The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) (formerly known as NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression), under the direction of president and CEO Dr Jeffrey Borenstein, has announced the latest ...
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Bioplastics are emerging as viable alternatives to petroleum-based polymers. This quiet revolution goes well beyond the standard drivers for sustainably sourced and/or compostable materials. I attended the 2013 BioPlastek conference in San ...
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Genia Technologies in consortium with Columbia University and Harvard Medical School, has secured a three-year $5.25m grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop ...
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Spanish-German biotech company Sygnis Pharma has entered into a licence agreement for the distribution of a new amplification buffer with QIAGEN, a sample and assay technologies provider. This is the second agreement with QIAGEN within ...
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The cloud computing, through the virtualization of data, will help pharmaceutical industry optimize next-generation DNA sequencing and clinical trials data, according to GBI Research report. The report "Cloud Computing in Pharmaceutical ...
Life Technologies along with Aridhia, a biomedical informatics company, will provide the genetic analysis platform with its semiconductor based, Ion Proton DNA sequencing technology to the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre ...
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Genewiz, a contract research organization that provides genomic services, has introduced cancer-specific gene panels. The OncoGxOne Discovery cancer panels use the new sequencing and bioinformatics technologies and detect low-frequency ...
Researchers at Mainz University have developed a screening method that helps in accurately determining the amount of animal, plant, and microbial substances in foods. As part of the development, the researchers have used advanced ...
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US-based clinicians software provider Cartagenia has signed a licensing agreement with non-profit institute Greenwood Genetic Center for its BENCHlab NGS and CNV solutions. Cartagenia's BENCHlab CNV solution helps labs to deploy ...
Australian researchers want to reduce the threat posed by hospital superbugs by using DNA sequencing and data analysis. National ICT Australia yesterday said it was researching techniques to help hospitals locate the original carrier of a ...
The analysis of DNA mutations in patients with cancer can be carried out without surgery. This is according to new research from AACC's Clinical Chemistry journal, which demonstrated that the plasma of cancer patients also includes ...
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Advances in molecular biology could transform the investigation of foodborne disease outbreaks, enabling faster and more accurate identification of the organisms responsible, according to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). The Agency ...
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