Thursday, October 29, 2009

“GeneGo Launches New Web Site With Free Pathways for the Biology and ... - Yahoo Finance” plus 4 more

“GeneGo Launches New Web Site With Free Pathways for the Biology and ... - Yahoo Finance” plus 4 more

GeneGo Launches New Web Site With Free Pathways for the Biology and ... - Yahoo Finance

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:53 AM PDT

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that they will be launching a new web site with FREE high quality pathway content. On www.genego.com, anyone can now search for genes, proteins, compounds, processes and diseases and access high quality manually curated pathway maps for human, mouse and rat signaling and metabolism. Every step on the pathways is supported by high quality "small experiment" evidence. The web site includes 37 Cystic Fibrosis specific disease maps, the result of a collaborative development project with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF).

GeneGo's new web site also features a new community career section http://www.genego.com/careers.php that anyone can advertise open positions at their companies or institutions. Furthermore, the web site also includes sections with the latest publications using GeneGo technology; it can be searched and there is also product information, events and training sessions on line and at many locations throughout the world.

"With the number of our academic users growing rapidly and GeneGo working with companies to set industry standards, we wanted to 'give back' to the life science community that has been loyal to GeneGo for years," said Julie Bryant, GeneGo's VP of Business development. "For the first time, we are now providing free pathway maps that have been expensive to build and a section to help people find jobs in these tough times. We plan to add more 'community services' in the next 12 months."

About GeneGo, Inc.

GeneGo, Inc. develops systems biology technology such as compound based pathway analysis, cheminformatics & bioinformatics software for life science research. The original computational MetaDiscovery(TM) platform allows an integration and expert analysis of different kinds of experimental data (mRNA expression, proteomics, metabolomics, microRNA assays and other phenotypic data) and relevant bioactive chemistry (metabolites, drugs, other xenobiotics) within the framework of curated biological pathways and networks. GeneGo's flagship product, MetaCore 6.0(TM), assists pharmaceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicology. The second product, MetaDrug 6.0(TM) is designed for prediction of human metabolism, toxicity and biological effects for novel small molecules compounds. MetaBase(TM) represents the knowledge base for MetaCore.

For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.genego.com.

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UGA prof wins $600K stimulus grant - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 07:49 AM PDT

The University of Georgia professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Molecular Biology Stephen Dalton got a $600,000 federal stimulus grant to accelerate research into a type of stem cell that can turn into virtually any cell type, the university reported Thursday.

Scientists recently discovered that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) can be reprogrammed from skin or other easily obtained adult cells. They appear to be similar to stem cells derived from embryos. The cells potentially could be used to treat disorders ranging from spinal cord injury to heart disease to diabetes and may also allow patients' cells to be used in their own medical treatment.

"Our work with iPS cells will hopefully lead to the development of cell therapies for cardiovascular disease and stroke," Dalton said in a news release.

The UGA grant is one of 22 one-year federal stimulus grant supplements awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for iPS cell research. Dalton's research group, based in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology in UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, previously had received a five-year $9.2 million award from NIGMS in 2008 as part of an initiative to uncover the basic biology of human embryonic stem cells.

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Trees Facilitate Wildfires To Protect Habitat - Redorbit.com

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 06:30 AM PDT

Posted on: Thursday, 29 October 2009, 08:33 CDT

Fire is often thought of something that trees should be protected from, but a new study suggests that some trees may themselves contribute to the likelihood of wildfires in order to promote their own abundance at the expense of their competitors.

The study, which appears in the December 2009 issue of the journal The American Naturalist, says that positive feedback loops between fire and trees associated with savannas can make fires more likely in these ecosystems.

"We used a mathematical model to show that positive feedback loops between fire frequency and savanna trees, alone or together with grasses, can stabilize ecological communities in a savanna state, blocking conversion of savannas to forest," said the study's leading author Brian Beckage, associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Vermont. The study's co-authors are William Platt, professor of biology at Louisiana State University, and Louis Gross, director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee. Beckage was a short-term visitor conducting research at NIMBioS in 2009 and will be on sabbatical at NIMBioS in 2010.

The promotion of fire by the savanna trees increases their own abundance by limiting the establishment and growth of tree species that are better competitors for resources and that might ultimately displace the savanna trees. The research results suggest that some trees may modify or "engineer" their environment, including the characteristic fire frequencies in a landscape, to facilitate their own persistence at the expense of their competitors, Beckage said.

The research proposes a scenario for the development of savannas in landscapes that would otherwise become closed forests. Examples of savanna trees that facilitate frequent low-intensity fires include the longleaf pine and the south Florida slash pine, both of which frequently shed their needles providing fodder for wildfires. The savanna tree initially invades grassland, but by facilitating frequent fires, it limits its own density and thus prevents conversion to a forest.

The research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.

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Image Caption: Savanna trees such as these pines may help facilitate frequent fires in order to prevent other trees from displacing savanna trees and shifting the community from an open savanna to a closed forest. Credit: Brian Beckage/UVM

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St. Joseph-Ogden, UI graduate dies in Baghdad - News-Gazette

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 06:16 AM PDT

St. Joseph-Ogden, UI graduate dies in Baghdad

ST. JOSEPH – A coach and teacher remembered Army Maj. David L. Audo, a University of Illinois graduate from St. Joseph who died Tuesday in Baghdad, as a great athlete and a better student.

Jim Acklin said that in his 31 years in education, he met more than 5,000 students, and Maj. Audo stood out, both on the St. Joseph-Ogden High School track team and in honors biology.

"His sense of humor sticks out, and he was ornery in a good way," Acklin said Wednesday.

The Defense Department reported that the highly decorated military police officer, 35, died Tuesday in Baghdad of injuries sustained in a non-combat-related incident.

The cause remains under investigation, and no other details were available from a Defense Department spokeswoman.

According to the Tacoma (Wash.) News-Tribune, he was assigned in July to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of the 22nd Military Police Battalion at Fort Lewis, Wash., and at the time of his death was serving as executive officer for the battalion's forward element in Iraq.

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Audo's military career began after receiving his officer commission in 1997. He took his first military police assignment in Schweinfurt, Germany, served two deployments in Kosovo between 1999 and 2001, did a tour of Iraq in 2003, deployed to Afghanistan in 2005, and in 2006 started a three-year stint as a provost marshal in Southport, N.C.

He was a 1992 graduate of St. Joseph-Ogden High School who went to the UI on a ROTC scholarship, according to News-Gazette files. His civilian education included a bachelor's degree in architecture from the UI in 1998 and a master's degree in business from Webster University in St. Louis in 2002.

He married Rebecca K. Johnson in 1998 in Danville. According to her Web site, they have a son, Austin David, born in 1999, and a daughter, Ashley Marie Elizebeth, born in 2002.

Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

Acklin said Maj. Audo was on the track team as a sprinter, running dashes and relays.

"The team he was on in the spring of 1992 was arguably the strongest dual-meet team we ever had," Acklin said.

Acklin also saw the future major in advanced biology class.

"He was a good student. In senior honors biology, you have to be pretty motivated. He always had a smile on his face, and was excited to be in class. He was part of a group of fun yet challenging students to teach; you had to bring your A game," he said.

Acklin said Maj. Audo was also in the drama club.

On Tuesday, roadside bombings in Afghanistan also killed at least seven soldiers from Fort Lewis, bringing the total U.S. troops killed there in October to at least 55.

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Former MSU football player to return for book signing - News-Leader.com

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 08:39 AM PDT

Former Missouri State football player Jonah White will return to campus for homecoming on Saturday and sign copies of his book, The Billy-Bob Secret to Life, in the MSU bookstore.

White came to MSU as a walk-on in 1988 and graduated in 1993 with a degree in biology. He had four career 100-yard rushing games, eventually earning a scholarship, and was part of two playoff teams.

White used $400 of start-up money in 1995 to become co-founder of the Billy-Bob Teeth Corporation. The novelty item has since produced $50 million in sales.

White's book will be on sale during his 10-11:30 a.m. appearance at the MSU bookstore.

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