Tuesday, January 5, 2010

“Bad Biology DVD Arrives January 26 - ShockTillYouDrop.com” plus 4 more

“Bad Biology DVD Arrives January 26 - ShockTillYouDrop.com” plus 4 more

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Bad Biology DVD Arrives January 26 - ShockTillYouDrop.com

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 08:27 AM PST

Media Blasters, Inc. and Fever Dreams, LLC. will release acclaimed director Frank Henenlotter's new twisted tale of love and weirdness Bad Biology on a special edition DVD January 26th.

Bad Biology marks the first new film from Henenlotter in over 16 years, who wrote and directed the Basket Case trilogy, Frankenhooker and Brain Damage. He's also been responsible for reissuing an enormous volume of vintage 60s and 70s horror and exploitation movies via the company Something Weird Video.

Driven by biological excess, Bad Biology is about a young woman (Charlee Danielson) and man's (Anthony Sneed) search for their own perverse sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. One day, due to an unfortunate quirk of destiny, they cross paths! The highly volatile physical and mental bonding of these two very unusual human beings (a polite term for 'freaks') spirals toward an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience for both them and viewers alike! When the smoke clears, the end result is a truly messy, god-awful love story that will long be remembered.

Celebrated underground rapper R.A. "The Rugged Man" Thorburn produced Bad Biology, which features eye-popping, bizarre special effects concocted by the always demented Gabe Bartalos and a killer soundtrack from Prince Paul and a horde of hip hop heavies. Shot on glorious old school 35mm celluloid, Bad Biology is already on the way to becoming a modern cult classic.

For our Los Angeles readers, Henenlotter will be making a rare appearance to sign copies of the Bad Biology DVD at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA on Saturday, February 7th. For more details, visit the Dark Del site right here.

And as an added bonus, below is a recent appearance from the filmmaker on the web-series "America's Bad Kids", which was shot at this past November's New York City Horror Film Festival where Henenlotter was honored with a lifetime achievement award. Enjoy!

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Biology professor Hidde Ploegh on global pandemics - MIT News

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 08:41 AM PST

The MIT Museum
Soap Box series presents
Hidde Ploegh, Professor of Biology and Member,  Whitehead Institute
Global Pandemics

In his role as a biochemist, Hidde Ploegh explains the "essential features of the lifestyle of the flu virus" discussing not only how viruses work to invade our systems and cause the flu, but also adding insights into the political and societal framework in which public health groups and governments deal viral disease.

(From MIT World)


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New handbook for biologists who need more competence or confidence in ... - Genetic Engineering News

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 08:13 AM PST

Jan 5 2010, 11:20 AM EST

New handbook for biologists who need more competence or confidence in statistics

EUREKALERT

Contact: Ingrid Benirschke
benirsch@cshl.edu
619-275-6021
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Jan. 5, 2010) -- New technologies such as microarrays, next-generation sequencing, and proteomics have dramatically increased the need for quantitative reasoning among biologists when designing experiments and interpreting results. Even the most routine informatics tools rely on statistical assumptions and methods that need to be appreciated if the scientific results are to be correct, understood, and exploited fully.

Statistics at the Bench: A Step-by-Step Handbook for Biologists, just released by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, is a convenient research companion for biologists who need to perform or interpret elementary and intermediate statistical analyses. Descriptions of statistical calculations are accompanied by commands for performing them in Excel, a software application familiar to biologists. This way, biologists can feel comfortable performing the tests themselves, without having to learn the complex commands and codes common in statistical software packages.

The book was written by Martina Bremer (San Jose State University) and Rebecca W. Doerge (Purdue University), both well-respected practitioners and teachers of statistics in biology. "Today, computationally trained biologists are gaining a competitive edge in science," Bremer and Doerge write in the introductory chapter. "Our purpose in providing this Manual is to assist biologists in becoming fluent and comfortable in the language of quantitative reasoning and to facilitate open and informed communication between the biological and the quantitative sciences."

The handbook is aimed at working biologists with little statistical or quantitative background, those who need a quick refresher, or those seeking a general overview of a statistical procedure. It describes statistical tests and calculations, commands for performing them in Excel, and guidelines for interpreting the results. Terms, concepts, and underlying principles are clearly explained, common pitfalls are discussed, and the methods are illustrated with examples of biological relevance.

About the book: Statistics at the Bench: A Step-by-Step Handbook for Biologists (ISBN 978-087969857-7; 2010 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) was written by Martina Bremer (Department of Mathematics, San Jose State University) and Rebecca W. Doerge (Departments of Statistics and Agronomy, Purdue University). It is 167 pp. in length (illus., indexes), hardcover, and has concealed wire binding. For a complete table of contents and additional information, please see http://www.cshlpress.com/link/statbench.htm.

About Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is an internationally renowned publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, located on Long Island, New York. Since 1933, it has furthered the advance and spread of scientific knowledge in all areas of genetics and molecular biology, including cancer biology, plant science, bioinformatics, and neurobiology. It is a division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an innovator in life science research and the education of scientists, students, and the public. For more information, visit www.cshlpress.com.

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GeneGo to Sell Omicsoft Products - TMCnet

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 07:37 AM PST

TMCNet: GeneGo to Sell Omicsoft Products

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan 05, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that they will be selling Omicsoft products Array Studio and Array Server globally except for Japan. Array Studio is a software package which provides state of the art statistics and visualization for the analysis of high dimensional quantification data (OMICs data). Array Server is an enterprise data repository solution, allowing users to store, share, search, and integrate their microarray/SNP/CNV projects and data. These tools are seamlessly integrated with GeneGo's data mining suites MetaCore(TM) and MetaDrug(TM) allowing in depth analysis of different types of OMICs data.

"We are very delighted to set up this collaboration with GeneGo Inc. At Omicsoft, we focus on biomarker data management, visualization, and analysis. To achieve this, we design software that is easy enough to be used by the bench scientist, but powerful enough to be used by the bioinformatician or statistician. We have also fully analyzed more than 5,000 public datasets for our users. Interpretation of both public and proprietary datasets requires sophisticated bioinformatics tools such as those from GeneGo. GeneGo's success in this area is unparalleled, and we hope to contribute to their continued success with this agreement. The collaboration was triggered by the same feature-on-demand philosophy shared by the two companies: improving our solutions based on customer requests. With this partnership, Omicsoft can continue to focus on new technology developments, including next generation sequencing enterprise solutions," said Jack Liu, President of Omicsoft. "Interpretation of complex OMICs datasets requires both empirical statistical analysis of large data repositories and 'knowledge-based' functional analysis based on manually curated pathways and ontologies. We believe that Omicsoft's and our products are 'best in class' in the corresponding fields, so bundling our solutions makes perfect scientific and commercial sense," said Julie Bryant, GeneGo's VP of Business development. "Many of our customers see the value in easy access, search and retrieval of public domain experimental data, followed by functional 'pathway' analysis, including ontology enrichment, networks and interactome topology. While working with Omicsoft, we were impressed with their tools and now we look forward to representing them in the field." 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.

SOURCE GeneGo, Inc.

http://www.genego.com

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Top brains to advise Legislature - Woodland Daily Democrat

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 02:29 AM PST

SACRAMENTO -- The Legislature will get a whole lot smarter in 2010, thanks to an influx of highly educated scientists and engineers who will be on loan from major universities from across the country.

Ten science and technology fellows have been placed as advisers with the Legislature for one-year terms, free of cost to the public.

In the first-of-its kind statewide program, the California Council on Science and Technology is teaming up with universities and several foundations to provide the services of Ph.D. scientists and engineers to committees and lawmakers.

The fellowships are intended to provide California policy makers with unbiased scientific and technical advice on issues before the state Senate and Assembly, said Lora Lee Martin, the director of the fellowship program. Foundations are funding the $7 million worth of fellowships.

"At a time when the state faces so many difficulties, the idea is that they would be a nice resource to the state," Martin said. "It gives another set of hands and brains to work with staff to tackle complex issues."

Increasingly, state policies revolve around technology and science, including such topics as health care, bioethics, energy and water resource management, Martin said. The fellows will help formulate and evaluate science and technology policy.

The fellows will receive $45,000 stipends from the California Council on Science and Technology, which the Leisglature established in

1988 to provide the Senate and Assembly with expert scientific advice. The fellows went through a legislative "boot camp" in November, learning some of the Legislature's processes. They were assigned to their committees or offices in December and will begin in earnest once lawmakers return from the holiday break on Monday.

The program is modeled on a federal initiative that feeds high-tech academics to congressional staff and committees.

The fellows will be working with Assembly committees concerned with energy and the environment, agriculture, water, food, among others.

Several graduates from UC Davis are included on the team, including:

n Maurice Pitesky, with the Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee. Masters of Preventative Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D., Veterinary Medicine, UC, Davis; M.S. in agriculture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; B.S. in biology, UCLA. Previously a veterinarian with a focus on epidemiology and biostatistics, with a background in agricultural sustainability, food systems and the environment.

n Amber Laura Hartman, with the Environmental Quality Committee. Ph.D. in biology, The Johns Hopkins University; B.S. in biology, Davidson College. Recent graduate researcher at the Genome Center, UC Davis, where she also held teaching assistant and lecturer positions.

n Amber Wright, with the Senate Office of Research. Ph.D., population biology, UC Davis; M.A., conservation biology, Columbia University; cum laude B.S., biological sciences, Cornell University. Recently a graduate student researcher at UC Davis and has held teaching assistant positions at UC Davis and Columbia University.

n Ryan McCarthy, with Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, D-Rialto. Ph.D., M.S., civil and environmental engineering, UC-Davis; cum laude B.S., structural engineering, UC-San Diego. Was a graduate researcher in the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program at UC Davis.

n Jessica Westbrook, the Natural Resources Committee. Ph.D., department of horticulture, Cornell University, with a minor in plant biology; B.S., plant biology, UC Davis. Was a graduate research assistant at Cornell University in the Department of Horticulture.

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