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Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...acceptable cost and we will also get access to new technology at an early stage. Our expectation is that this co...oarray in 1994. Since then, Affymetrix GeneChip(R) technology has become the industry standard in molecular biology research. Affymetrix technology is used by the...

Carnegie Mellon scientists develop tool that uses MRI to visualize gene expression in living animals

...tructions." "The new imaging method is a platform technology that can be adapted for many tissue types and for ...t indicate the presence of the MRI reporter. "Our technology is adaptable to monitor gene expression in many tissue types. You could link this MRI reporter gene ...

Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance

...airman and CEO of Stratagene. "We believe that our technology will provide key functionality needed to support i...we believe we have the opportunity to position our technology as a standard for expression analysis." ...

Self-assembled nano-sized probes allow Penn researchers to see tumors through flesh and skin

... Therein, there is keen interest in developing new technology that will enable optical imaging of cancer tissue, as such technology will be less costly and more accessible than MRI-based methods and free of the harmful side effects ...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

... could be as soon as three to five years that this technology would be available to others." Surgical Information The ASR chip contains approximately 5,000 microscopic solar cells that convert light into electrical impulses. The purpose of the chip is to replace damaged photoreceptors, the "light-sensing" cell...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

...ncerely thank all those who are giving their time, technology and money to help turn this dream into reality. Th.... "We are excited by the opportunity to apply our technology to all publicly available SNPs. This effort is so important that Perlegen is willing to contribute s...

Researchers develop rapid diagnostic tool for pathogen identification

... designed and developed a sensitive new diagnostic technology platform, called “Mass Tag PCR,?that can simultane...sly screen for multiple infectious agents. The new technology is addressed in a paper published in the February issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

... could be as soon as three to five years that this technology would be available to others." Surgical Information The ASR chip contains approximately 5,000 microscopic solar cells that convert light into electrical impulses. The purpose of the chip is to replace damaged photoreceptors, the "light-sensing" cell...

Asthma gene clusters identified

.... Hershey said. Previous studies using microarray technology have been conducted using RNA from adults with asthma, but this approach has not been successfully used in human studies involving children with asthma. In pediatrics, it is difficult to obtain tissue in sufficient quantities for analysis, especially...

Genetically modified rice in China benefits farmers' health, study finds

...' Cook College who specializes in the economics of technology change in the agriculture of developing countries. "Farm surveys of randomly selected farm households that are cultivating the insect-resistant GM rice varieties demonstrate that when compared with households cultivating non-GM rice, small and poor f...

Scientists discuss improved biopesticides for locust control in West Africa

...ted spores as compared to non-coated spores. "This technology is applicable to many other biopesticides and should make them more effective as well,." Agblevor said Local officials are calling the infestation in West Africa the worst in 18 years. The pests invaded the region last summer, affecting millions of ...

Camera Traps Catch Eye of the Tiger

...But it is WWF's innovative application of everyday technology that is yielding results for tigers on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. WWF scientists are using camera traps to help conduct presence/absence surveys that will provide a range map for tigers in Sumatra's lowland rainforest. The cameras will also he...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

... missed opportunity to take advantage of available technology and existing efforts, according to a group of the nation's leading not-for-profit medical and scientific publishers. The final rule ignores significant free access policies already existing in the not-for-profit publishing community that offer more c...

Viral protein influences key cell-signaling pathway

...protein. The researchers then used gene microarray technology to identify which cellular genes out of 33,000 become either more or less active due to the p12 protein. The researchers found that p12 altered the activity of a variety of genes linked to chemical pathways that control cell signaling, proliferation...

Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert

... This marks the first time a rover-based automated technology has been used to identify life in this harsh region, which serves as a test bed for technology that could be deployed in future Mars missions. "Our life detection system worked very well, and so...

Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's

...sting application Read more about the bio-bar-code technology : - Gold nanoparticles and bio-bar codes bring s...: "The researchers have pioneered a promising new technology in the emerging area of nanobioengineering. These nanoengineered particles have the capability to ef...

Affymetrix Licenses Microfluidics Technology From Caliper Life Sciences

...to our corporate ideals and to our future as a key technology provider to the industry." The scope of the licen...Chip arrays, but excludes the right to use LabChip technology with respect to products intended primarily to perform nucleic acid separations as a discrete, non-i...

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

...e analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is slowly absorbed into the body through the skin providing pain relief for up to three days (72 hours). The agency's approval is expected to provide patients with access to a lower cost alternative ...

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

...e analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is slowly absorbed into the body through the skin providing pain relief for up to three days (72 hours). The agency's approval is expected to provide patients with access to a lower cost alternative ...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

...not necessarily require sophisticated expertise or technology to be weaponized; many methods could be used by adversaries to perpetrate an attack, from simple to complex; physicians may not diagnose early symptoms of disease if not warned to look for them, increasing risk and allowing adversaries to escape; eff...

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