Local Medical Student Receives National Head Start Scholarship
Bolajoko Adeniyi has always wanted to assist people who were in need of, but couldn’t afford, quality health care. But first the 28-year-old Belleville woman had to take on the high cost of studying medicine.

Penguin Computing Forms OEM Agreement with Applied Biosystems for Scyld ClusterWare
Applied Biosystems to bundle Linux cluster management solution Scyld ClusterWare with next generation genomic analysis sequencing platform

Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Berhad Launches US$4000 Human Genome Bioinformatics Service
MGRC launches Human Genome Bioinformatics Service from only US$4000. This service is specially designed to analyse human genome data from Illumina's Genome Analyzer or Complete Genomics' DNA sequencing platform.

Applied Biosystems Enters New Era of Life-Science Research With Launch of Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Platform: SOLiD(TM) System is Expected to
Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today entered a new era of life-science research by announcing the worldwide commercial availability of the SOLiD(TM) System, the company's highly anticipated next-generation DNA sequencing platform. The SOLiD System is already enabling new ways of performing genetic analysis applications, which may set new standards for how scientists are able to approach complex challenges associated with understanding the biological basis for health and disease. The company made the announcement today at the 57th annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.