Harvard researchers have been able to use sequencing technology to store 70 billion copies of a yet-unpublished book in DNA binary code. The results of the project by researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically ...
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The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Fluidigm Corporation (FLDM) have established GIS-Fluidigm Single-Cell 'Omics Center (SCOC) to speed up the understanding of how individual cells work and how diagnosis and treatment might be ...
A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices, as part of a phishing scheme. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the ...
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Affymetrix has launched SensationPlus FFPE Amplification and 3' IVT Labeling Kit (SensationPlus FFPE Reagent Kit). SensationPlus FFPE Reagent Kit, which comprises RNA amplification and labeling modules, is designed to enable gene ...
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Transgenomic has entered into a collaboration agreement to provide its next-generation genetic testing services to Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Under the agreement, Transgenomic will provide its Nuclear Mitome test, designed to ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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University College London (UCL) Cancer Institute has selected RainDance Technologies' ThunderStorm system to validate genomic and epigenomic targets of clinical and non-clinical cancer studies. The targets will be validated from studies ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's new COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 viral load test. The HIV viral load test utilizes the FDA-approved high pure system viral nucleic acid kit for manual specimen preparation and the COBAS ...
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Medcan Clinic, a private health care clinic in Canada, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Pathway Genomics. Under the agreement, Pathway Genomics will allow Medcan's patients to use its Personal Genome Test. Using only a ...
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Business Line reported that Chennai based KCP Ltd has decided to exit the biotech business to concentrate on its core areas of engineering and cement businesses. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the company’s ...
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Illumina system used in faster genome sequencing 08 Oct 2012 A sequencing protocol using a rapid-throughput platform could help diagnose critically ill infants. Faster sequencing Investigators at Kansas City's Children's Mercy ...
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US-based PathoGenetix, a developer of Genome Sequence Scanning(GSS) technology for rapid microorganism strain typing, has announced that it will deliver a proprietary technology in food safety testing, for availability in 2013. The GSS ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals' topical ophthalmic therapeutic to treat corneal cystine crystals in cystinosis patients. The CYSTARAN 0.44% solution, which is developed in collaboration ...
VelaDx has signed a license and supply agreement with Life Technologies to develop new sequencing-based in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests on the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM) sequencer. Under the agreement, VelaDx will seek approvals ...
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Roche has gained FDA approval for the new HIV viral load test, the COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Test, v2.0, and will launch the product in the US, later in 2012. The COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Test, v2.0, targets two highly conserved regions of the HIV-1 ...