URI awarded $13 million grant to develop vaccines for emerging infectious diseases
... said the new Translational Immunology Research and Accelerated Vaccine Development (TRIAD) program will integrate vaccine design studies in silico (via computer simulation) with in vitro and in vivo research. "While the NIH grant is Professor De Groot's first award since joining the URI ...Gene Network Sciences Announces Drug Development Collaboration with Biogen Idec
... with one another in the complete system (Reverse Engineering). These computer-assembled models are then queried rapidly through billions of in silico experiments (Forward Simulation) to discover the highest-impact molecular targets for the disease being studied and the corresponding efficacy and ...Salivary diagnostics, the 'magic mirror' to your health ... at your personal computer
... and non-invasiveness are the most critical characteristics for any diagnostic tool. A new concept, Salivaomics Knowledge Base (SKB), an in silico (i.e., performed on computer or via computer simulation) saliva diagnostic atlas, is launching today during the 37th Annual Meeting of the American ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 5, 2008
... sorted out without losing considerably more drugs in the succeeding steps, the researchers say. MTS ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gradual in silico Filtering for Druglike Substances DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT ARTICLE http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ci700351y CONTACT: Michael C. Hutter Saarland ...Advances in drug screening: building a better haystack for the needles of tomorrow
... The initial screen winnowed the field of potential A1 and A2 inhibitors down to two thousand candidates, enabling researchers to move from the in silico approach to the more traditional wet lab. The researchers then ran the remaining candidates through a gamut of six separate assays, each designed to ...Data Support use of SuperGen's CLIMB Technology in Lead Development and Optimization
... made into a substrate for screening a large, virtual small molecule library. This process generated a subset of leads that were screened using in silico algorithms to identify "druggable" candidates to pursue. Poster C208 (Abstract No. 985) A small molecule inhibitor of Pim-1 kinase with activity in ...New Flu Vaccine From PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus
... for Editors About the European Journal of Immunology Gregory A Stoloff, Wilson Caparros-Wanderly: Synthetic multiepitope peptides identified in silico induce protective immunity against multiple influenza serotypes. European Journal of Immunology. 2007. Copyright Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. ....New Flu Vaccine from PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus
... FOR EDITORS About the European Journal of Immunology Gregory A Stoloff, Wilson Caparros-Wanderly: Synthetic multiepitope peptides identified in silico induce protective immunity against multiple influenza serotypes. European Journal of Immunology. 2007. Copyright Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. ....Researchers iron out new role for serotonin
... also demonstrates the utility of a powerful in silico approach for discovering novel traits linked to ... with the low functioning SERT. From this in silico approach, Blakely and colleagues identified ... The study also demonstrates the power of an in silico approach combined with traditional ...New e-science service could accelerate cancer research
... at The University of Manchester provides access to over 3,500 Web Services that can be composed by scientists for constructing and enacting their in silico experiments. But one of the main issues that hinders the wide adoption and use of Web Services is the difficulty in locating those that perform ...Malfunction of the respiratory epithelium is a cause of allergy?
... and produce much more raw data than hypothesis-derived approaches thus generating an overflow of data. However, the urgent need to develop in silico data managing and analysis environments has been recognized by several research groups and biocompanies. ...Research-based undergraduate course expands beyond Washington University
... in 2006. With that support, she set out to make the course available to undergraduates at institutions across the country. Researching in silico Biology majors at Washington University often begin their research by spending a summer in the laboratory under the guidance of a faculty, ...Researchers apply systems biology and glycomics to study human inflammatory diseases
... glycome reaction network that controls the final glycan structure that appears on cells," Neelamegham explained. "This approach then provides an in silico tool that can be applied to perturb the system of interest, such as the glycosylation network." Those studies, in turn, he continued, can then ...New lab manual focuses on essential methods for purifying and characterizing proteins
... manual, Basic Methods in Protein Purification and Analysis , integrates established in vitro and in vivo molecular techniques with more modern in silico methods. It takes the user from the initial steps of obtaining cellular and subcellular extracts, through the purification and isolation steps ...Work with power grids leads to cell biology discovery
... scientists now are beginning to develop quantitative models of biological systems that allow them to predict cellular behavior. In one in silico experiment (via computer simulation) with E. coli, the researchers found that the deletion of one gene is lethal to the cell but when that same gene ...Researchers discover the structural alphabet of RNA
... a graduate student in his laboratory, to propose a radically different approach to model RNA structure. Their idea: assemble the structure in silico starting from motifs that combine all the possible interactions between a nucleotide and its neighbors. The researchers implemented a first ...From stem cells to organs: The bioengineering challenge
... you have a much better understanding of it than if you just observe it," he says. "And it's also a powerful way to test many different hypotheses in silico before going into the lab and doing the much more difficult experiments in vitro." Dr. Zandstra, the Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell ...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2008 Student Travel Awards
... in Live Cell Membranes Quantified by Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy. Pia Guinto, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in silico and in vitro Characterization of Cardiac Troponin T Mutations Known to Cause Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Nicholas R. Guydosh, ...Genedata Launches Expressionist with Expanded Mass Spectrometry Biomarker Discovery Capabilities
... 133 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) June 1, 2009 -- Genedata , a leading provider of in silico solutions for pharmaceutical R&D and related life sciences, today announced the release of Expressionist 5.2 with enhanced capabilities for Mass ...DNA Software, Inc. Honored as One of the 2009 "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch"
... and therapeutics. OMP™ (Oligonucleotide Modeling Platform™), the core engine that runs all of DNA Software's tools, models in silico the folding and hybridization of nucleic acids with exception accuracy. Visual OMP™ is a platform program for the design, simulation, and ...GeneGo Announces Systems Tox Relationship With Entelos
... predictive technologies to revolutionize the way medicines are discovered, developed, and utilized. The Company leverages its proprietary in silico disease models, "virtual human" technology, and toxicology reference systems to develop safer and more effective drugs, improve the quality of ...Prous Institute Presents Innovative Approach to Drug Discovery
... drug discovery from natural sources, covering type 2 diabetes, psychological stress and asthma. The Institute's computational tools enable the in silico screening of thousands of natural products in a rapid, reliable and cost-effective manner, as well as the discovery of new targets and new uses for ...Lethal Human H5N1 Influenza Virus Replikin Gene Still Upregulated
... concentrated in specific genomic areas. The area of each genome with the highest concentration of continuous replikin peptides has been isolated in silico and named a Replikin Peak Gene (RPG). Using proprietary computer algorithms constructed to identify, count, and track historically this class of ...Pharsight Expands Strategic Consulting Services Team
... will further enhance the services that we can provide to our clients." Dr. Struemper comes to Pharsight from Entelos Incorporated, where he led in silico research and development projects in rheumatoid arthritis, obesity and diabetes. He has broad experience in biomarker identification and evaluation, ...MIDAS TRAQ System with 4000 Q TRAP LC/MS/MS System from Applied Biosystems
Description:... even in complex tissue, proximal fluid, or plasma samples. Design in silico Multiplexed MRM Assays Based on Gene or Protein Sequences. MIDASs Workflow Designer Software enables you to design in silico multiplexed MRM (multiple reaction monitoring) assays based on gene or ...