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Validated Solution Features NuGEN Ovation and Hamilton MICROLAB STARlet

NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that develops and commercializes nucleic acid amplification and sample preparation systems, and the Hamilton Company, a world leader in precision liquid handling announc...

17 Sep 2008

Granzymes Going About Their Deadly Work

Our body is almost constantly being threatened by pathogens and cancerous cells that appear out of the blue. But the body puts up a fight: specialized cells in the immune system smuggle small molecules (granzymes) into cancer cells and those body cells that have fallen prey to viruses.

17 Sep 2008

Rapid Transport of Water in Carbon Nanotubes

By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation nanofluidic devices for...

17 Sep 2008

Applied Biosystems Establishes Global Service Provider Program for RNA Expression Analysis

Applied Biosystems Inc. today announced that it has established a global service provider program for RNA expression analysis. The TaqMan® Service Provider Program was created for research scientists who do not have ...

16 Sep 2008

Institute Adds SOLiD Systems to Expand Exploration of Genetic Underpinnings of Disease

Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a leading genome research institute, will use ultra-high throughput genomic analysis systems from Applied Biosystems Inc. to undertake a comprehensive analysis of ...

16 Sep 2008

How Cancer Cells Develop Resistance to Chemotherapy Drugs

Researchers have shown that increased expression of a gene called SIRT1 in cancer cells plays a significant role in the development of resistance to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin. The SIRT1 gene, which regulates severa...

16 Sep 2008

Drug-Filled Nanoparticles Offer Potential Cure for Melanoma

Nanoparticles filled with a drug that targets two genes that trigger melanoma could offer a potential cure for this deadly disease, according to cancer researchers. The treatment, administered through an ultrasound devic...

16 Sep 2008

Smallest University to Join Elite Group of Universities with Materials Research Center

Brandeis University has won a highly competitive $7.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). The Center will study the effects of impo...

16 Sep 2008

Futuristic Nanotechnology and Decades-Old Drug to Tackle Atherosclerosis

Futuristic nanotechnology has been teamed with a decades-old drug to beat atherosclerotic plaques in research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The scientists have found that drug-la...

16 Sep 2008

Stanford Professor Receives 2008 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science

Stanley Falkow has spent his life studying how bacteria cause human disease. But ask him whose side he's on, and he's likely to pause. Or maybe not. Actually, it's been pretty clear all along-as evidenced by an experiment in graduate school that required him to feed hapless bacteria to a hungry slime mold.

14 Sep 2008