Media Highlights

Gatekeeper's Burden

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Nature
Date published: 
April 1, 2010
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It takes a special combination of thick skin and scientific enthusiasm to be a journal editor.  Kendall Powell gets tips from a chosen few.

HudsonAlpha's Dr. Chris Gunter was featured in this Nature story on scientific.  Gunter was an editor at Nature before joining HudsonAlpha as director of research affairs.  Download the .pdf to read the full article.

Diatherix Laboratories rolls out gastrointestinal test panel

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Medical Devices Business Review
Date published: 
March 30, 2010
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Diatherix Laboratories has added a gastrointestinal (GI) panel to its lineup of sensitive, response diagnostic tests. Diatherix GI panel can detect and differentiate nine types of GI infections and helps physicians to identify severe, life-threatening infections in patients.

The GI panel provides physicians with accurate test results in one day by which patients can be more effectively treated through targeted therapeutics which reduces overall medical costs and a patient's down time.

Hospital partnership could speed up diagnosis of infectious diseases

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Dayton Daily News
Date published: 
March 12, 2010
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Kettering Medical Center working with Alabama company to improve care, save money.

By Ben Sutherly
Staff Writer

KETTERING — Kettering Medical Center expects a partnership with an infectious disease diagnostic company to improve patient care and save the hospital money through more rapid diagnoses.

Alabama's economy: After cotton

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The Economist
Date published: 
March 11, 2010
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Alabama’s small cities are poised for recovery

TUCKED between the Tombigbee river and a rural highway meandering north from Mobile sits a warren of huge buildings in Willy Wonka-colours: sea-foam blue and green, desert beige and mauve. Though they look like a modern-art installation, in fact they comprise a new steel mill being built by ThyssenKrupp, a German company. According to ThyssenKrupp the $3.7 billion mill represents the largest German investment in America ever. When it reaches full capacity in 2012, it will employ 2,700 workers and produce some 5.1m tons of carbon and stainless steel per year.

Careers Beyond the Bench

News Outlet: 
Science
Date published: 
March 5, 2010
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Dr. Chris Gunter, HudsonAlpha director of research affairs, followed an academic track that typically leads to the lab.  Along the way she stepped off that track and chose a path less traveled. Read about Gunter and other scientists in Careers beyond the bench, a career advice feature appearing in the March 5 edition of Science.  Download and read the PDF article above.
 

Clarient launches new lung cancer test

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Clarient Investor Relations
Date published: 
February 10, 2010
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Clarient Insight Dx Pulmotype is the first commercial test launched following the recent acquisition of HudsonAlpha resident associate Applied Genomics Inc.  AGI developed Pulmotype and recently validated the test with a clinical study cohort of more than 1,000 patients.  The peer-reviewed results were published in the August 2009 edition of Modern Pathology.  A link to that study can be accessed at www.clarientinc.com/pulmotype.

Roche's 454 Eyes Immune Repertoire Sequencing as Key Application for Long-Read Platform

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GenomeWeb Daily News
Date published: 
February 2, 2010
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By Monica Heger

Immunogenetics is likely to be a key and growing application for 454 sequencing, Michael Egholm, vice president of research and development at Roche's 454 business told In Sequence last week.

While some researchers are looking at short-read platforms such as the Illumina Genome Analyzer for immunogenetics applications, Egholm said that the long, accurate read lengths that can be achieved using 454's technology make it ideal for immune profiling.

In the place of researchers

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The Birmingham News
Date published: 
January 27, 2010
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By William Thornton
News staff writer

Students at Hewitt-Trussville and McAdory high schools got a peek this month at the elemental building blocks of life - and the future, revealed in a drop of genetic material.

For the 23 students of Chris Walters' biomedical sciences class at Hewitt-Trussville, they were put in the place of genetic counselors using DNA to determing which members of a family might develop a form of cancer.

Skills to help you become a scientific editor

News Outlet: 
Bio Careers
Date published: 
January 25, 2010

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Thinking about going into scientific editing, or even just having a better success rate with getting your papers published in the journal of your choice?  If you’re in graduate school or your postdoctoral training, there are steps you can take now to pick up valuable skills.

O.K. Smarty: How I went into science editing

News Outlet: 
Bio Careers
Date published: 
January 22, 2010

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Although I am the kind of person who knew she wanted to work in human genetics since she was young, I have always found it hard to specialize and work on only one problem at a time.  My undergraduate degree was in both genetics and biochemistry, which are normally in two different schools, even though they are intimately related.  Thus, there were a lot of extra courses and negotiations between two advisors to get the curricula to fit.  I earned my Ph.D. in genetics, but in a department of biochemistry.