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Nanoscale Lipid Vesicle Platform for Millions of Tests on One Chip

The ability to make incredibly small containers from phospholipids (liposomes) has been known since the early 1960’s, and has [MORE]

Nanochannel Electroporation

Most gene therapy protocols rely on recombinant viral vectors for transfection, but that has not been without problems.  However, [MORE]

Twenty-Eight SNPs of Hypertension

In a European consortium’s study of hypertension, initially involving 70k people, with 133k more for validation, researchers identified 28 [MORE]

Leukemia Trial Brings New Hope from Gene Therapy

This piece reports a gene therapy success against chronic lymphocytic leukemia for three patients at the University of Pennsylvania [MORE]

Hand-Held Genomics Meter

It doesn’t take much of a leap of faith to imagine a handheld glucose meter-like device used to sense [MORE]

Single Cell Science

Genomics scientists at the University of British Columbia have developed an integrated microfluidics device that performs cell capture, lysis, [MORE]

Genetic Engineering: Eliminating the Stop Codon

Harvard’s George Church, Farren Isaacs, and colleagues have used a technique called “multiplex automated genome engineering” to alter all [MORE]

Storing Specimens at Room Temperature

Recently, Biomatrica (San Diego) signed a cooperative research agreement with the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious [MORE]

New Technique for Engineering Dopaminergic Neurons

Italian researchers at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan) have reported their success in transforming human skin cells into functional [MORE]

ATCC’s Move on iPSC’s

It’s a fair guess that Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka could win a Nobel Prize this year for his [MORE]

Fox Chase’s Cancer Genome Institute

Life Technologies, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)-formed from a 2008 merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems-has reached an agreement with [MORE]

Microarrays for Autoimmune Diagnosis

Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University recently reported on their use of protein microarrays to differentiate systemic lupus erythematosis from [MORE]

Aging vs. Immortality

If cancer cells represent a kind of immortality (having lost their inability to die naturally), then it is not [MORE]

Personal Genome Machine

Recently, Ion Torrent (Guilford, CT, a branch of Life Technologies-formerly Applied Biosciences) named Ambry Genetics (Aliso Viego, CA) as [MORE]

Regenerative Drug Discovery Lab

This piece has two stories in one-the first about combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening, and the second about technology [MORE]

New Genetic Target for Hypertension

Yale scientists recently announced their findings that a genetic mutation resulting in loss of potassium channel function is implicated [MORE]

Neuron Progenitor Cells Commercially Available

While the debate over human embryonic stem cells remains contentious, Lonza (Walkersville, MD) and California Stem Cell, Inc. (Irvine, [MORE]

Synthetic Macromolecules

“. . . the molecular parts kit for life need not be limited to parts likes genes and proteins [MORE]

Problems in Stem Cell Genetics

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Research Institute recently made a disturbing discovery [MORE]

Growing Tumors Rapidly in the Lab

Todd Ridky, MD and a group at Stanford, were able to transform several human epithelial cells into invasive malignancies [MORE]