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Varian launches its 325-MS triple-quadrupole liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer

Varian, Inc. announced today the release of the 325-MS triple-quadrupole LC/MS (liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer) for the efficient detection and identification of chemical compounds in high-throughput laboratories performing environmental, food safety, and toxicology analyses.

6 Nov 2009

Scientists receive $3 million from NIH to uncover how plants make medicinal compounds

Scientists at Michigan State University are receiving nearly $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to uncover how several popular plants make medicinal compounds.

6 Nov 2009

Scientists identify molecular disparity between iPS cells and embryonic stem cells

The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and Harvard.

5 Nov 2009

Scientists identify compounds that hold promise for treating parasitic infection

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, a parasitic infection that many consider one of the world's most overlooked diseases.

4 Nov 2009

Caliper Life Sciences presents the benefits of its LabChip GX platform

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., a leading provider of life sciences tools, presented at a training session for reviewers from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the benefits of the LabChip GX platform for high throughput screening and characterization assays for biological drugs.

3 Nov 2009

Caliper Life Sciences to use SRU Biosystems’ label-free BIND technology for new functional assays

SRU Biosystems today announced that Caliper Life Sciences will use SRU Biosystems’ label-free BIND® technology to offer new functional assays as part of its Discovery Alliances and Services.

3 Nov 2009

InteRNA Technologies and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute team up for cancer research

InteRNA Technologies B.V. and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, USA) have entered into a research agreement to develop microRNA (miRNA)-based therapeutics for cancer.

2 Nov 2009

Researchers discover new bend in gene control

Since the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do not proportionally contain in our genome significantly more gene-control proteins?

30 Oct 2009

DSM Biomedical announces new non-biofouling coating technology for medical applications

DSM Biomedical, a global leader in biomedical materials, today announced the development of VitroStealth™, a breakthrough non-biofouling (NBF) coating technology. Specifically developed to combine state of the art non-biofouling properties with high durability and fast processing, VitroStealth™ coating is scratch resistant and reduces unwanted protein absorption and cellular adhesion on surfaces.

28 Oct 2009

Roche's high-throughput sequencing technology used for high-resolution HLA genotyping

A study published this month in the journal Tissue Antigens reports that researchers at Roche Molecular Systems in Pleasanton, CA have used high-throughput sequencing technology from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, to carry out high-resolution human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotyping in research samples.

27 Oct 2009

ISO 9001:2008 certification for Kapa Biosystems

Life science reagents supplier Kapa Biosystems announced today that its Research, Development and Manufacturing facility has received ISO 9001:2008 certification from SABS Commercial (Pty) Ltd.

27 Oct 2009

Eurogentec to acquire Anaspec, a private proteomics company in California

Eurogentec S.A. (“Eurogentec”) announces today a final agreement for the acquisition of AnaSpec, Inc. (“AnaSpec” or the “Company”), a privately-held proteomics company based in Fremont, California.

24 Oct 2009

NICE open-source software from NIST

Medical clinics the world over could benefit from new software created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where a team of scientists has found a way to improve the efficiency of a pneumonia vaccine testing method developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

23 Oct 2009

Roche NimbleGen and High Throughput Genomics enter into a supply agreement

Roche NimbleGen and High Throughput Genomics, Inc. (HTG), provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA), have entered into a supply agreement. Under the agreement, Roche NimbleGen will provide HTG with high density, multiplex DNA microarray slides for advanced gene expression analysis.

21 Oct 2009

Origene Technologies' acquisition of Marligen Biosciences reinforces its leading position in the bio-medical research industry

OriGene Technologies, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Marligen Biosciences, Inc., a provider of cutting-edge multiplex assays for the Luminex xMAP(R) platform for protein and gene expression profiling assays and testing services, and DNA and RNA purification kits.

20 Oct 2009

GenoLogics and CLC bio to provide end-to-end informatics solution for workflow management

GenoLogics and CLC bio today announced they will provide an end-to-end informatics and analysis solution, optimized for Next Generation Sequencing research that addresses both lab and data management and data analysis all within one integrated system.

19 Oct 2009

Chinese SFDA approves China Medical Technologies' SPR System

China Medical Technologies, Inc., a leading China-based medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets advanced in-vitro diagnostic products, today announced that the Company has received approval for its SPR- based analysis system (the "SPR System") from the State Food and Drug Administration of China (the "SFDA").

19 Oct 2009

First high-throughput analysis of Salmonella Typhi gene

For the first time, researchers are able to look at the need for every gene in a bacterial cell in a single experiment. The new method will transform the study of gene activity and the search for weaknesses in bacterial armouries.

19 Oct 2009

Research study on cowpox virus

In the annals of medicine, Edward Jenner's 1796 vaccination of a young boy against smallpox, using fluid from cowpox blisters, remains a landmark case. In a new study, Kathryn Sykes, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute and her colleagues have taken a fresh look at cowpox.

19 Oct 2009

Research programme to develop immunological biomarkers for chronic inflammatory diseases

Persistent inflammation and the activation of the immune system is the key pathological mechanism affecting many long-term conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease and is the predominant mechanism underlying organ transplant rejection.

19 Oct 2009

High Throughput News and Research

Varian launches its 325-MS triple-quadrupole liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer

Scientists receive $3 million from NIH to uncover how plants make medicinal compounds

Scientists identify molecular disparity between iPS cells and embryonic stem cells

Scientists identify compounds that hold promise for treating parasitic infection

Caliper Life Sciences presents the benefits of its LabChip GX platform

Caliper Life Sciences to use SRU Biosystems’ label-free BIND technology for new functional assays

InteRNA Technologies and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute team up for cancer research

Researchers discover new bend in gene control

DSM Biomedical announces new non-biofouling coating technology for medical applications

Roche's high-throughput sequencing technology used for high-resolution HLA genotyping

ISO 9001:2008 certification for Kapa Biosystems

Eurogentec to acquire Anaspec, a private proteomics company in California

NICE open-source software from NIST

Roche NimbleGen and High Throughput Genomics enter into a supply agreement

Origene Technologies' acquisition of Marligen Biosciences reinforces its leading position in the bio-medical research industry

GenoLogics and CLC bio to provide end-to-end informatics solution for workflow management

Chinese SFDA approves China Medical Technologies' SPR System

First high-throughput analysis of Salmonella Typhi gene

Research study on cowpox virus

Research programme to develop immunological biomarkers for chronic inflammatory diseases

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