Oxford University has revealed it suspended use of Google Docs on 14 February following a sustained influx of phishing attacks on the network. The attacks, designed to acquire login details for university systems in order to send spam ...
Yahoo has agreed to acquire the development team of mobile app company Propeld, the third mobile start-up it has bought in four months. As first reported by TechCrunch, Propeld's Alike app allows users to discover and recommend nearby ...
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Bioline, a subsidiary of life science company Meridian Bioscience, has launched Isolate II nucleic acid purification kits. Using the filter membrane spin column technology and simple bind-wash-elute steps, Isolate kits isolate nucleic ...
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The owners of Anchorage retailer Chain Reaction Cycles are set to open Alaska’s first Trek concept store in March. Trek Store of Anchorage will be housed in 4,600 square feet of space that Trek is designing and building out with its ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has declared a projected upturn in the company's fortunes, in its first financial outlook since she took over as CEO in July 2012. "While the road to growth is certain, it will not be immediate," said Mayer, during ...
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The European Union has granted CE mark to Abacus Diagnostica's molecular diagnostic assay, designed for detecting toxin-producing Clostridium difficile. The GenomEra C. difficile assay, which is designed for use with the company's ...
Bio-Rad Laboratories has unveiled a new Digital Biology Center to develop new products for research and diagnostics markets. The first launched QX100 Droplet Digital PCR system will utilize the droplet partitioning technology to ...
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Sequenta has obtained clinical laboratory improvement amendments (CLIA) certification for its new clinical test, which is based on the LymphoSIGHT method. The LymphoSIGHT platform, which utilizes a proprietary assay for the amplification ...
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Lab21 has entered into a collaboration agreement to develop polymerase chain reaction-based assays on BD Diagnostics' automated BD MAX molecular system for a series of oncology markers. The two assays, which will be initially developed, ...
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Quest Diagnostics has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Simplexa C difficile Universal Direct Test on the 3M Integrated Cycler. The test, which uses a proprietary chemistry that eliminates the need for nucleic-acid extraction, is ...
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An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
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Initial decision by Atomic Safety and Licensing Board clears way for construction of a uranium laser enrichment facility. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board(ASLB)of the US ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) to Roche's new fully automated COBAS AmpliPrep / COBAS TaqMan CMV test to quantify cytomegalovirus' (CMV) DNA in human plasma specimens. The real-time ...
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Many of us have heard the term boiler but other than references on television or movies, the definition of the term eludes many. A boiler is essentially a unit that heats water for the home, business, or an entire complex of buildings. They ...
After reeling under acute power shortage, the State Government is actively looking at making usage of Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) bulbs mandatory across all households in Karnataka,� as a measure to reduce power consumption. ...
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