DNA biochip for genetic screening

A scientist from the University of Houston has developed a chemical process for building a device that could help doctors predict a patient’s response to drugs or screen patients for thousands of genetic mutations and diseases, all with one simple lab test. The DNA chip is similar to a comput...

Falcon Genomics Awarded Patent for Innovative Cancer Test

...,537,913 with claims covering the Company's Cancer biochip System (CBCS) for the identification and validatio...lls using Falcon Genomics' first-generation Cancer biochip System (CBC-1). These results, recently presented ...ey with the law firm of Eckert Seamans, the Cancer biochip System is a unique and highly useful technology. ...

World Biochips Market to Reach $3.4 billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

...CAGR of over 58% for the 2000-2010 period. Protein biochip industry is expected to undergo major changes due ...ad optimization and target corroboration. The biochip industry is in the early stages of growth and henc...er and more powerful with each generation. The biochip industry is characterized by both intense rivalry ...

China's biotech industry: An Asian dragon is growing

...int into the industry. The same is true for diagnostics. Chinese companies like Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise and Shanghai Huaguan biochip Co., Ltd. play an important role in keeping local consumer prices down. Wantai has developed and marketed a large range of blood screening tests for d...

Novel genetic blood test

...halassaemias and leukaemia.” The developers of biochip warn that patients with these conditions, who requ... 3,000 healthy blood samples are being tested with biochip as a "proof of principle". The results reveal its ...tigen, thus Rh positive or negative. Whereas, the biochip test identifies nearly 9 other possible difference...

One million people to donate their DNA and personal information

...reted a diagnosis leading to a different wrong result from the project database to overcome this problem the project organizers have planned to insert biochip to the recruit which constantly monitors the body temperature, pressure, heart beat, oxygen exchange, alcohol and tobacco intake, radiation exposure a...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

...a mounted in an eyeglass frame captures the image and converts it into an electrical signal that is electronically transmitted to the flexible silicon biochip surgically attached near the retina.The chip electronically stimulates the healthy cells of the retina, which sends the signals conveying he image to ...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

...a mounted in an eyeglass frame captures the image and converts it into an electrical signal that is electronically transmitted to the flexible silicon biochip surgically attached near the retina.The chip electronically stimulates the healthy cells of the retina, which sends the signals conveying he image to ...

biochip in Medical Technology

Virogenomics, Inc. Awarded $2 Million National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program Grant to Develop Integrated Diagnostic Biosensors

...al time on a microchip will enable health care providers to make on-the-spot medical decisions," said Dr. Arthur Vandenbark, co-inventor of one of the biochip designs to be developed for use on the SSOP. "This grant is a catalyst. It brings together regional strengths in semiconductor manufacturing, diagnos...

Testing for Human Papillomavirus

...simultaneously identifies all 13 high-risk HPV genotypes, and the Linear Array test identifies 37 high- and low-risk HPV genotypes. PapilloCheck is a biochip that can differentiate a total of 18 high risk and 6 low risk HPV types. PapilloCheck is a ready-to-use complete test system with all the necessary b...

biochip in Biological News

New biochip helps study living cells, may speed drug development

Purdue University researchers have developed a biochip that measures the electrical activities of cells and is capable of obtaining 60 times more data in just one reading than is possible with current technology. In the near term, the biochip could speed scientific research, which could accelera...

Human genomics in China

...genomics research, including bioinformatics, transcriptomics, proteomics, structural genomics and other technology platforms, such as model animals, biochip constructions, etc., were all developed along with the human genomic sequencing project in the late 1990s. Making full use of the technology and reso...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

...held device to be an all-in-one pathogen testing center where DNA amplification and pathogen identification will happen on the same DNA biochip. A DNA biochip has signature pieces of DNA attached to a silica surface, similar to a computer chip, and is about the size of a thumbnail. Today, testing air, w...

biochip in Biological Technology

First Catalog Cancer Biochip for Sequence Capture Now Available from febit

LEXINGTON, Mass. and HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- febit holding gmbh announced today the launch of the first human cancer biochip for HybSelect, febit's highly automated technology for sequence capture, enabling targeted Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS). The new catal...

Cellix Ltd. Launches VenaEC Biochip for Flow-based Cell-adhesion Assays

Tutorial Workshop to be held at the Society for Biomolecular Sciences 14th Annual Conference DUBLIN, Ireland, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellix Ltd., an international provider of microfluidic systems in the emerging field of nano-lifesciences, announces today its wo...

febit First to Offer miRBase 11.0 Biochip

MEDFORD, Mass. and HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- febit today announced its newest miRNA Biochip based on the new miRBASE version 11.0 which has been released by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute yesterday. The new Geniom(R) Biochip opens up the most up-to-date scientific info...

GenTel claims $900,000 in federal grants this year for biochip research

Stained bacteria cells adhering to spots on a plastic slide. Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology . MADISON, Wis. Five small business innovation research (SBIR) grants totaling more than $900,000 have been awarded to GenTel BioSurfaces, Inc. this year by the National Institu...

Madison biochip research offers geneticists a big view through a small window

Some biochips barely cover a human thumbnail, but they can hold over a half of a million samples of DNA. And because this emerging technology offers a view of so many tiny bits of information at once, it's perfect for studying relationships among the 30,000 genes of the human genome, which are o...

CapitalBio Corporation and VigeneTech Inc. Have Announced the Launch of a Fully Integrated Microarray Solution Platform

...gement. The company, founded in 2000, currently has nearly 400 employees and is closely linked to the National Engineering Research Centre for Beijing biochip Technology. Visit http://www.capitalbio.com for more information. Contact: Minzi Ruan, Ph.D. CEO, VigeneTech Inc. Carlis...

febit First to Offer Newly Published Mouse Genome on a Chip for DNA/RNA Detection and Enrichment

...lding gmbh announced today the launch of the first biochip on the market covering the newly published whole mouse genome. The biochip from febit enables up-to-date profiling and enrich...ation Sequencing platforms. With its new HybSelect biochip for the mouse genome, febit complements its offeri...

Paul Keim Appointed to febit's Scientific Advisory Board

...it develops, produces and markets flexible automated solutions for enabling biochip applications in Life Sciences. febit's product portfolio includes various i...ptome profiling -- the highly advanced microfluidics of the patented Geniom biochip offers the highest degree of automation, flexibility and efficiency availab...

Automated Sequence Capture for Next-Generation Sequencing Paves the Way for Personalized Medicine

...it develops, produces and markets flexible automated solutions for enabling biochip applications in Life Sciences. febit's product portfolio includes various ...riptome profiling, the highly advanced microfluidics of the patented Geniom biochip offers the highest degree of automation, flexibility and efficiency availab...

Global Drug Discovery Technologies Market to Exceed $57 Billion by 2012, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts

...study also analyzes the Drug Discovery Technologies market by the following technologies - bioanalytical instruments, high throughput screening (HTS), biochip market, proteomics, genomics market, bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics market, and other drug discovery technologies. For more details about this r...

biochip in Biological Products

The DNAscope IV & V from Biomedical Photometrics Inc.

Description:... 'The DNAscope V is a fully integrated system for fluorescent biochip & microarray scanning and image processing that deliver excellent quality microarray images. The DNAscope V is a high quality microarray scanner that...
Company:Biomedical Photometrics Inc.

AXIMA-CFRplus MALDI TOF from Shimadzu Biotech

Description:...ification. The AXIMA-CFRplus also includes beam blanking for enhanced sensitivity, automated sample target handling and the ability to analyse various biochip formats. Unique IntelliMarque function offers a powerful new tool for automated data acquisition for peptide mass fingerprinting and data-dependent se...
Company:Shimadzu Biotech

InnoScan700 Microarray Scanner from INNOPSYS

Description:...nce scanner with 1 or 2 color(s), suitable for all biochip (Staggered/Orange Packing, Protein, CGH, ) spotted...a full standard slide) Scan a high density biochip with its adjustable resolution from 3 to 40 mm/pix... for high volume file management from high density biochip image (given with InnoScan700 and can be sold sepa...
Company:INNOPSYS