Life Science

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- QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has acquired Corbett Life Science Pty. Ltd. ...

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Washington Post staff writer Marc Kaufman will be online with planet-hunter Paul Butler, to discuss the search for alien Life. ...

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Related Articles Schema driven assignment and implementation of Life Science identifiers (LSIDs). J Biomed Inform. 2008 Jun 13; Authors: Bafna S, Humphries J, Miranker DP Life Science identifier (LSID) is a global unique identifier standard intended to help rationalize the unique archival requirements of biological data. We describe LSID implementation architecture such that data managed by a relational database management system may be integrated with the LSID protocol as an add-on layer. The approach requires a database administrator (DBA) to specify an export schema detailing the content and structure of the archived data, and a mapping of the existing database to that schema. This specification can be expressed using SQL view syntax. In effect, we define a SQL-like language for implementing LSIDs. We describe the mapping of the view definition to an implementation as a set of databases triggers and a fixed runtime library. Thus a compiler for a domain-specific language could be written that would reduce the implementation of LSIDs to the task of writing SQL view-like definitions. PMID: 18599379 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] ...

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Second Life has all the characteristics that make it a good place to conduct scientific experiments. Users can manipulate factors such as time, size and light, and its visual nature helps students see what they're learning. ...

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, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems, today announces that it will host a workshop at the IQPC 4th Annual Compound Management & Integrity Conference (CMI) in Philadelphia, September 22-24, 2008. ...

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I have long been intrigued by IO Informatics and their flagship Sentient Suite. Bio-IT World is carrying an article about the company that reminded me of that interest. I have never used it, so I wonder if anyone else out there has? Now the Sentient Suite doesn’t really sit on the WWW, so it’s [...] ...

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Longitude Capital said Tuesday it closed its first investment vehicle, Longitude Venture Partners L.P., a $325 million venture capital fund dedicated to Life sciences investments. ...

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The out author of "Camp Concentration" and "334," among dozens of works in several genres, had reportedly been despondent since his partner's 2004 death. ...

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It's the billion-dollar question: Who will decide where to spend all the money that has been earmarked for the state's Life Science initiatives? After 1 p.m.... ...

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In the July issue of Molecular Systems Biology ( 4 , Article number: 201 doi:10.1038/msb.2008.39; 2008 ), Jonathan A Sagotsky et al . in their article "Life Sciences and the web: a new era for collaboration, write: The World Wide Web has revolutionized how researchers from various disciplines collaborate over long distances. This is nowhere more important than in the Life Sciences, where interdisciplinary approaches are becoming increasingly powerful as a driver of both integration and discovery. Data access, data quality, identity, and provenance are all critical ingredients to facilitate and accelerate these collaborative enterprises and it is here where Semantic Web technologies promise to have a profound impact. This paper reviews the need for, and explores advantages of as well as challenges with these novel Internet information tools as illustrated with examples from the biomedical community. The community websites examined by the authors have different applications, but they are all facilitating web-based collaborative biomedical research, education and outreach. Connecting and integrating the ever-growing amount of biomedical data, and combining them with cutting-edge analytical services, remains a significant challenge. The authors consider that the semantic web has great potential, but faces hurdles for widespread adoption, not least of which is the difficulty of funding its development until it gets to the point where it ha ...

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Book discussion and signing. The Dr. Avery Gilbert is a smell scientist. He has conducted research on human odor perception in academic laboratories and in the R&D divisions of multinational perfume companies. Along the way he's taught scores of audiences about the Science of smell. ...

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Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors are cordially invited to attend FountainBlue's Life Science Entrepreneurs' Forum, on the topic of Issues in Collaborative Development, scheduled for Monday, August 18 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at DLA Piper LLP, 2000 University, East Palo Alto, CA. Pre-register for $18-$30, by visiting http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=146096 by noon on Friday, August 15. On-site registration is $40 plus $4 in fees. We are delighted to announce our next panel, to be held on Monday, August 18, entitled "Issues in Collaborative Development". As Big Pharma and emerging Life Science companies adopt a range of different strategies for their collaboration activities, collaboration transactions are becoming increasingly varied and complex. While creating value for both sides, collaborations present unique challenges which should be addressed at the outset to ensure the success of the collaboration. This month's panel will discuss key issues in structuring and executing Life Science collaborations and examine their impact on the collaboration partners and other stakeholders, including investors. • Facilitator/moderator: • J. Howard Clowes, Partner, DLA Piper LLP • Panelists: • Adam Bristol, Investor, Biotechnology Value Fund • Jeff Jonker, Director of Business Development, Genentech • Jim I McLoughlin, Executive Director, Worldwide Business Development & Pfizer Venture Capital; Pfizer Inc. - Biotherapeutics and Bio ...

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H.S. Ayoub submits: Back on October 23 BioHealth Investor [BHI] recommended H&Q Life Science (HQL) as a great biomedical closed-ended fund to invest in, rather than pick single risky stocks. A few days later, the Alligator Investor made his case against HQL . Did he provide decent points of view? Not really. In fact, the Alligator agreed with BHI on many points, but cited that his intuition says that something is wrong with HQL. Basing your investment decisions on intuition alone is a form of gambling, but that is another argument for another time. Well, on Thursday Jim Fink, writing for The Motley Fool, not only featured HQL as a great healthcare ETF , but chose it as the best ETF for 2007! Complete Story » ...

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The first release of the Science & Industry 2 modification for Half-Life 2 is now available (thanks Ant and Planet Half-Life). The download is available on the Science and Industry 2 Website,... ...

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Author(s): R Dovesi Affiliation(s): Dipartimento di Chimica IFM and NIS Centre of Excellence, Via P. Giuria 5, 10125, Torino, Italy ...