Screen in Biological Technology

Merial to Screen Chimerix' Chemical Library for Animal Health Drug Leads

DULUTH, Ga. and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Merial Limited and Chimerix, Inc. announced today that they have signed an agreement under which Merial will screen a Chimerix chemical library for animal health drug leads. Under the terms of this agreement, Merial has an o...

Dude, big screen TVs, flexible electronics and surfboards made from same new material!

There is nothing new about combining two materials to make a composite material with more desirable properties than the originals. Fibreglass has been a mainstay of the marine industry for decades and the construction industry is built on reinforced concrete. Now carbon nanotubes (CNT) are getting...

Online Kiosks founder Mike Strand uses contest to screen new business plan

From bar codes to video screens, Eau Claire-based entrepreneur Mike Strand has always kept his eye out for new business opportunities. A former technology consultant for Delta Technology and Cray Research, Strand took a stride forward in 1988 when he founded StrandWare Inc. , a company based ...

Marshfield study mixes DNA into electronic medical record to screen for Alzheimer's

Marshfield Clinic has embarked on a novel project to match genetic information from Alzheimer's patients with environmental factors that may contribute to the disease. The two-year project is the first to tap the more than 18,000 DNA samples Marshfield Clinic has gathered for its Personalized ...

That blip on the national venture capital radar screen may be Wisconsin

Madison, Wis. - When it comes to attracting venture capital, Wisconsin has always defined what it means to be a "flyover state." Investors on the East and West coasts have basically stuck close to home when it came to financing high-tech deals in the Heartland, with the exception of a few stat...

A Screen of shRNAs Targeting Tumor Suppressor Genes to Identify Factors Involved in Paclitaxel Sensitivity

Diana Ji, Stacy L. Deeds, and Edward J. Weinstein RNA interference methodologies have been utilized in small to large scale screening projects. The technology has allowed researchers to perform gene-silencing experiments in timeframes and target cells prev...

Temporal Temperature Gradient Electrophoresis: A Powerful Technique to Screen Mutations

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Paul Zoller, Theresa Redila-Flores, Dan Chu, and Asmita Patel, Ph.D. Introduction As the number of diseases and disorders linked to gene mutations grow, the need for scanning single-base mutations becomes ever more vital to ...

High-throughput gene expression analysis to screen for anti-asthma drugs

Andreas Pahl, Uwe Oelmller,* and Susanne Ullmann * Department of Pharmacology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany * QIAGEN GmbH, Hilden Germany Drug library screening based on ...

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Adopts Third Wave's Invader Screen

MADISON, Wis. -- Third Wave Technologies Inc. today announced that the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has selected the company's Invader analyte-specific reagents* (ASRs) exclusively for its cystic fibrosis (CF) genetic screening. AFIP, the central reference laboratory for the A...

Wireless wizardry coming to the small screen

Stop the talking, and start the browsing, game playing, searching, texting, and buying. If you haven't done it yet, you will soon, as marketers try to engage and connect with you via your cell phone. With an estimated 2.5 billion mobile phones in use in over 210 countries worldwide, according...

SEQUENOM Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Highlights

...lans - The company is on track to launch three diagnostic products through its CLIA laboratory by the first quarter of 2010 - cystic fibrosis carrier screen (CFTR), RHD and fetal sex determination. The first of these tests - CFTR - is expected to launch this quarter or early next quarter. The RHD and fetal...

Time Clocks Technology Catches Up With Crooks

..., and can be easily networked (even wireless-ly) with each other and integrated with existing payroll software. Instructional videos and software screen shots are at the Bundy Clock Specialists . ### Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/time-clocks/technology/prweb2348614.htm . ...

Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them

... using different sensory prompts. For example a neuron responded to three pictures of the TV host "Oprah Winfrey", to her name written in the computer screen and to a computer synthesized voice saying "Oprah"; another one fired to different pictures and the written and pronounced name of "Luke Skywalker", f...

UCSF researchers help crack parasite genome, identify drug leads

...mall Molecule Discovery Center. "That, combined with the extensive collections of compounds at the small-molecule center, has meant that we can now screen large compound collections at a much higher rate than with the more traditional approach of screening adult parasites, either in culture or in small a...

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

...in lung cancer Nature Cell Biology In first half of 2009 Santaris Pharma and academic partners published an article titled: A functional screen implicates microRNA-138-dependent regulation of the depalmitoylation enzyme APT1 in dendritic spine morphogenesis. BMC Med Genomics In J...

New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's

...s Parkinson's disease. This technique uses baker's yeast to synthesize and screen the molecules, cutting target discovery and preliminary testing time to a m...h greater diversity in the chemical compounds you can study because you can screen millions of compounds in the same go." Adapting previous work by the Ben...

Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease

...cyclic peptides simultaneously in millions of yeast cells. The process is extremely rapid and much less expensive compared to other techniques used to screen large number of chemicals with an eye toward new drugs. "We are making the yeast do a ton of work for us. They make the compounds and then they te...

DuPont and Arzeda Collaborate to Develop Improved Crops to Increase Productivity

...grates the power of chemical catalysis, the high selectivity of biological macromolecules, and the speed of computational design to rapidly design and screen novel enzymes that don't exist in nature and are currently inaccessible using traditional enzyme engineering approaches. Arzeda was founded by David B...

Stem cells' 'suspended' state preserved by key step, scientists report

...nd Stem Cell Research at UCSF. The scientists discovered the pivotal role of Chd1 by using the powerful technique of RNA interference, or RNAi, to screen this gene and 40 other candidate genes. (RNAi is a naturally occurring process in which small RNAs bind to other RNAs to increase or decrease their ac...

Bioinformatics Expert Dr. Jiaan Yang Joins Sundia MediTech With Innovative PFSC Technology

...cation of PFSC technology will bring a great impact to pharmaceutical research and drug discovery." According to her, the PFSC is able to effectively screen protein 3D structure database, probe new indications, explore potential side effects, and help better understanding drug and disease mechanisms on a m...

Register to Win a Ski Weekend and Make Your Synthesis Easier with EasyMax™: the First Automated Chemistry Development Tool That Requires No Training

...logy and wide temperature range of -25°C to 180°C, syntheses at both sub-ambient and elevated temperatures are effortless. The intuitive touch screen operation, accuracy, reproducibility, and simple working procedures make the EasyMax™ the ideal tool for chemical development. This lab reactor...

Study Finds Noninvasive Blood Test for Liver Fibrosis May Alleviate Need for Liver Biopsies for Some Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

...om " target="_new"> newsroom@elsevier.com .} Quest Diagnostics is a leader in noninvasive blood-based biomarker testing used by physicians to screen for, diagnose and monitor carcinomas and other tissue-based disease. The company's proprietary Leumeta(TM) portfolio of tests helps physicians identif...

Gen-Probe to Webcast Two Upcoming Investor Presentations

...ment, 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, and received the 2004 National Medal of Technology, America's highest honor fo...

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

...degradable nanoparticles that facilitate exceptional transfection efficiency. Under the license, Clontech optimized two of the lead compounds from the screen to create the Xfect and Xfect Stem reagents. About Clontech Laboratories, Inc. Clontech Laboratories, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taka...

Chicago-Area Pediatricians Offering Unique Test to Detect Vision Problems in Children as Young as Six Months of Age

... to evaluate the child's entire vision system (from the eye to the brain) without the need for the patient to respond. The test utilizes a flat panel screen that features fun, child-friendly characters and graphics accompanied by music. The test can be completed in five to seven minutes, during a standard ...

EUCODIS Bioscience Signs Research Agreement With Genencor

...the development of an optimized version of an undisclosed enzyme. The Company will generate a library of recombinants of the enzyme, and Genencor will screen the library for clones (enzymes) with desired product profiles. "We are pleased that Genencor, a leading enzyme manufacturer and one of the lar...

Hospira Announces Plans to Integrate Symbiq(R) and EndoTool(R) Technologies

...ll drug delivery programs. With its innovative, award-winning human factors design, Symbiq also incorporates an intuitive layout and a large LCD touch screen to help minimize pump programming errors. EndoTool is a highly sophisticated glucose management system designed to improve the safety and quality...

Visual i/o Combines Advanced Dynamic Visual Business Intelligence and Search Through New Software

...interpret and learn from information they work with everyday. Visual i/o's focus is on "the last 18 inches"--getting data from the computer screen into the human mind--bridging the divide between raw data and actionable meaning through an entirely new graphical way to navigate and interpret data....

Healthy Advice Networks Achieves Strong Growth Despite Challenging Economy

...imate, the company continued to experience double-digit growth, posting 21% year-over-year revenue growth. Their two primary care programs (a digital screen waiting room program and an exam room program), offering clients expansive reach and category-exclusivity, were both sold out. Additionally, Healthy...

Avian Adenovirus Genotyping Diagnostic Service

...y problematic. To facilitate a clarification of these possible relationships, x-OvO Limited has developed a centralised diagnostic service able to screen and classify different types of Fowl Adenovirus A based on hexon loop (L1) genotyping. The hexon protein is the major capsid protein of the non-en...

SENOMYX ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009 FINANCIAL RESULTS

...od and beverage products. Taste tests have been initiated with samples that demonstrated promising activity in the screening assay. Senomyx plans to screen an additional 50,000 potential fructose enhancers during the year. - Bitter Blocker Program: The primary goals of this program are to reduce or b...

Cyprotex Launches Cloe(R) Gateway, its Secure web Portal for Access to Cyprotex Services Including an Enhanced Version of Cloe(R) PK.

...ld through Cloe(R) Gateway such as a human intestinal absorption model and a product to enable customers to access our largest selling product Cloe(R) screen in the near future." For further information: Cyprotex PLC Helen Gill PhD, Product Development Manager Tel: +44(0)1625-505-100 ...

ChanTest Awarded $4.8 Million Through the Ohio Third Frontier Research and Commercialization Program

...n profile the efficacy and selectivity of drug leads against an extensive set of ion channels and GPCRs in functional, cell-based assays. ChanTest can screen drug leads, or large compound collections, against its entire catalog, against specific therapeutic/safety target ChanTest Panels(TM), or against cust...

Catching the lightwave: Nano-mechanical sensors 'wired' by photonics

... co-author of the paper. "Very cheap LEDs will suffice." Futhermore, the LED light sources like the million LED pixels that make up a laptop computer screen can be scaled in size to integrate into a nanophotonic-chip an important feature for this application. "This development reinforces the practical...

Angela Shen-Hsieh of Visual I|O Named to Board of Directors of AIGA: Oldest and Largest Membership Organization for Designers

...interpret and learn from information they work with everyday. Visual I|O's focus is on "the last 18 inches"--getting data from the computer screen into the human mind--bridging the divide between raw data and actionable meaning through an entirely new graphical way to navigate and interpret data....

SAFC Biosciences(R) Expands Media Capability for Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cell Lines

...obal Commercial and Technical Operations for SAFC Biosciences, "We have successfully developed a program that we believe efficiently allows clients to screen a robust offering of media formulations through the CHO Library to quickly identify the best starting point for every application, while also reducing...

Gen-Probe Completes Acquisition of Tepnel Life Sciences

...ment, 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, and received the 2004 National Medal of Technology, America's highest honor fo...

MedTrust Online and Scottsdale Clinical Research Institute at Scottsdale Healthcare Announce Collaboration to Provide Cutting Edge Technology to Improve Patient Care

...er patients." Utilizing technology applications provided by MedTrust Online's portal, SCRI at Scottsdale Healthcare would be able to more quickly screen referred patients for clinical studies as well as reach out to community oncologists. The ability to connect to all oncologists using the MedTrust On...

Chimerix Joins International Network of Organizations to Cure Malaria

...work of public-private partnerships to discover, develop and facilitate the delivery of new, effective and affordable antimalarial drugs. The MMV will screen Chimerix' chemical library to identify activity against malaria, and any lead candidates that result will be developed in partnership with South Afric...

New Discoveries on a Fingertip Test for Screening Silent Heart Disease Promising Results of Recent Clinical Studies to be Presented during the 2009 American College of Cardiology Conference, March 29th - April 1st in Orlando

...t;Despite exciting developments in intracoronary plaque characterization, it became obvious to me that we needed a non-invasive and inexpensive way to screen and monitor at risk patients, simply because you can't cath asymptomatic people, nor can you put stable patients into CT or MRI machine every 3 months...