bioinformatic analysis of selective sweeps

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3 Genetics Researchers to Share $500,000 Prize [Chronicle of Higher Education - Mar 11 2010]
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