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Custom Spine Announces New Board of Directors and CFO

...ntly conducting human trials with a revolutionary airway rescue system for asthmatics in crisis. Previously, Mr. Pastena served as President - CEO of ebi and Corporate Vice President of Biomet and grew sales from $80 million to just under $500 million . Additionally, Doug Daniels, President /CEO and Dir...

Mapping gene expression with Gene Expression Atlas

...After a phase of development, the Atlas is ready to begin its own life as an independent major resource. Misha Kapushesky, Atlas project leader at the ebi commented, "While the ArrayExpress Archive makes data from high throughput functional genomics assays available to experts, Gene Expression Atlas pres...

Veterans Health Administration Selects Essi Systems as Sole Source Provider to Reduce Workplace Stress

...ployees are our most valuable asset, so it's important that we provide them with tools that enrich their lives in the workplace and at home," said Dr. ebi Awosika, director of employee health promotion disease prevention (VISN 23 Pilot). "We're creating a program that is measurable and sustainable, and w...

Climate Change May Boost Contact With Pollutants

...t in high-income countries, when precursor emissions are held constant, which would increase morbidity and mortality," wrote review authors Kristie L. ebi and Glenn McGregor. "The potential impact of climate change on ozone concentrations have not been projected for low-income countries, many of which cu...

Climate change will affect public health -- a call to action

...lth activity will have to focus on adaptation reducing harm from the effects of climate change. Key principles of adaptation are discussed by Kristie ebi and Jan Semenza, and lessons learned from public health disaster preparedness are described by Mark Keim. Margalit Younger et al. expand on the ways i...

Evidence-Based Investing: M.D. Turned Financial Advisor Diagnoses What Ails Most Investors

...sor in the Department of Family Medicine with the University of Illinois. ebi is based on the concept of "evidence-based medicine," which was first used ...ing." WHITE PAPER: DIAGNOSING WHAT AILS CONVENTION INVESTING The Savant ebi white paper reviews the arguments supporting the conventional approach to i...

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EBI in Biological News

European Commission funds EBI to do new research on synergies between bioinformatics and medical informatics

In findings with implications for pandemic influenza, a new study reports for the first time that a less-virulent strain of avian influenza virus can spread from poultry to humans. The research appears in the October 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Crossing t...

The coming of biofuels: Study shows reducing gasoline emissions will benefit human health

...ng that fuel, and finally the actual combustion and use of the biofuel." ebi is a partnership between UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, the University of Illinois and BP, the energy corporation that has provided ebi with a 10-year $500-million grant. Part of its mission is to look into the ...

Issues at intersection of climate change and health impact global well-being

...lth activity will have to focus on adaptation reducing harm from the effects of climate change. Key principles of adaptation are discussed by Kristie ebi and Jan Semenza, and lessons learned from public health disaster preparedness are described by Mark Keim. Margalit Younger et al. expand on the ways i...

Energy Biosciences Institue named "Deal of Distinction" by tech-transfer group

...novations in developing and handling these crops are being pioneered. ebi Deputy Director Steve Long, a professor of crop sciences and affiliate of t...sity and Government Laboratory Transactions sector of the organization, the ebi contract is "unique in scope and represents an innovative model for collabo...

Open access to large-scale drug discovery data

...ug. BioFocus DPI licensed this information to pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide. As part of the Wellcome Trust grant announced today, the ebi will obtain the rights to the databases from BioFocus DPI. The award will make it possible to provide free access to this information for all research...

Minimum information standards -- all for 1 and 1 for all

...ded in the research publication to provide direct access to the proteomic information, mass spectra and molecular interaction data. The interconnected ebi data resources serve not only to hold the direct experimental results, but also set them within a wider biological context, for example, by linking th...

EBI in Biological Dictionary

Splicing

...e more common-forcing genomics ... Alternative splicing was first found in viruses and a ... The Alternative Splicing Database Project at the ebi aims to analyse the mechanism of alternative splicing , and in the process create a high quality dataset. SAMSON is known for providing easy-to-fo...

Sequence homology

...modeling, we have the sequence of a protein for which ... Sequence homology in which the scoring system is the same as for conventional ... ebi Tools: Homology and Similarity: blast, fasta, MPsrch, scanps ... Nucleotide sequence similarity searching against the Ligand Gated Ion Channel ....

Alternative splicing

...finition of a "gene" ... Alternative splicing is of great importance for genetics it ... The Alternative Splicing Database Project at the ebi aims to analyse the mechanism of alternative splicing , and in the process create a high quality dataset. Alternative Splicing . Solving Big ...