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TripleMaster PCR SystemThe Ideal Choice for Long-Range PCR

...N-glycosidic bond between the base and the sugar of a DNA molecule. Although depurination is a rare event, occurring approximately once every 25 kb of single-stranded DNA per minute, its effect on long-range PCR is more profound because long templates simply have more sites ...

Structural Determination of Flavonoids Using MSn

... often indicative of the loss of a deoxy-hexose sugar and the m/z 271.1 ion is indicative of the b...were indicative of the loss of a deoxyhexose sugar (m/z 433) and a product mass which was the same as a base component of flavonoids (m/z 271). M...

Tools for Proteomic Science II

...r or not your protein is glycosylated, whether the sugar moiety is N- orO-linked, as well as gather additio...ding carbohydratestructures. Quantification of the sugar moietyand simultaneous staining of glycosylated and nonglycosylatedproteins in a single lane is also...

Barriers will not stop convergence of medical technologies

...fects. The most important is an increase in blood sugar which results from the fact that liver and muscle cells, which normally under the influence of insulin take up glucose, don't do so. It is predominantly the high blood glucose levels that lead to a diverse range of dangerous (and even potentially fa...

A Midwest life-science odyssey comes full circle

...sufficient on fuels through development of biotech sugar cane. The Midwest saw significant expansion of its own bio-fuels capacity with the creation of new manufacturing and processing facilities. The stock prices of companies in this business segment saw spectacular increases during 2006, as a number of ...

The 10 biggest events shaping biotech in 2006

...his country had harnessed biotechnology with their sugar cane crop to become self sufficient in gas. Even President Bush jumped on the biofuels bandwagon in his 2007 State of the Union address when he established America's Twenty in Ten goal, or stopping the growth of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions within...

Wisconsin's high-growth economy: '07 predictions

...Energy Systems in Madison is making hydrogen from sugar derived from plants, and using that hydrogen to power a renewable energy system. Biofuels and bioproducts play to Wisconsin strengths while spreading the technology revolution to rural Wisconsin. It would be easy to become over-extended, but public...

UW finds new path to anti-cancer agents

...nd it difficult to easily and routinely modify the sugar molecules that make such agents medicinally useful... the family of enzymes nature uses to position the sugar molecules of a drug and confer a specified biological effect. The technique, according to the Scienc...

New Silicon Pastures director envisions more home cooking for Wisconsin angels

...ll degrees; Virent , which produces hydrogen from sugar or renewable biomass; and Clearent , which is developing technology for the payments processing industry. Silicon Pastures also has seen two successful exits: online retailer BuySeasons , which was recently acquired by Liberty Media Corp ., and U...

Madison business receives $115,000 of new state biofuels funding

...the catalysts that are used to convert starch into sugar in the corn ethanol process, and they also breakdo...n cellulose and hemi-cellulose into 5 and 6-carban sugar molecules - hence the company name. Company officials believe they can improve productivity of the ...

GenTel licenses next generation cancer research

...otein changes induced by cancer but changes in the sugar molecules that naturally attach to those proteins....s The technology focuses on the process by which sugar (carbohydrate) molecules naturally bond to proteins (such as antibodies) in a process called glycosy...

GenTel to distribute cancer research tool

... measures variations in the chemical addition of a sugar molecule to a protein after its synthesis, in a process called glycosylation . Changes in the glycosylation of proteins are associated with many types of cancer. The technology uses antibody microarrays to profile changes in glycosylation of protei...

New venture funds should accelerate Virent's work

... to generate hydrogen fuel directly from water and sugar in a one-step process as part of a car's engine or..., a highly explosive gas. The process takes corn sugar and glycerol from soybean fats and converts it into hydrogen, methane, and propane, and has applicat...

Leading global Big Pharma companies of 2005

... ethanol (derived from improved biotech strains of sugar cane), and creating local cars that can switch from normal gas to ethanol-based gas easily. As luck would have it during my Brazil trip, the local Pfizer headquarters was half a block from the Sao Paulo School of Business, and the Pfizer logo repeat...

Clinton says world needs biofuels, GM crops, and more answers

...ructose corn syrup, an alternative to beet or cane sugar and an ingredient in many processed foods and soda. Though its production is beneficial to farmers, he said it bears responsibility for increasing obesity rates in children because it metabolizes into fat more easily than other sugars. But a creative...

Biotech leads list of top U.S. companies to work for

.../gallon. In Brazil, ethanol is mostly derived from sugar cane, and is now available in 29,000 gas stations ...ion by the Brazilian government of support for the sugar industry, which forced sugar manufacturers to become more efficient and find other uses for the crop...

GE health record system certified

...y clinical outcomes (such as cholesterol and blood sugar levels) in a healthy range. Doctors who meet established performance thresholds earn recognition. EHR systems are certified by processing a series of random test cases and comparing their output to the expected results based on DPRP requirements. Co...

Venki Raman Joins Virent Board of Directors

...als. APR uses low cost, renewable feedstocks like sugar and glycerol from biodiesel production....

Virent receives $2 million boost for hydrogen energy research

... to generate hydrogen fuel directly from water and sugar in a one-step process as part of a cars engine or an electrical generator. This could evade some of the problems of storing hydrogen, a highly explosive gas. The companys previous research has been directed at finding a chemical catalyst to make th...

Wisconsin Development Fund awards announced

... (CLT). Fond du Lac-based Heritage Wafer produces sugar wafer products sold under the Golden Batch label and in private labels for customers. The company is installing a $1.8-million wafer product distribution and wrapping system. It will use its grant to train 20 current and three new employees on the ne...

Virent shows off its hydrogen-fuel plans

...n chemical engineer, have discovered a way to turn sugar into hydrogen, right in the engine of a car. Creating hydrogen on the go means that fuel tanks don't have to store compressed hydrogen, which could be an explosion risk. But previous experiments have found the conditions to be all wrong at the temp...

Making the most of stem cells

... adding the chemical trehalose - a disaccharide or sugar that some animals and microbes produce to protect cells and survive in dry, low-temperature conditions - the Wisconsin team was able to increase stem cell survival rates by more than an order of magnitude, with as many as 20 percent of a cell culture...

AIDS and tobacco are worldwide killers: Is bioscience doing enough to stop them?

...ir ideas ranged from extracting hydrogen fuel from sugar to mining drugs from microbes found only in hot springs or ice floes. If bioscientists could also develop an overnight test for AIDS or a drug that would end the nicotine cravings of the worlds smokers, Loftus said, they would do more than make a pi...

Stratatech and Virent Win $4M in U.S. Grants

...cations for how energy is harnessed. Hydrogen from sugar water, or Aqueous Phase Reformation,was discovered in labs at UW-Madison's Department of Chemical Engineering in 2001. This process can produce hydrogen and/or hydrocarbon fuel gas from waste streams, waste biomass, and energy dedicated biomass cro...