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Bio-IT World
October 2005
Dennis A. Gilbert |
The DNA Sequencing Race: From Sprint to Marathon To create faster, cheaper, and better solutions for DNA analysis, we must remain committed to improving both current and new sequencing technologies. Research that just a short while ago might have been considered too complex, too expensive, or just inconceivable is now well within our grasp.   |
Bio-IT World
June 15, 2003
Malorye Branca |
A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery? |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
National Defense
June 2011
Eric Beidel |
Industry, Academia Race to Create Drugs Against Biological Warfare On the heels of anthrax comes a string of deadly agents that scientists also fear can be used as weapons and spread with ease. |
National Defense
June 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Agencies Scramble to Create Vaccine Market Defense and Homeland Security are pursuing disparate vaccination programs to combat different needs for military and civilian populations. |
Bio-IT World
January 21, 2005
Mark D. Uehling |
How to Find a New TB Drug Scientists at Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) have announced the first novel class of antibiotics in 40 years. The diarylquinolines, as the new compounds will be known, could offer shorter treatment regimens and be a precise weapon against tuberculosis. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Opening the Floodgates Researchers are using exome sequencing -- zeroing in on the genes that encode proteins -- to explore the biology of certain diseases. |
Bio-IT World
September 2005
Kevin Davies |
Fantastic 454: DNA Sequencing Pyrotechnics In an exciting advance for DNA sequencing technology, a research team at 454 Life Sciences Corp. has essentially sequenced and assembled a bacterial genome sequence based on a mere 4-hour run on the company's proprietary instrument. |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Kevin Davies |
With a Click of the Mouse What do Eminem and Mus musculus have in common? About 30,000 genes, for a start. The author mulls over the second mammalian genome. |
National Defense
November 2005
Margaret Davidson |
Biodefense Experts: Vaccines `At a Crossroads' Many of the companies seeking government funds for biodefense work are small firms with no experience in bringing a drug to market. And they face a significant challenge. |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Maureen McDonough |
Celera Releases Genome Data In a decision that essentially marks the end of the genome wars, Celera Genomics will release its formerly proprietary human, mouse, and rat genome sequences to the public domain. |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Julia Boguslavsky |
Genome Center in a Box Scientists at 454 Life Sciences developed an integrated end-to-end instrument that performs hundreds of thousands of reactions in parallel -- from sample preparation, amplification, and sequencing to data storage and bioinformatics. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Rotem Sorek |
Alternative Splicing: Listen to the Mouse The completed mouse genome may help to finally pin down the size of the transcriptome. |
Wired
December 2002
Douglas McGray |
Supermicrobe Man First Craig Venter cracked the human genome. Now he wants to sequence the ocean and save the world. |
Chemistry World
July 13, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Naked mole-rat genome holds clue to beating cancer The recently published draft sequence of the naked mole-rat genome promises to reveal the secrets of its long and remarkably cancer-free existence, potentially providing new targets for anti-cancer drugs. |
Wired
August 2000
Jennifer Hillner |
Area 22 The inside story of the first fully sequenced chromosome. |
Bio-IT World
October 2005
Kevin Davies |
Monkey Business The impact of the chimpanzee genome is not confined to science. It offers an urgent reminder of the endangered status of many primate species. |
National Defense
June 2011
Grace V. Jean |
U.S. Strategy To Combat Bioterrorism Takes Global View The Defense Department has embarked on a multi-hundred-million dollar effort to protect troops from bioterrorism. Its strategy focuses on containing potential outbreaks in areas of the world where pathogens are known to exist. |
Bio-IT World
Dec 2006/Jan 2007
Kevin Davies |
The One Percent Difference New research reveals a shocking new layer of human genome variation with profound implications for the future of genomic analysis and personalized medicine. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002 |
Craig Venter Unvarnished (part II) The former Celera CEO covers privacy, ESTs, and his new research institutes. |
National Defense
July 2009 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories 7 Deadly Myth article draws comment. |
National Defense
September 2011
David C. Ake |
Technology Only a Small Part of Detecting Bioterrorist Threats Perched on rooftops in 30 different U.S. cities are machines that sniff the air searching for weaponized pathogens that could harm the general public. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
John Carey |
The NIH's Roadmap for Research Charting the human genome was just the beginning. Now the focus is creating pathways that will lead to practical applications. |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005 |
A Genome Pioneer Looks Forward Dr. Francis Collins discusses the end of the Human Genome Project and says an "outpouring of discoveries" is coming soon. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Plague fears A bioterrorism expert talks about the wicked ways of anthrax and the even deadlier potential scourge of smallpox... |
National Defense
June 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Research Challenge: How to Defend Against Still-Undefined Chemical, Biological Attacks Military scientists are often criticized for not working fast enough and for not pushing technologies into the field more expeditiously. Those working in chemical and biological sciences are no exception. |
Searcher
March 2002
Eva Perkins |
Bioterrorism Resources on the Internet: A Primer What is bioterrorism? Which organizations and governmental agencies publish in this area? Using the power of the beloved Internet, one can easily and quickly access a wealth of information. Here's how to do it... |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
Robert M. Frederickson |
Tests for Hospital-Acquired Infections Tests for pathogens increasingly rely on genomic methods that identify specific genetic signatures of bacteria or viruses. Rapid detection of other pathogens also provides the potential for significant impact on the healthcare industry. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2010
Prachi Patel |
Computing the Neanderthal Genome New software helped decode the DNA of our stone-age cousins |
National Defense
June 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Government Contracts Focus on Vaccines, Emergency Response Since October 2006, 13 contracts have been awarded to industry and academia, ranging in value from $2.7 million to $28 million. |
Bio-IT World
April 2006
Karen Hopkin |
AGBT Meeting Puts Genome Advances Front and Center If the presentations at February's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) are any indication, the race to generate fresh approaches to produce more sequence for less is far from over -- and looks to be heating up. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2011
James Mitchell Crow |
Sequencing Chip Decodes DNA Proton by Proton Technology that can directly detect the chemical reaction as a single nucleotide adds to the end of a growing strand of DNA is about to slash the cost of genome sequencing, its inventors say. |
Salon.com
February 13, 2001
Arthur Allen |
Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly... |
Bio-IT World
November 12, 2002
Davies et al. |
John Craig Venter Unvarnished The former Celera CEO talks about that company's politics, the future of sequencing technology, and his own genome. |
Bio-IT World
November 2005 |
News Blast Applied Biosystems contributes 400,000 primers... Researchers have discovered the full genetic sequence of many different strains of the flu... Sigma-Aldrich launches Panorama Human Cancer Version 1 Protein Functional Microarray... |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2010
Brian Orelli |
$1,000 Genomes, Here We Come Illumina jumps on news of its $10,000 genome. |
Wired
April 2006
Steve Olson |
Bringing Back the Brontosaurus Digging for fossils is for dinosaurs. Today's animal trackers are using genomics to reconstruct, and one day resurrect, the original hot-blooded beast. |
National Defense
February 2013
Stew Magnuson |
New Way to Test Airborne Pathogens Slated for BioWatch Program The technology will be applied to the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, which places sniffers in various U.S. cities in order to detect the release of biological weapons, as well as the Army's Next Generation Diagnostics System |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011 |
Crucibles of Dynamism Puzzling pockets of redundancy account for about 5 percent of the human genome. Investigator Evan Eichler found a way to interpret what is happening in these areas of genetic repetition. |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Jason B. Lee |
Profiting from the BioShield How can software developers ensure a share of the tremendous biodefense funding available to bio-IT companies -- and what are the risks? |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
The invisible nightmare Biological weapons are not that hard to produce, says a sober new book written before Sept. 11 -- and they're getting easier all the time... |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Silicon chip spots dangerous pathogens in human blood Scientists in China have developed a silicon chip doped with silver nanoparticles that can rapidly detect different pathogens in blood samples. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Eliza Strickland |
The Gene Machine and Me Ion Torrent's chip-based genome sequencer is cheap, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine |
Bio-IT World
June 17, 2004
Michael A. Goldman |
A Hip Approach to Gene Hunting IntegraGen defines the genetic blueprint of complex human diseases and delivers validated disease markers and therapeutic targets for a better diagnosis and a causal treatment of common diseases, based on its unique genomic analysis expertise. |
Bio-IT World
August 15, 2005
Robert M. Frederickson |
What's 'Post' About Postgenomic? Bioinformatics tools can help organize and study genomic sequences that were discovered in the '90s. The tools help with tasks like analyzing gene expression, predicting protein structure and function, and establishing networks of interacting protein in cells. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies. |
Scientific American
November 2008
John Dudley Miller |
Postal Anthrax Aftermath: Has Biodefense Spending Made Us Safer? The Anthrax attacks in 2001 led to a massive increase in biodefense funding, which critics claim has done more harm than good |
Salon.com
February 26, 2002
Annalee Newitz |
Genome liberation The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned... |
Bio-IT World
February 2006
Kevin Davies |
Solexa Readies 1G Genetic Analyzer Solexa, one of the firms vying to crack the $1,000 genome threshold, has officially launched its first commercial genome sequencing instrument. |
National Defense
March 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Company Creates BioWatch 'Lab in a Box' After six years of development, a technology firm says it has created what has been a holy grail for the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program: a laboratory in a box. |
