Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer
A new development in the analysis of cancerhas been announced by Agilent Technologies. The company has reported aninnovative method that enables the rapid advance of microarray-basedcomparative genomic studies in cancer. According to the reportpublished in the December 24, 2004 issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Science (PNAS) in collaboration with the NationalHuman Genome R...New comparative toxicogenomics database
Scientists at St. Jude Children's ResearchHospital have discovered that the shape of a protein on the surface ofpneumonia bacteria helps these germs invade the human bloodstream. Thisfinding, published Dec. 16 online by the EMBO Journal, could helpscientists develop a vaccine that is significantly more effective atprotecting children against the disease. The St. Jude researchersdetermined t...An entropy-based gene selection method for cancer classification using microarray data
Accurate diagnosis of cancer subtypes remains a challenging problem. Building classifiers based on gene expression data is a promising approach; yet the selection of non-redundant but relevant genes is difficult. The selected gene set should be small enough to allow diagnosis even in regular clinical laboratories and ideally identify genes involved in cancer-specific regulatory pathways. Here an...PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0
PANTHER, a protein classification system fromApplied Biosystems, got updated to version 5.0. Proteins are classifiedby family, molecular and biological function (GO ontology) and knownpathways. Its main use is probably microarray analysis - it incorporateautomated GO surrepresentation analysis with graphical output. Best ofall, its available f...Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles
Chemists say they have identified a gene that appears to play a key role in the development of type 1 diabetes, also known as insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes, a disease that affects about one million people in the U.S. and is on the rise worldwide. They described their findings, which they say could lead to new drug interventions and possibly gene therapy, today at the 229th national meeti...Yeast Nitrogen Base from Invitrogen
Description:Yeast nitrogen base (YNB) is a base medium for preparation of minimal and synthetic defined yeast media. YNB contains ammonium sulfate but does not contain amino acids. Both bulk and convenient single-use pouches are available. Each pouch contains reagents to prepare 500 ml of 10X YNB for Pichia media or 1000 ml of 10X YNB for S. cerevisiae media. Store at 15C to 30C. Guaranteed stable for 6 mon...Yeast Nitrogen Base from Invitrogen
Description:Yeast nitrogen base (YNB) is a base medium for preparation of minimal and synthetic defined yeast media. YNB contains ammonium sulfate but does not contain amino acids. Both bulk and convenient single-use pouches are available. Each pouch contains reagents to prepare 500 ml of 10X YNB for Pichia media or 1000 ml of 10X YNB for S. cerevisiae media. Store at 15C to 30C. Guaranteed stable for 6 mon...Fragment-based Screening Services from ActiveSight
Description:ActiveSight, the leading provider of X-ray crystallography services for structure-based drug design, offers fragment-based screening services to its pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. Fragment-based screening involves the binding of drug-like fragments to the active sites of crystallized protein drug targets, allowing scientists to develop novel, high-affinity inhibitors. Relying on state-...Telomerase Gel-based assay Assay Kit, TRAPeze from CHEMICON
Description:...Kit for BASE20/50 dual control unit KIT50EHTD from Wave Biotech now part of GE Healthcare
Description:Kit for BASE20/50 dual control unit, includes mounting plate, HOLDER50T, HEATERPAD50, SRTDX temperature probe(s)....A New PCR-based Mycoplasma Detection Method
Stratagene akit that uses a PCR-based method which specifically amplifies an 874-bpPCR product from a single copy gene. In addition, the kit contains an int...Fluorescence-Based Single-Tube Assays to Rapidly Detect Human Gene Mutations
Xiuyuan Hu Beti Belachew Lingyu Chen HaoqiangHuang Jason Zhang Stratagene can distinguish human DNA specimens that differ by a few nucleotides or only asingle nucl...LiquiChip Kits for bead-based cytokine and kinase assays
The LiquiChip Human and Mouse 10-Cytokine Kits and Ser/Thr Kinase Kit provide fast and accurate quantification of a range of cytokines and serine/threonine kinases. LiquiChip 10-Cytokine Kits enable simultaneous multiplex assay of 10 different cytokines using bead-based xMAP technology. The LiquiChip Ser/Thr Kinase Kit...Madison-based TrafficCast makes national inroads as data provider
, a company that provides traffic data to a range of other map and travel services, is expanding well beyond its Madison headquarters in order to meet with the demand from i...IMA to create database on physicians
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is embarking on an exercise to grade hospital and medical institutions in the country, according to Dr. Sanjiv Malik, Honorary Secretary-General of the IMA. Meanwhile, IMA has also entered into an alliance with ORGMARG to create a database on all the medical practitioners in the country, be it allopathy or homeopathy, he said. The process of catalogi...Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs
India has finally decided to get its act together on improving quality of plant-based drugs. It promises not only to get a large number of laboratories activated on testing them, but also seeks to start registering farmers who produce medicinal plants to ensure the raw material itself meets standards. The first meeting of a recently constituted Medicinal Plants Board listed a series of me...Cancer hazard Found With Animal-Based Nutrients
Researchers have found that a diet high in cholesterol and animal protein is linked to risk of a specific type of cancer of the stomach and esophagus that has been increasing rapidly.// The researchers also found that plant-based nutrients such as dietary fiber, dietary beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B6 were associated with lower risk of these kinds of cancers. The r...Impact on Lung function based on exposure
According to a new study, the the functionality of lungs can be well analysed based on the things we are exposed to in our early days. Scientists have long known a test called forced expiratory volume in 1 second, or FEV 1, //is an effective measure of lung function and predictor of morbidity and death. While FEV 1 tends to decline with age, investigators have speculated factors like expo...Home-based Treatment For Eczema More Effective Compared To Hospital Care
A home-based treatment for hand eczema is just as effective at treating the condition in hospital say researchers according to // a new study. Eczema is an inflammatory condition of the skin, which causes redness, itching and scaling. Researchers examined 158 patients with moderate to severe chronic hand eczema for more than one year. About half the patients followed a home-based program...