Nucleic in Biological Technology

DNA Software, Inc. Awarded $2.5 M in NIH Funding to Develop Pioneering Nucleic Acid-based Technologies

DNA Software, Inc. has been awarded three Fast Track SBIR grants from the National Institutes of Health to develop original in silico technologies to predict 3D structures of RNA-based molecules, improve diagnostics via modified nucleotides, and model the reaction rates of DNA and RNA experiments...

EraGen signs Canadian Market Distribution Agreement for nucleic acid dection products

MADISON - EraGen Biosciences , announced today they have signed a distribution agreement with Inter Medico , Canada's leading independent distributor of advanced clinical in-vitro diagnostic products. The announcement follows the companys distribution agreement announced last Wednesday with Prome...

Total RNA Purification from Cultured Cells Using the ABI PRISM 6700 Automated Nucleic Acid Workstation and Total RNA Lysis Reagents

Abstract Applied Biosystems has developed new techniques that produce highpurity total RNA from biological sources such as cultured cells. These techniques eliminate the need for post-isolation DNase treatment or other manual handling, and produce a highly pure product, free ...

Ultra-Fast Purification of Small Nucleic Acids

flashPAGE Fractionator System The flashPAGE Fractionator System is the fastest, easiest, and most consistent method for PAGE purification of small nucleic acids. Unlike traditional Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (PAGE), which ...

Recover High Yields of Total Nucleic Acid from Formalin-fixed, Paraffin-embedded (FFPE) Tissue

RecoverAll Total Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit For decades, FFPE tissue has been the staple of histologists and pathologists for creating tissue slides and making patient diagnoses. More than 400 million FFPE ...

The DIG System Nonradioactive and Highly Sensitive Detection of Nucleic Acids

Roche Applied Science was one of the first companies to offer a nonradioactive technology allowing customers to move away from the use of hazardous radioactive isotopes. Even after 15 years and the increasing availabili...

Walkaway automation for nucleic acid purification

GenoVision AS, an innovative biotechnology company offering complete walkaway automation for the isolation and purification of nucleic acids, is now part of the QIAGEN Group of Companies and is now known as QIAGEN AS. QIAGEN AS fo...

Laser microdissection and nucleic acid purification - a Leica - QIAGEN cooperation

Stefanie Schrer, Werner Wittke,* and Christian Kupfer QIAGEN GmbH, Hilden, Germany * Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany Laser microdissection (LMD) provides a powerful t...

EGEN, Inc. Announces the Promotion of Jason Fewell, Ph.D., to Vice-President of Preclinical Research and Development

...EGEN), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in nucleic acid therapeutics and delivery, announced today th...erapeutics for the treatment of human diseases via nucleic acid (DNA and RNAi) delivery. The Company has a s...in delivery systems, their novel compositions with nucleic acids and their therapeutic applications. EGEN's r...

SEQUENOM Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Highlights

...luding the first of those based on cell free fetal nucleic acids." 2009 Second Quarter and Recent Hig...ssARRAY system allows a direct mass measurement of nucleic acids, providing unparalleled precision and quanti...ables the detection of circulating cell-free fetal nucleic acids in a maternal blood sample. The company is a...

SEQUENOM Announces Launch of MassARRAY Compact 96 System

...time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry-based nucleic acid analysis platform that quantitatively measure...EQUENOM's MassARRAY system facilitates a number of nucleic acid analysis applications including SNP genotypin...ssARRAY system allows a direct mass measurement of nucleic acids, providing unparalleled precision and quanti...

Santaris Pharma - Interim Report for the Period 1 January to 30 June 2009

...9, Vienna. - DDD Meeting Japan - SMI 4th conference on RNAi, miRNA and siRNA - XV International Symposium on Atherosclerosis - 4th nucleic Acid Chemical Biology (NACB) Symposium, Odense Santaris Pharma is represented in the Advisory Board of the Keystone Symposia. Guidance ...

Cadila Pharmaceuticals Launches Joint Venture With Novavax in India

...material required for viral replication. Once injected into the body, VLPs trigger an immune response to the virus. Because VLPs do not contain viral nucleic acids (DNA or RNA), they cannot replicate, and therefore, they present no threat of infection to a person being vaccinated. The VLP is believed ...

DOR BioPharma Announces Issuance of European Patent for its LPM(TM) Oral Drug Delivery Technology

... gastrointestinal tract. Other sensitive drugs that can be delivered orally with the LPM(TM) system include various classes of drugs such as peptides, nucleic acids and proteins which are degraded in the stomach and small intestine. Corresponding patents in the United States and elsewhere are currently pendi...

New England Journal of Medicine Study Highlights Need for Rapid, PCR-based Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Testing at Time of Admission for Labor and Delivery

...n) amplification and detection functions for fully integrated and automated nucleic acid analysis. The system is designed to purify, concentrate, detect and identify targeted nucleic acid sequences thereby delivering answers directly from unprocessed samples...

Exosome Diagnostics and DxS Diagnostic Innovations Collaborate to Develop Blood-Based Tests for Key Cancer Mutations

...e DxS' industry leading Scorpions(R) real-time PCR Mutation Test Kits in conjunction with ExosomeDX's x OS(TM) technology which harvests high-quality nucleic acids from blood exosomes. The collaboration will initially focus on developing blood-based measurement of KRAS, BRAF, EGFR and other key mutati...

A breakthrough toward industrial production of fluorescent nanodiamonds

...une10 2009 issue. Fluorescence is a major tool in life and material sciences. In biology/medicine, the coupling of fluorescent dyes, to proteins or nucleic acids (RNA, DNA) allows one to investigate their fate and interactions in cultured cells or in the body. Similarly, fluorescence is used in material s...

Gen-Probe to Webcast Two Upcoming Investor Presentations

... About Gen-Probe Gen-Probe Incorporated is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of rapid, accurate and cost-effective nucleic acid tests (NATs) that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases and screen donated human blood. Gen-Probe has more than 25 years of NAT expertise...

EGEN, Inc. Announces the Promotion of Khursheed Anwer, Ph.D., to President and Chief Scientific Officer

...EGEN), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in nucleic acid therapeutics and delivery, announced today th...chnology to the next level and make the promise of nucleic acid (DNA, RNAi) therapeutics become a reality." ...erapeutics for the treatment of human diseases via nucleic acid (DNA and RNAi) delivery. The Company has a s...

Mersana Reports Preliminary Phase 1 Results of XMT-1001 in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors

...e oncology indications. We also leverage the versatility of Fleximer through partnerships to overcome the safety, efficacy, and delivery challenges of nucleic acids, biologics, and small molecules in numerous therapeutic areas. Mersana is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and its investors include Fidelit...

Clontech Laboratories, Inc. Releases the Xfect(TM) and Xfect(TM) Stem Transfection Reagents

...TM) library construction kits; the innovative In-Fusion(TM) cloning system; Tet-based inducible gene expression systems; and a range of Macherey-Nagel nucleic acid purification tools. These and other products support applications including gene discovery, regulation, and function; protein expression and puri...

ZyGEM Corp. Signs Agreement to Incorporate Its Breakthrough DNA Extraction Technology Into Rubicon's Research and Diagnostic Products

...cs, Inc. to incorporate ZyGEM's advanced enzymatic nucleic acid extraction technology into Rubicon's pre-anal...NA analysis will benefit from access to the unique nucleic acid extraction technology developed by ZyGEM," sa...zymes that are the core component of the company's nucleic acid extraction technology, which is currently mar...

GenVault Receives Four Critical U.S. and E.U. Patent Allowances for Key Biosample Management Technologies

... portfolio which cover novel matrices to stabilize biospecimens in the air-dried state. The allowed claims in "Stable Protein Storage and Stable nucleic Acid Storage in Recoverable Form," U.S. Patent Application #11/137,806 and European Patent Application #05754240.9, grant GenVault broad, exclusive i...

A New Era in the Application of Lab-on-a-Chip to Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnosis

...ambient conditions. Type A/H1N1 detection kits are available across three diagnostic technology platforms: VDS makes use of the highly advanced nucleic acid sequence-based amplification - enzyme-linked oligonucleotide capture (NASBA-EOC). The VDS technology has an advantage of not requiring the use of...

DNA Software, Inc. Honored as One of the 2009 "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch"

...rvices improve the work of scientists who conduct nucleic acid-based research. Award Underscores DNA Sof...s founded in 2000 to commercialize the advances in nucleic acid chemistry discovered by world-renowned expert...ologies have become the standard of excellence for nucleic acid research and diagnostics development. DNA...

Cepheid Announces Symposium Speakers and Program Highlights for 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)

.... Kathleen Bamford, Reader and Honorary Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Imperial College, London: Evaluation of commercial toxin detection and two nucleic acid amplification tests for the routine detection of Clostridium difficile infection Dr. Andrej Weintraub, Karolinska Institutet , Stockhol...

SEQUENOM to Hold First Quarter 2009 Financial Results Conference Call on April 30

...rch and molecular medicine applications. The company's proprietary MassARRAY(R) system is a high-performance (in speed, accuracy and cost efficiency) nucleic acid analysis platform that quantitatively and precisely measures genetic target material and variations. The company has exclusively licensed intelle...

Roche Madison Moves to New Facility

...the group's research focuses on the discovery and development of innovative nucleic acid based technologies, including a proprietary RNAi (Ribonucleic Acid int...of RNA interference and gene therapy, based upon its expertise in non-viral nucleic acid chemistry and delivery. Effective and safe siRNA delivery represents t...

SeqWright to Invest in LaserGen's Novel Lightning Terminators(TM)

...ed about the savings in both, time and cost, which we expect their technologies to generate." About LaserGen LaserGen, Inc. is an early-stage nucleic acids chemistry company, founded in 2002. The company has been funded through NIH-sponsored small business and research grants to develop a variety o...

Gen-Probe Completes Acquisition of Tepnel Life Sciences

... About Gen-Probe Gen-Probe Incorporated is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of rapid, accurate and cost-effective nucleic acid tests (NATs) that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases and screen donated human blood. Gen-Probe has more than 25 years of NAT expertise...

Fitting pieces for biosensors

...ek word meros, meaning piece). Aptamers consist of nucleic acids and have a three-dimensional structure that ...ecule from a huge pool of 10 million x 100 million nucleic acids with different sequences. This selection met... fact that a fluorescence molecule is added to the nucleic acids during the SELEX procedure to make them visi...

Researchers develop new way to see single RNA molecules inside living cells

...ulty support from Georgia Tech. In the study, the probes produced by attaching a few small fluorescent molecules called fluorophores to a modified nucleic acid sequence and combining the sequences with a protein exhibited single-molecule sensitivity and allowed the researchers to target and follow nativ...

Novavax Announces New Capital Infusion Through a Strategic Alliance with Cadila Pharmaceuticals of India

.... Rather, Novavax scientists need only the genetic sequence of a virus to quickly create a VLP vaccine against it. Because VLPs do not contain viral nucleic acids (DNA or RNA), they cannot replicate, and therefore they present no threat of infection to a person being vaccinated. The VLP platform is we...

Codexis Names Lori Giver VP Systems Biology

...eley , and a Ph.D. in molecular, cell and developmental biology from Indiana University, Bloomington , where she focused on the directed evolution of nucleic acids with Dr. Andrew Ellington. Dr. Giver did post-doctoral research in directed evolution of proteins at the California Institute of Technology w...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Life Technologies for Excellence in the Life Science Research Tools Industry

... significant market share in nine additional market segments, including the nucleic acid purification and isolation market, the laboratory information manageme...r play in next generation sequencing. By leveraging its Invitrogen brand of nucleic acid sample preparation technologies and Applied Biosystems brand SOLiD(TM)...

Norgen Biotek Corp. Announces OEM Manufacturing & Supply Agreement with Exiqon A/S

...an biotechnology company focusing primarily on advancing powerful tools for nucleic acids and protein purification, today announced the signing of an OEM agree...f the agreement were not disclosed. "Norgen is an experienced provider of nucleic acids purification kits and we look forward to working with them to provide...

China Bio-Immunity Corporation - Rabies Vaccine Recall

...l Products has reported that the Company's flawed rabies vaccines contained nucleic acid, which as a prescription drug has been legally produced by more than t...an rabies vaccine in China. Although tests on animals demonstrated that the nucleic acid did enhance the effectiveness of the human rabies vaccine, it had to u...

Gen-Probe to Webcast Two Upcoming Investor Presentations

... About Gen-Probe Gen-Probe Incorporated is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of rapid, accurate and cost-effective nucleic acid tests (NATs) that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases and screen donated human blood. Gen-Probe has more than 25 years of NAT expertise...

Gen-Probe Borrows $170 Million Under New Line of Credit

... About Gen-Probe Gen-Probe Incorporated is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of rapid, accurate and cost-effective nucleic acid tests (NATs) that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases and screen donated human blood. Gen-Probe has more than 25 years of NAT expertise...

Innovative Biosensors and ProGenTech Partner to Develop a Rapid Diagnostics System

...fe science and molecular diagnostics company developing instrumentation for nucleic acid and protein purification and molecular diagnostic testing. The compan...h the company's unique cassettes, which allow users to isolate a variety of nucleic acids and proteins from a variety of sample types. ProGenTech is also deve...