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University of Liverpool to Establish a High-Throughput Genomic Analysis Hub

The University of Liverpool has been awarded £2.2 million to establish a high-throughput genomic analysis hub for the North of England.

13 May 2009

New Electron Microscope Capable of Recording Living, Moving Processes at Nanometer Resolution

A proposal by a team of UC Davis scientists to develop the world's first electron microscope capable of filming live biological processes has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

13 May 2009

New Collection Enables Scientists to Achieve Greater Insight into Cell Signaling

Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) today introduced Precisio(TM) Kinases, a new collection of high quality active kinases that is expected to enable scientists to achieve greater insight into protein phosphorylation and cell signaling.

13 May 2009

Abraxis BioScience to Present Multiple Clinical Studies of ABRAXANE at 45th ASCO

Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABII), a fully integrated biotechnology company, today announced that multiple clinical studies of the chemotherapy agent ABRAXANE® for Injectable Suspension (paclitaxel protein-bound...

13 May 2009

First Implantable Device Monitor How Tumors Respond to Treatment

Surgical removal of a tissue sample is now the standard for diagnosing cancer. Such procedures, known as biopsies, are accurate but only offer a snapshot of the tumor at a single moment in time.

12 May 2009

Nanotechnology Scientists Win Microgravity Research Competition

When a spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in the future, its cargo will include a small box containing a nano-fluidics experiment designed by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

12 May 2009

Simpler, Less Expensive Design Could Make Precision Particle Therapy Available to More Patients

As part of an effort to make high-precision particle cancer therapy accessible to more patients, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a simpler, less-expensive gantry design for delivering tumor-killing particle beams.

12 May 2009