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The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born

... commons". "BioForge is a hands-on, evolving tool kit to make things happen. BioForge is about sharing capabilities and building communities of innovation to tackle the challenges of global health, poverty and hunger. These problems are best solved by empowering untapped resources - the countless creati...

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Home-Use Diagnostic Kits Marketed by Globus Media

...nufacturer, packer or distributor. The name of the kit appears on the instructions. Consumers who have these products should not use them. Anyone who has used one of these test kits should be retested using valid test methods. Only one HIV home collection test system is approved by FDA and legally sold ...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...porated antibodies grown in the medium into a test kit for human insulin. A report on the new methodology will be published soon in a peer-reviewed journal in conjunction with Linco. Even will present her findings at the "Experimental Biology 2005" scientific conference in San Diego, April 2-6. The new ...

The biggest family tree ever

...bout their own ancestors by buying a participation kit and submitting their DNA sample. "As more people ...o participate in the Genographic Project can buy a kit at $99.95 (plus shipping and handling) from National Geographic. The kit contains a swab to collect ...

Center releases new public survey on stem cells

...her cell of the body, offering a hypothetical tool kit for repairing diseased hearts, mending broken spinal cords, or correcting genetic diseases, among other hoped-for benefits. Stem cells derived from very early embryos show the most promise in research to date, but the embryo is destroyed in the proc...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...s by providing an inexpensive, field-portable test kit for respiratory illnesses to the World Health Organization for global screening of respiratory illness." Kuchta said the team hopes to cut down on the 11-hour virus identification process. "We are now looking at ways to amplify the fluorescent sig...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...s from the Gambia in Africa. A commercial testing kit is currently being developed. ...

DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break

...molecule’s eye view of the human cell’s DNA repair kit as it assembled on a double-strand break to link together the broken ends. Double-strand breaks are ruptures that cut completely across the twisted, ladder-like structure of DNA, breaking it into two pieces. Using a technique developed specifically...

Simple home spit test to spot deadly pre-eclampsia

...mate aim is to develop a "traffic light" detection kit for use in the home. Pre-eclampsia is thought to be the result of problems relating to the implantation of the placenta. The main diagnostic symptoms are raised blood pressure and the excretion of protein in the urine. While there is no cure, othe...