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• Sequencing of cacao genome will help US chocolate industry, subsistence farmers

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their partners have announced the preliminary release of the sequenced genome of the cacao tree, an achievement that will help sustain the supply of high-quality cocoa to the $17 billion U.S. chocolate industry and protect the livelihoods of small more

• Roche and IBM Collaborate to Develop Nanopore-Based DNA Sequencing Technology

  Roche and IBM announced an agreement to develop a nanopore-based sequencer that will directly read and decode human DNA quickly and efficiently. Focused on advancing IBM’s recently published “DNA Transistor” technology, the collaboration will take advantage of IBM’s leadership in microelectronics, i more

• 2011: Changes in the Carl Zeiss Executive Board

  At its meeting of 24 June 2010 the Supervisory Board of Carl Zeiss AG passed a unanimous resolution concerning personnel changes in the Executive Board. As planned, President and CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, Dr. Dieter Kurz, will not renew his contract that is due to expire at the end of 2010. Dr. Michael more

Publications IBM

• mTOR dysfunction contributes to vacuolar pathology and weakness in valosin-containing protein associated inclusion body myopathy

  Autophagy is dysfunctional in many degenerative diseases including myopathies. Mutations in valosin-containing protein (VCP) cause inclusion body myopathy (IBM) associated with Paget's disease of the bone, fronto-temporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (IBMPFD/ALS). VCP is necessary for more

• BlueSNP: R package for highly scalable genome-wide association studies using Hadoop clusters

  Summary: Computational workloads for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are growing in scale and complexity outpacing the capabilities of single-threaded software designed for personal computers. The BlueSNP R package implements GWAS statistical tests in the R programming language and executes more

• Localization of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins in neuromuscular diseases

  O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a ubiquitous post-translational modification of nucleocytoplasmic proteins that induces the attachment of N-acetylglucosamine to serine or threonine residues of a protein. In contrast to other protein glycosylations, this modification is highly reversible a more

Market studies IBM

• Singapore Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q3 2011

  BMI View: Singapore is a low-risk pharmaceutical market, propped up by pro-business policies, welldeveloped healthcare provision and high per-capita spending on medicines. However, due to its small size, commercial opportunities will remain limited in terms of their financial potential, although Sin more

• Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (MGIC) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

  Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (MSEL) is engaged in providing application platforms and business integration solutions. The company provides uniPaaS application platform and the iBOLT integration suite. UniPaaS helps in reducing the complexity of application development and deployment and maximizes more

• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference 2011: Review and Analysis

  Introduction GlobalData’s report, “Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference 2011: Review and Analysis” provides key information and analysis on the recently concluded HIMSS 2011 annual conference and exhibition. The report provides information on some of the key take more

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