DuPont launched a new Science & Technology speakers bureau in conjunction with its annual Technology Conference this week in Iowa. The conference brings together scientists, engineers and marketers from around the globe for a week of ...
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UK-based Almac biocatalysis has secured a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) programme with University College London (UCL) aimed at metagenomics and novel enzyme discovery. Almac and the departments of ...
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Many tech companies have called for Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration because they can't find qualified tech workers to fill open positions. Yet, many veteran IT tech workers say they can't find jobs. More than a ...
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Life Technologies has launched Vector NTI Express Designer, which offers researchers comprehensive and streamlined custom vector and genetic construct design and synthesis. Designed for molecular biology, metabolic engineering, genetic ...
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 ...
BioTek extends congratulations to Ms Tanis Godwin and the Centre for Translational Cancer Research (CTCR) at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand for winning a new Epoch™ Micro-Volume Spectrophotometer System. The giveaway ...
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Labnet International is proud to introduce their new personal mini centrifuge, the PRISM MINI. Reliable and easy-to-use, the Prism Mini is compact and economical, allowing each workstation to be equipped with a ‘personal’ ...
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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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SPRIselect from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences utilises SPRI (Solid Phase Reversible Immobilisation)-based chemistry to speed and simplify genomic DNA size selection for next generation sequencing fragment library preparation. Following ...
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NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterisation technology, reports on the breakthrough cancer metastasis research of Dr Hector Peinado Selgas and Dr David Lyden's research team from Weill Cornell Medical College. ...
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Research has shown that some bacterial cells carry a molecular ‘suicide complex’ to kill themselves in the event of lethal infection by viral parasites. Such ‘altruistic suicide’ prevents or limits viral replication ...
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The adverse side effects of some medications for hepatitis C can now be observed and studied in laboratory conditions, using petri dishes and test tubes, thanks to the development of a new method by US researchers. A team led by Craig ...
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Scientists at Pakistan’s Punjab University’s Centre for Excellence Molecular Biology (CEMB) have successfully developed Miracle CLCV-Resistant Cotton Plant having a capacity to efficiently resist the growth of cotton leaf curl ...
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US medical center, Mayo Clinic, has signed a pre-clinical research agreement with MagForce. Under the agreement, Mayo Clinic will begin a research program to investigate the preclinical efficacy of the MagForce's NanoTherm therapy in ...
New England Biolabs, a provider of enzymes for molecular biology applications, has launched a new Gibson Assembly Cloning Kit using Gibson Assembly approach. The kit is built by combining the Gibson Assembly Master Mix along with NEB ...
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