Agilent Technologies Inc and SRI International have announced they have signed a licensing agreement to offer laboratory research customers a package that combines Agilent’s latest release of GeneSpring GX, GeneSpring NGS, Mass ...
As published in the December 20 issue of Nature, an international consortium of scientists has assembled a 'gold standard' sequence of the simplest cotton variety (Gossypium raimondii) and compared it to 'draft' sequences of three other ...
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As part of the recent Plant and Animal Genomic Conference held in San Diego, Dr. Don Jones of Cotton Incorporated presented the 2012 Cotton Biotechnology Award to five outstanding researchers that were instrumental in mapping the cotton ...
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Agilent Technologies Inc and WiCell have announced that WiCell is now offering comparative genomic hybridisation plus single nucleotide polymorphism microarray analysis using the Agilent SurePrint G3 Human Genome CGH+SNP Microarray. ...
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SAP’s new option to pair HANA with its Business Suite, using in-memory database technology as opposed to a disk storage mechanism, could well end up leaving the competition behind, according to Sam Alkharrat, Managing Director, SAP ...
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In a shot heard round the GM world,Mark Lynas,a pioneer in the anti-GM movement,came out as a full-fledged advocate of genetic crop modification. Speaking at a farming conference Jan.3,in Oxford,England,Lynas'blunt words served as both ...
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A mitochondrial DNA microarray has been developed to detect animal contamination in Canadian watershed samples. The results confirm that the mitochondrial microarray method could accurately detect the dominant animals present in water ...
The analysis of DNA mutations in patients with cancer can be carried out without surgery. This is according to new research from AACC's Clinical Chemistry journal, which demonstrated that the plasma of cancer patients also includes ...
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Genome Interpretation Company Omicia has named Mike Aicher as the new chief executive officer (CEO). Previously, Aicher worked at National Genetics Institute (NGI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), ...
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Network World-A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices,as part of a phishing scheme. MORE ON ANDROID:Hottest Android ...
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Congress may need to pass legislation that limits the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. The growing use of facial recognition technology ...
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Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
Retailer Walmart has rolled out a new search engine based on semantic search technology, that not only helps users find items they want on its website, but also delivers results based on their interests and likely intent, the company said ...
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The ability to spin a good yarn recently kept an international team of researchers focused on Gossypium raimondii,the simplest cotton genome.The researchers,including Jeremy Schmutz,faculty investigator at HudsonAlpha and head of the plant ...
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Apple is considering licensing a custom radio streaming service similar to Pandora, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The company recently started negotiations with record labels for such a service, which would still take ...
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