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Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering

...ys are developed using the samereliable design and manufacturing process that have made Affymetrix theindustry-standard technology for gene expression analysis. Over thepast ten years more than 3,000 papers have been published usingGeneChip technology. For more information, please visitwww.Affymetrix.com....

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

... of pharmaceuticals. This improvement in the drug manufacturing process can potentially lead to greater cost savings, as the production of the chiral ingredient currently accounts for 10-40% of the total cost. IBN’s invention could potentially have a significant impact on the chiral pharmaceuticals industry, a fa...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...technology. Affymetrix' patented photolithographic manufacturing process provides the most information capacity ava...trix is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with manufacturing facilities in Sacramento, Calif., and Bedford, Mass. The company maintains important sales and marke...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...market. NittoPhase?has great potential to decrease manufacturing costs due to it’s significantly lower unit cost, as well as potentially higher yield and full length purity, reducing cost-of-goods. NittoPhase?will be commercially available in two grades; NittoPhaseTOS?for high loading applications, and NittoPhaseR...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...ns from Bayer, one of the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the drug. In the meantime, two major U.S. poultry producers, Tyson Food and Perdue Farms, separately announced in 2002 that they would immediately stop using fluoroquinolones to treat poultry flocks. One year after the Tyson and Perdue announcements...

FDA Clears the Way for Generic Versions of Transdermal Patches to Treat Chronic Pain

...inisters the CSA. Schedule II drugs are subject to manufacturing quotas set by DEA with input on medical need from FDA, distribution tracking, import and export controls, registration of prescribers and dispensers, and written prescriptions without refills. ...

Scientists Propose Sweeping Changes to Naming of Bird Neurosystems to Acknowledge Their True Brainpower

...inisters the CSA. Schedule II drugs are subject to manufacturing quotas set by DEA with input on medical need from FDA, distribution tracking, import and export controls, registration of prescribers and dispensers, and written prescriptions without refills. ...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...e new prion reduction filter into established good manufacturing practices. Unlike pathogen inactivation, the new filter does not rely on chemical additives, which could damage or compromise the therapeutic value of a blood transfusion such as the oxygen carrying properties of red cells. A filtration approach als...

Marine sponge yields nanoscale secrets

... could be translated into a practical and low-cost manufacturing method. Such a "biomimetic" approach will eventually be used in industry, said Morse. ...

Compounds in plastic packaging act as environmental estrogens altering breast genes

...eign estrogens, or xenoestrogens, that are used in manufacturing a number of products. The studies of BPA and BBP in young rats were designed to see whether exposure to these hormonally active biological compounds could alter the genomic signatures of the mammary gland during critical stages of development." BPA (...

Agilent Technologies new genome analysis technology set to accelerate Australia fight against mesothelioma

...xposure to asbestos. Due to its active mining and manufacturing of asbestos in the mid-1900s, Australia has the highest incidence of mesothelioma in the world. Rates of the disease have tripled in the past 20 years and are expected to peak about 2010. Diagnosis of this type of cancer is difficult, and patients ar...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

...technology. Affymetrix' patented photolithographic manufacturing process provides the most information capacity ava...trix is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with manufacturing facilities in Sacramento, Calif., and Bedford, Mass. The company maintains important sales and marke...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...the wood composites industry is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the United States. "Based on the successful commercial application of our adhesives, the wood adhesive industry and wood products industry are going to see some major changes in the next few years," Li said. "It appears our adhesives will...

Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires'

...s at lower cost than is possible with conventional manufacturing processes. Purdue researchers had previously developed a technique for precisely placing strands of DNA on a silicon chip and then stretching out the strands so that their encoded information might be read more clearly. The current work by Ivanisevi...

Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon

...ining 13,000-year-old bones with 21st century auto manufacturing techniques, scientists and exhibit preparators at the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural history are reconstructing a male mastodon skeleton for an exhibit that opens to the public May 21. Meanwhile, museum visitors can peek through sp...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

...he vaccine system now faces numerous challenges in manufacturing and development, according to a review article in the May/June issue of Health Affairs. The U.S. vaccine system is a complex collaboration among government, industry, providers, academia, professional societies and third-party payers that has result...

First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology

...protein of interest. Moreover, conditions for good manufacturing practices have been long-established for vaccine p...ew technology has the potential to drive down drug manufacturing costs, which could make medicines and health insurance plans less expensive for all of us." ...

Chemical 'band-aid' prevents heart failure in mice with muscular dystrophy

A common chemical used in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries can repair damage to cardiac muscle cell membranes and prevent heart failure in mice with the genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School...

New law for resolution allows unprecedented sharpness in fluorescence microscopy

...py. This may be of importance for the lithographic manufacturing of microchips. The reduction in size of the diameter of the effective fluorescence focus also has fundamental implications for methods that use fluorescence fluctuations to study the reaction kinetics of molecules in solutions. The smaller the focal...

Micro RNAs play role in egg making

...iRNAs shared common roles as regulators of protein manufacturing or turnover. These results suggest that miRNAs tig...the researchers discovered that miRNAs stopped the manufacturing of a small group of key proteins, including ones that produce ribosomes. These structures constitute...

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