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Students from Mechanical Engineering department at Cal State Northridge placed first in the recent National Design Competition sponsored by
AHETEMS/SHPE! http://www.ahetems.org/2009-shpe-confere nce/competitions/
Source: www.ahetems.org

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology
iGEM 2009 results are in - undergraduate competition aimed at designing genetically engineered machines.
source: http://ung.igem.org/Results?year=2009
Source: ung.igem.org
This page reports the result of the iGEM competition for 2009. You can visit the team's wiki by clicking on the team's name. You can see what medal the team won and view the slides from their presentation, a video of their presentation, and their poster using the other icons.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology Genes and Disease - how easy is it to translate genetic information into treatments for disease? David H. Freedman writes an article with his impressions. source: Fast Company
Source: www.fastcompany.com
When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology Registration opens today for the CSU Biotechnology Symposium! source: www.calstate.edu/csuperb

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology
Trend Comparison: numbers of Ph.Ds against NIH funding against New Medical Entities.
sources: In the Pipeline and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Source: pipeline.corante.com
Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several ...

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology
The American Chemical Society reports on the top biotech companies to work for....
source: Chemical & Engineering News, October 19, 2009
Source: pubs.acs.org
Employees at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals participate in a variety of extracurricular activities, including this dragon-boat race in The Woodlands, Texas.

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What can you learn from your genome sequence? Stephen Quake discusses what he discovered. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8eb5lgp oQ
Source: www.youtube.com
The first few times that scientists mapped out all the DNA in a human being in 2001, each effort cost hundreds of millions of dollars and involved more than 250 people. Stephen Quake discusses sequencing his own genome and what he finds.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology
Biotech grads need to know how to deal with an 'internet scale' of data.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/techno logy/12data.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Source: www.nytimes.com
Google and I.B.M. are offering help to universities to get students to cope with vast amounts of data.

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Francis Collins, the new NIH Chief, talks about genetics, translating basic science to address public health, and makes predictions about funding levels if the NIH budget goes back to pre-stimulus package levels.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health /06nih.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc&_r=
Source: www.nytimes.com
The new head of the National Institutes of Health rejects the notion that faith and science conflict in substantial ways.
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CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology wrote on 22nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium's Wall.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology wrote on 22nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium's Wall.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology wrote on 22nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium's Wall.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology wrote on 22nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium's Wall.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology wrote on 22nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium's Wall.

CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology wrote on 22nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium's Wall.














