New! NIH Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) API
Want to automate submitting genetic test-related information to the NIH Genetic Testing Registry? Now you can! In September 2022, GTR released a submission API that supports fully automated submission of test data to GTR. The new API is one more way, in addition to the Submission Portal wizard and bulk submission using a spreadsheet template, … Continue reading New! NIH Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) API →
Source: NCBI Insights - October 6, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) Source Type: news

Scientists race to test vaccines for Uganda ’s Ebola outbreak
A multipronged international effort has begun to pull out all the stops to launch trials of experimental Ebola vaccines in Uganda, which declared an outbreak of the deadly disease on 20 September. According to the most recent World Health Organization (WHO) update, Uganda has had 18 confirmed and 18 suspected cases of Ebola, including 23 deaths—an unusually high case fatality rate of 64%. A trial of a vaccine candidate that’s farthest along in development could launch before the end of next month. Proven vaccines exist for Zaire ebolavirus, which has led to a dozen outbreaks in the neighboring Democratic Republic ...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 29, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

INTEGRA launches WELLJET – a revolutionary new and affordable reagent dispenser
INTEGRA Biosciences has developed the WELLJET family of dispensers to reduce running costs, increase productivity and provide longer walk-away times for bulk microplate filling and reagent dispensing.
Source: The Scientist - September 23, 2022 Category: Science Tags: The Scientist The Marketplace Source Type: news

Genes for seeds arose early in plant evolution, ferns reveal
The emergence of seed-producing plants more than 300 million years ago was an evolutionary watershed, opening new environments to plants and ultimately leading to the flowering plants that brighten our world and supply much of our food. But it was less of a leap than it seems, newly published DNA sequences suggest. The genomes, from three fern species and a cycad, one of the oldest kinds of seed-bearing plants, show genes key to making seeds are the same as those in the spore-producing machinery of ferns, which emerged tens of millions of years earlier. They evidently existed in a common ancestor but were recruited in...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 22, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

Curb hunger with a big breakfast but don't count on it for weight loss
Many people eat the bulk of their calories at night, limiting breakfast due to busy workdays and school mornings, and experts have long thought eating late added to weight gain or hindered weight loss. You should eat light at night and make breakfast your biggest meal, earlier research has shown, to give your body time to burn off excess calories throughout the day.
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Inside NASA ’s Struggle to Launch America Back to the Moon
Since Aug. 17, NASA’s massive Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket has stood silent on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, towering over the Florida swamps. By any measure it’s a beautiful machine; by any measure it’s a promising machine; and by any measure it’s been a troubled machine—especially over the past two weeks. On Aug. 29 and again on Sept. 3, the rocket’s six engines were supposed to light, generating a record 8.8 million lbs. (4 million kg) of thrust, muscling the hardware stack off the pad and hurling it toward space. Had things gone according to NASA’s plans, the SL...
Source: TIME: Science - September 7, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized feature healthscienceclimate Space Source Type: news

Government gives in-principle nod to 3 states for setting up bulk drug parks
As per the proposals submitted by the states, the park will come up in 1,402.44 acres of land in Una district of Himachal Pradesh; 2,015.02 acres of land in Bharuch district of Gujarat, and 2,000.45 acres of land in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. "The three states were instructed to submit their detailed project reports in the next 90 days, to appraise the same and to process for issuance of final approval under the scheme," the ministry said.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - September 1, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Announcing GenBank Release 251.0
GenBank release 251.0 (8/15/2022) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 19.55 trillion bases and 2.94 billion records. The current release has 239,915,786 traditional records containing 1,492,800,704,497 base pairs of sequence data. There are also 2,024,099,677 WGS records containing 17,511,809,676,629 base pairs of sequence data, 560,196,830 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 497,501,380,386 … Continue reading Announcing GenBank Release 251.0 → The post Announcing GenBank Release 251.0 appeared first on NCBI Insights.
Source: NCBI Insights - August 18, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New GenBank Source Type: news

Illumina Helped the World Fight COVID-19. Now, CEO Francis deSouza Has Monkeypox in His Sights
As chief executive of San Diego-based genomic sequencing company Illumina, Francis deSouza feels well-placed to witness the world’s next great scientific transformation. “I really believe that just like the 20th century was the era of the bit and the digital revolution, the 21st century is likely to be remembered as the era of the genome,” he says. “We’re seeing that play out in terms of genomic-based screening and diagnostics emerging, like Illumina’s offerings, but we’re also seeing the emergence of genomic-based medicine.” DeSouza’s excitement is understandable. Well...
Source: TIME: Health - August 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Simons Tags: Uncategorized biztech2030 The Leadership Brief Source Type: news

What to Know About Peripheral Artery Disease —and Its Connection to Diabetes
When we think of clogged arteries, most of us think about the heart. “But buildup of fatty plaques can happen in any artery, including those that carry blood away from the heart,” says Dr. Samuel Kim, a preventive cardiologist and lipidologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. The arteries that branch out and feed into our arms and legs make up the bulk of what we call peripheral arteries. And the narrowing in these vessels is referred to as peripheral artery disease (PAD), a common condition in which the legs or arms don’t receive sufficient blood flow. “Interestingly, arteries in our legs and...
Source: TIME: Health - August 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lala Tanmoy Das Tags: Uncategorized Disease freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Are space scientists ready for Starship —the biggest rocket ever?
.news-article__hero--featured .parallax__element{ object-position: 20% 25%; -o-object-position: 20% 25%; } NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. It began on 9 October 2009, when the hull of a spent Centaur rocket stage smashed into Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, with the force of about 2 tons of TNT. And it ended minutes later, when a trailing spacecraft flew through and analyzed the lofted plume of debris before it, too, crashed. About 6% of the plume was water, presumably from ice trapped in the shadowed depths of the crater, where the temperature never...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

A Day in the Life of a Deployed Services to Armed Forces Team Member in Eastern Europe
Lorie Warchol, who is normally based in Louisiana, is now one of 50 American Red Cross workers who have deployed to bases in Europe to support U.S. troops since the war in Ukraine began 6 months ago. While on base in Eastern Europe, Lori plays an integral role in supporting all the organizational activities for deployed troops in her region. As a Site Lead, she helps connect military families during times of crisis by delivering emergency messages from loved ones to service members in the area. In addition, a huge component of Lori’s role is to offer a sense of home and ‘normalcy’ for troops serving overseas by provi...
Source: Red Cross Chat - August 9, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: American Red Cross Tags: Military Support american red cross Day in the Life Deployments emergency communications emergency communications message SAF service to the armed forces veteran Source Type: news

Femoral shaft fracture in post-polio syndrome patients: case series from a Level-I trauma center and review of literature - Gupta A, Saurabh S, Trikha T, Karpe A, Mittal S.
BACKGROUND: Femoral shaft fracture in patients of post-polio syndrome (PPS) represents an uncommon yet complex injury pattern. Poorly developed soft-tissue envelope, decreased muscle bulk, reduced vascularity, regional osteopenia, joint contractures, and a...
Source: SafetyLit - August 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

U.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year
The Department of Health and Human Services delayed asking the manufacturer to process the bulk vaccine the government already owned into vials.
Source: NYT Health - August 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sharon LaFraniere, Noah Weiland and Joseph Goldstein Tags: Monkeypox Vaccination and Immunization Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Bavarian Nordic AS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Food and Drug Administration Becerra, Xavier Source Type: news

Bulk of genetic testing pioneer's 1,000 layoffs will be in San Francisco
The 12-year-old company that has acquired several other companies over the past couple of years to expand its range of services for genetic information management, will cut almost 50 jobs in Southern California as well.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - July 29, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news

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