NIAID Awards Akonni $3.2M to Combine PCR, Microarray Tech for Low-Cost, Rapid Flu ...
Molecular diagnostics developer Akonni Biosystems has been awarded a $3.2 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis...
GenomeWeb News,
Tue Dec 01 06:00:35 PST 2009
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Akonni Awarded $3.2M NIH Grant to Combine Gel-drop Microarray and PCR Technology f...
FREDERICK, Md.----Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics company focused on providing rapid and highly scalable solutions for infectious disease testing, today announced receipt of a $3...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance,
Tue Dec 01 03:00:00 PST 2009
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Circulating tumour cell detection: a direct comparison between the...
Circulating tumour cell detection: a direct comparison between the CellSearch System, the AdnaTest and CK-19/mammaglobin RT-PCR in patients with metastatic breast cancer 1Translational Canc...
Nature Publishing Group,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:55:53 GMT
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Q&A: UCSD's Olivier Harismendy Compares Enrichment Methods for Targeted Sequencing
Recently, he and his colleagues explored two methods for targeted enrichment of DNA
GenomeWeb News,
Tue Dec 01 09:45:57 PST 2009
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Link Technologies Secures Exclusive License For Ultra Sensitive...
... of these modified oligonucleotides in diagnostic systems has been shown to discriminate DNA mutations at the level of PCR products and plasmid DNA. Professor Douglas commented: "This i...
Laboratory Network .com,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:43:08 GMT
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5 UP cops wounded in PCR van-DTC bus crash
New Delhi, Nov 28 (UNI) Five policemen were injured when a Police Control Room van they were travelling in hit a stationary DTC bus in New Delhi district this evening, police said.
Deepika,
Sun Nov 29 16:37:31 PST 2009
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Helicos and Mass General Hospital Publish Epigenomic Study in Nature Methods
... are often limiting. The new approach obviates the need for complex sample preparation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification steps that can lead to biased or incomplete resu...
BusinessWire,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:13:32 GMT
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
With next-generation sequencing technology becoming more affordable, there's been a near-explosion of sequencing projects for plants and animals.
GenomeWeb News,
Tue Dec 01 15:30:33 PST 2009
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Akonni Awarded $3.2M NIH Grant to Combine Gel-drop Microarray and PCR ...
... of a $3.2M Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will enable Akonni to combine PCR with its existing TruArray(R) gel-drop microarray in a single c...
Business Wire,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:06:14 GMT
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Fluidigm to Use $18M Financing to Support R&D, Marketing Efforts
Fluidigm plans to invest $18.2 million in new financing on R&D for its gene-expression, genotyping, and sequence-capture applications, and to grow its global sales and marketing force, acco...
GenomeWeb News,
Tue Dec 01 14:00:33 PST 2009
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New EVH-1 Testing Protocol Indicates Infectious Risk
... isolation has been the gold standard test for EHV-1, but have recently been replaced by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests," reported Nicola Pusterla, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, associa...
The Horse,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:05:08 GMT
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Sequencing Study IDs Salmonella Strain Causing Serious Infections in Africa
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Tue Dec 01 12:45:47 PST 2009
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Call to set up Central Sterilization Dept
... from the Punjab Dental Hospital, Lahore. The YDA office-bearers said that the government, in addition to setting up of PCR laboratories to help Hepatitis C patients, should also set up...
The News,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:44:17 GMT
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Patents of Note
US Patent RE41,005. Beads bound to a solid support and to nucleic acids Inventors: Hubert Koster, David Lough Assignee: Sequenom
GenomeWeb News,
Tue Dec 01 12:31:13 PST 2009
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Idaho Technologya s FilmArraya Receives Military Funding for CLIA Waiver Effort
... setting by non-technically trained operators. The FilmArray integrates sample preparation, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification, detection and analysis into one easy-to-use sy...
Freshnews,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:06:44 GMT
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Top 10 innovations of 2009
The ten most exciting tools to hit the life sciences this year
The Scientist,
Tue Dec 01 09:37:10 PST 2009
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3 robbed in 2 incidents in high-security Chan...
... car, were involved. In the first incident, a Belgium national named Wittock Patricia called the Police Control Room (PCR) at 1.25 am on Monday. A senior officer from Chanakyapuri polic...
The Indian Express,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:00:18 GMT
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New Products
454 Life Sciences plans to release a new DNA sequencing system, called GS Junior , next year (see article in this issue). According to the company, the system's performance and features wil...
GenomeWeb News,
Tue Dec 01 08:45:47 PST 2009
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Idaho Technology's FilmArray Receives Military Funding for CLIA Waiver Effort
... setting by non-technically trained operators. The FilmArray integrates sample preparation, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification, detection and analysis into one easy-to-use sy...
BusinessWire,
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:12:49 GMT
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My son had flu, but we don't know kind; does he need a vaccination?
In the emergency room recently, my 14-month-old son got a diagnosis of influenza A, but he wasn't tested for H1N1. He has recovered after nine days of fever and other symptoms, but we are u...
CNN,
Mon Nov 30 06:35:49 PST 2009
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