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M13/Phagemid DNA Extraction Protocol

Efficiency of the standard protocols for production of single-stranded DNA may be improved through the use of PLG. For producing M13 ssDNA, mix 2.5 ml plating bacteria (57...

M13/Phagemid DNA Extraction Protocol

Efficiency of the standard protocols for production of single-stranded DNA may be improved through the use of PLG. For producing M13 ssDNA, mix 2.5 ml plating bacteria (57...

Fluorometric Protease Assays in the SpectraMax Gemini Microplate Spectrofluorometer: Example Using Caspase3 (MaxLine Application Note #35)

Evelyn McGown, Ph.D. and Anna Lam, B.S. Molecular Devices Corporation, 8/99 Modern assays for proteolytic activity typically use synthetic chromogenic or flu-orogenic peptide substrates. Enzyme selectivity is obtained by choosing a peptide sequence uniquely recognized by the catalytic site of a particular enzy...

LIVE/DEAD Viability/Cytotoxicity Assay for Animal Cells Using the SpectraMax Gemini XS Fluorescence Microplate Reader (MaxLine Application Note #43)

Anne T. Ferguson, Ph.D. Molecular Devices Corporation This application note describes the use of the SPECTRAmax Viability/Cytoxicity Assay Kit for animal cells. This assay uses two fluorescent dyes, calcein AM (cal...

Measurement of Green Fluorescent Protein in the SpectraMax Gemini XS Spectrofluorometer (MaxLine Application Note #44)

1 GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) is an extremely stable protein of 238 amino acids produced by the jellyfish that fluoresces in the lower green region of the visible spectrum....

Measurement of Molecular Beacons in the SpectraMax Gemini Spectrofluorometer (MaxLine Application Note #36)

October 1999 Molecular beacons are fluorogenic oligonucleotide probes developed by Kramerand associates to detect specific nucleic acids in homogeneous solutions. They are single-stranded oligonucleotides that exist in a hairpin shape because of thecomplementary arms at the ends which bind together to form a stem....

Using the NanoOrange protein kit in the Gemini XS, Gemini EM and SpectraMax M2 microplate readers (MaxLine Application Note #22)

By Yan Zhang, Molecular Devices Corporation, 1311 Orleans Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089. This application note describes how to use the NanoOrange Pro software from Mo...

Using the OligoGreen Oligonucleotide Quantitation Reagent in the Gemini XS, Gemini EM and SpectraMax M2 Microplate Readers (MaxLine Application Note #21)

By Yan Zhang., Molecular Devices Corporation, 1311 Orleans Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089. This application note describes how to use the OliGreen Pro software from...

Children's engages MedAssets for supply chain management

of Atlanta to implement supply chain management solutions. Children's Hospital is the second shareholder of Child Health Corp. of America (CHCA) to sign an agreement with MedAssets in recent months. The health system has a total annual supply spend of more than $9...

measuring cell proliferation with SpectraMax M5, M2 and Gemini microplate readers using the CyQUANT Cell Proliferation Assay

Cathy Olsen, Ph.D., Molecular Devices Corporation, 1311 Orleans Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089....

National Instruments DIAdem -- Complete Your Technical Data Management Framework with Powerful Off-line Analysis, Visualization, and Report Generation

Today, as a research or design engineer, you are faced with designing higher quality products faster than ever before. As you quickly perform tests to validate designs and analyze the data from scientific tests, the storage and analysis of collected measurement data has become quite complicated. Often, large amounts of data are stored in different formats on numerous computers,...

World Class Life Science and Pharmaceutical Companies Leverage DoveBid s Global Reach for Asset Management and Disposition

), the global leader in capital asset auction and valuation services, announced today it will be conducting its 50th global Life Sciences / BioPharma Exchange auction online, on August 15, 2006. The event...

Why IT change management is more important than ever

(PCAOB) will place a greater emphasis on change management within information systems. There are numerous studies, including our own, that show IT change management as a problem area. It is worth making the investment to fix your change management process...

Logistics Health launches compliance management tool

In the announcement, which came at the American O...

Fiserv acquires crime management software firm

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed....

Rocket docket speeds patent infringement suits

Intellectual property and science, particularly biotechnology, go hand-in-hand. In the highly competitive science and technology community, patents, copyrights, and trade...

Fusion 2007: IT threats make risk management paramount

The CEO's head, too. If there was a consistent theme during the , it was that threats are bombarding business organizations from many directions, and risk management has surpassed security as the paramo...

Brand protection in the age of customer engagement

Brands of every sort - from the globally familiar to the local politician du jour - are being savaged, attacked, extolled, and venerated with a speed never seen before. The digital tools of our age provide numerous new channels for brand commentary, both positive and negative, and these multiplying channels place daunting new demands on corporate and political brand...

RedPrairie to acquire fleet management software firm

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition is expected to close by the end of February. RedPrairie, a developer of sup...

IP infringement - avoiding liability for officers & directors

In certain circumstances, federal intellectual property laws hold officers and directors liable for their corporation's infringing acts. It is important to understand when a corporation's li...

Metavante forms cash-management division

, has announced the formation of a new cash-management division and the appointment of its first president, <a href="http://www.fiserv...

Microsoft rewards Berbee for project management expertise

The Madison-based IT solutions provider this month became the first Microsoft Gold partner headquartered in the Midwest to achieve Microsoft's Enterprise Project Manag...

Third Wave announces two senior management appointments

The company also announced that it would host a conference call on Tuesday, April 25, during which it will report its first...

Seven talent management practices that matter

Competing in a "flat world", a term popularized by columnist Tom Friedman, requires (well) rounded people. Becoming a well rounded talent requires continuous learning and development of knowledge and skills. Organizations that want to succeed in flat world competition better be creating enriching workplace experiences if they wish to attract and retain the high-cali...

Credit unions face identity management issues

According to the Federal Trade Commission, 27 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years 10 million last year. While not all stolen identities may ever be used, just the fact that they co...

Third Wave shuffles finance, sales management

Maneesh Arora, 37, will become CFO after the firm's next annual report is filed. Arora has held senior positions in marketing and operations for the company. Former CFO James Herrmann is moving on. Gregory Ha...

Consumer "engagement" stressed at e-Business seminar

Case in point: An Internet-based commercial for Angel Soft toilet paper by international tissue and paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific. "The little boy is doing his business, a...

UW-Platteville linked to UC-Irvine project management program

The Project Management Certificate Program will offer professionals access to online career training and...

Stratagem acquires the Milwaukee operations of BORN

The transaction, which took ef...

Agility is the next talent management imperative

Competent businesses are adept at hiring and firing workers. Great businesses however are skilled at developing and deploying talent in ways that continuously grow their experience, stretch their abilities and enable their achievements. Creating work environments that promote people agility across jobs and organizational boundaries is the next imperative for compani...

Fleet management vendors capitalize on wireless

) Imagis was the first of some dozen or so companies I met dur...

Four steps to making talent management a core competence

According to a study reported in the June 2005 issue of the Harvard Business Review, 'people-driven' businesses are now predominant. But many companies, even in people businesses, don't yet have the talent management processes they need to excel. While organizations have perfected sophisticated techniques for managing capital investments, suppliers and the productio...

Third Wave files patent infringement suit against Stratagene

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Runzheimer and Concur develop travel management service

ROCHESTER, Wis. announced Monday the formation of an exclusive partnership between the two companies that will deliver benchmarking information to travel managers within...

The high cost of employee disengagement

All you corporate numbers wonks out there, time to listen up. Heres something new to stuff into your spreadsheets. The Gallup Organization, a leading international survey research and consulting firm, estimates that actively disengaged workers are costing US businesses $300 billion a year in productivity losses! s...

Talent Mismanagement

People are born with talent and everywhere it is in chains. Fail to develop the talents of any one person, we fail Britain. Talent is 21st century wealth. This quotation is taken from Tony Blairs Labour Party Conference Speech in Bournemouth UK, in 1999. It opens chapter one of The Mismanagement of Talent (Oxford University Press), a provocative forthcoming book by British HR researchers Anthony...

The myth of the performance-based management

A popular concept in business today is performance-based management. Like other vacuous terms prevalent in the management vernacular such as customer-centric, value added, and mission critical, it has all sorts of implied and sometimes contradictory meanings. In practice, performance-based management techniques fall in the category of what I call management by 2x4 variations of the age...

Sen. Kanavas calls for creation of Enterprise Management System Development Fund

MADISON State Sen. Ted Kanavas, R-Brookfield, called on the Legislature and the Doyle administration Wednesday to create an Enterprise Management System Development Fund. The fund would use existing information technology dollars allocated to agencies by the Department of Administration and segregate a portion of the funds for enterprise information management system development. New ge...

RoleFlow launches process-management software for executives

MADISON - A new Madison-based startup is offering business process management software that its creators say will be more intuitive to businesspeople than existing software. software keeps track of the roles each person involved in a project performs. Project managers can define the roles involved and their associations with w...

Are you ready to play the new talent management game?

Two new comprehensive studies of trends shaping the future workforce have recently been issued by the Hudson Institute and The Rand Corporation both respected think tanks on economic, political and social issues. Both reports strongly suggest that the challenges of managing talent are about to change dramatically as a result of global demographic and economic trends that are starting to gain mom...
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