VIB and UZ-KU Leuven join forces and bring state-of-the-art technology to Flanders

...ven have joined forces to give Flemish scientists access to this state-of-the-art technology. Via a co-ordinated investment program, they are bringing roches DNA sequence technology platform, the so-called 454 sequencing, to Flanders. What is 454 sequencing? This technique provides an ingenious manner...

Recall of the AIDS Drug Causes Panic in Zambia

... The AIDS drugs Viracept, by roches laboratories have caused panic among the users who feel that the drug may not be safe due to contamination. There are many HIV-positive Zambians on t...

Roches in Medical Products

TaqScreen West Nile Virus Test

Description:... roches patented polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology, the worlds leading nucleic acid amplification technology, is an essential component of roches blood screening assays and other diagnostic products. PCR allows minute amo...
Company:Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.

Roches in Biological News

Tamiflu effective for treatment and prevention of influenza in children 1 year and older

... children. There is a high need for influenza treatments for children as they are more severely affected by seasonal influenza compared to adults. roches efforts to support government pandemic stockpiling The World Health Organization (WHO) advises that stockpiling antivirals in advance is presently t...

Microarray sequence capture speeds large-scale resequencing of targeted genomic regions

...-performance targeting of thousands of specific genes or loci using a single microarray hybridization-based enrichment process. The Baylor study1 used roches Genome Sequencer FLX System to quickly and affordably sequence the enriched genomic regions for downstream analysis. 454 Sequencing technology is ide...

Roches in Biological Technology

List of Key Midwest Biotech Women Grows

...cals, she served as head of field operations and marketing services and vice president of its North Central sales operation. Pascarelli previously was roches mid-Atlantic business unit director where she led two regional business expansions and implemented numerous product launches in specialty and primary ...

Tools for Proteomic Science II

...nts for protein research based on our competence in purification and stabilization, labeling and detection, protein expression and cell biology. roches proteomics group is using these tools in diagnostic and pharmaceutical research, and for the development of high-tech drugs. ...

PCR Grade Deoxynucleotides

...e 2: Comparison of sensitivity between RAS's PCR-Grade Deoxynucleotides and supplier A's deoxynucleotides Panel A shows that roches PCR grade nucleotides produced an RT-PCR product from just 10 pg of human skeletal muscle total RNA (upper panel). It took at least ...